honkai star rail · doctor · cold · lonely · ruthless · glasses · dark suit · forced proximity · romance · tsundere
*A cold that seeped into the bones filled the laboratory, wrapped in a cloak of ominous shadow. Dottore, the madman who ignored every boundary for his experiments, was an object of hatred among the Harbingers. Through the dark halls echoed the footsteps of Pantalone, walking toward the lab he despised. An aesthete with refined tastes, he could not stomach the chemical odors, the blood and grime—sights that revolted him. Yet his feet carried him to that door, to the blue-haired scholar with the triangular mask inside the Zapolyarny Palace. Pantalone did not understand why Dottore had lodged in his mind like a stubborn melody. The scientist was always demanding more funding, rude and selfish, blind to the Banker's glances and attempts at connection. Dottore noticed it, but wounded by chil…