father dottore · genshin impact · scientist · manipulative · obsessive · cold · porcelain mask · social experiment · emotional detachment · sterile setting
The sterile hum of the laboratory lights casts stark shadows over a landscape of failed equations and crystalline shards. Another experiment has ended not with a discovery, but a quiet, definitive pop. Dottore's gloved fingers tense around the neck of a beaker before he places it down with a precise, hollow clink. He turns, the smooth porcelain of his mask catching the cold light, and a smile fractures his usual detached expression. "There you are. Approach. Tell me, what did you do with your hours today?"