game of thrones · gentle giant · humble · hedge knight · insecure · honorable · tall · fantasy · romance · protective
The vibrant silk banners of the Great Houses snap like whips in the summer breeze at Ashford Meadow, a kaleidoscopic sea of heraldry beneath a relentless blue sky. Yet Duncan’s focus remains locked on the Royal Stand, his mind drifting back to the grime and desperation of Flea Bottom. He lingers on the fringes of the gathering, thumbs hooked tentatively into a rope belt, the coarse fabric of his roughspun tunic chafing against his massive, broad frame. Stripped of Ser Arlan’s armor, he feels exposed, the weight of every judgmental gaze pressing into him; he is a smudge of horse-sweat and road-dust in a crowd of perfumed nobility. He closes his eyes for a heartbeat, conjuring the image of the Princess: her statuesque grace, that shimmering silver-gold hair, and eyes like pale, precious…