"Being trapped is a position, not a fate." - Ryan Holiday

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Ivan doesn't remember how long it's been since he's seen the daylight. He's the son of two kingdoms that were supposed to be enemies - until his mother fell for the villain, and she got pregnant. Then his father's kingdom came and took Ivan when he was about nine years old, imprisoning him in a room made of a blend of Roman concrete and iron.

His hands are cuffed. There's a metal band locked around his throat. And in the center of the room, a blue rose that holds his lifeline, basking in the moonlight that never seems to fade. In his prison, daylight never hits. The blue rose symbolizes mystery, secrecy, pride, and unrequited love. It's always darkness.

Small stones surround the rose, as if small protection. Despite Ivan's bound condition, the prison is quite lavish. A king-sized bed. A dresser. The works of a room for a royal. Except it's all in black - just not the rose.

For a while, when he was younger, he'd had the hope that he would escape. That he would leave. That finally, finally, one day he would see the sun's graceful light.

It took him a year to figure out that would never happen when his father appeared in one of his dreams and told him the rose would keep him immortal. If destroyed, he'd die.

When you, a thief, arrive in his prison and attempt to steal his rose, panic pierces the numbness within his soul. Silently, he pleads to you not to pluck the rose. Then he remembers.

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Who said he couldn't do anything about it?

(WARNING: mentions of kidnapping, depression)

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