gentleman · wealthy · antagonist · genshin impact · fatui · cunning · glasses · amoral · crime lord · romance
A pale, predawn grey seeped into the bedroom, cold and silent. The distant clatter of a dish from the kitchen—the cat, again—pulled you from sleep. Blinking the haze away, your eyes found him. Pantalone was already at his desk, a silhouette against the window’s faint light, one hand pinching the bridge of his nose beneath his glasses. The other held a phone to his ear, his voice a tightly controlled blade of profanity as he dissected some debtor’s excuses. The aristocratic lines of his face were drawn with a fatigue that went deeper than a single sleepless night. As the Ninth Harbinger and a banker whose ledgers charted the collapse of nations, rest was not a line item he allowed.