#knight/princess dynamic

[g0lightly]

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the hounds of harrenhal is a slow-burn brienne x sansa romance within a whimsical adventure with a good mix of found family + re-found blood family fluff. don’t get it twisted, this is still pretty plot heavy. since this is a rather expansive work, there are plenty of other eventual pairings such as gendry/arya and jon/satin (i hc jon snow as the most clueless bisexual to ever live and i love him) in addition to some surprises for later.

can you spot the jenny of oldstones and prince duncan of dragonflies reference(s) in the collage? in addition to rhyming with past asoiaf-verse love stories (dunk x rohanne, jenny x duncan, elissa farman x queen rhaena, lyanna x rhaegar), THOH draws on the persephone/hades abduction myth to subvert both the hound's offer to escape with sansa during the blackwater and littlefinger's "rescue" of sansa from king's landing.

for the purposes of the fic (curse you, abandoned five year gap), sansa's been aged up to robb's twin and two years have passed in-universe.

brienne becomes the newest wearer of the hound's helm after lem when jaime sacrifices himself to lady stoneheart following an escape plan gone very wrong. as the hound, brienne enters a tourney at the eyrie as a mystery knight to win some much needed coin to help the brotherhood without banners through winter. there, lady alayne arryn begs for help escaping a doomed marriage; brienne temporarily sets aside jaime's honor-saving mission for sansa to help her. petyr baelish announces that the hound has abducted sansa stark from the eyrie and advertises a large reward for her safe return. meanwhile, tyrion is trying to use his previous marriage to sansa to claim the vale for the mountain clans and daenerys. sansa hides out in the riverlands’ magical hollow hill with brienne and the brotherhood, falling in love as tensions within the realm build up to a second dance of the dragons amid a years-long winter. when love is the death of duty, what happens when your duty is to the one you love? this work will ultimately take place over the course of several years, weaving in new allies and foes for our star-crossed lovers as the realm moves from crisis to crisis. for generations to come, all of westeros will sing of harrenhal’s hounds and its witch queen. but life is not a song; in this story, it is far sweeter.

meta thoughts below the cut on why a future briensa is objectively one of the best ASOIAF ships in terms of thematic potential.

briensa has the best elements of the far more popular s*ns*n and br*ime ships except they're both teenagers and, crucially, brienne has never held sansa at knifepoint 🩵 no shade to either ship though bc the themes those relationships explore have sent brienne and sansa on journeys that have made them kind of perfect for each other; ie, the subversion of brienne being a protector to sansa rather than a threat is especially relevant if brienne is the next hound after lem!!! alexa play god bless the broken road

brienne is the hero sansa prayed for!!! sansa has learned to put more trust in disfigured people than "beautiful" people which means she can see brienne's beauty in a way she cannot!!! thematically it would be well supported yet subversive for sansa’s true knight and true love to be a jonquil darke type rather than a florian type 🥹 thematically i think the surest route to true love for sansa is a naerys + aemon situation so why not make it like alysanne and jonquil if they ✂️? it's not my fault grrm accidentally (?) wrote sansa as a closeted femme4butch!!!!

[thesinglesock]

in a modern AU Link would be Zelda's only friend with a driver's license and their chat history would look like this

[imvec]

Sequel to Sunshade

[holly-tea]

“I’ve never received an offering before…” 🌿

[cowboyscaviar]

thinking soooo many crazy thoughts rn

[sluckythewizard]

FIIIINALLY almost nailed my designs for lizzie and caspian can i get a HEEEELLL YEAAH???? i think these two make a vvery cute duo and i cannt wait to see them again. i also hope they both get hurt reaaaallly really badly. togeter

[northcodex]

[spittyfishy]

(Delayed) Rarepair Week Day 3: Self care/Caring for the other

I figure Sonia and Peko would have such busy lives that it would be nice if they took a bit of time at the end of the day to just relax and unwind together. But since both of them likely struggle with relaxing, if they helped each other with all the nightly getting ready for bed things like hair brushing and taking off make up and the like then it would still feel like they were being productive!

@dr-rarepair-week-blog

[lelianasbong]

Inquisitor: I can't imagine a better ending. But wouldn't you be impressed by a dueling scar?

Josephine: My dearest lady... I love you precisely the way you are.

[hurtmemoreplease]

Calling it punishment might be a bit misleading - after all, they both know that the knight did nothing wrong. Discipline might be more accurate. It is, of course, a princess' prerogative to train her knight to behave properly.

A proper knight, the princess says, as she digs her nails into the other woman's inner thigh, must know when to kneel.

Yes, ma'am, the knight replies.

It is unbecoming of a knight, she says, to look lecherously on anyone but said knight's mistress.

Yes, ma'am, the knight replies, her face stinging from the princess' hand.

A knight must be willing to die for her mistress, the princess muses, so it only makes sense that a knight's body belongs to her in all other respects, doesn't it? She taps the handle of her knife with her fingers.

As you say, ma'am, the knight replies, crimson pooling at her knees.

[luvxiem]

child!luca who comes from the greatly respected kaneshiro family, one filled with generation after generation of loyal knights. luca, who grew up alongside the reader, the eldest child and heir to the crown. luca, who trained tirelessly day in and day out to feel worthy of the title of imperial knight. luca, who watches the reader from afar and blushes when they compliment his form.

luca, who gets knighted at only 15—the youngest to ever do so—and joins the imperial guard. his father praises his skill and celebrates his newfound knighthood and achievement with a party, but halfway through luca slips away from the crowd and ends up on a balcony. he admires the moon and prays that you remember him

knight!luca who watches with concealed worry at your coronation after the sudden death of your parents, who clutches the sword at his side tightly after hearing thinly veiled insults thrown at you from unimpressed nobles

knight!luca who serves his beloved emperor, who becomes the captain of the imperial knights and trains his subordinates to become the best they can be to protect you.

knight!luca who is assigned to guard you as you sleep, who averts his eyes when you begin to undress before him after dismissing the aids

knight!luca who stays oh so impossibly still when you brush a hand across his armored chest, heat radiating from his cheeks as he clenches his fists in an effort not to touch you. you, who is so radiant and beautiful, who is beyond his status as a knight and shouldn't, cannot be sullied by his callused hands and scarred fingers. you, who tucks a stray strand of blonde hair that escaped his ponytail behind his ear and strokes his cheek with clear fondness.

you, who knows your most loyal knight by name, who knows his favorite food and his drink of choice on his rare days off. you, who has watched him just as much as he's watched you, who has prayed for his safe return after a hard fought battle against invading forces. you, who tenderly removes every armor piece, every weapon from his body and drags him to your bed.

knight!luca who falls harder every day, who leaves sweet kisses against your hair and writes unspoken confessions into your skin. who lays beside you every night holding you tightly to his chest and thanking the gods every day for having the honor of loving you.

[ishtar-12]

Of Knights and Princesses by Ishtar12 (words: 13,094) Shin Sokouku || Akutagawa Ryuunosuke/Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs) No Archive Warnings Apply— Emotional hurt/comfort but also very soft—inspired by ch119 leaks

Summary:

Jinko requires no protecting. Gin has not needed him in years. Stoker’s princess is safe. Regardless of the way Stoker’s final edict continues to thrum within his bones, his duty has been well and truly discharged.

Behind him, the weretiger scrambles onto the roof with a huff that morphs into a groan, joints cracking back into human shape.

Tension melts from Ryuunosuke’s shoulders despite the renewed question: why? Why would the weretiger set out to find him? Why did he wish to be found?

Or: Akutagawa struggles in the aftermath of Bram Stoker’s possession. Atsushi refuses to let him run.

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We all say that we don’t want to be a damsel in distress, that we want a sword and to fight in our cool royal fit. But we all know that we want, at least once, for our very respectful and devoted knight to carry us through a forest back to the castle after we injured our ankle while being strong and independent, knowing full well that the ache in our chest will remain unsoothed and the loneliness will return because to be held by our knight would be disgraceful under any other circumstances. All we can do is yearn for our head to rest upon their chest once more

It’s me. I’m we

[squishosaur]

omg are you okay with ship requests…could you do silrid my rare pair ever… (silver and riddle :0)

my drawing app kept crashing 😭 but i will never pass on an opportunity to draw and/or talk about the twst 2nd years

[oceanwithouthermoon]

i was thinking over my yumeyasu (here and here if youre wondering what that was about) and i just thought... what if i just add saiki to that🧍🏻‍♀️

hey hey hey hearrr me out, im a huge kubosai shipper and an avid yumesai enjoyer (usually platonic but i enjoy it romantic often too) so it makes sense to me that if yumeyasu also works, this would definitely work

just think about it... yumehara and kuboyasu are the two romantics of the group and saiki is the major tsundere, so put them together and you get a super flustered kusuo with his two flirty lovers

aren and chiyo could fluster kusuo SO easily

and they would both majorly appreciate the little things he does and his tiny thoughtful affectionate gestures 😭 they would think hes the sweetest ever

and this polycule could be really good for him because sure, they would smother him with affection but those two would also be MORE than happy to spend some time alone with just the two of them whenever kusuo feels overwhelmed or just wants some alone time..

[aonomiki]

greatly suggest to Utena fans to periodically rewatch Utena. both because it’s a good show but also because it’s become clear to me that some of y’all DO NOT remember what the damn show is actually about.