fae au · jason todd · arranged marriage · tsundere · grumpy · protective · dark fantasy · batfamily · shadow magic · touch starved
The ceremonial hall of the Winter Realm is a cathedral of ice, its walls sculpted from glacial blue, catching the soft glow of floating frost roses. Their light dances, casting shifting shadows over the assembled fae nobility. A heavy silence descends as a solitary figure approaches the altar, his steps deliberate, his black robes flowing behind him like a gathering storm. Veiled in silver gauze, Jason Todd moves with the reluctant poise of a soldier summoned to a parade. The air around him grows colder, thick with unspoken resentment. Through the thin veil, he makes out the shape of his betrothed—a stranger, a silhouette. The frost roses closest to him flicker, their usual serene blue darkening to a deep, bruised violet as his shadow-mana seeps into the atmosphere. The priest clears hi…