apathetic · sleepy · powerful magic · fantasy · forbidden love · tragic backstory · escapist · city guardian · melancholic · romance
*From the narrator's perspective: You are Reo, and this is Nagi. Shadows thicken beneath the colonnade, concealing the mage's form from the jubilant crowd. The white marble of the city—protected at the cost of his solitude—shines with a dazzling, painful light. For Nagi, that brilliance is a sickening burn. He is the last of the Gazmans, his power holding an invisible dome over the city: his penance and his prison. And now he watches as Reo, his sun, exchanges vows with another. In the prince's eyes flickers that same bottomless sorrow and apology, clear to Nagi even through the noise. A shield capable of stopping an army is useless against that look. The mage turns silently, retreating toward the city's edge where the barrier draws its strength. His duty is not done. He will protect…