History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireHouseTully

** By ignoring Catelyn's advice in trading Jaime for Sansa and Arya, and sending out "wanted" posters to recapture the Lannister prince, he ''very effectively'' scuttles the trade and endangers not only House Tully, but Jaime, Brienne, and both Sansa and Arya.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A significant portion of the misery found in the series can be directly or indirectly traced to him [[spoiler:forcing Lysa to have an abortion, which is heavily implied to have damaged her reproductive organs and contributed to her and Littlefinger going on darker paths later in their lives, leading them to plot the War of the Five Kings and the resulting ouster of the Starks and Tullys from power]].

* ButtMonkey: Unfortunately, House Tully's domain (the Riverlands) is the main battleground of the civil war.

* ComesGreatResponsibility: To almost BlessedWithSuck degree. Aegon probably gave the most difficult job to Edmyn Tully: administrate a land with no real culture that hold them together (like the North or the Westerlands) and that is pretty much a nest of FeudingFamilies. The reason why most of the Riverlands ''like'' having them as Lords Paramount -- particularly the smallfolk -- is they are usually quite practical, reasonable and even-handed. After some of the absolute diplomatic disasters the region has had ruling it, they have made for a stable and refreshing change of pace during their stewardship.

* NiceToTheWaiter: When he may have to fight a war out of his castle, he nonetheless allows starving refugees to take shelter there, and when questioned why, he says it is "Because they are my people, and they are afraid". Genna Frey describes him as "soft of heart and soft of head."

* YoungAndInCharge: At the end of the Dance, he was the chief commander of the Black host that attacked King's Landing.

* ThemeNaming: You may notice a pattern in this era of the Tully family, in that they're all named after characters from ''Sesame Street''.

* ShortRunner: Unfortunately he only lasted as Lord of Riverrun for 40 days before dying en route to King's Landing, forcing his son Kermit to take over.

* BerserkButton: His people and his family. Harm them and he gets an itch to chop something off you.

Second son of Elmo Tully and younger brother of Kermit. He fought alongside his brother during the Battle of the Kingsroad, better known as the Muddy Mess. He eventually left Westeros to found his own sellsword company called the Stormbreakers.

* GlorySeeker: He was eager to prove himself, and technically achieved it during the Muddy Mess.
* GrumpyBear: Oscar was not the friendliest person around. One could even say he was a grouch.

* {{Foil}}: He's a "[[NominalHero good-guy]]" version of Tywin Lannister, ruthless about securing good marriage alliances for his children and willing to ride over their feelings and impulses if they disagree with him and willing to estrange himself from those, like the Blackfish, who don't play by his rules. Indeed, Tywin was in serious negotiations with Hoster Tully to marry Jaime to Lysa Tully. The main difference is that Lord Hoster truly does love his family and [[spoiler:at the time of his death repairs his relationship with his brother the Blackfish, and died in remorse of betraying his daughter Lysa]].

* {{Foil}}:
** Like Edmure, Jaime Lannister can be impulsive and act independently of command serving as a SpannerInTheWorks. Most notably attacking Ned Stark in the streets of King's Landing which ruined Tywin's BatmanGambit of forcing Ned to come in the field to strike Gregor Clegane in an ambush intended to capture him. This prevents the Stark-Lannister feud from having the speedy resolution Tywin envisioned. Later Jaime gets lured into a trap by Blackfish who correctly used his LeeroyJenkins restlessness against him, forcing Jaime to be a captive for most of the War of the Five Kings.
** Edmure can be considered the opposite of Robert Baratheon. Both are HotBlooded men who would rather face problems head-on, but Robert is a fantastic wartime leader who languishes in peacetime while Edmure is a poor general who works better in peacetime.

* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler:Just as she was made into a political pawn through marriage, the Karstarks were attempting to do the same to Lord Rickard's daughter Alys. Alys Karstark saw through her family's intentions and unlike Roslin, she fled as swiftly as she possibly could.]]

* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:When his daughter Lysa became pregnant with Petyr Baelish's child, he tricked her into aborting it with moon tea. She never forgave him for this, and he died knowing it.]]

* OffingTheOffspring: When his daughter Lysa became pregnant with Petyr Baelish's child, he tricked her into aborting it with moon tea. She never forgave him for this.

* EpicFlail: Wielded a morningstar when he fought and killed Borros.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Lord Borros was dismissive of him and his army, thinking it was led by nothing but green boys and women. That army crushed his and the young green boy slew Borros.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Believes Jon gained his position as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch by aid from Tywin Lannister when in reality [[DramaticIrony Tywin worked to prevent that very thing from happening.]] He bases this on Catelyn's animosity toward him, and doesn't realize Jon hates the Lannister's no less than he does.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Not really evil, but out of the rebel leaders, he was easily the most ruthless. During Robert's Rebellion he burned down the village of House Goodbrook, Riverland lords who remained loyal to the Iron Throne, and [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene slaughtered their smallfolk as punishment]]. Arya Stark, his granddaughter is [[BrokenPedestal seriously disappointed]] when the Brotherhood Without Banners escort her through its ruins. A surviving member of House Goodbrook is married to the Freys [[spoiler:and takes part in the Red Wedding, perhaps venting some revenge]].

* LandSeaSky: In terms of AnimalMotifs, House Tully's sigil is a fish (Sea), while their bannermen House Bracken and House Blackwood are represented by, respectively, a horse (Land) and a raven (Sky).

* {{Foil}}: He's a "[[NominalHero good-guy]]" version of Tywin Lannister, ruthless about securing good marriage alliances for his children and willing to ride over their feelings and impulses if they disagree with him and willing to estrange himself from those, like the Blackfish, who don't play by his rules. Indeed, Tywin was in serious negotiations with Hoster Tully to marry Jaime to Lysa Tully. The main difference is that Lord Hoster truly does love his family and [[spoiler:at the time of his death repairs his relationship with the Blackfish and died in remorse of his betrayal of his daughter]].

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:He utterly destroyed his own daughter. He is entirely responsible for Lysa's crippling insecurities and irrational behavior by forcing her to abort her child with Littlefinger and damaging permanently her capacity to bear children after promising healthy, plump babes to her. He dies buried in guilt and apologizing to an empty room, since Lysa has no interest in ''ever'' forgiving him.]]

** [[spoiler:Given that the ingredients listed as being included in moon tea are all highly toxic and can actually kill you, and that we don't know how far along Lysa was in her pregnancy (after a certain point it isn't safe AT ALL to conduct an abortion), Hoster might have also have given Lysa far too much of the moon tea, also poisoning her to the point where not just her reproductive organs, but likely her entire endocrine and metabolic systems were impacted by chronic, low-level damage to her liver, kidneys, pancreas and spleen, too. In short, Lysa may always been emotionally unstable and heading towards becoming a nasty piece of work through her own actions, but ''she may well have had ample physical reasons to hate her dad'', even as her mental state unravelled further.]]

* {{Asexuality}}: He hasn't shown interest in either men or women.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: [[spoiler:Despite knowing about the Red Wedding, she was crying and trembling throughout the ceremony, she did nothing to warn the Starks and the Tullys and consummated her marriage with Edmure while her in-laws were being slaughtered]].

* NiceGirl: A rarity among her family. [[spoiler:Not so nice that she hide important details about the Red Wedding]].

* TokenGoodTeammate: One of only a handful decent Freys, along with two of her full-blooded brothers, Perwyn and Olyvar. [[spoiler:Was upset at the Red Wedding, but didn't reveal it.]]

* BadassBeard: He had a fierce red beard.

* AHouseDivided: He and his grandfather disagreed over who should inherit the Iron Throne, and Elmo actually ignored his grandfathers command to support Aegon. At first, he simply kept the Riverlands out of the war, but soon led their army against Aegon's forces.

* NotSoDifferent: She's not the only Frey girl to be surprisingly pleased and grateful to get married and ditch the name "Frey", even given the circumstances. But, she's not otherwise much like "Fat Walda" Bolton.