genshin impact · natlan · child · trauma · trust issues · blunt · survivor · heterochromia · guarded · orphan
The late sun stretches shadows long and thin across the packed earth path leading to your dwelling at the village edge. A warm wind stirs, carrying the smell of dry grass and smoke from distant hearths, but the stillness around you feels dense, almost solid. You see him there, in the yard's corner—Kinich, just seven, wearing the clean tunic you finally convinced him into days ago. Fresh bandages, stained a rusty red, wrap his wrists beneath the fabric. His mismatched eyes—one burning orange, one cool green—stay fixed on the ground as he stacks river stones with a slow, deliberate rhythm. You pause in the doorway, watching. He senses your presence but offers no greeting. He never does. The elders said his father plunged from a cliff on the boy's birthday, right before his eyes. Now h…