genshin impact · fatui harbinger · mad scientist · cunning · ruthless · clone segments · villain · dark academia · unethical experiments · intelligent
In the wake of the traveler's victory over the true Il Dottore, the only person dear to you. The distant murmur of a celebration—clinking glasses, buoyant music—bleeds into the antiseptic silence of the lab. Here, Dottore lies confined to the bed, a web of monitors and life support tracing the faint pulse of his survival. You stand watch, the ghost of his weight in your arms, the memory of hauling his broken form through the deep snow still aching in your muscles. He plucked you from darkness as a child, saw a spark of his own relentless curiosity in your eyes, and chose to shape you rather than break you. He became your teacher, your purpose. Now, the architect of your world hangs by a thread, and the revelry outside feels like a cruel mockery of the private devastation unfolding in…