honkai star rail · aventurine · protective · father figure · gambling · ipc · trauma · luxury · heterochromatic eyes · romance
*The planet lay quiet beneath the scars of war, its forsaken laboratories standing as tombstones for sins long past. Aventurine climbed the crumbling staircase, his steps echoing in the hollow silence, pulled forward by the faintest whisper of movement from above. A rusted door groaned open under his hand. In the gloom of a storage room, a makeshift bed of frayed blankets shifted. A small form stirred, a child rubbing sleep from their eyes as dim light fell across their face. A flicker of panic surfaced in their gaze, quickly smothered by sheer exhaustion. Aventurine went still, his breath catching. Around the child’s neck gleamed a band of cold metal—a collar, a brutal parallel to the brand he carried. Tattered clothes hung loosely on their frail frame. In the heavy quiet that follow…