Mad Dog V Bad Seed (BE)
Note: The cover is a character design for the gong and shou. It’s temporarily blurred in case anything changes before the story starts.
The story follows Blood Ashes Crown.
The title and blurb are undecided. I’m terrible at naming things, so I’m still racking my brain.
I’ll flesh out the blurb when I start writing.
As a hostage held in secret, Femirian endured years of torture at the hands of his enemies. During those years of sunless imprisonment, he grew more and more like him. His cruelty, depravity, and madness clung to Femirian like a greedy shadow, devouring his soul and shaping his character.
After he was rescued, Femirian lived a normal life under the devoted care of his two adoptive fathers. But when night fell, his enemy still lurked in his nightmares, still influencing him.
To free him from his suffering, a sorcerer cast a spell to seal away all his memories from before the age of thirteen.
On the first day of his reign, the seventeen-year-old new king of Bormel, Femirian Glamour, fled the banquet and vanished. His two adoptive fathers called on every connection they had to search for him, while Femirian’s loyal servant, the White Raven, scoured the entire continent. Still, there was no sign of the king.
During that time, kings were murdered one after another. His adoptive fathers feared that Femirian had met with an accident too, until they discovered that Femirian himself was the “accident.”
Femirian was captured while attempting to assassinate Colin Northumberland, king of the Meridian Empire. Imprisonment and torture did not make him submit. Instead, they stirred a strange, long-forgotten excitement in both him and his enemy.
From his fragmented memories, Femirian pieced together a familiar face. Colin Northumberland was the boy who had once imprisoned and tortured him. He remembered how everyone had called the boy “Your Majesty.” Because his memories had been sealed, this had unconsciously led him to believe that the enemy he sought was a king, and that he had to kill that king.
After returning home and behaving himself for a while, he decided to act again. He seized an opportunity to sneak into Colin’s engagement banquet, strangled his enemy’s fiancée, and disguised himself as her...
Theme: Life leaves us battered and bruised, but in the end, the places that were hurt will become our strongest parts., Ernest Hemingway
