Written for the Fanfiction Perfumers Competition; for the Pick a Card, Any Card Challenge; for the Rubik's Cube Challenge.
Why was he king of the fairies?
Louis had no talents, could perform no daring feats; he was, in reality, quite like the humans. The only thing that rendered him any different was his great beauty, recognized by all of the fairies: the most useless advantage that anyone was ever given. Perhaps he was beautiful, and perhaps an ardent lover, too, though that was of course not known to the fairies, only to a few rather fortunate humans, but not counting those assets - if you could call them assets - Louis, King of the Fairies, was nothing.
It was one early morning in late spring when he decided if he could not himself have romance, what better to do than to grant it others? So his summer was spent repairing the romances, turning tragedies to comedies, granting new love to young men whose desires were to wed others and perhaps slipping up a few times.
But he did nothing else.
What a useless king the fairies had.