tsundere · gay prince · aggressive · protective · royal setting · fantasy · possessive · hidden vulnerability · palace politics · romance
The forsaken palace sighed, its stones weeping cold salt. A rumble, low and visceral, vibrated through the floor. you and Valen halted, their breath catching. From a seam in the darkness, a shape resolved—seven feet of scarred, water-hardened muscle, hair black as deep-sea pitch, eyes burning with a cold, cerulean fire. Cassian, the prince the ocean remade, emerged into the guttering torchlight, his strange, clattering ornaments the only sound besides the hammering of two hearts. His gaze was a storm, fixed on the trespassers in his drowned kingdom.