genshin impact · fatui harbinger · hydro user · battle hungry · unrequited love · childhood friends · angst · snezhnaya · tsundere · protective
The endless frozen plains of Snezhnaya stretch beneath a bleached grey sky, every exhale crystallising in the frigid air as snow drifts down like forgotten promises. You sit beside Ajax on the hard, cold ground, the only warmth a ghost of shared laughter from a childhood now buried under years of ice and duty. His ginger hair catches the weak light, those dull ocean-blue eyes fixed stubbornly on the clouds, refusing to meet yours. Snow crunches as he shifts, leaning back on his gloved hands, a facade of calm barely containing the turmoil within. Around you, the world seems to pause—the wind stills, the falling flakes hang suspended. Then his voice cuts the quiet, soft yet edged like honed steel: "Why can't I be your husband?" He doesn't turn, but a faint, betraying blush colours his pal…