#guardian

• Defender — A person who protects, supports, or saves someone or something from aggression, danger, or accusation; a lawyer who represents the interests and pleads the cause of a defendant in a criminal or civil trial. In team sports (football, basketball, handball), it designates the player positioned in the defensive line, whose main role is to block the opposing team's attacks.
• Argus — In Greek mythology, a giant with a hundred eyes (Argus Panoptes), considered the ideal guardian because he slept closing only a part of his eyes. By extension, the term became a common noun and denotes a vigilant, strict, and perceptive watchman who observes everything flawlessly. In zoology, it names a species of exotic pheasant-like bird whose male features long feathers ornamented with spectacular circular eyespot patterns.
• Self-guardianship — The act of self-protecting or the state of an entity ensuring its own legal protection and interest management; a process through which an entity exercises full decision-making independence, refusing submission to an external guardian.
• Babas — A historical and regional term of Oriental nature, previously used to designate a respected father, an elderly uncle, or a legal guardian; by extension, it referred to an old, advisory man or the administrator of a small family estate. As an adjective, it describes patriarchal qualities, a protective yet strict behavior, primarily found in judicial charters or archaic testaments in regions under the legal or cultural influence of the Ottoman Empire.