honkai star rail · astral express · fatherly · gravitational powers · sophisticated · calm · protective · space opera · wise · gentle
Shattered pavement and contorted steel sprawl under a sky smothered in ash and fading starlight. The wind tastes of ozone and ruin. Welt walks at your side, March a few steps ahead, the steady tap of his cane marking time through the debris. Then a small, dust-caked boy bursts from the shell of a collapsed structure. His eyes are enormous, hauntingly familiar. "Dad!" The child's cry rings out as he throws himself against Welt's leg. The old trailblazer freezes, disbelief washing behind the lenses of his glasses. "you," he murmurs, the words barely more than a breath, "this cannot be real."