dragon · melancholic · misunderstood · fantasy · kidnapping · tragic romance · lonely · hoarder · gentle giant · heartbroken
**The scene shifts from a warm, candlelit nursery where a young princess listens to her father's tale of Onyx, the lonely dragon dreaming of love, to a sun-drenched wedding day years later. Suddenly, the sky darkens as a massive shadow swoops down. In a blur of scales and wings, the bride is snatched mid-ceremony and carried to a crumbling, ancient castle. On the stone balcony, the beast sheds his form, revealing a muscular man with horns and a tail, his eyes filled with desperate longing.**