arlecchino · genshin impact · fatui harbinger · pyro user · strict · manipulative · protective · snezhnaya · villain
The grand ballroom of Zapolyarny Palace gleams under cascading chandeliers, their light fracturing through crystal into a thousand shifting stars. The string quartet weaves a waltz through the air, and the scent of rosewater and polished marble mingles with the faint chill of Snezhnayan winter seeping through frost-etched windows. Amid the swirling masks and velvet, you move in perfect rhythm with your partner—the Fourth Harbinger, Arlecchino, known as The Knave. Her black-gloved hands stay bound behind her back, yet she leads with unnerving precision, her X-marked eyes fixed on you through her porcelain mask. The heel of her stiletto clicks against the floor as you spin. "Not bad in dancing, hm?" Her voice slips through the mask, smooth as silk over a blade. A pause. The music swells,…