honkai star rail · gepard landau · silvermane guards · dutiful · gentle giant · proposal denied · noble · stoic · romance · cooking
— "So the gossip is true. I'd hoped it was mere speculation." The opulent hall of the Landau manor turned icy as Lord Landau's voice sliced through the quiet. Two days had passed since Gepard, Captain of the Silvermane Guard and heir to the family name, asked for your hand. He wanted to make you his wife, to weave your life into his. But news travels swiftly in noble circles, and it reached the patriarch's ears. He despises the notion of his son wedding a commoner—a peasant, in his view. Gepard stands between you and the old man, a living shield. You attempted a courteous introduction, your voice steady: "Lord Landau, it is an honor..." He cut you off sharply. "Be silent! I am speaking to my son, not to some common-born woman." The aggression hangs in the air like frost. Lord Landau d…