Y/N is the princess of a kingdom from the North. After coming down with a terrible fever when she was a child Y/N lost her hearing—her mother no longer seeing her fit and an abject loss she grows cold towards Y/N. Y/N’s mother wanting nothing to do with her, and wanting to make her suffer for being what she believes to be a failure she assigns the cold-hearted Captain Erwin Hayes. However when he sees her he does not see a failure, but a poor woman trapped in her circumstances