#he's playing 5d chess with the queen while the king's trying to keep the peace in the land

[jacqcrisis]

Adding onto the wizard and king idea: the dominant religion in the magic Kingdom worships dragon deities, one of which is the god of magic who chooses and blesses the royal wizard with the Powers. Such a sorcerer needs to go train for years though once he's of age before he can subsume the duty of Big Fuckoff Powerful Magic Man.

So! Prince (who's like third in line) and apprentice were best of friends, teenage/early 20s sweethearts, extremely in love, undoubtedly insperable. The time comes, however, for the apprentice to go off and be dragon trained or whatever, and he fucks off. The prince promises to always love him 'I'll wait for you forever' etc etc etc, thinking of him every day, and showing no interest in the potential brides his family drags in front of him because why would he when true love is promised to return to him.

Cue old king dad dying. And the old king's brother. And eldest prince. Dead from battle they were, very tragic. Lover boy is crowned king, blessed be by the draconic god of being a big leader man and now mom wants him married and normal and continuing the family line, no ifs ands or buts about it.

And who better than the beautiful, intelligent princess of the country they just had to make a truce with, joining the two powerful kingdoms hand in hand and beginning a new Era of Peace and Heteronormativity. Years pass. Things are fine. The old wizard finally retires at like 82 and dearest old flame comes running back to fill his place.

And dear scaley ass gods; their meeting after like 15 years of separation is.... hoo boy, it's clear they still harbor ALL the feelings, time failing to erode the connection they have and only building on the longing they felt. Queen Wife watches as her husband's face is lovingly cradled in the hands of a man twice his fucking size with a twitch in her eye, but she's ready. Her mother in law gleefully warned her about the impending shit storm and she's all too happy to remind her husband of who he's married to while laying down the law with the wizard she wouldn't trust on principal if it also weren't for the fact that he's two inches from having his tongue down the kings throat.

Wouldn't want the peasants to think we're faggots or something, now would we?

So the queen gets between them. The rules are set in stone. The king folds and agrees and starts acting distant much to the wizards initial shock and anger, but worry not, he's a smart little cookie who can see his boy age sweetheart is hiding what he really feels under seventeen layers of politics, propriety, and being wife shamed.

The wizard is a patient and conniving bitch. It's only a matter of time, effort, and carefully applied pressure before the king breaks. And he'll be there to have him. Forever, this time.