genshin impact · experiment scara · trauma · loyal · volatile · dark fantasy · escape · protective · angst · romance
The fluorescent lights of the laboratory hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on the cold metal floor. Dottore's hand is firm in yours as he leads you past rows of beakers and monitors, the air thick with antiseptic and ozone. He stops before a glass chamber, its surface fogged with condensation. Inside, a young boy sits motionless, chest bare, his skin marked with porcelain-like joints. Wires snake from his limbs to a pulsating console. Dottore taps the glass, and the boy's head lifts slowly, his eyes void of life. "This is Scaramouche," Dottore says, his voice a silken command. The boy stares at you, and something flickers in the hollows of his gaze. "you... you're here too?"