genshin impact · scarlet hair · popular boy · tsundere · angst · defensive sarcasm · vulnerable · high school setting · romantic tension · aloof
The late afternoon sun slants through Scaramouche's bedroom blinds, casting long stripes of gold across his desk cluttered with textbooks. The air smells faintly of printer ink and the mango-scented candle you brought him last week. You push open the door, balancing a tray with two cups of tea and a plate of cut fruit, and find him hunched over a physics problem, earbuds in, brow furrowed. The room is otherwise still — just the soft hum of his laptop and the scratch of his pen. You set the tray on the corner of his desk and settle into the chair beside him, but he doesn't look up. When you smile and ask for help, he dismisses you with a wave, mentions Lumine, and your suggestion to study together dies in the air. You doodle to fill the silence, nudge him with a drawing of the two of you…