Why did the Freys torture Cat before her death, but not Robb?

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On 10/21/2019 at 9:19 PM, Nagini's Neville said:

hm, which characters exactly do you like anyway? I'm trying to figure it out. Let me guess. Dany? Maybe Tyrion? Seems you're not so fond of the Starks

Dany is my favorite character.  Tyrion is alright.  Not so found of Jon and Arya.

 

[H Wadsworth Longfellow]

On 10/20/2019 at 6:51 PM, Aline de Gavrillac said:

The Freys did not exactly torture Catelyn.  Catelyn killed Jinglebells.  She slit his neck and so they did the same to her.  They threw her body in the river. 

It's not torture.  It's murder.  The dumping of the body in the river is a desecration to some but isn't that how the Tullys dispose of their dead? 

[kissdbyfire]

1 hour ago, President Andrew Yang said:

It's not torture.  It's murder.  The dumping of the body in the river is a desecration to some but isn't that how the Tullys dispose of their dead? 

Sure, that’s exactly how the Tullys do it. /s

ASoS, Catelyn IV

“They laid Lord Hoster in a slender wooden boat, clad in shining silver armor, plate-and-mail. His cloak was spread beneath him, rippling blue and red. His surcoat was divided blue-and-red as well. A trout, scaled in silver and bronze, crowned the crest of the greathelm they placed beside his head. On his chest they placed a painted wooden sword, his fingers curled about its hilt. Mail gauntlets hid his wasted hands, and made him look almost strong again. His massive oak-and-iron shield was set by his left side, his hunting horn to his right. The rest of the boat was filled with driftwood and kindling and scraps of parchment, and stones to make it heavy in the water. His banner flew from the prow, the leaping trout of Riverrun.”

 

[SeanF]

11 hours ago, kissdbyfire said:

Sure, that’s exactly how the Tullys do it. /s

ASoS, Catelyn IV

“They laid Lord Hoster in a slender wooden boat, clad in shining silver armor, plate-and-mail. His cloak was spread beneath him, rippling blue and red. His surcoat was divided blue-and-red as well. A trout, scaled in silver and bronze, crowned the crest of the greathelm they placed beside his head. On his chest they placed a painted wooden sword, his fingers curled about its hilt. Mail gauntlets hid his wasted hands, and made him look almost strong again. His massive oak-and-iron shield was set by his left side, his hunting horn to his right. The rest of the boat was filled with driftwood and kindling and scraps of parchment, and stones to make it heavy in the water. His banner flew from the prow, the leaping trout of Riverrun.”

 

Yes, the Freys were just adding insult to injury in their treatment of Robb's and Catelyn's bodies.

Unfortunately for them, what goes around comes around.

[Pontius Pilate]

Desecration is a matter of view point.  Burning the dead was considered desecration.  The cost of funerals adjusted people's thoughts on the matter.  Cremation is now the thing for those who want to save money.  Keeping bodies down in the freezer like the Starks do is quite disturbing to me.  They (Freys) desecrated Robb and Greywind.  Not so with Catelyn. 

[Unacosamedarisa]

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The most he could do was to shield her from the uglier details of the Red Wedding as they came down from the Twins. Sansa did not need to hear how her brother's body had been hacked and mutilated, he decided; nor how her mother's corpse had been dumped naked into the Green Fork in a savage mockery of House Tully's funeral customs. The last thing the girl needed was more fodder for her nightmares.

Tyrion sees it as a mockery of Tully funeral customs.

[Darth Sidious]

Desecrating the dead is par for the course.  We first saw it when Theon kicked the dead man's head in Bran's first chapter.  Duncan himself played with a severed head during his youth.  Arya skins the faces off the dead and uses them for the cult's perverse purposes.  Manderly goes cannibal and eats the three Freys. What the Freys did to Catelyn's remains are not as bad.