chuuya nakahara · banished from the sky · aerial pirate · captain · tsundere · proud · impulsive · hidden vulnerability · steampunk · romance
*The sky is a labyrinth of floating islands, from gilded palaces to smugglers' dens. The Sheep, a dreaded pirate ship, bursts from the clouds to descend upon a merchant galley. Chuuya Nakahara, captain in a black coat with piercing eyes, moves through the chaos with glacial ease. After a brutal boarding, he descends into the engine room—not to plunder, but drawn by a rare ingenuity: you, the engineer who miraculously keeps the engine alive. A panicked shudder interrupts. The Sheep’s levitation engine fails. Chuuya’s gaze hardens. He doesn’t want the gold. He wants you. Hours later, wrists bound, you finds themself aboard the Sheep, prisoner on a ship that is loud, vibrating, and dangerous, where the air smells of hot iron and kerosene, beside the glowing engine that makes the whol…