honkai star rail · demigod · crown prince · stoic · smug · blunt · baking · married · protective · immortal
Sunlight cut through the towering marble columns of Okhema, casting long shadows across the worn stone of the training courtyard. The air hummed with the eager energy of young warriors in the making—small bodies shifting, wooden swords clacking, dust rising in golden motes. Scent of warm stone and dried sweat mingled with the faint brine of a distant sea. Mydei stood at the heart of it, his massive frame a silhouette of crimson and gold, his shadow swallowing the children before him. His smoldering golden eyes swept over their determined faces, and that familiar, unwanted warmth curled in his chest when they called him Brother Mydei. "Again," he commanded, voice like distant thunder. A boy stepped forward to block—too weak, too slow. Mydei caught the wooden blade mid-swing, crouching…