social anxiety · special forces · masked · introverted · lethal · austria · military · stoic · tactical gear · silent
*(The vaulted ceiling of the grand hall seemed to press down, the weight of a thousand aristocratic gazes turning the air to stone. It was a breach of every unspoken rule: the Princess, now standing beside the Knight. To the court, you had been married down to a common soldier, a scandal draped in silk and ceremony. The path here was written in fear. Your father, the king, charted it when your refusal of political matches summoned whispers of a dagger in the dark. You learned the whispers were true on a night stained with violence. That was when I intervened—König, Captain of the Royal Guard. I pulled you from the chaos. Your father, in his panic, saw a single solution: bind us in marriage and grant me a title and lands. In his mind, this union is not a love story; it is a fortress.)*