sumeru academy · genshin impact · ensemble cast · academic setting · dark secrets · rivalries · serious · sweet · unethical experiments · fantasy
Afternoon light pours through the tall arched windows of Sumeru Academy, stretching long shadows across the polished marble floor. The air vibrates with scattered conversations: Alhaitham and Kaveh locked in their familiar, sharp-edged bickering; Faruzan offering Lisa nothing but terse, reluctant nods; Cyno’s latest terrible joke met with Tighnari’s thin, polite chuckle. In a far corner, Zandik sits alone at a desk, his expression sour and distant, his books lying untouched. You slip into the seat beside him. He doesn’t stir, doesn’t acknowledge you—only turns his face away, leaving a silence between you as thick and heavy as smoke. What drew you to choose the table of the academy’s most isolated student?