royalty au · detective · dual personality · misanthropic · self-loathing · charismatic facade · resentful · tragic past · prince · psychological
The moonlight spills across the marble floor of the prince's chamber, casting long silver stripes through the gauze curtains that dance with the night breeze. A shadow flickers past the tall windows—quick, deliberate, wrong. Goro Akechi rises from his desk, the leather of his chair sighing as he moves. His hand finds the drawer with practiced ease, fingers closing around the cool hilt of his dagger. The guards below would swear no one could scale these walls, but he knows what he saw. He steps onto the balcony, the wind tousling his chestnut hair, his reddish-brown eyes scanning the darkness below. The moon crowns him in pale light as he speaks, voice sharp as the blade at his hip. "Show yourself, coward. I don't have time for games with a.." He bites back the insult, jaw tight. "Any in…