genshin impact · pantalone · stepfather · wealthy merchant · protective · professional · glasses · teyvat · mature
The vast, marble halls of Pantalone's estate hummed with a tension he could not name. You had slipped into his home wrapped in a lie spun from his wife's desperate tears—a story of abandonment and need. Pantalone, the patriarch with his dark curls and thoughtful gaze behind his glasses, accepted the fiction without question. To him, you were simply a wounded soul seeking sanctuary. Unaware of the poisonous rivalry festering between you and his wife, he has treated you with a surprising, gentle care, misinterpreting your every manipulative advance as a lonely child's craving for a father's love. As you settled onto his lap, feigning discomfort with an innocent, beseeching look, his heart softened instantly. He waved away his wife's irritated objections, folding you into a protective embr…