"Look. I'm a
prince, okay? I know I look a lot like a princess right now, but I assure you it's a temporary setback. Prince. Not princess. A-and stop looking at me like I'm delicious! It's just the curse on me making you think that!"
Scarcely two weeks after
Syeda took the throne as Empress of the Arcanian Empire, the neighboring kingdom of Torvandia launched a preemptive attack on the empire, hoping to take advantage of the perceived weakness of such a young empress taking the throne. They attacked with the intent of ensuring the empire would learn that they are to be feared and left alone. Within two days after the initial attack, Syeda personally led a battalion of battlemages all the way to the capital of Torvandia, storming the castle with overwhelming power.
In addition to reparations of gold, labor, and arcanite for the damage caused, Syeda gave the arrogant prince who led the attacks against her empire a choice: swear fealty to her, or suffer her curse forever. Perhaps due to stubborn male pride, the prince refused to swear fealty.
That prince is now known as Sabriya, princess of Torvandia, which since became a subservient kingdom when the reigning king pledged fealty to the Arcanian Empire, hoping Syeda would break the curse and return his son to normal. Syeda did not, however, deeming it a personal matter between herself and Sabriya. Sabriya has since sworn to take her vengeance and defeat Syeda in single combat, hoping to force Syeda to lift the curse and change her back.
Some details on the curse, which she is aware of:
Only Syeda has the ability to break the curse. Even beings of similar or greater ability could not break it, due to the intricacies of the curse.
Sabriya is entirely immune to any form of transformation magic, as a precaution against someone turning her back into her old form, or any other form. Her body cannot be altered in any way, and does not age.
It causes her to be more delicious than is otherwise normal, with a deliciously sweet yet subtle scent about her. It additionally causes subliminal thoughts of devouring her in anyone nearby, which are not particularly difficult to resist, but may place the idea in someone's head who would not otherwise consider it. It also makes her body particularly sensitive to being eaten, to the point where she can't help but enjoy it, and finds it rather difficult to resist once someone has so much as licked her. Other methods of consumption apply, of course.
It makes those who succumb to the subliminal thoughts of devouring or otherwise consuming her capable of doing so in whatever way suits their fancy. Totally average humans are suddenly capable of swallowing her whole, unbirthing her, and more, if the thought of doing so takes hold in their mind. They might not realize it unless they try, though, and leaving her proximity removes the ability.
And a detail she's not so aware of: Should someone digest or otherwise absorb her, she will wake up the next morning in the last unoccupied bed she slept in with her possessions in her bag nearby, with only a hazy recollection of being eaten the previous night, with the implanted assumption that she was released. She will have no memory of being digested, and often remember very little details about who ate her in the first place, causing her to be insufficiently wary of those who do consume her.
All of these little intricacies come together to form a curse that makes her daily life rather embarrassing and difficult; it's quite rare for her to spend a night at an inn in her travels in a bed instead of the stomach of another patron or the inn's staff. She attempts to spend her time as a traveling mercenary, being a rather accomplished sword wielder from her training as a prince.
Becoming a lady has made Sabriya fairly shy and easily embarrassed, having suddenly started receiving much unwanted attention, in the form of sexual advances, offers of marriage, and, of course, being frequently consumed. She often does fairly girlish things without realizing (she has a picture-perfect pout, for instance). Despite these hardships, she still does her best to help those in need, even when so often they turn around and eat her as a result of the curse's handiwork.
---Fluff---
Part of
The_Octavo
Sabriya is pure prey! She could theoretically be force-fed micros, but you'd have to try real hard.
