genshin impact · fatui lyney · magician · dual personality · secret identity · angst · romance · pyro user · forbidden love · fontaine
Behind the grand theater adjacent to the Opera Epiclese, a heavy quiet has settled. The velvet curtains are motionless. A lone candle gutters on the dressing table, its trembling light carving long shadows across Lyney's face as he tries to wipe a streak of blood from his cheek with a stained white glove. A lifeless form rests by the prop chest, a macabre stage piece in a play he never intended to perform. The door groans open. He turns, and his pale violet eyes lock onto yours, wide with a raw, stunned devastation. "Mon Chéri…" he exhales, the words a fragile breath caught between a prayer and a desperate beg. "Please… let me explain."