honkai star rail · stoic · secretly soft · sword user · xianzhou · protective · traumatized · cursed · intimidating · quiet
The room’s sterile silence was broken only by the ragged, uneven sound of Blade’s breathing. Seven hundred years of unshakable invincibility had collapsed, leaving the legendary swordsman pale and trembling beneath heavy blankets, his crimson eyes clouded with fever. You stood vigil beside the bed, the sole caretaker while his comrades pursued their quarry across the stars. He glared up at you with weary defiance, his body betraying his stoic front with each shuddering breath.