THE EXTENDED PAYNE FAMILY

NOTES FOR THE CROSSOVER AU "MOONRISE BY SUNSET"
ON THE PAYNE CLAN, THEIR AGENDA, AND THE CLIMAX OF THE STORY
(FEATURING DIMENSIONAL TRAVEL BETWEEN THE VICTORIAN UK AND WESTEROS!)


The main branch: The Westminster Paynes

Alistair Payne = ?
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Glynnis Payne (divorced)
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Clarissa Payne

a scheming political climber named Alistair Payne 

ruthless family advisor Alistair Payne

For years, Alistair tried

to elevate his position...                  

through my husband's political career

"I’ve done everything in my power

to get you to this position...          

and I will not let you throw it all away!"

competitive fiancée

Payne is how on the verge of consolidating his position and power with () forthcoming

marriage to his snobbish daughter Glynnis () 

() chief advisor and campaign manager.

fitting in with the plans and ambitions of others

prospective new wife, Glynnis Payne, a perfectly opportunistic snob 

 Alistair and Clarissa Payne, Glynnis' plotting father and shallow daughter.

For people like Alistair and Glynnis,

social standing is everything.

ALISTAIR: Are you okay?
                   

DAUGHTER'S FIANCÉ: Shut up! (punches him in the face)

(Then, the engagement is broken)

Glynnis Payne: Darling. (Pause) I know my daddy was naughty, but what about me?

Fiancé: You'll survive.

Alistair Payne: Oh, my giddy aunt!

the hypocrisy of upper-class society and the Payne family in particular (and the obvious pun on "Payne" and "pain).

ending his engagement with Glynnis, and terminating Alistair's employment (punctuated by punching him in the face)

Alastair Payne’s daughter Glynnis (Anna Chancellor), who has a daughter by a previous marriage, Clarissa (Christina Cole). Evidently, Payne’s political ambitions operate on a long timetable.

Glynnis Payne: [Takes a bite of her eggs] These eggs are positively glacial. When I run this house, senile servants will be the first thing to go.

Clarissa: You'd have to get around the old bat somehow. She'd never allow it.

Jocelyn Dashwood (elderly mother of the bridegroom): [Enters the room] Anyone seen my pruning shears? The *old bat* seems to have forgotten where she put them.

Glynnis Payne: Until then we have to keep up appearances. Look what happened to Olivia Nixon when she went to China last summer.

Clarissa: Who's Olivia Nixon?

Glynnis Payne: Exactly.

 the scheming trio

their fairy-tale stepfamily malevolence 

glacial fiancée and equally frigid stepdaughter-to-be

scheming "friend," Alistair Payne—that dastardly associate

 the toll "keeping up appearances" can take on a family,

 the foolishness of hypocrisy,

Clarissa makes a number of sarcastic quips 

a sharp-tongued Clarissa. 

For Glynnis, it's a chance

to launch Clarissa on society.

In Clarissa's case it's more like

an intercontinental ballistic missile.

She's what in the old days might

have been called a debutante.

Miss Glynnis Payne.

Miss Clarissa Payne.

his fiancée, Glynnis Payne...

the lovely Clarissa Payne.

The subplot strand of the Westminster Paynes, which makes up the main conflict of the climactic Casterly Rock arc of the story, is this: Alistair Payne, who knew Tywin and who profits from the war in Westeros (and is both a British peer and a steampunk entrepreneur), has arranged for Jaime to marry his daughter, but Cersei won't give her brother away that easily (this is one of the reasons why he is drugged).

The snag is, Alistair is a cool-as-ice manipulative b***rd and a scheming social climber like his late associate Tywin (kindred spirits, eh?), ready to usurp the power bequeathed to the Lannister children (once Tywin's death created a vacuum in the Westeros power scheme) while being as suave as he and his family can be towards the Lords of the Westerlands (eh, Iago?). Alistair also let his stepbrother Ilyn and the other cadet Paynes settle in Westeros across a dimensional portal 3:) as part of the plan, as a fifth column in the Westerlands. (Aside from Alistair's own encouraging Tywin to be more calculating and ruthless).

As they vie for Jaime's affections, neither Cersei nor Glynnis (who realize, in the end, that they're not so different, being both so competitive, and so raised to strive for power in a man's world, with unlucky first marriages, both keep their maiden names to display their father's status) see Brienne and her co-conspirators coming. AT ALL. The arms race for romance then comes to an unexpected ending.

Clarissa, along with Pod (whom she falls for in the end, and who loves her at first unrequitedly), Tyrion, and Brienne (whom she falls for in the beginning, thinking she is male), is part of the Free Jaime conspiracy. Though she at first appears spoiled and with an "alpha bitch" attitude... she is actually lovably spoiled, and she will gradually defrost and develop feelings for Pod and vice versa, though the ghost of social difference and culture shock is at first haunting them (against her mother's will, she chooses to stay in Westeros with Pod. Glynnis decides to let her go to make her feel happy).

The climax will involve the Paynes discovering the truth about the Lannisters (their incestuous relationship, which Jaime was drug-induced into) from an un-drugged Jaime (after the sold and bought three nights), who breaks off his engagement with Glynnis, punches Alistair in the face, confesses that he loves Brienne (whom the Paynes think is male!), claims the right to his own estate, and fulfils the valonqar prophecy right before their very eyes.
This hot-blooded murder, the breaking off of the engagement, and the confession of Jaime Lannister's feelings for "another man" lead to Alistair Payne dying of a stroke due to the shock.
For the ending of the Clarissa romance subplot, see above.



The cadet branch: The Paynes of the Westerlands

Ilyn Payne

(distantly related)

Podrick "Pod" Payne

For years, Alistair tried

to elevate his position...

       

through my husband's political career

  
For people like Alistair and Glynnis,

social standing is everything.

                     

It’s silly, but they live by it.

....................................................................

ALISTAIR: -Of course I knew. It’s my job to know. (Pause) Are you okay?
                   

DAUGHTER'S FIANCÉ: Shut up! (punches him in the face)



(Then, the engagement is broken)

Glynnis Payne: Darling. (Pause) I know my daddy was naughty, but what about me?

Fiancé: You'll survive.
...................................................................

Just in case you were wondering

what happened to Clarissa and Glynnis...

                   

don't worry.

They ended up exactly as they should.  

                   

So did Alistair.



This is the closest

he ever got to Parliament.