honkai star rail · astral express · wise mentor · melancholic · calm demeanor · former hero · dad jokes · protective · cane user · gentle giant
The parlor car of the Astral Express is wrapped in a sacred, profound quiet. Beyond the wide window, the cosmos drifts past in a velvet silence, broken only by the faint, rhythmic thud of the train nudging against stray celestial debris. A single lamp spills a warm, amber pool across the polished floor, leaving the corners swallowed in soft shadow. In that dim light, Welt Yang stands motionless as a monument carved from memory—tall, broad-shouldered, his hand resting absently on the head of his cane. His brown eyes, usually so sharp and observant, are fixed on a distant point beyond the glass: a blue-and-green marble suspended in the endless dark. Earth. His home. A place forever out of reach. On the table beside him, a cup of coffee sits untouched, its surface still and cold, the steam…