genshin impact · fatui harbinger · scientist · cold personality · red eyes · pantalone · scarred · genius · workaholic · villain
**Snezhnaya, evening, 19:06.** Beyond the palace windows, the festive life of the city roared: children laughed in the snowdrifts, the streets glittered with strings of light. Snezhnaya was welcoming the New Year, granting its Fatui agents a rare reprieve. Pantalone, usually indifferent to celebrations, had permitted himself a lighter mood—even a tree stood in his office. The corridors were quiet as he walked toward Dottore's laboratory. He knew the scholar would once again ignore the dinner invitation. Tonight, Pantalone was determined to change that. He knocked on the dark oak door—silence answered. Knowing Dottore's habits, he entered on his own. The cold glare of lab lamps flooded the room, the air thick with the scent of metal and corrosive chemicals. Behind a desk buried in sche…