Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones" season six.
No fandom loves their theories like the "Game of Thrones" followers, but every now and again some very divisive predictions crop up.
The hottest theory this week was that Sansa Stark is currently pregnant with Ramsay Bolton's baby.
Gross, right? This would mean that Sansa became pregnant as a result of being brutally raped by the sadistic son of her family's murderer.
But we can all rest easy, because there is virtually no chance this theory is correct.
The latest evidence some believers of the theory spotted was one of the final lines Ramsay said to Sansa before his hounds ate him alive in season six, episode nine. "You can't kill me," he told her. "I'm part of you now."
Some fans took this line to mean that Ramsay knew Sansa was pregnant with his child — that there was a literal part of him inside her. But actor Iwan Rheon, who plays Ramsay on "Game of Thrones," debunked this guess in an interview with Bustle.
"What he's saying to her is that his mind, his mark, will be on her," Rheon told Bustle. "Very much like if you look at Theon now, he's not the same man as he was [...] 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.'"
This is a much more straightforward interpretation of the line, and it makes more sense from Ramsay's point of view. Sansa is literally about to kill him in the same way he's killed many other people (death by hounds). She has taken on a bit of his personality, and been molded into a more calloused person because of the trauma she experienced at his hands.
To further debunk the theory, it's unlikely Ramsay could know about a possible pregnancy, anyways. Plus, Sansa carrying his child would be a really great way for showrunners to undo all the progress her character has made so far in season six. We just don't see D.B. Weiss and David Benioff choosing to put Sansa through another significant trauma like that.
Fans have been speculating about Sansa's pregnancy ever since the first promo images came out and people thought her stomach appeared to be a bit rotund.
Her conversation with Littlefinger in episode five fueled the flames even more when she said, "I can still feel what he did in my body, standing here right now." Then, she sewed herself a new dress after arriving at Castle Black, which others took to mean she was hiding a baby bump.
But these are all very open-ended pieces of evidence that can have multiple meanings. While there are often great bits of foreshadowing hidden in the series, we just don't think this is the case here.
Furthermore, Sansa's body underwent significant trauma when she jumped from the walls of Winterfell and waded through a frozen river. She's probably malnourished, since food options at Castle Black and in a military camp couldn't have been very robust. The odds of her having a viable pregnancy are low.
Sansa sewed herself a new dress because she wanted to shed the identity of "Mrs. Bolton the Rape Victim" and reclaim her Stark name. She isn't wearing new furs and a new gown with a direwolf sewed into it because she's hiding a pregnancy — it's because Sansa took charge at the end of season five and needed a new wardrobe to convey that message to the North (and to viewers).
Much like the creative Arya theories that cropped up earlier this season (only to be debunked later), the "Sansa is pregnant" prediction probably won't pan out. Instead, we should all be relieved that Ramsay Bolton is finally gone, and no piece of him survives to torment Sansa.
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