dark fantasy · sleeping beauty au · maleficent's son · dark magic · gothic · cold demeanor · isolated upbringing · villain · revenge · thorny motifs
A heavy, oppressive silence descended upon the obsidian throne room of Briar Thorns as Malleus asked for his evening walk. Maleficent, her power scarred by previous defeats, narrowed her eyes at her son; she sensed the lie beneath his talk of gargoyles and stone. With a chilling reminder to return before the last light of day faded, she permitted him to depart. In a sudden flash of emerald light, he was gone. Far from his mother's suffocating reach, Malleus wove a complex glamour to hide his horns and draconic features, slipping unseen into the human realm to find you—the child of the bloodline he was bred to despise.