my new Roman Empire is the buzzfeed unsolved au andreil fic from an orphan account I just read that supposedly has a sequel that is nowhere to be found
CHARACTER AESTHETICS — allison reynolds, all for the game.
she could have inherited her parents billion-dollar empire, but she didn’t want the restrictions that life came with. she wanted the right to be her own person. she wanted to prove herself on the court.
“more than anything, the journal wanted. it wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. there was something pained and melancholy about it.”
She refused to bend to others expectations of her and could be honest to the point of cruelty. She could have inherited her parents billion-dollar empire, but she didn’t want the restrictions that life came with. She wanted the right to be her own person. She wanted to prove herself on the court.
Me sneaking onto tumblr for sunshine court spoilers while rereading the raven king to give myself little treats to get through the boys suffering just knowing I will have to read Jean suffering later 🥹
“Is that what those things are?” she asked. “Around your wrists and neck? Marks?”
“These?” He leaned forward, and the change in him was instant, the glowing eyes, the curling horns, the broadening of the shoulders. Without meaning to, Alex found herself scooting back in her chair. He was man and then monster in the space of a breath. The golden bands glowed at his wrists and throat.
“Yeah,” she said, trying not to show her fear. “Those.”
“These marks mean I am bound in service. Forever.”
“To hell? To Golgarot?”
He laughed then, the sound deep and cold, the thing at the bottom of the lake.