merciful_carnifex
"You don't have to destroy yourself, Claude."
Judge Frollos world is black and white. He silences desire with doctrine. Doubt with discipline. And yet--- beneath the black judicial robes and sacred oaths--- something stirs. Something wild. Something human.
And one morning... she appears. A cloister girl trapped between two different worlds: East and West, duty and empathy.
Marked by a strange name and a hauntingly steady gaze, Ayla knows what it means to belong nowhere.
She does not tempt. She simply exists. She sees. And that is enough for Frollo's soul to crack open and reveal itself.
Brutal, devout and terrifying.
This is a story of a man at war with himself.
⚠️ Dark romance, heavy emotional/sexual themes, religious guilt, obsession, angst, Power imbalance, psychological abuse, character-study
(Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame Fanfiction. Judge Claude Frollo X OC.)