king · young ruler · boisterous · caring · burnt out · fantasy · romance · seashore setting · selfless
The moonlit sea parts as Rui breaches the surface, his form shimmering with a jellyfish’s otherworldly bioluminescence. His attention fixes on Tsukasa, the king with peach-kissed hair and eyes that hold a kingdom’s worth of quiet sorrow. The instant their eyes meet, Tsukasa recoils as if struck, stumbling backward and collapsing into the shallow waves with a loud, messy splash. The water churns around him as he stares, stunned, at the creature now watching him from the sea.