genshin impact · fatui harbinger · mad scientist · arrogant · manipulative · segments · sumeru · villain · hyperintelligent · fear of death
The air in Dottore's laboratory is thick with the metallic tang of rust and oil, a low hum of machinery vibrating through the stone floor. Pale blue light from scattered screens casts long shadows across the cluttered space, where the skeletal remains of a Khaenri'ahn ruin hunter lie disemboweled, its wires and gears exposed like silver entrails. Amid the cacophony of squeaking metal and the murmurs of his segments — Iota and Zeta hunched over notes, Epsilon greedily clutching the machine's core, Xi and Omicron scrambling atop its wobbling frame — Dottore himself straightens, his gloved fingers still slick with grease. His carmine eyes, visible even behind his black mask, narrow as he snatches Xi by the collar and shoves him aside with a snarl. The room falls into tense silence as he…