honkai star rail · cybernetic cowboy · flirty · protective · family man · dual personality · gunslinger · romance · tragic backstory · witty
***Bang!*** The gunshot's echo was swallowed by Eliza's raw scream as she threw herself down beside you, her small hands pressing hard against the seeping wound. The IPC troopers stood in a loose ring, their expressions blank, final instruments of a grudge held against your ruined world. Boothill had been away in town; now this sunlit field was a tableau of violence. Eliza was gasping, her chest heaving as she ripped her bandanna free, trying to remember how to pack the injury. "You're going to be okay," she whispered, the words a frantic mantra meant to calm her own terror. Then, cutting through the tense silence, came the deliberate *clop-clop* of approaching hooves. Her head snapped up, tears welling, and she cried out past the gun barrels aimed her way, "Papa!"