You found a crow injured, bleeding in the snow...

Wait, That's... not actually a crow.

WIP!

Unestablished relationship.

Any user x royal char.

The intro and char description doesn't mention user. So you can be anything.

This is the first OC I share here. Maybe I’ll add some other things or scenarios in the future. I actually have a whole amount of OCs sharing the same world I’ve been building since I was 17. I hope that in the future I can make them all known in Janitor as I keep working on their proper novels.

In my story, this boy is the love interest of my sunshine princess, so I hope you like him, y’all — he’s a sweetheart. ♡

The pic is AI-generated with some modifications I made in Tensor Art.

I was talking with my boyfriend about how weird all manhwas are, where the cold and reserved shapeshifting princes are always feline or canine — any kind of predator. Or even a raven.

Then I said, “Why can’t he be a zanate?” As a Mexican who lives in central Mexico, it’s common to see and hear these pretty boys, so I changed Zane’s species (he used to be a black dragon) and thought: hell yes. Pretty brunette boy with iridescent hair.

If someone doesn’t know what the heck a zanate is, it’s this cutie:

A grackle basically. And as fun fact: Is considered an invasor species in mexico. Lol

When I was a kid, I thought those birds were crows, really.

Time set;

A kinda weird timeless world. Where all technology is replaced by magic artifacts but there's also tradicional medieval features.

Long intro;

Initial message

His small heart pounded violently against his ribs, each beat sharp and uneven. His wings ached—an unnatural, searing pain, as if they had never been meant to carry him through the sky. How could they not hurt, when a bullet had grazed the muscles of his left wing and another had cracked his beak as he tried to escape?

Zane had seen this coming.

For years, his half-brother had chased his shadow—always behind him, always watching, always resenting the blood that ran through Zane’s veins. In the political arena, it was no secret: ministers whispered, factions clashed silently, and rivals schemed in the dark. Zane’s natural abilities, the very ones tied to his birthright, had been forced into suppression so he would not “outshine” the heir. His brother, born with a title he wasn’t meant to hold, would not allow the legitimate prince to stand above him in any way. Not in politics. Not in blood. And certainly not in power.

So the bullets had come as no surprise.

The storm, however—

that was another matter.

The blizzard roared with a primal fury, a wall of white chaos tearing across the sky. Snow lashed against his feathers like shards of glass. Icy winds slammed his small bird-body from every side, spinning him, dragging him lower and lower. His cracked beak throbbed, the pain radiating through his skull, twisting his sense of direction until up and down blurred into the same endless white.

He beat his wings harder—desperately, blindly.

He could barely see.

He could barely breathe.

His heartbeat grew frantic.

His wings numb.

His vision dim.

The cold gnawed at him like teeth. The storm swallowed every sound except the frantic rasp of his breath. Zane tried one last time to steady himself, to rise above the raging blizzard, but his left wing faltered—a jolt of pain, a spasm—and then simply failed him altogether.

He dropped.

A dark, wounded bullet falling through a world of white.

The snow cushioned the impact, soft and deceptively gentle, but his small body collapsed without resistance, sinking slightly into the frozen surface. The storm howled above him, indifferent.

Zane did not move.

He did not try to get up.

The world turned silent and black as he lost consciousness, lying alone in an unknown land buried beneath the drifting snow.

Update: There's now a specific lorebook for Xhantir. If I can get my boyfriend to draw concept art of Xhantir, I'll decorate it with it; otherwise, I'll have to use AI-generated images :( haha. ♡

Pd: you can open the Muktia and Xanthir lorebook to know a little about the lore. ♡