History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireHouseWesterling

* BitCharacter: Elenya Westerling, the second daughter and third child of Gawen and Sybell.

** Her descendant, Cersei, suggests exactly the [[KillEmAll same thing]] to King Robert after Balon Greyjoy's failed rebellion.

* WidowWoman: Her first husband Alyn was killed fighting against Maegor at the Battle Beneath the Gods' Eye.

* {{Foil}}:
** To Ygritte, in some ways. Jeyne is the kindhearted daughter of a noble and is the archetypical 'girl-next-door', while Ygritte is a tomboyish FieryRedhead. Jeyne immediately falls over heels for Robb, and Ygritte's love for Jon Snow develops over the course of ''A Storm of Swords''. [[spoiler:Both Ygritte and Robb Stark die in the same book, causing angst for both of their loved ones.]]
** To Lyanna Stark. A liaison with a highborn nobleman of the royalty leads them to elope against everyone's wishes to disastrous results. Lyanna and Jeyne are considered overtly willful by their own families. They are both reminisced by the Lannisters as women who were not worth going to war for or throwing away a kingdom for (Robb put his kingdom and war campaign in jeopardy for marrying Jeyne; Rhaeghar started a war due to his kidnapping of Lyanna). Lyanna ends up dying, while Jeyne is made a captive of her own family (who are Lannister loyalists).
** To Jeyne Poole. They're both young, ordinary girls (pretty but not beautiful, highborn but not that high, not super brave, etc) with the same eye color, hair color, and first name. Both are explicitly described as the kind of girl you don't [[spoiler:lose a war or risk your life]] for, and both play a pivotal role in the character arc of a prince who ''does'' go out of his way for them. [[spoiler:Also, both end up as Lady of Winterfell, but Jeyne W. became such by rightfully marrying the heir; Jeyne. P was passed off as an impostor heir. Jeyne W.'s marriage was happy, Jeyne P.'s was horrifically abusive. Finally, Jeyne W.'s role in Robb's arc led to his death, while Jeyne P.'s role in Theon's led to his metaphorical rebirth and redemption.]]

* AdultFear: His wife, daughters and younger son are in the Blackfish's custody, with Gawen fearing he might kill them if the Lannisters storm Riverrun. His eldest son might also have been killed because of his wife's scheming.

* AdultFear: Her scheming might have gotten her eldest son killed.

-->'''Sybell Westerling''': [[spoiler: [[SmallNameBigEgo You want a bastard to marry a bastard]]?!]]

* BadassMustache: He has a bushy mustache.

* TheBusCameBack: She reappears in one of Jaime's chapters on the fourth book. [[spoiler:To Jaime she looks nothing like Catelyn described her, raising questions as to who Jaime actually saw.]]

** To Lyanna Stark. A liaison with a highborn nobleman of the royalty leads them to elope against everyone's wishes to disastrous results. Lyanna and Jeyne are considered overtly willful by their own families. They are both reminisced by the Lannisters as women who were not worth going to war for or throwing away a kingdom for (Robb put his kingdom and war campaign in jeopardy for marrying Jeyne; Rhaeghar started a war due to his kidnapping of Lyanna). Lyanna ends up dying, while Jeyne is made a captive of her own family (who are Lannister loyalists) [[spoiler: though differing accounts of Jeyne's appearance lead to the possibility that she escaped Riverrun with the Blackfish, sending an impostor to the Westerlings]].

* HotConsort: Catelyn begrudgingly admits that she is a 'very pretty girl', with wide, birthing hips indicating her fertility. Jaime, on the other hand, dismisses her as a girl not worth losing a kingdom over, and with narrow hips (which, according to Catelyn, causes difficult child birth).

* DefiantCaptive: Supposedly, on her wedding night she was given a fertility potion by her sister-wife Tyanna of the Tower, but threw it in her face. This is just a rumor, however.

* HotConsort: Catelyn begrudgingly admits that she is a 'very pretty girl', with wide, birthing hips indicating her fertility. Jaime, on the other hand, dismisses her as a girl not worth losing a kingdom over, and with narrow hips (which, according to Catelyn, causes difficult child birth). [[spoiler:These different accounts raise the question of whether or not the "Jeyne" that Jaime saw was the actual Jeyne or an impostor, and the real deal escaped with the Blackfish.]]

** However she is intended as one by her mother and Tywin. The former who doses her with contraceptives in the guide of a fertility posset.

* HoneyTrap: ZigZaggedTrope. Robb's dalliance with Jeyne ended up being his AchillesHeel, but most people agree that their feelings for each other were genuine, and that Jeyne was never involved in any plots against him. [[spoiler:After his death, Jeyne holds on to the crown Robb had made for her and rips part of her dress - a sign of mourning - when leaving Riverrun]].

* TurnCoat: Switchs from fighting for the Lannisters to the Starks after Robb marries his sister.

* ArrangedMarriage: As part of her mother's deal with Tywin Lannister, suitable marriages of high birth will be found for Jeyne and her younger sister, though Jeyne must wait two years before wedding again to prevent rumours any children she gives birth to are actually Robb Stark's.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: While her desire for revenge against Dalton Greyjoy is understandable, her methods were rather extreme and misplaced. The Red Kraken was already dead by the time she launched a counterattack on the Iron Islands, and the "fighting" most consisted of Westermen slaughtering Ironborn smallfolk, destroying their land, and taking their food stores right as winter was descending. Thousands died, and not much else was accomplished.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Let's just say you can see where her descendant Tywin Lannister got it from with her. After several raids on her lands by the Red Kraken, she wanted to go and kill every man, woman and child on the Iron Islands as payback. She settled for looting what she could and burning what she couldn't instead.

* OpportunisticBastard: Jumped at the chance to use Robb and Jeyne's marriage to increase the power of both House Westerling and Spicer by [[spoiler:striking a deal with Tywin to get her brother Castamere and her children good marriages]].

* MeaningfulName: A house of the Westerlands with "West" in its name, reaching CaptainObvious levels.