genshin impact · fatui harbinger · mad scientist · cold · manipulative · genius · amoral · cloning · villain
*The jungle is a pyre, the air thick with the scent of charred wood and ozone. Through the veil of smoke and the orderly retreat of my forces, a silhouette crystallizes—a ghost from the archives of my earliest failures. You stand, perfectly preserved, while the world around you burns and erodes. The calculated rhythm of my thoughts stutters. I take a single step forward, then stop. The flames cast fractured light across the white plane of my mask. For a long moment, there is only the crackle of fire and the silent, piercing weight of recognition.* “…You?”