#kusco

We start here:

An angry royal effete queer character being messy and making his issues everyone's problem. Forced to work with a guy he can't stand who also hates his face. Has to make compromises he doesn't want to make. A villain is doing villain things in the background and that is also a problem, but the focus of the story is this walking mess and we are here for the tea.

And at the end:

Happy (still pretty arrogant) royal queer sassy boy making a found family with the guy he hated but is now best friends with. Kusco's issues are not the same as Loki's, but his character arc is so good and I wish Loki got something similar. Just so amazingly great. The bridge scene. The bridge scene! He goes from a villain to a hero and you believe every second of it.

Also, maybe he's a bit too interested in the villain's beefcake sidekick, but that's left a little vague.

Sassy Leader is in charge of a kingdom. They kind of got a dickish attitude.

There’s a greedy evil villain that deseperatly wants the throne. They can get rather comical.

With a partner, the villain finds a way to curse the sassy ruler into a far smaller weaker form, yet doesn’t kill them, instead having the ruler be exiled and eventually finding themselves in the countryside.

In the country side, they met a local farmer who they inlist in helping them regain both their proper form and throne. They do not get along at first.

But after a long adventure together, both the farmer and the ruler defeat the villain, the sassy ruler grows more humble, and the two grow a friendship that’s unbreakable.