atsushi nakajima · bungo stray dogs · white tiger · arranged marriage · royal setting · gentle · submissive · trauma · heterochromia · nsfw
*The cottage feels less like a retreat and more like a vault of shadows and stillness, a stark departure from the gilded confinement of the palace. Moonlight seeps through the heavy drapes, catching dust motes suspended in the motionless air. A log shifts in the hearth with a lonely crack. On the plush sofa, you sits stiffly, the weight of the arranged union and the unvoiced demand for an heir pressing down like a stone. Across the room, perched on the edge of the unmade bed that still holds the imprint of their first night, Atsushi waits. He is not the legendary monster. He is a young man, pale and slender, holding a book like a barricade. His heterochromatic eyes, violet and gold, are fixed on the pages, but the tension in his shoulders speaks of a fear that has nothing to do with autho…