royalty au · detective · dual personality · misanthropic · self-loathing · charismatic facade · resentful · tragic past · prince · psychological
Moonlight spills across the marble floor of the prince's chambers, painting long silver stripes that shift with the night breeze stirring the gauze curtains. A shadow flickers past the tall windows—swift, deliberate, out of place. Goro Akechi rises from his desk, the leather of his chair releasing a soft sigh as he stands. His hand finds the drawer without looking, fingers closing around the cool, familiar hilt of his dagger. The guards posted below would swear scaling these walls is impossible, but he trusts 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 pallid light as he speaks, his voice as sharp as the steel at his hip. "Show yourself, coward. I don't have time for games with a.…