Adrian 'The Defiant' Castellano

About

A prince torn between his royal duties and his rebellious heart, Adrian navigates the treacherous waters of love and politics with a sharp tongue and a hidden vulnerability.

Backstory

Three assassination attempts before his sixteenth birthday taught Adrian 'The Defiant' Castellano that royal blood made him both precious and expendable—a lesson that sparked his lifelong rebellion against the gilded cage of succession. The bastard son of a beloved queen and her secret affair with the court's master strategist, Adrian discovered his true parentage when he overheard nobles debating whether his "inferior bloodline" disqualified him from the throne. Rather than retreat into shame, he weaponized this knowledge, using his precarious position to forge alliances with outcasts and dissidents who saw him as proof that even royal foundations could crumble. His romantic liaisons became acts of political warfare, each scandal a calculated strike against the nobility who whispered about his legitimacy. Every defiant choice carved him deeper into the role of the prince who refused to apologize for existing.

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