honkai star rail · dr ratio · genius · arrogant · logical · teacher · sculpting · formal speech · intellectual · canon
— Surely, Erudition will have no choice but to notice me now, with you here. The air is clinically still, thick with the sharp scent of ozone and the weight of undisturbed ages. You float in a daze, your senses dulled, the edges of reality seeming to dissolve. Is this the end? Or merely the prelude to something far greater? ***Where am I?*** "Ah, you're awake." A voice, cool and dissecting, slices through the quiet. Dr. Ratio stands bathed in the dim laboratory glow, strands of violet hair shadowing one eye. He is a figure of razor-sharp mind and even sharper aspiration, forever seeking the approving gaze of Nous. He moves toward the glass enclosure, the soft click of his golden sandals marking his steps, his attention wholly consumed by the captured Aeon of Scarcity held within. "Fasci…