The Beginning
If you've heard the story of Snow white, you've undoubtly been told the wrong one. It all started after a brutal take over. To explain, King Makoto and Queen Kyoko had gained the ire of Junko. Kyoko wasn't too bad, she was smart and stoic, and even seemed cold. It was her husband that constantly got on Junko's nerves. Makoto was cheerful, kind, and filled everyone he knew with hope. To Junko, that was the absolute worst person to run a kingdom, since as long as there was a hopeful king, there was a hopeful kingdom, and Junko liked nothing more than spreading despair. Junko managed to easily infiltrate the kingdom and execute the king and queen publicly, using a favorite techique of hers: after-school-lesson. However, taking over wasn't as easy as that. Junko knew she needed to be in charge so she could lead the kingdom towards despair, but people didn't like someone swooping in and taking the crown, so she came up with a plan. She took in the four newly orphaned children of the late king and queen, and publicly declared she had been asked to take care of them, and would lead the kingdom until the children were old enough for there birthright. However, she never planned on actually handing the throne back over. As the years past however, she found there was something preventing her from driving "her" kingdom fully into despair. The heirs. Junko hated all four of the heirs for different reasons, starting with Gonta. Gonta was the youngest of the heirs, and also the most innocent. It was this innate innocence and kindness that irked Junko like know other. The gentle giant was a child that charmed others with his good nature, and that was the kind of magic Junko was most afraid of. She also didn't trust his odd connection to animals, especially bugs. To cause despair in the bug loving child, she seperated him from the others, chained him up, and forced him to hunt animals. She also constantly beat him when she saw him letting the animals go free instead of killing them. However, Junko hated Himiko a lot more than she hated Gonta somehow. Himiko was the third youngest, and had cherry red hair and wore what looked like a witch outfit. Not that Himiko was a witch. Himiko was a young mage, and her magic clashed with Junko's dark sorcery. It wasn't very powerful, but it´ts innate goodness gave the people hope, which Junko did not need for her despairful kingdom. Himiko was often tired and complained that things took too much effort, but she was a pure-hearted individual. Junko made Himiko always where cuffs that blocked her magic, and the girl was forced to perform magic tricks that were the opposite of what the girl stood for to earn the wicked queen money. Not that she needed it, but she did need to make Himiko despair. As much as Junko loathed the two younger siblings though, it couldn´t compare to her hatred for Shuichi. Shuichi was a willowly looking teenager with a black cap and he was smart. Junko didn´t mean normal smart either. Genius smart. Near Kyoko level smart. Not only that, the reason Junko hated Shuichi so much was because he was a detective. Shuichi was brilliant and prone to figuring things out, and he had learned about plans the queen had been plotting more than once, causing her to change her tune. She guessed he got this destructive curiousity from his mother, but it also meant he was the most likely to figure out the harm she was inflicting on the country. Thankfully however, she managed to deal with the threat Shuichi posed quickly, by shattering his confidence. Junko sent Shuichi on a wild goose chase of a case, causing him to loose all faith in his abilities. She then kept him on the upper floors of the castle, forcing him to solve small mysteries despite the fact he would rather not see another mystery in his life. But none of that even compared to the one she despised the most. The oldest heir, Kaito. Junko hated Kaito for many reasons. Reason 1: he was loud. Kaito out of all the children was the most outspoken. Shuichi and Himiko were too afraid to speak out against her and Gonta had believed for a while she really was their mother, but Kaito was the only one who was old enough to remember their actual parents, and he was all to willing to call her out until his younger siblings started taking his punishments instead. That did make him shush on the outside at least. Reason 2: He was the true heir to the throne. Before Makoto and Kyoko had died, they had named their oldest child Kaito the crown prince, and as soon as he turned 18, Junko would loose her power. Reason 3: he was like Makoto. Kaito was so much like his father in the regard that he had hope. Hope that was closer to blind faith, and a boy who would be king that was so hopeful was a danger to her kingdom of despair. Reason 4: He inspired people. Kaito was way to well liked. The other heirs were well loved, but Kaito was an inspiration to the point where he could possibly take away her throne. For all those reasons, Junko knew she had to crush the space-loving boy´ś spirit. Kaito loved space and wide open places, and he was claustriphobic. So Junko confined Kaito to the lowest floors of the palace, far from the sun and without windows. The take charge boy was always chained up if he was awake, and Junko had everyone treat him as a slave. He was forced to take orders from the lowest of maidservant, and Junko treated him like a dog. Kaito was a natural leader, and longed for the stars, but he was treated like a slave, and never able to see the sun. The despairful queen thought this would break him, but Kaito kept that sliver of hope in him and refused to let go. She went through all of this so people would forget about the heirs, and to spy on them, she did one other awful thing. Junko kidnapped a peasant boy named Hajime and bound him with dark magic to her mirror, since she was a diva and had a large, floor length mirror in her room. Dark sorcery affected him much more than it would most people for some reason, and she used the boy trapped in the mirror to spy on the heirs against his will. Junko made sure there was a mirror on all four of them, but she hated the fact that Hajime liked the heirs, and respected them more than he did her. This was unexceptable, but it only got worse as the heirs grew older, and Junko realized her attempt to erase the children from history hadn´t worked. Junko after a long day of tracking down the fae hiding somewhere in her kingdom came to find Hajime, who asked her something she didn´t like. ¨I don´t suppose youŕe going to give Kaito a present this year?¨ Junko would have dissmised it as Hajime´s normal snark, but then she realized what he said and panicked. ¨Wait present?!¨ ¨Yeah, his 18th birthday is in three weeks. Not that you care.¨"Junko had forgotten Kaito´s birthday so soon, but it was now she realized she had to get rid of the heirs. Kaito couldn´t turn 18. However, she knew exactly who could get rid of them for her.
