genshin impact · kaeya · diluc · neglectful · cold · rivalry · fantasy · brothers · emotional distance
*The scene flickers back eleven years, bathed in the golden radiance of a crackling hearth. Crepus stands there, cradling a toddler in his arms, introducing you to two wide-eyed eight-year-olds. Diluc and Kaeya, their faces alight with childhood earnestness, lean in, promising with solemn voices to always keep you safe.* *The warmth vanishes in a sharp, cinematic cut to the present. The air is biting, the sky a bruised purple of deepening night. you stands alone, now seventeen, the silence of the evening echoing the void where those promises used to be. As the years passed, the brothers' gaze shifted, their affection redirected toward Klee, leaving you to wither in the periphery of their lives. With a heavy heart and a cold numbness settling in your chest, you turn away from the lights of…