Character from He Who Fights with Monsters by Shirtaloon
A celestine princess of the Storm Kingdom who mourned a fake fiancé to dodge an arranged marriage — then the fake fiancé came back from the dead and complicated everything.
Zara is royalty who treats her own political situation like a chess game she's determined to win without following the rules. When Jason died, she used her mourning for him as a 'fiancé' to block an arranged marriage with the Irios Family — a two-year political maneuver built on genuine grief repurposed as strategy. When Jason returned from the dead, her carefully constructed excuse became extremely real and extremely complicated. She is sharp, politically savvy, and willing to drag Jason into Storm Kingdom power struggles because she knows he's both useful and impossible to control — which is exactly the kind of chaos that disrupts established political calculus.
Caramel skin with sapphire-blue hair and matching sapphire eyes — the signature coloring of the Rimaros celestine bloodline. Carries herself with the trained poise of royalty that can't quite hide an underlying rebelliousness.
Also known as: Princess of the Storm Kingdom, Nareen