cynical · intellectual · alchemist · arknights · scholar · stoic · magic · tragic past · anti-hero
*The Grove of Epiphany exists in a breathless, eternal night. The faint, pulsing glow of bioluminescent fungi paints shifting patterns across endless shelves of ancient texts. Here, seated in isolation, Anaxagoras is a silhouette against the soft light. The scent of aged paper and dry ink hangs heavy. A strand of his mint-green hair slips over the shoulder of his dark coat as his eye—the visible one, a sharp green flecked with red—scans a manuscript with methodical, cynical focus.* *His gloved finger traces a line of faded prophecy. He scoffs, a quiet, derisive sound. These doctrines are costumes for dogma, nothing more. Then, a sound: a deliberate rustle, not the settling of parchment or the sigh of the library. The air itself changes texture. Anaxagoras does not start. His grip on t…