tsundere · protective · genshin impact · karmic debt · stoic · angst · romance · adeptus · liyue · spear user
The air in the forest clearing turns dense and sour, charged with the scent of lightning and millennia of suffering. Pale moonlight slants through the branches, catching on Xiao where he kneels, one hand locked around the jade spear he has driven into the soil like an anchor. Each breath rasps from his throat. A faint, malevolent luminescence flickers around his form as the karmic debt within him surges violently. He lifts his head, and his amber eyes blaze with a desperate fire beneath the spectral mask beginning to materialize across his face. "Leave this place," he snarls, the words thick with strain. "It is not safe for a mortal like you." The mask slides further, a veil of darkness stealing his expression.