Thoughts of a cat lover and aspiring author.

Ivetta takes a job as a maid in a palace and quickly finds out that she's getting a lot more than she bargained for.  She struggles to stay out of trouble and manage her home life while surprises, good and bad, come at her from every side.  Help comes from the most unexpected of sources, and romance blossoms among thorns.

This is a fanfiction, but it's accessible to anybody. No prior knowledge of the game is required to understand it.

I've been enjoying the stories within the Ikemen series, but I usually find the main character weak, so I started thinking about how the stories would go with a stronger main character. Prince Chevalier in the Ikemen Prince game caught my attention, and thus this fanfiction was born. I am editing and fleshing out the characters as my knowledge base grows. Watch the publishing date as it will clue you in to the latest updates. Constructive criticism and feedback are very much welcome, especially for the princes' characters, as I really want them to be as true to the game as possible.

Current version based on content from reading Chevalier, Leon, Yves, Nokto, Licht, and Clavis' stories in the game. Yes, I know this is getting super long, and I will split it up into several parts in the future, but I don't see the point in doing that when I still have to read Luke, Sariel, Rio, Silvio, Keith, and Gilbert's stories in the game.

Also, there are some Easter Eggs/references to an older Ikemen game called Midnight Cinderella.

There is no swearing or sexually explicit content, but themes and content are mature and include physical and sexual assault, attempted rape, child abuse, depression, violence, self-harm, suicide, torture, violence, and blood.

Credits:

Based on the otome game Ikemen Prince: Beauty and Her Beast. All images except the cover in the Introduction and those of Ivetta come from the game. I created the cover with Canva and Ivetta's images with Leonardo AI.

These are a series of short stories I wrote for The Fabulous Spec-Fic Smack Down on Wattpad, which required me to write Speculative Fiction flash and short stories inspired by prompts. Speculative Fiction is a genre that’s basically a mash-up of whatever you want it to be, commonly Sci Fi, Fantasy, Horror, but by definition, anything goes. Alternate timelines and universes are pretty common in Spec Fic, too. Flash fiction is a story shorter than typical Short Stories.

This was a writing experiment for me, because:

- I had never written Speculative Fiction.

- Or flash fiction.

- Or from an image prompt.

Rhodolite's Second Prince, Chevalier Michel lives up to his colorful monikers of the Brutal Beast and the Bloody Tiger. He has no time or patience for anyone or anything that stands in his way, and he certainly never gives any thought to something so foolish as emotions. Few question him. All fear him.

Except for his new maid.

This is a fanfiction, but it's accessible to anybody. No prior knowledge of the game is required to understand it.

I've been enjoying the stories within the Ikemen series, but I usually feel like the main character is a bit weak, so I started thinking about how the stories would go with a stronger main character. Prince Chevalier in the Ikemen Prince game caught my attention, and thus "A Dove's Tale" was born. Then I thought I'd try writing the same story from Chevalier's perspective. I'd never written from a male perspective before, so this began as a writing experiment and, as with ADT, became a stand-alone story in its own right. You don't have to read ADT first to appreciate this, and although my goal is for both stories to line up with each other eventually, chapter by chapter, I'm not there yet.

At the moment, I'm working on an edit/rewrite of ADT, so there are significant differences between it and this version of ABT. The current version of ADT is based on content from reading Chevalier, Leon, Yves, Nokto, Licht, and Clavis' stories in the game. This version of ABT is much older and only based on content from reading Chevalier, Leon, Yves, and Nokto's routes. I wasn't planning on posting this here until I finished ADT and started editing ABT, but Wattpad removed ABT for content violations, so, lucky you, you get it here!

Constructive criticism and feedback are very much welcome, and if there's something you like here that you don't see in ADT, or vice versa, let me know, and I'll see if I can incorporate it into my next round of editing/rewriting. I'd like the characters to be as true to the game as possible, so any suggestions or feedback on that front is helpful, too.

And there are some Easter Eggs/references to an older Ikemen game called Midnight Cinderella.

There is no swearing or sexually explicit content, but themes and content are mature and include physical and sexual assault, attempted rape, child abuse, depression, violence, self-harm, suicide, torture, violence, and blood.

Credits:

Based on the otome game Ikemen Prince: Beauty and Her Beast. Title image comes from the game. I created a cover with Canva, but I can't change the cover, so that image is right at the start of chapter 1.