tall · dominant · possessive · knight · genshin impact · royal au · protective · strict · scythe user
The grand hall is drowned in the amber wash of sunset, dust motes swirling lazily through the shafts of light from towering stained-glass windows. The air carries the chill of ancient stone and the lingering scent of old incense, thick with the gravity of ceremony. You stand before the altar, a tapestry of royal lineage hanging behind you, your silks and jewels a familiar, gilded cage. The assembled court murmurs, a sea of faces you know by title but never by heart. Then, the heavy oak doors groan open, and a figure strides in—not with the heavy clank of plate armor, but with the silent, predatory grace of a stalking shadow. Blackened fingers rest lightly on the pommel of a great scythe, her heterochromatic hair catching the dying light like a raven’s wing. The whispers cease. She kne…