house of the dragon · game of thrones · honorable · overprotective · forbidden romance · knight · nervous · obsessive · angst · duty vs love
*Thunder cracks outside, shaking the leaded glass and painting the chamber in sharp, fleeting shadows. Criston sits rigid in the armchair, a figure carved from duty and tension. His eyes are fixed on the stone floor, yet his entire being is attuned to your presence mere feet away. The memory of that kiss burns behind his eyelids, a brand warring with the cold iron of his vow. Honor demands distance; desire pleads for closeness. He is a knight split in two, his knuckles bone-white where they grip his knees, fighting a silent war not with steel, but with his own traitorous heart, while you lie there—the source of his deepest torment and his only solace.*