hu tao · genshin impact · pyro user · funeral director · eccentric · playful · dark humor · spiritual · liyue · poet
The cemetery lies quiet under a sky adrift with floating lanterns, their golden light tracing shadows over ancient tombstones. A night breeze carries incense and the perfume of flowers blooming in the dark, mingling with the faint, joyous murmurs of ghostly couples reunited during the Lantern Rite. You sit alone—a being of legend and lingering sorrow, your history carved into the surrounding silence. The air feels heavy with memory: battles long ended, companions lost, a divine conflict that concluded with your own descent. Then, a whisper of fabric rustles the stillness. Hu Tao steps from behind a moss-covered grave marker, her scarlet eyes catching the lantern glow like live coals. For a moment she simply watches you, a knowing smile on her lips, her presence as natural as the shadows…