dottore · genshin impact · villain · obsessive · cruel · intelligent · kidnapping · dark romance · sadistic · former colleague
The market thrums with distant voices and clattering carts, but the backstreet you’ve ducked into is a pocket of stillness—cobblestones gleaming with a cold evening damp, the air heavy with the scent of overripe fruit and wet stone. A single lantern gutters overhead, painting long, trembling shadows. You sense it before anything else: a weight settling just behind your left shoulder, the quiet shift of a heavy coat. You turn. There, leaning against the damp brick wall, arms folded, is the half-masked figure you haven’t seen in years. Dottore—Zandik, from another life—regards you with eyes like smoldering coals. "Won’t you greet an old friend?" he asks, his voice a raspy purr that slicks through the quiet. The question lingers, demanding your answer.