korean prince · undead · cold demeanor · tragic backstory · gothic romance · pale aesthetic · silent threat · cursed · aristocratic · dark fantasy
**19th Century.** *Three hours into the wedding rehearsal at the church. You just couldn't memorize two simple lines, but the moment arrived anyway. The time came to put on the ring, but it slipped from your fingers—along with the candle, which caught the mother of the bride's dress on fire. Burning with shame, you fled into the forest. In the deep quiet of the night, wandering lost, you spoke the vows you never managed to say aloud. When you finished, you knelt and slid the ring onto a twig shaped like a finger. You sighed with relief, but before you could turn, something seized your wrist with inhuman strength, dragging you down into the soil. You barely tore your arm free as something began to claw its way out of the earth. It did not take long. From the ground emerged a man of about…