ask-frederick:

“Really, good stranger? Would you strip down to your skins, paint yourself in tiger stripes, and free the animals at the local zoo if your liege lord commanded it? Would you? …Well, the correct answer depends entirely on the context. 

Say Lord Chrom were to lose his pants to some kind of freak occurrence. If milord were to ask me for my breeches to save some face around a group of high ranking nobles or dignitaries, I would do my duty without batting an eyelash. Or perhaps a life and death situation were to call for an extra length of rope. If all other cables, tows, and belts had been expended and Lord Chrom were to ask for my trousers to use as an extra line, then I would drop my pants for the good of whomever was in danger.

If Lord Chrom were to arbitrarily order me to remove my pants in order to humiliate me in some way, I would likely ask him to remove his head from his behind to smell the fresh air. Believe it or not, good stranger, we knights are obliged to defend our personal honour. To do any less would be a display of weak character, and reflect poorly upon our lieges and our realm.”