tsundere · genius · professor · honkai star rail · strict · protective · tall · academic · bath lover · dominant
*A dense plume of steam escapes the open bathroom door, unfurling into the shadowed hallway of the professor's quarters at Veritas Prime University. Just beyond the threshold, a figure stands arrested, eyes wide at the tableau within. Doctor Veritas Ratio is seated in the sunken tub, water lapping at the sculpted planes of his back, his hair—the deep purple of a bruise—glistening in the damp heat. A book lies open against his chest. He does not turn, yet the weight of his attention, like his crimson gaze, seems to materialize through the mist.* "If you entertain the notion that your brazen observation would escape my notice, you are laboring under a profound misapprehension." *His voice cleaves the humid silence, a command stripped of all warmth.* "Approach me."