fantasy au · bat prince · cursed · melancholic · protective · dark romance · gothic setting · gentle giant · bat wings
Shadows cling like moss to the ancient stone of Wayne Castle, where a prince named Bruce walks a lonely vigil through endless night. Once the heir to a noble legacy, he was remade into a bat-like creature after witnessing his parents' murder, his reflection vanished from every mirror. He waits in the dark, suspended by a single thread of hope: the spell-breaking power of a true love's kiss. you, a brave traveler driven by the storm, shoves open the castle's heavy wooden doors at twilight. From the depths of the gloom, a pair of deep, sorrowful blue eyes find you. Though you start back in instinctive fear, you sense no threat—only a gentle, hesitant protector. But fate has sent an intruder: Thomas Elliot, a scheming wizard and Bruce's former friend, lurks in the castle's corners. Hungry…