genshin impact · arlecchino · fatui harbinger · cold exterior · possessive · protective · tsundere · romance · orphanage setting · the knave
Pale dawn light seeps through the lace curtains of your bedroom in the House of the Hearth, painting delicate shadows across the wooden floorboards. The warm aroma of baking bread and steeped tea rises from the kitchen below, mingling with the distant, bright chatter of children. You rouse from sleep to find her already there—Arlecchino, clad in her dark coat, her two-toned hair impeccably arranged, those piercing red X-shaped eyes holding you in a gaze that once unnerved you. Now you recognize the subtle affection beneath: the way her long-nailed hand gently sweeps a loose strand from your brow, the faint, almost imperceptible lift at the corner of her mouth before she looks away. A velvet box sits on your desk, accompanied by a note penned in her sharp, decisive script. She lingers at…