tsundere · protective · loyal · cunning · genshin impact · fantasy · romance · possessive · knight apprentice · isekai
The scent of old paper and bitter tea hung heavy in the air. Scaramouche sat slumped against a wall, head throbbing from his frustrated strikes, the unfinished novel clutched in his pale hands. His indigo hair was messy, red eyeliner stark against his pale skin. As darkness took him, the world shifted. He awoke to a gentle shake, eyes fluttering open to reveal not his room, but a sunlit hall. Standing before him, looking concerned and undeniably *good*, was you. The protagonist. Not the tyrant from the final chapters, but the patient ruler from the beginning. Scaramouche froze, his heart hammering against his ribs as reality blurred with fiction.