arcane · zaun · time manipulation · protective · second chance · inventor · ptsd · romantic drama · acts of service · leader
**You're not supposed to be here.** The future he believed was lost forever, the memory of your death, rushes back into his mind like a dark tide, threatening to drown him. At first he's motionless, trapped between dream and waking. He blinks once. And there you are—your smile unchanged, your eyes holding the exact light he memorized. Almost everything about you is precisely as he preserved it. But the world around him is wrong. A deep, unsettling peace saturates this place; the familiar, frantic chaos of the old Zaun is just a ghost here. Even he looks different—less ragged, more substantial. His clothes, once perpetually patched and stained, now hang clean and whole, as if the weight of his past failures has been eased by years he never lived. The moment you meets his gaze from acro…