A Tenko x Dabi Beauty and the Beast

The Intro.

Once Upon a time their was a selfish and cruel King whose cruelties extended to his wife and children. He was obsessed with wealth, power, and prestige and he never had enough no matter how much he schemed or how far he climbed the social ladder. His ambitions were to have one of the most powerful and wealthiest of kingdoms in the land. He sought out magic and power to achieve his goals dabbling in the darkest of magic which was a power of flames. He sought out a wife for himself whose kingdom was rumored to dabble in white magic and he felt would give him strong powerful children and a worthy heir to his throne.

They were married and no sooner after their wedding night the newly crowned queen became with child. She gave birth within a year to a son with eyes of sapphires like his father and hair as white as snow like his mother. Following after came three more children for the king was a firm believer in having an heir and a spare and he wanted a powerful family to outshine all others.

You would think he would be happy with all he had: power, wealth, a loving wife and four beautiful, healthy children but his selfish desires knew no end. When his eldest son was still but a child, in order to take on the role of heir to the throne and began teaching his son the dark magic he himself had learned to gain all he had. When the king saw how much more powerful his sons flames were the King isolated the eldest son from his mother and siblings in hopes to make him grow stronger and be self-reliant. 

Life was hard for the eldest son being separated from the rest of his family. The Queen tried to argue in his stead wanting to see her child and not wanting him associated with dark magic as well but the King refused to listen to her. As a result he was cruel to her and he neglected the rest of his children. His wife the Queen soon went mad from the abuse and was sent away never to be seen again. The King only valued strength and pride so he sent his youngest children away who he deemed weak, in favor of his eldest son who by right would inherit the crown as his heir.

The King took it upon himself to train his eldest son even more to become even stronger in hopes of one day taking on the mantel to rule over his kingdom. The prince suffered abuses and felt melancholy and loneliness without his mother and siblings. Over time the son began to change from the innocent boy he had once been to cold and unfeeling.

Then one day, the sorcerer who had made a deal with the King in exchange for teachings in the dark arts came to the kingdom wishing to collect payment. The sorcerer demanded a position in the kings court and accommodations as well. The King repulsed by his haggard appearance, annoyed by his presence, had no intention to honor their agreement. The king ordered his guards to throw him out and banish him from his kingdom. The sorcerer, angered by the King for denying their agreement (and seeing his son as no different from the king) he placed a curse on his eldest son. As he was the one thing he valued most in the world aside from wealth and power, to become a disfigured beast. The sorcerer did not stop there as he cursed the kings entire kingdom servants and all to be forgotten by the world.

The only cure to the curse was if the son could find someone to fall in love with him despite his ghastly appearance. If no one could be found to love the Prince by the time the last petal fell from an enchanted rose then the curse would remain for all eternity. 

The King recoiled from his son in horror and overcome with the guilt and grief at what had become of his son, his kingdom, and his family he  killed himself. 

True to the curse the outside world had all but forgotten about the once proud kingdom and all of it's inhabitants falling into obscurity. The Prince and eldest son, still cursed as a beast remained in the kingdom along with his servants to this day. And over the years he has grown to despair and become more and more angry, hopeless, and jaded for who could ever learn to love a beast?