What did Ramsay actually mean?

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In episode 9 of season 6 of Game of Thrones

When Ramsay was in the captivity of the Stark's, he said to Sansa that Sansa is a part of him. What did he actually mean by this? Did he mean that Sansa is carrying the baby of Ramsay or is it just random words?



Best Answer

In this interview the actor who plays Ramsay (Iwan Rheon) refers to that line as meaning the lasting psychological damage that he's caused Sansa:

I think [the final scene with Ramsay and Sansa] was great. It’s a good scene. It leaves Sansa in an interesting place as a character, because he’s saying, “I’m inside you now.” [Rheon shudders] It’s horrible, and I think he probably has done some damage. He’s gotten in her head. But I think it’s nice too, because it’s such a great scene to go out on.

Of course, it's possible it means something more - the showrunners don't tell the actors about every twist that's coming up. For example, Iwan didn't know Ramsay was going to die this season until he'd already worked through the first five scripts:

I had received half the scripts, five episodes, then I got the call. They joked, “Isn’t it great Ramsay ends up on the Iron Throne?” As soon as they said that I said, “He’s dead isn’t he?”

...but there's a big problem with the idea that it might mean she was pregnant: how would Ramsay know, if Sansa doesn't? Biologically speaking, it doesn't make much sense. Sansa will probably be aware and afraid that it's possibile, but Ramsay couldn't know beyond guessing. At most, he's sadistically alluding to the possibility - not imparting factual information.

More likely, this line is Ramsay twisting the knife, using the most unsettling choice of words he can to taunt Sansa with the fact he's changed her for the worse. This matches how Iwan describes it.


In another interview, Sophie Turner (Sansa) doesn't mention that line directly but echoes this interpretation of the scene overall:

...with Ramsay... He just gets under her skin, and he violated her in such a terrible way. He’s imprinted on her, mentally and physically. She can never get that part of her back again.


Off-topic random fact - while finding these quotes I discovered that Iwan Rheon auditioned to play Jon Snow and got down to the final two. That would have been a very different show!




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Answer 2

This is most likely just Ramsay saying that he has changed Sansa. She's no longer the same person she was before marrying Ramsay, and so he 'is a part of her'.

Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolton) supports this explanation in the quote below:

"What he's saying to her," he says, "is that his mind, his mark, will be on her. Very much like if you look at Theon now, he's not the same man as he was. He's been broken, mentally and physically. So I think what Ramsay's saying is, 'You'll never be able to shake me off. No matter if I die, I'm always gonna be a part of you, because of what I've done to you.'"

As for the baby theory, Jason Concepcion of The Ringer (an HBO property) does a good job of dispelling it:

Ben asks, “Is Sansa pregnant?”

(Jason) Nah. If Sansa were pregnant, she would be showing by now. Though Thrones has played fast and loose in its compression of time and distance, we can still use the travels and activities of various characters since Sansa’s escape as a calendar of sorts. To help us cement that time frame, here’s a probably incomplete list of people going places and doing things since Sansa and Theon fled Winterfell: Sansa and Jon crisscrossed the North and assembled an army; Yara and Theon sailed from the Iron Islands to Meereen (a journey of months) with a stopover in Volantis; the knights of the Vale mustered and rode to Winterfell; Dany freaking walked to Vaes Dothrak, joined the dosh khaleen, killed all the khals, returned to Meereen (by dragon, so that probably didn’t take too long), and broke the army of the Wise Masters; and Brienne and Podrick rode down to Riverrun from Castle Black where they found themselves involved in a castle siege.

Moreover, there’s been none of the requisite plot setup that one would expect to see in a pregnancy arc. No Sansa inexplicably feeling unwell, no mysteriously baggy dresses and no whisper sessions with Melisandre.

The only “evidence” supporting the “Sansa is preggers” theory is Ramsay telling Sansa that he’s “part of” her now right before he became part of his dogs. How the hell would he know she’s pregnant?

Say it with me: “Sansa is not pregnant!”

Answer 3

This is purely based on my observation of what going on the scene, not based on the book since I haven't read it.

Usually, if someone have been traumatized, at some point that person might grow hatred inside and do it into someone else, and eventually possibly become another "mean person" too.

Letting someone to be eaten by a dog is mean at some degree. If Jon is the decision maker, I believe he will choose to hang / chop of Ramsay's head instead.

This is what I think Ramsay means.

Answer 4

Sansa executes Ramsay like a Bolton would—feeding him to his own dogs—instead of the way a Stark (like her father) would. Her time with Ramsay changed her into someone who will give into the temptation of making someone suffer a horrible death.

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