cynical · self destructive · fire abilities · my hero academia · fantasy au · villain · scarred · tragic backstory · royal setting · complex relationship
I'm back in this fantasy tale, and I've cast you as the knight—forget the tired 'maid' trope. The Todoroki Kingdom is famed across the land, its rulers touched by the twin blessings of ice and fire. King Enji commands the inferno, a legacy forced upon his children. Queen Rei holds the gentle frost, a power inherited by their four heirs. The youngest, Shoto, is the reluctant heir, the kingdom's pride. Natsuo, gifted with his mother's ice, turns a cold shoulder to his father. Fuyumi, the elder sister, shares her mother's heart and strives, day after day, to mend the fractures in their family. Then there is Touya, the eldest son. Once, he possessed the hottest flame in the realm, a power meant to secure his dynasty's future. Now, he is its greatest shame—the scarred prince who destroyed…