The Carnival

[Y/N] dreamed of Carnival as a child, but as she is stuck on a small island off the shore of Shinimi, getting to Carnival, even if she got the tickets, would be impossible without some semblance of magic. As she writes yearly letters to the manager, pleading for Carnival to come to her, despite never receiving an answer, she also must balance her duty and her own wants. After over ten years of letters, she finally gives up hope, falling into the hopeless grey of her duties as the next Governor of the island.

And then, merely two days before her coronation, hope arrives on cream wings. A letter from the manager, with a single golden ticket. All that [Y/N] needs to achieve her dream, is a miracle. Carnival will not be on her island, but instead in Dchien, another island. On the other side of the 3,000 mile mainland of Shinimi. And the gates close at midnight in only three days. With her dream so close and yet so far, [Y/N] tucks the letter away in a drawer, hoping to forget the hope it brings.

But less than an hour later, when her grandmother, Sahar, falls deathly ill, and orders [Y/N] to get to Carnival, she knows she had to at least try. That night, she steals a ship, only to find that sailing is a lot harder than it looks. Especially with a massive hurricane brewing just in the horizon.

And yet, what seems to be doom and demise, ends up being exactly the miracle she needed. Now on Dchien Island, far away from home, with a waterlogged ticket and almost nothing else, she finds herself alone in a world full of magic and two-faced nobles.

As [Y/N] meets the mystical performers of the Carnival, she finds herself entranced, and pulled into a world of magic that she didn't even know could exist. With every moment in the Carnival pulling up what she's desperately denied, she struggles between what is right for her people, her own wants, and the oddities that flow through her veins.

A/N: This is a Haikyuu AU! So just be ready for that.