omg i want to hear more about this princess au!! what would killua be? any headcannons?
AHH Anon!! I’m just so happy you’re interested in my princess AU! I have a lot of AUs in my mind, some more fun than others, and the princess AU is one I’ve explored in different angles so in the end I sortaaaa have like... two different princess AUs!! :D I tried to find titles for them to like, describe them separately, so I apologize in advance for the length of this answer, I got sorta carried away XD
Hana is a Tanalean princess who was promised to a noble Sahertan, general and head of army, by her uncle, the King of Tanalea, as part of a treaty for peace between Tanalea and Saherta. She stays at his castle to honor her part of the treaty--though really, she doesn’t a choice, as an orphan and a threat to the throne that her uncle wants to get rid of.
Then comes Killua, a captive soldier from a northern country, bought as a prisoner by Hana’s bethrothed general. The first days, even weeks, that Killua spends at the general’s castle, he goes through torture as the nobleman tries to extract military information from him/bind him to his law.
I just imagine that since Hana is also a captive in a way, one who is paraded in glitter and silks by the noble and who has to give up her culture to conform to that of the noble, she would feel for Killua. So she sneaks in at night to tend to his wounds in secret and give him some food and water, and somehow they befriend each other and talk about their respective countries and how they wounded up in a Sahertan noble’s house.
(and well, they fall in love :D)
Now I don’t know how exactly but they escape at some point :D And it’s a wild chase because oh no! the Tanalean princess is gone! If the Tanalean military has word that their princess disappeared, they’ll strike! And the young soldier who was captured might have exchanged military knowledge with the enemy and the princess!! So yeah the jerk noble/general has to find them before all hell breaks loose lol.
This AU takes place in a sorta Victorian-ishhhhh setting.
Hana is an orphan who was taken in by her “aunt”. She’s young, beautiful, and charming, but her lack of manners and her intensity tend to drive people away--especially men, who are not used to and can’t deal with a woman who speaks louder than they do. Her aunt, who is tiring of her, just wants to marry Hana off to a good suitor with a good--and wealthy--family, so she’s constantly nagging at her to be “proper” and tries to teach her how to be a well-behaved lady.
But Hana just can’t behave and she doesn’t care much for what men think of her. She has a loud laugh and a sharp tongue and every intention to drive her aunt crazy so long she can keep her freedom.
Things change when she meets Killua Zoaldyeck--the heir to the frightening but insanely rich family of nobles, whose trade is as mysterious as it is successful. She doesn’t recognize in this man with a jaw like blade the soft-cheeked boy she used to play with when she was a child and her parents were still alive. She doesn’t remember him--but he would recognize her, with her strange but endearing quirks, among thousands.
Reconnecting isn’t easy when she is pressured by her aunt to be proper--even moreso when the boy from her childhood has grown into a quiet man with unspoken pain behind his eyes. She knows it all too well--it’s the same yearning for freedom that rages into her when everything down to her corset tries to suffocate her. But they catch up with the adults they grew into--and maybe, among the unbriddled laughs and the jokes that would have made their families gasp in horror, they learn how to be those free children again.
(and also drama happens because since neither of them cares about manners, together they’re an unstoppable force of improper-ness and Hana’s aunt gets mad and shit happens and since im an angsty bitch, I sooo imagine that the aunt would lock Hana in and Killua wouldn’t know if she still likes him and blabla you know how I am XD)
OH One thing I imagine in this AU is like, one day the aunt ties Hana’s corset too tight because she “put on weight” and is “disgraceful” and Hana faints!!!! and Killua just unties her corset to let her breathe and yells at the people who complain or get too curious or outraged because ffs let the girl breathe lol
ANYWAY I’ve done zero research on Victorian eras and such so all of this is purely yui-fabricated so probably historically inaccurate but it’s super fun when I run these AUs in my mind XD I’ve got a bunch of other AUs too like:
one where Greed Island is an edgy Hunger Games type of game and Hana and Killua team up to win (and Killua wants to find Gon),
another where he’s the CEO of a company (heir of the Zoaldyeck, ya kno), and she applied for the vacant position of his assistant, but as they become closer (since she’s so good at her job you know) they realize neither of them like their jobs!! Like he’s just doing this because of his father but ultimately he just wants to lead his own life, and she applied to be his assistant so she could talk him into letting her investigate security breaches in their system because it’s her passion but she has no diploma in that and being a woman in tech-related jobs is hard (lol)
she’s a single mom and she meets him (or the other way around) (OR BOTH ARE SINGLE PARENTS)
I could go on tbh LOL it’s just so fun to make AUs with my own OCs XD
ANYWAY IM SO SORRY i got super carried away XD Thank you for asking me about my princess AU(s) anon!!! I hope you liked the answer :3 *hugs*
