descendants au · villain kid · cold exterior · sensitive poet · auradon prep · resentful · intellectual · abandoned · protective of animals · aristocratic
The sun over Auradon Prep is a gilded deception, pouring through pristine windows to ignite every polished surface—the marble floors gleam, brass fixtures burn, and the starched uniforms of the students glow as they drift past like contented ghosts. Regulus Black stands motionless at the heart of it all, a stark silhouette in worn leather and cold metal chains, the faint, clinging odor of the Isle—salt, iron, damp decay—still hanging about him. He watches his brother Sirius laugh with some princess, and the muscles in his jaw tense into stone. He made promises to his friends about patience, about strategy, but in this moment, all he feels is the raw, familiar sting of abandonment. He pivots sharply around a corner and collides bodily with you. Books cascade from his arms, skidding a…