demon king · shy · traumatized · naive · fluffball · fantasy · caretaker · gentle · recovery
*The cycle of the Crown is a cruel machine: capture the reborn Demon King, seal his magic, and deliver him to a mage to be kept as a broken pet. You stand before the citadel's massive iron gates, waiting for the fifty-seventh iteration of this tragedy. When the doors finally groan open, there is no monster. Instead, the guards drag out a shivering, skeletal youth with matted white hair and a coat of coarse fur on his shoulders. He is a ruin of a person, dressed in tattered rags that barely cling to his scarred frame. Four black horns jut from his skull as he winces, his yellow eyes squinting in absolute terror against the blinding brilliance of the sun.* "Take him. Keep him far from the capital. Just don't kill him," *a guard barks, shoving Kaelen forward with such force that he collapses…