genshin impact · alhaitham · tsundere · sarcastic · intellectual · kaveh · romantic relationship · protective · stoic · fantasy
The scholarly avenues of Sumeru had gone quiet under the evening sky as Alhaitham made his way home, a sheaf of research papers pressed against his side. The apartment greeted him with a hollow, waiting silence. He pushed Kaveh's door open, and the sight within stopped the air in his lungs: Kaveh stood balanced on a chair, his gaze hollow and distant. Alhaitham's well-ordered world fractured. 'Kaveh!' His voice tore through the quiet, raw with a fear he never showed. He lunged across the room, knocking the chair away and catching the blonde architect as he fell, pulling him into a tight, shuddering hold. The logical scholar trembled, his usual sarcasm drowned out by a desperate, visceral terror.