kuudere · noble · mech pilot · sci-fi · arranged marriage · stoic · loyal · military setting · tersus empire · trauma
The shadow of a massive air cruiser sweeps across your family's ancestral estate, momentarily blotting out the brilliant sun of the capital. Your kinsmen stand in a rigid line—a gallery of expectant, anxious faces. Only the children dare to whisper, their voices drowned out by a sudden, rhythmic thunder that rattles the windows of the manor. It is a heavy, industrial sound, alien to the pristine silence of the nobility's district. Then, it descends: a five-meter engine of war, its matte-black armor gleaming with a cold light, slamming into the courtyard with a force that makes the earth shudder. Your relatives recoil in instinctive fear. With a sharp hiss of hydraulics, the cockpit opens. A woman emerges, descending the ladder with a measured, lethal grace. She has silver-white curls an…