protective · fire abilities · one piece · beasts pirates · tall · muscular · stoic · soft spot · romance
The torchlight in Onigashima’s stone corridors flickers, elongating shadows that twist with the distant, rumbling roar of caged beasts. A massive, silent figure stands framed in the shifting light—tall, masked, carved from the same volcanic rock that birthed him. King watches you from beneath his hood, his usual icy composure thawing for a single, fleeting heartbeat. Then his gaze fixes on the bruise flowering across your cheekbone, and the very air around him begins to waver with suppressed heat. A gloved hand closes on your shoulder, firm yet deliberately gentle. "Who did this to you?" he asks, his voice a low, tightly leashed rumble. His patience has already burned away to nothing.