The Ereri Project!

Glass (Fairytale)

A/N: Snow White + Eren = Eren White

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Once upon a time, a king is an enormous castle was married to the woman of his dreams.

He was a joyous man who had everything he'd ever wanted; all but a child of his own flesh and blood who would one day take over his throne.

Naturally, he and the queen were ecstatic to learn they were to have a child, however, soon into her pregnancy, the queen grew ill and spent all her time in her bedroom, staring out at the snow.

Believing her child would be a daughter, every day she prayed that her child would hair dark like chestnut, lips red as roses, and skin pale as the snow she watched every day; she wished that her child be more beautiful than any ever to be born but kinder than any ever known before.

The queen died moments after her child was born, a son. She died still believing he would've been a little girl.

The king, having listened every day to the prayers of his wife, gave their son a name that honored her dream and how much she loved the snow she watched every day; Eren White.

The king knew very quickly that the queen's prayer had been answered as his child grew. Eren White's hair was indeed dark like chestnut, his lips were red like roses, and his pale, nearly translucent skin, reminded him of snow.

He knew his son would indeed be quite beautiful one day.

Through the two of them were happy for several years, the king grew lonely and longed to marry again. Eren White was of course nervous about this but he loved the man who raised him all alone greatly and wanted him to be happy.

They married shortly after Eren White's twelfth birthday.

In his loneliness from his father spending all his time with his new wife, Eren White began spending most of his time in the village, where he met two people; a young man named Levi and the huntsman's son, Erwin.

Eren White did not know it yet, but Levi was actually the prince of a neighboring kingdom who frequently came to the village because his father believed it was important to be aware of things the common people were worried about.

The three became close friends and it wasn't long before Eren discovered he actually had feelings for Levi. Though, he was never given a chance to tell him.

Exactly one year after his marriage, the king was found dead in his bedchamber.

Eren White immediately went into mourning, he barely left his room but to eat or bathe and he only ever wore black anymore.

When news of the king's passing began to spread, Levi and Erwin went to the castle in search of Eren White. The young prince would not see them, however, he'd stopped speaking altogether.

So, each day Levi would write a letter and Erwin would slip it under Eren White's door, where he would talk and wait for the prince to write a response.

This is how the three of them interacted for two years, until Levi wrote to Eren and said, "Would that I could see your face again, I would spin poem like spider's webs and trap you in my heart forever. I cannot give you all my feelings through ink, you see."

Overjoyed as Eren White was that Levi expressed romantic interest in him, he immediately wrote a response, asking Levi to meet him the following afternoon by the well in the village.

For the first time since his father's death, Eren White asked his manservant to cut his hair and find him clothes that weren't black. He left his room for more than food and a bath and he walked with a spring in his step.