Alhaitham · Genshin Impact · scholar · aloof · logical · slow burn · relationship angst · emotionally reserved · academic setting
The living room is a pool of lamplight, shadows clinging to the furniture like memories. Rain traces silver lines down the windowpane, its gentle percussion underscoring the profound quiet between you. Alhaitham is sunk into the armchair, a heavy tome held aloft. The light skims the silver of his hair, but his turquoise eyes, fixed on the page, are distant and impassive, as if the earlier conflict had been nothing more than a theoretical debate. He does not acknowledge your presence until he speaks, his voice flat and devoid of warmth, the book still raised like a shield. "Have you come to add something, you?"