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Re: Nice theory with number 2 dacole Send a noteboard - 24/04/2012 05:16:49 AM

2) The girl actually is Jeyne Westerling. in the books, Jeyne's mother is from the Free Cities (not Volantis that I remember though) and she could well have a different appearance because of that. She's joined the Lannister war effort as a healer/battlefield nurse as a volunteer (which may actually be something that's normal in Westeros, or it may be down to her wilfulness; she may even have sneaked off under an alias).

A more Machivellian possibility is that she's deliberately been planted to catch Robb's eye, but that seems highly implausible, given the Starks staged a surprise attack and secured a totally unpredictable victory that could not have been foreseen.


The unforeseeable circumstances of her being there for Robb are not so much, if a bit advanced. Stafford's host was raised in light of Robb holding Riverrun, athwart the Lannisters' lines of communication with their own lands, so their goal was to move east and threaten or attack Robb at some point. Since Tywin would prefer to converge on the Starks with his own force and the new one, an encounter between Robb & Stafford's forces would almost certainly be to the Lannisters' disadvantage, with Jeyne being a good fallback if Robb was getting too powerful.

The only problem with this scenario is it requires a lot more cooperation on her part than seems to have existed in Sybelle Westerling's plot in the books, and is a bit of a risky gamble to ensnare a would-be king, with much greater risks to Jeyne's virtue and whatnot. If she does turn out to be Jeyne, it would be entirely in keeping with the PC tropes I disparaged above for her to have run away to join the army as a medic and "do some good." I confess I had forgotten the specifics of her maternal ancestry which might support her having medical knowledge, as the books made no suggestion Sybelle had passed on her pharmacological expertise (tricking Jeyne into taking contraceptives would be a lot harder, for one thing). Though Jeyne was mentioned tending to the wound Robb took in the attack on the castle, I kind of glossed over that part, assuming it was teenage hormones exaggerating what was nothing more than sitting by his side and holding a cup for him to drink or putting cloths on his forehead and the other stuff people do to pretend they are helping an invalid. In hindsight, she very probably could have had the knowledge and whatnot to provide real treatment.


agreed that it would make it hard to believe the way we are told the plot actually played out later. I was wondering if people were forgetting that she actually WAS used to catch Robb's eye in the books...
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Game of Thrones 2.04 Garden of Bones: OF COURSE SHE HAS TO HAVE A JOB! - 23/04/2012 04:14:01 PM 1056 Views
Yeah, don't know where they're going with the Robb Stark love interest - 23/04/2012 06:14:16 PM 779 Views
Fairly sure they cast Oona Chaplin as Jeyne EDIT - 23/04/2012 07:17:18 PM 621 Views
Or they dropped the character all together, as they seem wont to do *NM* - 23/04/2012 09:21:08 PM 257 Views
There's some confusion here. - 23/04/2012 10:37:56 PM 672 Views
Nice theory with number 2 - 24/04/2012 12:02:17 AM 718 Views
Re: Nice theory with number 2 - 24/04/2012 05:16:49 AM 548 Views
I didn't remember much about the specifics... - 24/04/2012 07:43:19 PM 578 Views
I've actually got a better thought now. - 24/04/2012 11:30:45 PM 710 Views
I'm guessing no. - 23/04/2012 07:50:57 PM 643 Views
Very astute. I concur with everything you said *NM* - 23/04/2012 09:19:53 PM 292 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 2.04 Garden of Bones: OF COURSE SHE HAS TO HAVE A JOB! - 24/04/2012 05:13:02 AM 632 Views
Arya - 24/04/2012 08:58:30 AM 685 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 2.04 Garden of Bones: OF COURSE SHE HAS TO HAVE A JOB! - 24/04/2012 01:19:40 PM 797 Views
+1 - 29/04/2012 07:52:24 PM 533 Views
Re: Game of Thrones 2.04 Garden of Bones: OF COURSE SHE HAS TO HAVE A JOB! - 01/05/2012 01:25:44 AM 526 Views
We've covered this to death on Westeros - 01/05/2012 02:00:49 PM 572 Views
Re: We've covered this to death on Westeros - 09/05/2012 11:40:03 AM 589 Views
Yeah I dunno what to make of that either - 24/04/2012 09:28:48 AM 659 Views
To be fair, non-readers come away with a different experience. - 24/04/2012 02:19:01 PM 622 Views
Re: To be fair, non-readers come away with a different experience. - 01/05/2012 01:27:09 AM 487 Views
Sorry, I thought I had posted a link here last week... - 08/05/2012 07:28:57 AM 689 Views
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