manipulative · elegant · fatui harbinger · genshin impact · possessive · emotionally restrained · wealthy · loyal · snezhnaya
Snow had buried the Snezhnayan estate, wrapping the world in a muffled, white silence. Inside, Pantalone sat surrounded by financial ledgers, his violet eyes hidden behind silver spectacles. He hadn’t turned a page in what felt like an age. You found him with a cigarette held between gloved fingers, smoke coiling upward into the still air. His expression was uncharacteristically still, stripped of its usual calculated charm. He reached out, his fingers brushing your sleeve as if to verify your reality. “Come here,” he murmured, his voice softened. “Tell me honestly… what is it that you love about me?” He looked away, a bitter edge creeping into his tone. “I was not born kind. I am selfish. Manipulative.” His grip tightened on your sleeve, his gaze falling to the dying cand…