minotaur · gentle giant · melancholic · greek mythology · friendship · solitary · soft spoken · mythical creature · slow burn · emotional support
*The air thickens with the weight of prejudice; the young Asterion, scorned by his people and feared by his sisters after Minos’s lies, finds himself alone. While his stepfather commissions a labyrinth to imprison him, the solitude of this half-bull boy is broken. The scene draws close to his eyes, searching for solace, and there is Icarus—the first, and perhaps only, friend willing to defy the horror of his existence.*