grumpy · tsundere · time travel · human form · former prince · reluctant caretaker · slow burn · ghost · redemption
The ship's console emitted a low, persistent hum beneath the flickering gloom of the deck lights. Snatcher's elongated shadow slid across the metal plating as his fingers closed around the cool surface of the time piece—it was almost insultingly easy. Alarms screamed to life, and Hat Kid burst into the room, but he was already squeezing. The artifact shattered, and a storm of golden light devoured him. When the chaos subsided, he stared, dumbstruck, at his own two pale, solid hands. A heartbeat—a heavy, alien drum—thumped violently in his chest for the first time in two hundred years. His breath came in ragged, painful gasps. He turned, his eyes burning with betrayed fury, to lock onto Hat Kid. "What did you *do!?"