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When Reek was moved from the dungeon to the kennels.

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Game of Thrones Beach episode?

Love asking others about which character they'd like to see and I end up with the most confusing mix of people that never talked to another on the show HAHA

THOUGHTS ON THIS JON/RAMSAY RELATIONSHIP

Was talking to a friend last night about northern bastards and why they are such a good match. And bam I came up with this misleading theory. The following writing lacks sophisticated evidence and coherent logical development. You have been WARNED. (Also this analysis is basically a structuralistic overreading if u don’t like it pls don’t read)

So.

It is not hard to see that Jon and Ramsay are foil characters who have completely opposite personalities and bastard lives. I mean, Iwan Rheon even mentioned in his interview for Battle of the Bastards (B.B.) that “they are antithesis of each other”. They begin with the same bastard origin, yet they both went so far with their own way of doing things: for Jon it’s being a lawful (or neutral?) good , whereas for Ramsay it’s being a chaotic evil. It’s not a coincidence for George R.R. Martin to set up the two northern bastards in this way. This character antithesis serves as an essential dramatic device which both ensures character development and the show’s solid dramatic structure. In one sentence, THEY ARE BORN FOR EACH OTHER.

It’s fair to say that Ramsay is the catalyst which allows Jon to achieve emotional rebirth in S6. In ASOIAF, Ramsay’s pink letter even directly led Jon to break his oath for the night-watch. In the TV series, his brutality on the Starks (Sansa, Rickon) enkindles B.B.. Without a thrilling event like B.B., it’s likely that Jon won’t be able to to face death again and reborn within the corpse hill. He could potentially remain depressed as revival tends to let the subjects lose a part of their soul (see Lady Stoneheart). He’d think that nobody understands him and potentially falls in to a hysteria resembling Ramsay’s cravings for love/attention (to me his obsession with violence is a catharsis for not being able to feel love as a psychopath, as well as tft he never experienced love and kinship. He can’t get dopamine from being loved, so he replaces love with the sense of power one feel when dominating and abusing others). Thus, the clash was essential for Jon to overcome his emotional dilemmas of being a walking dead (?) and grow. He just had to kill the boy within him again.

Jon was born a bastard but and raised like a Stark. Ramsay unfortunately is the product of rape and has to put up with a Roose Bolton’s morbid education doctrines. So there is definitely an element of envy in their relationship. Ramsay constantly refers to Jon’s success in the show to show that bastards also have the ability to climb high and receive respects. Basically, he uses Jon to defend his pathetic self esteem. He mentioned Jon Snow’s status as the Lord commander is of the nights-watch when Sansa mocks him a bastard (6x09), and defends Jon when Roose called Jon a bastard (he was like, “and so was I, father). These incidences on one hand show how he’s extremely sensitive about his bastard identity, but on the other also reveal that he in a way respects (or at least recognizes) Jon’s ability and somehow see him as an bastard idol. However, Ramsay is simultaneously jealous of Jon’s success because what Jon Snow take for granted is what he could never have (e.g. experiencing the warmth of family) to wreak this jealousy he does his best to attack Jon’s bastard identity in the pre-battle letter. It’s as if he is distinguishing himself from Jon, saying I’m better than you for I’m now legitimized as a Bolton.

Structurally, we can interpret Jon as a symbol of what Ramsay always want to be but cannot be. Therefore, the way Jon punches Ramsay also embodies how the Bolton bastard is devoured by his frenetic pursuit of recognitions and power. Alternatively, Ramsay is a symbol of what Jon could potentially become if he was raised in a similar way. After all, Roose Bolton’s education method is too extreme and brutal. I doubt anyone could grow up in this kind of environment without suffering serious mental health issues. If I was to be more dramatic, I would even say that they are the two sides of the same coin.

For now that’s all I can think of. Will add more if any new thoughts pop up. It’s intriguing to see how the two contrasting personas clashes in B.B., and how the previous deeds of the two Snows influences each others’ life track :) WITH ALL THAT BEING SAID IM PROUD TO DECLARE THAT MY. SHIP. IS. REAL.

Also I just want all of you to see this Kit Harrington - Iwan Rheon behind the scene snapshot

Sometimes ASOIAF reddit asks the questions that tumblr girlies have spent five years and multiple dissertation length posts answering.

modern theon goes to ramsay’s halloween rager in roose’s basement, gets violently high, agrees to take ramsay to get mcdonalds in balon’s truck (that he stole), they’re driving on a back country road and hit something, theon thinks it’s a deer but he and ramsay get out to check and it’s two small children (trick-or-treating in. the woods?) theon is in a delusional crossfaded haze vomiting into a bush while ramsay is trying to convince him that they have to bury the bodies before the police come (he jacks off to true crime documentaries) and theon (hallucinating that the kids are bran and rickon because ramsay laced his weed with rat poison probably) is like oh yeah that’s rational we should do that so they do it and then get back in the truck and go get big macs and never talk about it again except for when they’re having freak nasty out-of-bdsm-regulations sex and ramsay forces him to confess to the crime over and over while theon ideates suicidally. aaaaaand post!

reek is translated to something like 'stinky' in a lot of languages which is literally correct but its just so funny. and also very like.... its a dog name. it makes it read like cutesy fckn pet play LMAO

Lmao imagine if he missed

origional post by buddwyer

a clash of kings; theon iv

hamlet; act ii scene ii

a clash of kings; theon vi

hamlet; act v scene ii

Ramsay with his Reek 《A Dance with Dragons》

That Boy is A Problem (2018) “The Bastard’s backhand caught him square, and his cheekbone shattered with a sickening crunch beneath the lobstered steel. The world vanished in a red roar of pain.” -A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin. Date started: July 31st 1018 Date Finished: August 4th 2018

Just your nondaily reminder that the human body can overdose itself on adrenaline or just have a heart failure if you get too scared.

Not common by ANY means, but biologically possible.

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1 AM experimental, very messy thramsays

Thanks to @lilalynx my very first commission was so nice to draw 💘