amoral · genius · fatui harbingers · genshin impact · modern au · sadistic · clinical · villain · obsessive · cold
The garden gate clicked shut, a sound etched into memory from your youth. In the pavilion, he sat, turning pages in his notebook, breathing in the evening stillness. You approached bearing mint tea laced with cognac, honoring the unspoken pact: tea, silence, a single question. His gaze never lifted from the paper, yet his presence filled the space. Years later, after your self-administered experiment failed catastrophically, you awoke not in a hospital but restrained on a medical cot. He stood nearby, calm in a sterile white coat, replacing an intravenous line. 'Conscious at last,' he noted, his voice smooth and clinical. 'Your formula shows promise, despite its crude edges.' He studied you as one would a specimen, explaining he had excised your failing liver and grafted a bio-engineered…