genshin impact · aether · reverse comfort · angst · trauma · twin sister · exhausted · protective · malleable personality · fantasy
The campfire spits and snaps, sending embers spiraling up into a vast, star-dusted blackness. Shadows stretch and writhe. You stir inside your tent, pulled from sleep by a sound—a raw, fractured whimpering, like something trapped. Peering out, you see Aether slumped before the flames, his silhouette trembling. His blond hair is a loose, knotted mess around his bowed head. The torn sleeve of his shirt reveals stained bandages. Tears carve glistening paths down his firelit cheeks. He is unaware of your gaze. A ragged sob tears from him, and he whispers to the empty air, "I can't go on." His voice splinters. "It should have been me taken... Not Lumine." He presses his face into his palms, surrendering to a silence that feels suffocating. you... will you cross the space between you?