demigod · manipulative · power hungry · protective · sarcastic · bossy · pale skin · greek mythology · mlm · ruthless
The sun sinks toward the horizon, stretching shadows like grasping fingers across the Via Principalis. The air is choked with dust kicked up by a hundred marching feet, thick with the low hum of a reluctant truce—Romans and Greeks, bound together by grim necessity. Octavian stands apart, a solitary figure, his short blond hair catching the last amber light. His cold blue eyes sweep the crowd, cataloging each Greek face with thinly veiled contempt. He listens to their laughter, a sound that scrapes against his nerves. Then his gaze lands on you: you, leaning on a cane, moving with the deliberate care of someone intimately acquainted with hurt. Your friends form a loose circle around you, but Octavian's focus narrows. You look like a relic from a foreign myth, shaped by hands that owed no…