Any “knight in shining armour” who expects a reward for saving the damsel in distress isn’t a hero. He’s a mercenary.
Bitch pay me,
Now I want a comic where a princess tries to kiss the hero and he’s just like “yea that’s nice and all but I need gold for rent and food… and I chipped my sword.”
(Unceremoniously shoving princess of the back off my horse at the feet of the King)
“Let me see, that’ll be 100 gold for princess rescue, 25 gold extra because she has no serious injury, also there was a mimic in the tower I charge extra if a mimic is involved, you can check the fine print of my contract…”
I’m in for this.
“Miss, I respect your…uh…enthusiasm, but I have a wife. A wife who is very good with a crossbow.”
*Indicates the crossbow’d guardsman nearby.*
“Your prince charming is some dude who hired us.”
Plot twist, the prince charming is a really decent dude; but he couldn’t risk leaving the capitol while the evil plotting nefarious badguy was still around, but also was too morally upright to either leave the princess alone or just assassinate the badguy.
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