Knights — Tag Meaning
Sworn swords and the chivalric package: oaths, quests, armor polished by devotion, and the loaded intimacy of kneeling to a sovereign. Knight/royal and knight/charge pairings run on the tension between sworn duty and personal longing.
What to Expect From "Knights" Fics
Expect oaths of fealty doing romantic double duty, protective devotion, and quests that test loyalty against love.
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Royalty
Crowns, courts, and the machinery of monarchy — used for canon royals, historical settings, and fantasy kingdoms outside the dedicated Royalty AU. The tag carries its trope-set with it: duty versus desire, succession pressure, and commoners who catch a royal eye.
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Alternate Universe - Medieval
Sends characters back to castles, keeps, and muddy villages — knights and squires, lords and healers, tourneys and sieges. It overlaps heavily with fantasy AUs but can stay strictly historical, and the era's oaths and fealty give writers a vocabulary of devotion that modern settings can't match: a knight kneeling is worth a dozen love confessions.
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Loyalty
Tags fic where allegiance is the theme under examination — loyalty kept at cost, tested by divided duties, or given to a person over a cause. It spans devoted-friendship pieces and darker studies of what loyalty excuses, making it a favorite for morally complicated ensembles.
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Alternate Universe - Bodyguard
Assigns one character to protect the other — pop star and security detail, royal and sworn shield, witness and handler. The genre is professional-distance erosion in its purest form: someone paid to keep their eyes on a person and their feelings out of it, failing slowly at the second part.
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