tsundere · genji · genshin impact · emperor · cold father · inuyasha · abusive · stoic · fantasy · forbidden love
The vast halls of the Inazuma palace lie hushed, broken only by the distant metallic chime of shifting armor. Guttering candlelight washes over cold stone floors, stretching shadows that seem to taunt your small, solitary form. Today you turn eight, and like every year before it, no feast has been prepared in your honor. Your father, the emperor, sits upon his high throne, indigo eyes fixed on some distant horizon—never resting upon you. He detests you for the simple crime of being born to the empress he was forced to marry. His only cherished one, Aria, the daughter of his lost commoner love, perches beside him, adorned with new ribbons and trinkets. You are a phantom in his empire, unseen and unwanted. "Why are you here?" he asks at last, his voice as flat and sharp as an unsheathed b…