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knight!sophie x reader headcanons

you are a runaway royal and sophie the knight has tracked you and orders you to come home, but you smirk and she sighs because she knows that you have authority over her as the king and queen are not around, so now she is going to have to accompany you on your little journey

in the end she doesn't really care too much where you go, just that you don't get hurt.

you encounter dangers together... you tend to her wounds after a fight....

after the first scuffle, she's resistant to you taking care of her. she’s able to avoid your care that round, but the second she gets into another situation, you order her to take her armor and shirt off... before realizing too late exactly what that entails

no worries, she knows what you mean. she doesn’t mention it and silently obeys

you see all her scars under her armor. she grimaces but tries to stay quiet as you dress the wounds. she can’t help but hiss in pain when you tie one a little too tight, and when you panic and loosen it she assures you she's fine.

after weeks of fighting and protecting you and staying up what seems like 24/7 to guard you, she lets down her guard and falls asleep against your shoulder that night.

but that’s just the beginning: one night, after an evening of mead and dancing in the nearby pub, you stumble out together, laughing and feeling warm inside. in a moment the laughter between you dies down and you just gaze at each other, listening to each other's breaths, before you lean in and close your eyes, butterflies exploding in your stomach as you feel sophie, too, lean towards you and your lips brush-

if reader isn’t amab and sophie is a woman... that would not be acceptable during that time period.

at some point, reader would eventually confess and sophie looks elated but then her smile falls because no, she has a duty and it's wrong and she can't court a royal of all people.

she takes her hand out of yours and looks away, shaking her head as she insists it cannot happen. she becomes distant because she doesn't want to taint the reader, not like that, but reader keeps pushing and insisting that it can work, they're already halfway across the kingdom and if they make it out of the border they can go somewhere else and forget this nightmare and live on their own-

ANYWAY, back to the pub night where we started: the evening doesn’t go any farther than that one kiss, but you fall asleep against her and it’s so warm and you feel so safe....

however, when morning comes, you wake up to find sophie missing. when you get up to look for her, it doesn’t take more than a few seconds to discover she’s sitting feet away by herself.

when she hears you approach, she stands up quickly and clears her throat. she asks you whether you're ready to get going, and you can tell she's acting very strange, so you wonder if she remembers the night before. eventually, you assume she must because she flinches away at your every touch and is distant the whole day

sophie trying to act like she's all business. sophie not using her nickname for you anymore, just calling you by your royal title. sophie insisting there be a certain amount of distance between the two of you so that she can better "survey the area" without you getting in the way, though you know she just wants space. sophie insisting you don't touch anymore. sophie insisting there be less time for chattering after meals so that you get moving and on your feet faster.

you can feel her pulling away and it breaks you because you spent so long tearing those walls down and now it feels like she's running away from you the same way you ran away from home

(but no worries! we all know i can't end a love story badly, so they'll reconcile and figure it out eventually ;) )

....the reader almost dies for plot reasons and these plot reasons are so that sophie can go feral trying to protect you and also so she can snap during your recovery and admit she loves you and can't live without you-

sophie's in the middle of handing you food and letting you eat when she's staring at you and tears start slipping down her cheeks. her nostrils flare and she sniffles and chokes a little and you ask what's wrong, which only make her break down more. and then when she wipes her eyes and looks back at you, fighting to compose herself, she breaks with a garbled laugh and reaches over to brush some crumbs from around your mouth. she lets her finger stay longer than needed. she meets your eyes and you see hers well up again as she bites her lip.

and then it all spills. she whispers about how she can't let you die, she can't see you hurt, she can't let you go. she wants you so bad, she doesn't care if everyone else says it's wrong because she knows that it's right and she was so stupid to ever push you away and she feels terrible that she ever hurt you like that. she just thought she was protecting you. she thought she was bad for you, like the world said. but now sophie sees she can be good for you. and you can be good for her. and she slips her hands around your face and sniffles to you about how she doesn't want to leave you. she wants to go somewhere and build a home and a life and a family. and she's so sorry she ever let you get hurt. sophie doesn't know how the attacker snuck up like that, but she swears it wont happen again. she swears she won't let anyone touch you.

you cup your hands over the ones she has on your cheeks and you can't help but weep with her. she's all you've ever wanted. you aren't sure of anything else in life except her. and she wants you.

...halfway through the sweet confession you realize how unclothed you are and how you hadn't noticed until now that you're bandaged in places that would require the removal of your clothes.

you look down at your torso. then you look up at her. her eyebrows scrunch and then you softly ask, "...did you..?"

her eyes shoot open and she blushes and insists it was just medical and she tried to cover you or not look but she was bandaging really fast and you were sort of bleeding out so swears she wasn't focused-

there's nothing but the crackle of the fire for a few moments after that. and she's still blushing as you look over at her. slowly, she meets your eyes again. you whisper and ask if she'd like to focus with you.

it takes her a moment to understand what you mean, and her eyes grow big and bright with that beautiful surprised face she has, and you can see the way her breathing picks up. she struggles to answer, not knowing what to say, and then you lean your face a bit closer. it's an invitation. a starting point. and you stay in the spot you nudged your chin to, waiting for her response.

it barely takes a second before her hands are cradling your face again and she's kissing you, twisting your mouth against hers, parting for air and returning so quickly you swear it's like she thinks you're some sort of miraculous medicine. she's ravishing your mouth deep and slow kisses, tilting your head for more access, and all you can think about is how you can't think. your brain is melting and your body feels like it's a puddle, but at the same time, you can feel the frantic thump of your heart and the heat pooling in your stomach at the way her mouth captures yours. her hands fisting in your hair. your hands settling on her waist and you pull her forward and let her crawl above you, thighs on either side of your body as she sits over your lap. her hands travelling down as she kisses along your neck. she feels up your sides, runs her thumbs down your arms, slides her hands along the small of your back. and eventually she pulls back and looks you in the eyes for a second.

she just.... looks. her panting and yours are the only things you hear besides the fire until she leans forward and brings your lips together again, kissing you slower, longer.

.....yeah i uh i want sophie foster to kiss me and then settle down to snuggle with me for the night beside the fire

totally off topic, but i can’t stop thinking about dressing her wounds - her arms and back are incredibly toned and she has scars all across her torso,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, hnghhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnnnngbfvrh

also! i'm just thinking about earlier on in the au before either of you have confessed and she insisted on you taking a bath in the river so that you could freshen up before you had to get on the road again, and that she'd take watch so no one would sneak up you while you did so, and once you get out and get dressed you tell her it's her turn.

sophie is so confused and says that, no, that's not the plan. you two have to get moving. but you shake your head and say that she must be hot under all that armor and if she can watch over you while you bathe, you can do the same for her. you'll alert her if you see or hear anything.

it takes a lot of convincing, but she huffs and strips out of the clanky armor and goes down by the water. and she strips on the shore and wades in and you know you aren't supposed to look in that direction and you don’t plan to, but your stupid weird little brain can’t stop making unwanted images!

oh, sophie teaching you how to wield her sword and finding the way it’s a little too heavy for you amusing

it takes you a while to convince her to so much as allow you to touch it because she seems to think you'll accidentally impale yourself, but once you do convince her she stands behind you and holds your hands in hers, and keeps the sword steady in your hands and murmurs instructions into your ears and you can barely focus because she smells like cinnamon and smoke and she’s so close to you

all you can think about while she's murmuring in your ear is her stooping just a tad lower to kiss on your neck, and you just wish she'd drop the sword already and put her hands on your waist and spin you around-

possible scene but maybe it's just me spitballing/yearning? um, i want sophie foster to back me against the wall of a bar and as i sit there and stutter because our chests are together and she's practically breathing me in as she whispers to stay still, she's covering me because someone just walked into the bar looking for me- and her hand is on her thigh where she's strapped a dagger and she's telling me to stay still and be quiet and they might not come over here if they don't see my face but hell, all i can think about is kissing her

......yeah i'm Yearning

OKAY so the reader almost dies, right? i've been thinking about it and maybe the royal family isn’t very popular, so when the reader gets recognized they’re kidnapped and held for ransom. but when the kidnappers realize they likely won’t reap any reward, they decide to get rid of the reader and escape - because even if a ransom won’t get paid, they still kidnapped a member of the royal family and that’s punishable by death.

so, they tie the reader up and leave them bleeding. sophie tracks the kidnappers down, thinking they have reader. but they lie. they tell her that they killed the reader to get rid of dead weight

and sophie? sophie goes ballistic. she kills all of them ruthlessly and without mercy and the last person screams out moments before death that they left reader tied up miles away

given the general location, sophie goes off to find the reader and discovers them unconscious and bound, bleeding out. its all a blur from there.

sophie tries her hardest to untie you quickly while not moving you two much, trying to keep from crying because dammit she has a job to do and no one else is there to help her tend to your broken body, and she frantically starts to throw every supply down that she has, hoping there's something that can help-

sophie tends to the wounds and makes camp and doesn't leave your side until you wake up

and once you finally do, she feeds you and keeps you hydrated... and then That scene happens, if you remember it, way back up there :)

#smooch, you feel?

#i wrote this literal years ago #and i never posted it #idk why but here! some people requested it so i figured it wouldn't hurt to let it out of the drafts :)#kotlc #sophie foster #rated T #keeper of the lost cities #sophie foster x reader #kotlc headcanons

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