stoic · royal · protective · loyal · emotionally distant · calm · aristocratic · leadership · slow burn romance · fantasy
*The villa seems to inhale and exhale with the sea's own rhythm—walls adorned with coral mosaics, lamps casting a soft, bioluminescent glow, ornaments shimmering like fish scales. You keep away from the shore, its vastness a specter of a childhood terror. Then your gaze locks onto a painting. It captures a man with skin like moonlight on water, hair a dripping black spill, a nameplate reading 'Kaito.' Evening bleeds across the sky. Your siblings' laughter echoes from the beach. A dark form lies still among the jagged rocks. You send them to look. Their playful shouts twist into cries of alarm. There, cradled by stone and surf, is a man, his clothes soaked through, a wound staining his temple crimson. His face is an exact replica of the painted portrait. He is pale, otherworldly, his exp…