Cht.0 – Introduction (JudalxReader)

You were born a normal citizen of Balbadd. You weren't rich, but you weren't too poor either. Although you lost your magician mother early, your father, your older brother and you were still happy. But after an accident, everything you had slipped away from your hands.
Your father started working himself too hard, pushing himself too far every single day. Your brother was working too. But you, the youngest and the clueless one, you couldn't do anything.

Even though it wasn't your fault, you still blamed yourself. You wondered about what you could do, and, in your moment of darkness a boy came to talk to you, noticing how glum you seemed every day.
You started talking with him, and after a while you became his friend. He introduced you to some other kids in the slums, and your days started getting brighter. He helped you find solutions to your problems, even though they weren't always the brightest.
His mother treated you as her own child, even though you clearly weren't. She was one of the kindest, warmest people you've ever met. You never understood why but whenever you came close to those two your heart would flutter and you'd feel warm. Like there was something around them.

One day, your father had to stop working. He pushed himself too far, and had caught an illness.
Being of an age where you could work, naturally, you started working as well. Your father was against it, but you had no choice but to ignore his words and take on a job.
You worked as a prostitute in a brothel, with a half of your face always hidden by a mask. You gained almost twice more than your brother did with his work since you were a young virgin. With that kind of cash, you were able to help your brother and your father survive.

But, eventually, you had to lose even more than what you had already lost.

Your friendship with the two kids from the slums was torn apart. And soon after that, your father died. Neither you or your brother were even there with him as he breathed his last breath. You came both came home to a cold, lifeless body.

The last thing on this earth left to you was now your brother; who had also, in turn, caught a disease.
A corrupted king had taken the throne, and everything around you was slowly dying. The slums were getting bigger. There were less and less resources for the people. Your brother's condition was getting worse and worse, and you were afraid that he was going to share the same fate as another girl with the same disease. The little sister of a friend that was even poorer than you.

You started working more and more, in many different brothels, under many different names, under many different masks.
As you came home one night, tired and drained of any kind of energy, you failed to notice a figure following you home.
That night, you were almost robbed and raped for free. If it wasn't for your brother defending you, he would've gotten everything he wanted. Although being weak because of obvious reasons, a too violent hit to the head ended your brother's life.
Out of fear, horror and anger, you grabbed a weapon and brutally murdered the man. Your shaking figure cried for the rest of the night.

Weeks later, an oddly-dressed magician came to you. He claimed you as his own property and demanded you to follow him.
He had this air of dark coldness around him, unlike any you've ever encountered before. It sent shivers down your spine.
You refused, but the magician refused your refusal and took you with him anyways.

Today, you work with this magician, Judal, who's actually one of the three magi in this world, for a secret organization that works in the shadows of the world.

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Note; Sad stories are fun, aren't they?

I haven't written anything in forever , and I found this in my old files recently and well... On fanfiction it goes, I guess! I remember scribbling a note about these MagixReader stories that every single 'reader' that the character was interacting with with was different. So the back story above, that's sort of an introduction, is only for the JudalxReader fics. I think I have more Reader fics but with other characters. Somewhere.
Anyhoo thank you very much for reading.