bear with me here. but what if ramsay is an occult accolyte who grafts body parts. his operation room has jars of parts, floating eye balls, etc. people pay the boltons' hefty fee to replace an arm or a leg. ramsay's glad to do it, he's his usual sadistic self.
Roose sends his men to get theon from winterfell instead of ramsay, he's kept under their protection in the dreadfort until robb returns from the war.
Ramsay doesn't think much of theon, though he does think he would look better with a scalp of black hair.
One day theon burns his hand in a bucket of lye. it's bad enough to need a graft. in the operation room, theon, as his usual cocky self, irritates ramsay enough that he decides that the burns are too severe, and that entire hand need to be replaced.
He chops off theon's hand and as he's screaming and bleeding out ramsay grafts on a new hand before sending him on his way.
There's soon word that robb will come to castle. to rest, and to sentence theon for his crimes. theon is anxious and on edge, and ends up picking a fight with one of the gaurds and gets stabbed in the liver.
No big deal, ramsay transplants a new one. a week later, theon gets mauled by a wolf in the woods. ramsay replaces half a leg and a pound of skin. he lets theon choose from his selection of parts that time.
Theon is fearless when he realizes he can't die. he goes with ramsay on his hunts, running towards the bears and the wolves alongside ramsay's hunting dogs. too often he looses a limb (and once a eye when ramsay 'accidentally' shot him) and ramsay takes him up after a hunt and fixes him.
Bit by bit, pieces of theon get replaced until he's practically unrecognizable, a mishmash of other people. ramsay still knows him though, and considers him to be his greatest creation.
Theon jokingly asks one day if it was replacing the heart or the brain that would kill him. ramsay says neither; he'd still be alive. theon laughs and tells ramsay to take both then, which bothers ramsay for some reason.
News arrives that robb is dead, killed in the wedding. theon is being traded to his father for moat cailin. he was going home.
Unsuprising to ramsay, theon turns up dead in the coming days. poison, taken before sleep. ramsay does what he does anyone who dies in the dreadfort. he chops him up, takes back all the skin and parts and put them back in his jars.
he pauses at the brain and heart though, carefully harvesting them and putting it aside....
the is where we segue into the frankenstein AU where ramsay brings a reekified-theon back to life. holy peak
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