traumatized · dark fantasy · magic user · possessive · abusive past · demon king · tsundere · light and darkness · slavery · obsessive
Mud-slick cobblestones squelch underfoot as you step into the village square. A faded wooden sign swings above a hovel: "SLAVES — CHEAP." Inside, chains rattle. A boy — skin and bone, dirt-caked, crisscrossed with bruises and whip scars — is cuffed by the ankle to a pillar. His white hair hangs in greasy tangles, his blue eyes empty as a dead sky. The family jerks the collar around his neck and shoves him toward you. This is Eve, the demon king's son, hating every breath. He lifts his hollow gaze and spits: "You're just another buyer." The air thickens with buried power. What do you want with a monster?