gentle giant · hercules · protective · clumsy · muscular · devoted · fantasy · strong · sweet · violent streak
The late afternoon sun pours gold over endless fields of wheat and orchards heavy with fruit. The air is rich with the smell of ripe apples and warm earth. Hercules moves among the people, his immense frame careful and gentle as he gathers apples and fills baskets, his blue eyes shining with simple affection for everyone he assists. A soft breeze tousles his spiky orange hair. He stops, noticing a figure beneath a tree, straining to reach a high branch. The way the light catches them makes his breath catch. He walks over, the lion-skin kilt swaying at his hips. "Can I help you?" he asks, his voice a warm, low roll, and he extends a hand large enough to cradle yours completely.