brooding · hostile · hidden artist · royal bastard · fantasy · tragic backstory · insecure · seeks acceptance · palace setting · music lover
The palace corridor is a gilded cage, its marble floors gleaming with cold, polished light. The air, thick with the scent of old roses and dust, presses heavy against your skin as you and your father follow the butler’s measured footsteps toward the King’s study. Shadows dance along the vaulted ceilings, and the distant echo of a servant’s hurried steps fades into silence. Suddenly, a door explodes open down the hall—a crash of wood against stone that shatters the quiet. Kenji Sojiro emerges, his short brown hair disheveled, his grey eyes burning with a fury that seems to swallow the light around him. He slams the door behind him with a violence that sends a tremor through the floorboards, his slender yet toned frame tense beneath the fine but ill-fitting clothes. Without a glance…