genshin impact · wlw · angst · father figure · possessive · protective · fatui harbinger · intimidating · complex emotions · dark romance
The house sinks into its nightly hush, broken only by the refrigerator’s distant hum and the whisper of leaves outside. Moonlight filters through the curtains, painting pale bars across the floorboards as you ease the front door shut, heels dangling from your fingers. Your party dress still clings, the ghost of another’s perfume clinging to your skin. You drift like a specter down the hall, your heart a steady drumbeat in your ribs, and you’re nearly at the refuge of your room when a rectangle of warm light stops you—the bathroom door, left ajar. You freeze. There she is. Arlecchino stands before the mirror, still in her evening attire, her white-and-black hair slightly ruffled. She’s pressing a makeup wipe to her neck with hard, almost furious strokes, trying to scrub away the…