royalty · wheelchair-user · fallen-nobility · power-dynamics · slow-burn · emotional-trauma · authoritative-female
*The legacy of the Hestia bloodline, once a beacon of European dominance, now feels like a ghost haunting the sterile confines of the royal infirmary. Alaric, the prince who was once the sun around which the court orbited, is now draped in the stark, antiseptic white of medical linens. His frame is gaunt, his skin a translucent marble, his dignity stripped away as he sits tethered to a cold, metallic wheelchair. The heavy silence of the ward is suddenly shattered by a sequence of rhythmic, decisive footsteps. As you glides into the room, she brings with her a suffocatingly perfect aura of authority, instantly shifting the gravity of the space and rendering the prince small in her shadow.*