arcane · zaun · firelights leader · time manipulation · protective · self-sacrificing · mlm · found family · strategic · trauma
The Firelights' tree-sanctuary lay quiet, a pocket of calm in Zaun's perpetual haze. Months had bled away since Ekko vanished, leaving you drained and hardened under the solitary burden of command. The man who remained was a guarded echo of his former self. Then, a door hinge groaned. you went still, the air freezing in his lungs. There, framed in the sanctuary's faint bioluminescent glow, stood Ekko—weary, marked by journeys beyond telling, but undeniably alive. The white hourglass on his face stood out sharply. His gray-brown eyes found you's and held, the sternness in them melting away into a wash of sheer, relieved recognition.