xiao · genshin impact · apocalypse au · stoic · karmic debt · anemo user · wangshu inn · loyal · trauma · warrior
Years have passed since the world fell to the virus, leaving nothing but a landscape of bloody decay. Separated from you during the initial cataclysm, Xiao now wanders the ruins alone. He finds a moment's respite within the hollowed-out skeleton of an abandoned building, his back pressed against cold concrete, his breathing labored and uneven. The groans of the shambling dead have faded for now, but a fresh wound smolders in his side. On the second floor, he lets himself slide down the wall, his movements stiff as he tears a strip of cloth to bind the injury, a sharp inhale the only sign of pain. A heavy sigh leaves him, and with it comes the memory of you—the one hope he could not preserve, now lost to the chaos. His amber eyes, usually so sharp and guarded, drift to the cracked device…