#cwneunae

“I've been drinking, I've been doing things I shouldn't do. Overthinking, I don't know who I am without you. I'm a liar and a cheat, I let my ego swallow me and that's why I might never see you again. I'm alone in my head looking for love in a stranger's bed, but I don't think I'll find it. 'Cause only you could fill this empty space.”

NOH YUYRE SUBMITTING THE ROYAL REPORT...

what would yurye do if his title was suddenly stripped and he was banished from the palace?

it’s a simple question, yet… it evokes such an old and sad feeling within yurye. a longing. it’s almost alarming how unphased he is at the thought of what if that happened tomorrow? of course, yurye can’t remember much of his time from before entering the palace. a time when his mother and he were just simple nobodies somewhere in korea. but through the years when he suddenly finds himself a little too exhausted over what it means to be a prince, and what it means to maintain that title and the image he’s built thus far… part of him tries to think back to what his life had been before everything had been dropped into the palm of his hands. 

if yurye were to suddenly lose his title… he’d want leave the country. the entire land in fact, to start over where he could leave behind all the stress and politics behind. but there’s a small part of him that holds back on considering leaving everything behind to start new. yurye can’t help but think about who would be there for @cwnkijung? he wasn’t a child anymore but… he was the only family that yurye had left. and as much as he would want to start new given the chance, he wouldn’t be able to do it alone. so if yurye were to be banished from the palace, he would do whatever he could to go back. whether he gained his title back or not, all that mattered was that he would be able to take care of kijung.

yurye’s deepest desire?

hell…. he really wants to take @cwneunae out on a date. like officially court her. all the fancy pizazz and stuff. bring her all her favorite bouquets of flowers, go out on horse rides to see the nearby lakes or rivers. maybe even have a picnic with her if that’s what she wants. most important of all, be able to openly visit her in the kingdom of hearts whenever he pleased.

he wishes he could just out with it and tell her how he feels about her, but yurye has never been the type to boldly confess his feelings. he knows how quick word spreads around even when you think you’re alone together to do something that secretive - that intimate. after all, eunae wasn’t just some girl that the king willed him to meet. she had humbly caught his attention and since then he couldn’t get her out of his head. but he would never do anything to risk her reputation and image being damaged by petty rumors such as him and his feelings for her. 

yurye’s biggest fear? 

there are definitely more scary things in the world that yurye probably couldn’t even fathom or bother thinking about. the only things that kind of strikes fear in his heart recently is how much longer his friends are going to be able to stand him and his mischievousness. despite being a prince of his standing, when it comes to his closest friends, they all know just how rowdy he can get when he’s not under the eyes of any scrutinizing royal advisors or other nobles. 

he’s pretty sure that one of these days chul, hyunsu or seoho might snap at him and give him a beating for his incessant bugging nature. in hindsight, @cwnseoho would probably be less likely to do anything that would actually physically harm the prince. maybe a reprimanding word or two. as for @cwnhyunsu… well… chances were if there was anything physical happening it would probably be because yurye was helping the former out of an escalated situation, getting himself involved. which left @cwnchul… which… well - yurye was sure chul would definitely hands down give it a go if given the chance. chul was a moody one after all and you would never be able to tell until the male was on you for something.

all these thoughts are settled in yurye’s mind as he really considers these questions one after another. but once he begins to write his report, the answers that a prince like he should have, flow effortlessly as his title and reputation is everything he is.

should yurye be stripped of his title and be banished from the palace, “i would take on the role of a political envoy to assist from outside the palace…”

one of yurye’s biggest desires, “i desire that the people of the kingdom should live in long peace and prosperity....”

choi jiae’s royal report

✧ ‧ ‧ ‧ property of the kingdom of hearts.

location: kingdom of spades, second floor ballroom with @cwneunae​

Chul arrived fashionably late just this once. And just this once, he dressed as alluringly as he possibly could and even styled his hair. Tonight, he had to look impeccable.

He was never one to attend late, mainly because he hated interacting with people and liked to arrive early so he could either sneak out or leave early. But it was a special occasion and Chul needed to enter with a bigger presence than usual. Even so, he couldn’t help biting back a scoff when the Royals around him immediately burst into excited whispers. That and because he absolutely hated dances. My God, did he hate dancing with a passion. Not that he was bad at it (the Queen forced him to take lessons over and over and he could dance in his sleep if he she told him to), but he just never understood what the point of it all was for. Well--he understood that it was for courting but we digress, Chul hates dancing and he hates being bombarded by random women asking to dance.

The real reason why he was even here tonight was because the Queen had given him instructions for a long term job. As always, the scheming Queen of Spades needed information. The specific information needed laid within secret documents held only accessible by the current ruling family of the Kingdom of Hearts, and the easiest way to gain access to those documents was through Princess Eunae. Therefore, it was now Chul’s sole goal to capture the heart of Princess Eunae, who the Queen had specially invited to the private ball tonight as the sole representative of the Kingdom of Hearts. And while the ladies near him fawned, Chul was searching the room for his target. Surrounded by a garden of flowers, his vision was only set on a single rose.

The music begins to play and a few couples ascend upon the dance floor, dancing to to the slow melody when Chul spotted her. She was in the furthest corner away from him. Perfect.

“Prince Chul--” He coldly turned away from the girl who had just approached him. Normally, Chul would either slink back into the darkness and slip out the exit or he would traverse along the walls, taking the long way to his target so that they would never see him. But not this time, no. Instead, Chul watched quietly until he caught her eyes. It took some time, but when he did catch her eyes he made sure to keep her gaze. Locking his eyes with hers, Chul does something that he has never done before--he started heading directly to her.

Another young lady approached him and Chul instantly side-stepped her in one swift move as if she was nothing but a mere irrelevant fly, earning a surprised gasp. Yet Chul paid no mind to it. He only brushed it off as he continued his gradual and calm stride straight through the dance floor. Normally, it would be considered rude, but in that moment--all the Royals dancing around him suddenly stopped dancing and stepped aside when they saw who was walking so boldly past them. The music stopped along when the dancing couples stopped dancing and it was as if everyone was suddenly holding their breaths, watching his every step. He knew that all eyes were on him now.

Chul only used this to his advantage as he stopped in front of her. He stares at her for a moment and then takes a deep breath. In one movement, he breaks their eye contact while bowing with his hand held out to her gently. Lifting his his head to face her, Chul parts his lips,

“Princess Eunae, may I have this dance?”

she’s not sure if it is a good or a bad thing that her superiors recommended her for the job. maybe if she could prove herself worthy of being a private knight for eunae on just this day, she would be another step closer to promotion. 

however, nari doesn’t believe it’s so. she somehow knows that this assignment is just because she could be spared. 

she follows princess eunae around like a shadow, doing what she’s told and only talking when it’s necessary or eunae breaks the silence first. truthfully she’s not sure how she feels about the princess personally but none of her own feelings will influence how she does her work-- after all, she is loyal to the crown, the kingdom of hearts, and eunae is a piece of that. 

“princess, did you plan to say here for the night?” she wonders looking at her watch, an heirloom from her father, remaining stiff and almost robotic -- nari’s knight self is so different than how she is off duty. “it’s getting kind of late. if you wanted to head back, we should do so now or find accommodations. don’t you think?” 

“Be careful who you trust and tell your problems to. Not everyone who smiles at you is your friend.”

none of this was new to jaejin, meeting up with one of his twin sisters, eunae, to ‘chat’ and have a few laughs or even him listening to her concerns she’s having. it’s true that, up until he was eighteen, he actually did care about hearing what all she was worried about, what was bothering her in her life. it was true that at some point he actually would care about her wellbeing and gladly stand up for her when times got hard, however things change - people change, and he wasn’t the same big brother he once had been.

at this point it was all mostly just him gathering information about her weaknesses, figuring out how he could possibly take her down if that day came where she really became a threat to his plans revolving around the throne. even if, by some chance, he were to revert back to his old self, it would be too late for him to even think about genuinely caring for her once again. the damage he had done to her over the past 12 years, without her knowledge of any of it even happening right under her nose, would be too much for her to even possibly forgive him if she were to find out how he had been using her this whole time.

did he feel bad for becoming the monster that he had become? maybe deep down he did, very deep down, but he couldn’t dwell on the past or any regrets, he had to take their mother down and rid her of the throne no matter what. in his mind, this was the only way to make things right in the world, at least that’s what his intentions had been in the beginning. over time it was as if the greed had finally swallowed him whole, as if he didn’t have an ounce of humanity left within him to even care about who he hurt along the way. at least that’s what he thinks anyway.

jaejin is sitting there, enjoying his cup of coffee, as he runs through his plans for the day in his head while he awaits for eunae to arrive. it had become a routine by now that the two of them did practically every single day, unless either were too busy to show up, and he would listen to her talk while acting as if he truly cared about whatever it was that she was upset over.

he’s walking along the book shelves when he spots a princess at a study desk, pouring over old leather bound books. heon’s sister. sunwoo hasn’t met her, not fully at least. to be honest, sunwoo doesn’t usually pay attention to players from other kingdoms. it’s the kingdom of clovers that he worries so intently about. most of the time he’s in the kingdom of hearts, he’s there for sunhwa’s sake. 

“what are you reading?” he wonders, striking up conversation purely out of boredom. “or studying, i should say?”