- Tags:: [[ttrpgs/Order of the Wandering Mind/Characters]] - Date Created: [[2020-09-15]] - A bodyguard fulfills his family's tradition of serving the royal family, but he gets so close to his princess that he must choose between duty and love. - Which is more important, loyalty and obligation or love? - The bodyguard's feelings sometimes improve his ability to fulfill his duty (in that he's more attentive or can get the princess to agree to things) or it can also detract from his duty (in that jealousy clouds his judgment). - Examples - [[Jacin]] and [[Character/Winter (Lunar Chronicles)]] in [[sources/Book/Winter]] - [[Alanna]] and Jonathan in [[Book/The Lioness Quartet (series)]] - Pen and Queen Kelsea in [[The Queen of the Tearling]] - Variations - [[Ead]] and [[Sabran]] in [[Book/Priory of the Orange Tree]] (lesbian relationship) - [[Katie Rice]] and Jonathan in [[Book/Fate of the Tearling]] (woman bodyguard protecting man)