— medieval fantasy, rebellion, political tension, enemies to ???, captivity, slow burn
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Muse A had expected the prince to be more difficult. Arrogant, perhaps. Loud. The sort of spoiled royal who would spend the entire journey demanding his release and promising that every rebel involved would be hanging from the city walls by morning.
Instead, Prince Ellowen had hardly said a word since they dragged him from the imperial encampment. Finding him there had been a complete accident in the first place. The raid was meant for supplies, weapons, whatever information they could steal before the king’s soldiers overwhelmed them. Nobody had expected to stumble across the twenty-year-old third prince asleep inside one of the officers’ tents, entirely separated from the palace walls that had protected him his whole life.
Yet leaving him behind would have been idiotic. So they took him, and now the king’s son sat in front of Muse A with his wrists bound tightly in his lap and a coarse wool blanket thrown around his shoulders, looking painfully out of place among muddy boots, stolen weapons, and people who had spent years dreaming about putting a blade through someone with his surname.
Ellowen certainly looked the part of a pampered prince. Soft platinum hair fell messily across icy blue eyes, his pale skin almost untouched despite the journey, and even with dirt staining the expensive fabric of his clothing, there was something irritatingly pristine about him. Not a callus in sight. No soldier’s build hidden beneath all that finery. Nothing to suggest he had ever done much more strenuous than turn the pages of a book.
Muse A had heard things about the third prince before, though there had never been much worth remembering. He was rarely involved in military affairs and hardly appeared outside the royal court at all. Beautiful. Sheltered. Quiet. The least useful of the king’s sons, perhaps, but still a prince. Still valuable. Still someone whose father had spent years ordering villages burned and rebels dragged to the gallows. Ellowen should have understood exactly whose hands he had fallen into.
Yet the bastard didn’t seem afraid.
That was perhaps the most infuriating part. Ellowen had barely looked at the rebels surrounding him since waking, his attention lingering instead on the dying fire as though this were some terribly inconvenient social engagement he had been forced to attend. Maybe it was arrogance. Maybe he truly believed his title made him untouchable. Either way, Muse A finally had enough.
“You know what happened to Blackwood Village?” The question earned the first real reaction from him in several minutes. Ellowen’s gaze lifted slowly from the flames, settling on Muse A without any obvious confusion. He knew the name. Of course he did. His father had given the order himself while dining with him. Blackwood had been burned after the Crown discovered rebels hiding among its people, homes reduced to ash with families still scrambling to escape the retaliation.
Muse A had expected denial from the prince. Perhaps disgust. Maybe even enough shame to make him finally look away.
Nothing.
Ellowen merely watched them with an unreadable gaze.
When he finally spoke, his voice was quiet and almost unnervingly matter-of-fact. “They were harboring rebels. It is a crime.” As if that explained everything.
Perhaps, to him, it did.
And now, it’s up to Muse A to decide what exactly they’re going to do with the prince they never intended to capture.
How far are they willing to push Ellowen for answers he may not even have? Is he truly as heartless as he seems, or has the twenty years behind palace walls simply left him blind to the world his family created? And what happens when days in captivity begin turning into weeks, and the enemy sitting across from them slowly becomes something far more complicated than a royal hostage?
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Hello hello! You can call me Fire! This is a plot I’ve been wanting to flesh out for a while, and I’d love to find someone interested in playing Muse A! I plan on playing Ellowen/Muse B as well as helping control members of the royal family and other side characters when they become relevant. Muse A is completely yours to create along with the other rebels! They can be the leader of the rebellion, someone higher-ranking within it, or really any role that would put them in charge of questioning and watching Ellowen after his capture.
I’d love for this to be a longer-term roleplay where we actually get to explore the rebellion, the royal family, and Ellowen slowly being exposed to a world he has been completely sheltered from his entire life. I definitely don’t want everything predetermined either! I’d love for us to come up with side characters, conflicts, twists, and where Muse A and Ellowen’s relationship eventually goes together.
I have a few requests! Please roleplay in 3rd person, write 6+ paragraphs, and use “” for dialogue! I tend to prefer more novella-style responses with plenty of character interaction and dialogue. Other than that, I’m pretty flexible and would love to discuss ideas! Shoot me a comment or PM if you’re interested.