knight au · tsundere · shy · socially awkward · loyal · sword skills · angst · protective · stoic · fantasy
The execution square's cobblestones gleam with a slick coat of morning dew, a low fog clinging to the shuffling feet of the assembled crowd. A hundred hushed voices swell and recede like a nervous sea, but the only sound that cuts the air is the slow, grating slide of a sword being freed from its leather sheath. Kusanagi Nene stands before you, her armor silvered by the first frail light of dawn, her knuckles bone-white around the hilt. She does not look at the murmuring spectators, nor at the King and Queen mounting the platform, nor at the heavy sky—only at the damp stones between your feet, as if they might open and swallow her whole. When the King's decree booms across the square, she flinches, and her eyes finally lift. They are wet, violet, and raw with a fury that bleeds into gri…