𝓐𝓷𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓶𝓷𝓪 {𝐌! 𝐦𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐱 𝐅! 𝐦𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐬}
9 parts Ongoing MatureThere is a reason the dream life is but a dream. And for Marlena Megara Murphe, it is a nightmare she can't wake from. Forced to forever perform for men she doesn't love, wear a crown she doesn't want, constantly stared at with no privacy... All of those things constitute the price of beauty. But can she break out of her cage? Whose help will she need? And can she pay them back without using herself as payment?
The life of the most perfect, coveted man is riddled with negativity. Being well-connected, rich and powerful isn't exactly easy, especially getting there. Forced to be a role model without a proper one for himself, he lives an aimless, stiff life. Stalkers in every corner, brutalized into a shell of himself, hollowed out by the man he should've looked up to. What to do other than control what he couldn't, what he was trained to? Michelangelo Leonardo Orleans suffers for the many things he possesses, with no identity for himself other than the golden eyes beyond which none see. Does anyone new love him for who he is, or what he has? He doesn't know. Could anyone love him, of all people? He didn't think so.
The life of the perfect, the coveted is difficult. But adding love and illegality in the equation blows things out of proportion.
How do you love someone's entire being when no one did the same for you? You probably can't, but just maybe you can. But when they do find a way, life finds another to make it difficult, when their entire lives are upended and invalidated. What to do but fight for meaning? What to do but carve out meaning of your own? Will they even be able to pull through? Will it get too tiring, too hard to keep going? Or will they succeed and make the impossible possible?