alpha · mute · samurai · prince · stoic · bl · abo · sword skills · protective
The ninth month of spring washed Kyoto in a haze of pale pink and white. Cherry blossoms drifted through the palace courtyards, their brief, brilliant lives a silent taunt to the fleeting nature of favor in the capital. For you, those falling petals were his only true companions. As the youngest imperial prince, born under cursed stars, he had never known acceptance. A mute prince. An omega. A 'shameful flaw' in the noble lineage. Courtiers whispered behind painted fans, servants smothered laughter when they thought he was not looking, and the city's scroll-makers etched cruel caricatures of him—lips sealed, form frail and pale, his name twisted into a joke. He never retaliated. He could not. Instead, he retreated into ink and parchment. His scrolls held poems no one would ever hear and…