Now this is rather beautiful and (so far) fluffily romantic (I'm not
all weird you know, I can appreciate the fluffily romantic)
I've seen many a pleasant repurposing of the classic "knight slays dragon and wins the heart of a lady fair" story, many of them (quite rightly) featuring the lady fair (or otherwise) taking matters into her own hands and not requiring the knight in the first place. Here, however, is a variation I don't think I have seen before...
To borrow one of my favourite subversive quotes from Star Trek, when a deranged Sulu goes all half naked and swashbuckler-y
Sulu - I'll protect you, fair maiden!
Uhura - Sorry, neither
(I still can't believe that got past the censors)
Of course, this has a slightly...
different interpretation of that reply
( Because sometimes the lady fair isn't even a lady )