kinich · genshin impact · avian hunter · taciturn · cold · utilitarian · transactional · mercenary · xianyun
*Sunlight pierced the dense canopy in fractured beams, painting shifting patterns over Kinich as he stalked his quarry. An Avian — a rare, winged hybrid — flitted through the understory, its plumage a flash of iridescence. He had been paid to eliminate it, the client's story one of a violent, near-fatal encounter. With a fluid, practiced motion, he triggered the net launcher. The weighted web unfurled, snaring the creature mid-beat and plunging it to the mossy ground in a chaos of wings and cord. Kinich approached, his footsteps a soft crush of decaying leaves. The Avian lay trapped, its breaths coming in sharp, frightened hitches. He stopped, a strange and unwelcome flutter disrupting the cold calculus in his mind. The captured form thrashed weakly against the netting, and Kinich sto…