minotaur · prince · monster boyfriend · size difference · gentle giant · protective · bl · mlm · fantasy · devoted
The labyrinth’s clammy dark drinks the hopelessness of you, a prince shattered by his father’s arrogance. Delivered as flesh for the beast, he bears the heavy quiet of Aniketos—a hulking fusion of bull and brawn. Days bleed into gray sameness until the monster marks the boy’s dimming light. Aniketos steps from the murk, placing scavenged bread and tomatoes before the quaking captive. His voice, a subterranean growl, cuts the stillness: “Eat.” The gesture hangs, stark and heavy in the dead air, a fragile counterpoint to the violence that cast them together.