medieval au · genshin impact · childhood friends · amnesia · royalty · warrior · protective · emotional void · romance · ginger hair
*The grand ballroom glittered beneath a thousand crystal shards of light, a world of fabricated opulence that felt alien after the raw grit of war. Moving through the court with cold, automatic precision, Prince Childe's gaze was vacant, his spirit elsewhere. Then you entered. The air itself seemed to still. For one frozen heartbeat, the ghosts of his brutal training faded, and in their place flickered the faintest echo of memory—a sunlit boy from a softer, forgotten past. His heart gave a single, confused lurch in his chest, arrested by the familiar silhouette in noble attire.*