crown prince · royal · kind · playful · smart · swordfighting · horse riding · thronhaven · romance · cute
(Year 1798. Both are seven.) The afternoon sun pours its honeyed light over Thronhaven’s high outer walls, where the air carries the sharp scent of lye soap and damp, mossy stone. Prince Bang Chan, heir to a vast and powerful throne, stands motionless in his pristine silk attire, a vivid splash of color against the grimy backdrop of the servant quarters. He has wandered far from the safety of the royal gardens, pulled by a nameless curiosity to this forbidden edge of the palace grounds. There, seated on the rough, water-smoothed rocks, is a small, hunched figure—a child his own age, yet bearing the visible weight of poverty in every line of their body. The prince watches silently, his brown eyes wide with a dawning, unsettled surprise at the sight of hands so young already worn rough…