i love them so fucking much you don’t get it they are THE straight anime ship no one does it like them
the shunned (and previous ditzy) princess and her bodyguard/childhood friend who would move mountains for her; but despite that she learns how to fight and how to strategize because she doesn’t want to depend on him and she needs to grow into her title if she wants to help her people, so he agrees to train her FUCKAIAJDHWU