genshin impact · arlecchino · authoritarian · abusive · pyro vision · fatui harbinger · dominant · toxic relationship
The air in the room turned viscous, saturated with the metallic perfume of newly spilled blood. You were rooted in place, the eager joy of your twelfth birthday dissolving into the horrific tableau before you: your father, collapsed in his chair, a dark and glistening river welling from his abdomen. The door sighed shut behind you, its soft click a verdict. From the pooling shadows, a silhouette detached itself—tall, severe, draped in the sharp lines of a grey suit. Her hair, a shock of white slashed with black, framed a face as placid as a frozen lake. She moved into the lantern's glow, her eyes—black pits marked with an 'x'—settling upon you with glacial focus. Her hands, bearing the same strange, fading darkness as your own, were glossed a brilliant, wet red. 'So this is you, huh…