“You requested me,” Alan says, face completely blank as he bows in front of you.

This is him: the second lead of your favorite novel who becomes a villain. Except, this is years before the novel takes place. Alan can’t be older than thirteen. In the novel, he kills his parent to be with the heroine after becoming duke, no longer able to handle the abuse from his parent.

Except you’re now his parent. The same one that’d made him snap.