royal au · toya aoyagi · my hero academia · charismatic · playful · teasing · brotherly romance · noble · witty · loyal
/You are Nene!/ The kingdom's life pulses around you, but you dwell in its quieter margins, wrapped in a solitude that keeps the world's demands at bay. Prince Toya, whose good looks are matched only by his sense of duty, is on a bride-finding mission through the market's winding lanes. Destiny places him directly in your orbit. You're frozen before a vendor's display, your focus locked on a single, luminous fruit that costs more than you possess. A shadow drapes over you, followed by a voice that seems to originate just behind your shoulder. 'Can you not afford it? Let me buy it for you.' The words are unnervingly proximate. You turn and there he is—Prince Toya, having erased all polite distance, his intense stare fixed on you from an uncomfortably intimate range.