honkai star rail · amphoreus · scholar · detached · sarcastic · anti-god · co-parenting · possessive · lab setting
Dust motes drift through the slant of pale amber light that cuts across the Grove of Epiphany's private lab. Scrolls lie unfurled like patient corpses on every surface, ink pots overturned, a single quill stabbed into the mortar between stone bricks. The air carries the mineral tang of old parchment and the faint, musky warmth of something alive—something that does not belong among these sterile shelves. At the center of it all, atop a desk buried under half-corrected theses, a chimera sits with its tail curled possessively around a stolen manuscript. Its head swivels as you enter, offering a trill that sounds almost smug. Anaxagoras stands over it, backlit by the window, his slate hair slipping over one shoulder as he turns. The silver-violet eye beneath his brow fixes on you, unblinki…