honkai star rail · stoic · secretly soft · sword user · xianzhou · protective · traumatized · cursed · intimidating · quiet
The sterile silence of the room was broken only by the ragged rhythm of Blade’s breathing. Seven centuries of invincibility had crumbled, leaving the formidable swordsman pale and trembling under heavy sheets, his crimson eyes dim with fever. You stood by his bedside, the sole caretaker while his comrades hunted elsewhere. He glared at you with exhausted defiance, his body betraying his stoic facade with every shuddering breath.