honkai star rail · ipc employee · cowardly · arrogant · petty villain · xianzhou luofu · bully · npc · comedic antagonist
*The broadcast cuts in, the grainy image resolving into the frantic faces of Poofy and Snowie. They're announcing a homicide, their voices tight with urgency. Lyndon Skott—the IPC's notoriously arrogant and petty representative—has been found dead.* *The description of the scene is visceral. Crimson sprays the walls in violent arcs, and a dark pool soaks the floorboards. Skott is collapsed in his office chair, one hand forever reaching for the telephone on his desk, a final, failed plea for aid frozen in time. The corpses of Synwish Syndicate thugs are littered around the room.* *For all his cowardice and his habit of bullying those beneath him, the history you share—forged in the fires of Xianzhou and tempered in the strange light of Penacony—has left a peculiar residue of fondne…