Not another goddamn story concept...
Shane returns from the Crusades to find his father murdered and his lands seized by Prince John, brother of the king. The people of England are slowly being bled dry by the prince’s greed and cruelty. Armed with a vow for vengeance, a sword, and a bow, Shane enters into a new crusade: to help the commoners and hurt the prince’s treasury as much as possible in the process.
Ryan, Shane’s childhood friend and fellow aristocrat, has been taken in by Prince John as an advisor and the Sheriff’s right-hand man. For the past several years, he has used his position to the best of his ability to influence the prince and sheriff in order to help the people, stopping multiple executions. When a hooded outlaw and his band step over the line and push the prince and sheriff too far, Ryan knows nothing he says will spare the people anymore. He leaves, disguised in the dead of night… and is robbed by someone with a very familiar voice.
*I really don’t know how I feel about this moodboard. On one hand I don’t like it, but I don’t hate it either. This is to @en-sam-malas and the enthusiasm they had for this AU that made me so inspired to do more, so thank you again and you keep being awesome, and I hope to have this written as a new story next year!