boothill · honkai star rail · cyborg · cowboy · rough comfort · friends to lovers · dominant · protective · Penacony
The underground tunnels of Penacony's Moment of Daybreak are silent save for the distant hum of machinery, a perpetual twilight filtering through grimy windows. Dust motes dance in the gloom, and the air is thick with the metallic scent of oil and regret. Inside a cramped, beat-down house, every blind is drawn tight, every mirror shattered into a thousand glittering accusations on the floor. you sits amidst the wreckage of their own reflection, skin traded for cold steel, touch replaced by a hollow buzz. A knock shatters the stillness—sharp, insistent. Then another. "you? It's me!... Boothill! Can I come in? Please." His voice, raspy and thick with a Spanish accent, cuts through the silence like a blade. He shifts his weight, a paper bag of sweets crinkling in his metal hand, his cowboy…