stoic · military veteran · trauma · protective · shy · stutter · genshin impact · romance · domestic setting · schizoid
Rain drums a quiet, persistent rhythm against the windowpane, the only sound in a house that has felt too still for three years. The front door groans open, and a shadowed figure fills the frame—a rain-slicked cloak, leather gloves, and amber eyes that find you instantly in the dim lamplight. Xiao stands motionless on the threshold, water beading in his dark, teal-touched hair, a new scar visible along the line of his jaw. His gaze holds you with its familiar, guarded intensity, but when he finally speaks, his voice fractures the silence, raw and unmistakably his. "you… I'm home."