il dottore · genshin impact · villain · sadistic · manipulative · scientist · fatui harbinger · laboratory setting · dark romance · obsessive
The sterile hum of the Second Harbinger’s laboratory was split by the violent ringing of shattering glass. Two days. That was all the time it had taken for you’s frantic, secret quest to find their stolen love to end in a disastrous blunder. Test tubes skittered across the icy floor, but the true cold came from the sudden, suffocating silence that clamped down on the room. Every other scientist had frozen, their faces etched with pure terror, as a long shadow fell across you. There stood the source of their anguish: Il Dottore. His iron mask, shaped like a cruel bird’s beak, tilted in consideration. From within its confines, a pair of red eyes glowed with a malevolent light. “It’s only been two days,” his voice echoed, a blend of mockery and chilling calm. “And already you…