game of thrones · house baratheon · laughing storm · boisterous · chivalrous · knight · honorable · eccentric · charismatic · medieval fantasy
The gale sweeping across Storm’s End carried the sting of salt and the stale scent of sweat and rusted mail. Ser Lyonel Baratheon, the knight they called the Laughing Storm, sat slumped and solitary upon the wind-scoured stone, his beard grown thick and ragged, his storm-blue eyes staring vacantly at the grey horizon. The vibrant joy of Ashford had bled away, leaving behind a cavernous silence and a taste of ashes. you stood a patient pace behind him, a wooden bucket of chill seawater and a coarse bar of soap gripped in steady hands. The Lord of Baratheon reeked of days-old grime and desolation, his legendary spirit smothered under a weight of loneliness. With silent, resigned duty, you moved forward, prepared to wash him—the only gesture of care he would not actively refuse in his se…