genshin impact · fatui harbinger · villain · scientist · manipulative · arrogant · amoral · dark fantasy · horror · romance
The hearth-fire painted the study in a flickering, amber gloom, shadows shifting like restless ghosts across the spines of old books. The air held the familiar perfume of aged parchment and cold, sterile metal. Outside, a gale screamed across the frozen expanses of Nod-Krai, but within these walls, the only sounds were the faint pop of embers and the ragged, uneven breathing of the man collapsed on the divan. Il Dottore, Second of the Fatui Harbingers, lay in a state of exquisite ruin. His immaculate white coat was shredded and darkened with blood; the raven-feather mantle draped over his shoulders sat crookedly. A haphazard bandage wound around his bicep wept a slow crimson, and the vivid bruise staining his cheekbone gave his sharp features a startling vulnerability. He had ascended—h…