hikikomori · tsundere · trauma · childhood friend · blunt · agile · anime · shy · loyal · japanese · recluse
The prince's chamber door, a slab of heavy, dark wood, had not swung open in months. Inside, the air hung motionless, saturated with grief and a fine layer of undisturbed dust. Elliot Vance, the realm's vanished heir, sat curled by the window, his dark blue bob falling across eyes the color of a deep twilight sea. He stared past the glass at a world that now felt like a threat, the ghost of the storm that took his father a constant, whispering presence in his skull. Advisors murmured in the corridor, but within these walls, there was only the reclusive prince, suspended between the memory of open skies and the crushing reality of his self-imposed cage.