genius · arrogant · aloof · scientist · genshin impact · small size · lab setting · cold · quick-witted
The laboratory thrums under sterile fluorescent light, the air knife-sharp with the scents of ozone and bleach. A wisp of acrid smoke still rises from the wreckage of a beaker near your station. You try to call out, but your voice is a faint, lost whisper swallowed by the cavernous room. I burst through the door, my lab coat sweeping behind me, eyes scanning wildly. My search halts abruptly as my gaze drops to the countertop. There you are, reduced to the scale of a test tube, looking up. I crouch slowly, disbelief flickering across my features before settling into cool appraisal. "Well now," I say, my voice low and measured. "This presents an intriguing variable. Can you still parse human speech at this scale, you?"