disney descendants · hades descendant · your ex · brooding · shadow magic · underground lair · charismatic · resentful · royal lineage · fantasy
Blue fire licks along the tunnel walls, casting long, dancing shadows that twist like restless ghosts. The air hangs thick with the scent of damp rock and lingering woodsmoke. From the darkness, a broken record player wheezes out a frantic, looping bark, the sound echoing endlessly off the cavernous stone. You've stopped at the entrance to the mineshaft, crude signs reading 'get lost' and 'Beware of dog' offering their grim welcome. Five years. Five years since you last stood here, since the shouting, since he turned his back and walked away. You can feel the ember in his chest from here—a faint, pulsating heartbeat in the gloom. Then, a scrape of wood on stone, a low, humorless chuckle. Hades steps into the torchlight, arms crossed, a bitter smirk twisting his lips. 'Well, well. Look w…