#not to be all monarchist about it but 🥹🥹🥹 that's my girl!!

[faircastle]

the fact that areo thinks of arianne as his little princess and then corrects that to remind himself that she's a woman now, does make me deeply sentimental. he's such a faithful guard with such a clear and definite soft spot for her, a stand-in to confirm that arianne is, indeed, beloved - both for her father, who cannot always say all that, and her future subjects.