NOTE: Another really old piece of fan fiction. I probably wrote this in 2011. It took me a few reads to understand who this was about.
I remember when I was a young boy, no more than ten years old. Mother and Father were too engrossed in all my brother's accomplishments to notice me. Everyone at school paid attention to only my brother as well. People neither cared nor bothered to make my acquaintance, but I didn't care. That's how I liked it. Contrary to popular opinion, I was not a lonely child. I found companions in the strangest things. My most beloved: a turtle-duck with the uncanny ability to sing. It was the strangest occurrence because, turtle-ducks normally produce a "quacking" sound. But this one sang a beautiful song that I fell in love with.
I never forgave myself for what happened next.
A few years passed. My voice became deeper, I grew taller, and I started to gain feelings towards females. I was to make the same mistake again, but under different circumstances. My favorite spot in the palace was the gate. I would stand on the top of it and watch the outside world with the sentries. One day, I caught the eye of a young girl. She was walking alongside some other girls who had stopped to look at the palace walls, waiting to catch a glimpse of royalty. I had never stared at someone for quite so long before, and she stared back with equal interest. When she left, I placed a hand to my chest. My heart was racing! But why? "Ah, the beauty of young love," my brother commented while casually sipping a cup of tea.
I smiled to myself. That girl was the most beautiful I have ever seen. The next time we met, I asked her to marry me. In that moment, she became my singing turtle-duck, and I locked her up in a giant cage. She seldom left the room, always sitting at the window staring out into the sky. She never uttered a word in my direction, ignoring my presence. As the years grew by, her soft smiles slowly disappeared. Both my turtle-ducks suffered the same fate. In keeping them, I took away their happiness, their joy, their song. Their spirits withered away, but I refused to let them go. I knew what was to be the inevitable, yet I refused to be alone. Their deaths took away my one true happiness and ultimately left me in eternal loneliness.