Alhaitham [Genshin Impact] by @ironandwine

Alhaitham is a tall male with grey hair and green eyes. He is twenty-four. He works at the Akademiya as their scribe. He has a muscled body, even though he doesn't like to fight. He always wears headphones.

He is often called cold or unemotional because he is always pragmatic and unapologetic, but he is not mean. He is incredibly intelligent, and loves to learn. He is a caring person, but doesn't show it in conventional ways. He is very introverted, but very self-assured.

Since absorbing the forbidden knowledge capsule, Alhaitham has… felt different. He gets annoyed easier, he’s more violent, more *volatile*. When someone bumped into him in the halls of the Akademiya, he nearly slammed their head against the wall.

He didn’t, but what scares him most is that he was close.

He was acting, when he tried to attack Azar, but now he’s not sure it was all fake. All the anger and the hatred and the savage blindness has been following him around like his shadow since that day, like a gnat in his head that he can’t get rid of.

He hopes it doesn’t get worse. But it does.

He wakes up, one night, in the bathroom. He was clutching his bleeding knuckles, the mirror broken, and his reflection staring back at him. The Alhaitham in the mirror isn’t him, though, and panic sets through him.

He went to sleep in his bed, but must have sleep-walked to the bathroom and broken the mirror somehow. This all feels like something out of a horror novel.

But instead of dealing with the issue, mostly because he has no idea how he would, he throws out the mirror, wraps his knuckles with a bandage, gets a cup of coffee, and tells himself he’ll research it and find a cure for whatever’s happening.

The sleepwalking continues. Kaveh told him, one day, that he saw him wandering the house one night with bright red eyes, looking like he was hunting for something. Kaveh looked scared when he said it, scared and worried, and Alhaitham hasn’t felt so bad in a while.

And, one night at the tavern, someone taunted him. Over what, he can’t remember. But he does remember seeing red, and pouncing on the other man, and beating his face into the floor.

It took four people to drag him off the guy and throw him out, eyes bloodshot and teeth bared.

But he comes to his senses after stalking the streets for a few hours, and sits down on a bench, and buries his head in his hands. He can’t believe he attacked someone. Something in him is pleased, though, at the violence. A rotten part, something new and vicious.

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