History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireHouseFrey

* ThoseTwoGuys: He's often mentioned or seen along with his half-brother Whalen, especially in the first book.

* ThoseTwoGuys: He's often mentioned or seen along with his half-brother Danwell, especially in the first book.

* SmugSnake: When you have inherited the main-line [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkassery]] so obviously, you, too might get a bit big and self-important for your bastard britches.

* WomenAreWiser: Is more grounded in reality than even Lord Tywin (the byword for PragmaticVillainy) when she notes the potential of Tyrion when he constantly refuses to.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: They're necessary to the war effort due to their possession of the Twins, the only crossing point over the Green Fork of the Trident for hundreds of miles, but their {{Jerkass}} and selfish tendencies make them disliked by the Northmen and Rivermen alike. Heck, they're less popular than the allied House that ''regularly flays people alive'' and even the Blackwoods and Brackens, FeudingFamilies who can barely stand to be in the same room with each other, loathe the Freys more than they do each other. [[spoiler:They retain this status once they join the Lannisters]].

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: They have a reputation for this; a well-deserved one.

* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Pretty much the one rule they'll actually stick to as part of Walder's emphasis on the importance of family sticking together. [[spoiler: This doesn't apply to those who are relatives but who don't bear the name Frey, as Lucas Blackwood was direct kin to the Freys via Walder's marriage to his fourth wife but that doesn't keep him from getting murdered at the Red Wedding]].

* FantasticRacism: Refers to the Reed's as "frog-eaters" and suspects them of harboring Beric with little to go on.

* EvilIsPetty: Oh yes. The great majority of them can't stop themselves from acting dickish even at times when they are serious, when negotiating with Robb Stark they can't help but bring news of Winterfell's destruction, one of their conditions for the marriage between Edmure Tully and Roslyn Frey is that Robb comes to publicly apologize to Walder and his daughters, they serve disgusting dishes just before [[spoiler: the Red Wedding, during which they sew Grey Wind's head on Robb's body and throw Catelyn's body in the river in a mockery of the Tullys' funeral ritual]], and have the gal to say that Robb breaking his oath to them is an excuse for the atrocities they did.

* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: [[spoiler:Every Frey has his or her own role in the Red Wedding. They even get the ones who might object to or otherwise bungle the plan out of the house so that it goes off without a hitch.]]

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: They're necessary to the war effort due to their possession of the Twins, the only crossing point over the Green Fork of the Trident for hundreds of miles, but their {{Jerkass}} and selfish tendencies make them disliked by the Northmen and Rivermen alike. Heck, they're less popular than the allied House that ''regularly flays people alive''. [[spoiler:They retain this status once they join the Lannisters]].

* ThickerThanWater: Walder Frey may be callous to his many kids and grandkids, but he doesn't let ''anyone'' else give them shit. [[spoiler:Robb learned that, fatally.]] Well, except for the poor half-witted grandson Jinglebell, anyway. Averted by most of the other Freys, when they hear of relatives dying, they're more concerned about what this means for the succession.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: It may have looked like a good idea at a time to betray the Starks and Tullys at the Red Wedding, but given the problems the Lannisters and Tyrells are having at the moment and the fact that his neighbors in the Riverlands and the North hate his guts, it probably was a bad idea.]]

* BlackSheep: Of ''the Freys''. Take that in for a minute.

* RagsToRiches: Except they made their fortunes through legitimate means and they are looked down upon by the other Great Houses because these means weren't military-based.
** Which is very much unrealistic: Tolls during the medieval times were serious business and it was the right of pretty much any landed nobles (except landed knights, if I remember correctly) to charge a fee for crossing a bridge, road or waterway located on their territory; it was one of the few reliable source of income after all, and war isn't cheap...

** A StealthPun and a spoiler for book 3: [[spoiler: Their keep, the Twins, is a set of ''double'' towers on opposite sides of the river Trident, and their official title is the Lords of the ''Crossing''.]]

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Lord Tywin Lannister, of course, who was his great-uncle.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: History mentions a member of House Frey who was mocked as "Fool Frey" for asking for the hand Princess Rhaenyra. [[AmbiguousSituation While Forrest is not specifically mentioned]], he was the only noticeable Frey from that time period and he was noted as one of Rhaenyra's suitors.
* FamousAncestor: He's probably the one ancestor House Frey can be proud of.

** Robb Stark having been engaged to a Frey when he was a Lord likewise denies them his hand when he becomes a King. This is genuinely a grave slight. In Westerosi history, Lyonel Baratheon rebelled against Aegon V when Prince Duncan turned down a Baratheon wedding, and that was when ''the Iron Throne'' slighted him as opposed to Robb Stark who is "King in the North". However, Lyonel didn't turn to such honourable circumstances and accepted another marriage. Also, Walder Frey had forced Robb to make the pact under dishonourable circumstances and the marriage is an insult to the Stark similar to when Tytos married Genna to a Frey, they are too low on the pecking order to make that demand.