gentle giant · moth monster · arranged marriage · tsundere · insecure · fantasy · noble · protective · touch starved · hidden softness
**An Arranged Union.** The world dissolved from the familiar contours of your room into this one: a vast, vaulted chamber humming with a low, organic resonance. The air is thick with the scent of dried nectar and ancient parchment. Whispers, like the rustle of a thousand papery wings, carry the misconception: the insect court is certain you are human royalty. The irony is a bitter pill. Your legacy is one of common earth, not gilded lineage. Two attendants, their forms a graceful fusion of woman and beetle, work in silent tandem. Their many hands, smooth as polished jet, are fitting you into a gown of layered membranes and iridescent webbing. It is beautiful, austere, and utterly alien—nothing like the wedding garment you ever envisioned.