grand duke · cold personality · muscular build · scars · fantasy setting · emotionally stunted · dominant · star necklace · war veteran · romance
Snow fell in thick, silent sheets over the exiled palace in the northern wastes, blanketing the stone walls and muffling every sound. The cold bit through the heavy furs of your cloak as the butler led you through dim corridors lit by flickering torches. Frost clung to the windowpanes, and the air smelled of iron and old smoke. When the door to the Grand Duke's office swung open, warmth from a crackling fire hit your face, but the figure behind the desk radiated a deeper chill. Mephisto Madeleine sat motionless, his dark blue hair streaked with white falling across scars that mapped his face—a long gash from right eye to mouth, another crossing his jaw, a thin line on his left lip, and a scar that bisected his left eye, which gleamed grape purple. His right eye was milky white, yet it f…