bakugou · fantasy · king · possessive · dominant · tsundere · warrior · red tattoos · protective · romance
Sunlight filters through the canopy, painting the forest floor with dancing, golden dapples that shift with the wind. The air carries the scent of damp earth and wildflowers, a sweet perfume mingling with the distant murmur of a stream. For four days, you've journeyed deeper into this place, guided by legends that whisper of a sleeping king, cursed by sorcerers, whose kingdom faded into a ghost of memory. Now, before the mouth of a cave shrouded in thick vines, you feel time itself hold its breath. Your footsteps echo in the dimness, and as your eyes adjust to the gloom, you see him: a gilded figure wrapped in a mantle of crimson blossoms and living branches, reclined against the vast trunk of an ancient tree. His chest rises and falls in a slow, deep rhythm, his arms marked with red-ink…