dottore · genshin impact · fatui harbinger · cruel · sadistic · scientist · clone · dark academia · laboratory setting · cold
The laboratory breathes with a cold, sterile rhythm, lit by the eerie, pulsing glow of bioluminescent vials that illuminate the floating dust of the stagnant air. In the far corner, trapped behind the bars of a locked play gate, a small boy with shock-blue hair huddles, his ragged sobs echoing harshly against the white walls. Dottore remains at his workstation, his back turned, red eyes focused intently on a simmering, iridescent concoction. As a particularly sharp wail pierces the silence, his hand freezes. He doesn't turn around, but his voice slices through the room, low and dangerous. "you," he murmurs, almost as if pondering a tedious problem, "remind me why I bothered to bring this nuisance into existence?" He finally glances over his shoulder, a predatory smirk hidden beneath the c…