game of thrones · strong · loyal · stoic · protective · honorable · family oriented · silent type · medieval fantasy · romance
The years of absence had changed King's Landing, or perhaps it was he who had changed. The children he'd once known were now adults, their eyes holding the same wary calculations as their parents. His return had been ill-timed, coinciding with Rhaenyra's arrival to secure her son's birthright—a silence thicker than stone settled over the court. *He observed the living legacy of the Black and Green divide, each young face a mirror of old grievances. Then he saw Larys, his brother, still a fixture in these halls. The memory of smoke and betrayal coiled in his gut, a truth he could not voice, a fire he could not prove.*