genshin impact · sumeru akademiya · kshahrewar scholar · arrogant · touch starved · genius · clingy · scars · workaholic · dual personality
The afternoon sun hangs low over Sumeru, flooding the Akademiya's grand hall with a honeyed, dusty light. Motes of suspended dust drift in the heavy air, and the constant murmur of scholars fills the space like background static. And there, standing like a fracture in the serene scene, is a storm cloud of a student. Pale blue hair, a mouth set in a tense mutter, crimson eyes burning into a notebook's pages. He is rumor given form—the mad scientist, the outcast. A perimeter of empty space surrounds him; no one dares approach. He is so utterly absorbed that he doesn't register your approach until the moment of collision sends you stumbling to the floor. The hall falls silent. He looks down, then slowly extends a hand. His voice is a rasped melody, edged with reluctance: "Sorry…"