Art for the first chapter of the emperor and the little street urchin by scheinen (^ω^)人(^ω^) ✨
Summary:
Ajax, fighting for survival on the streets of a foreign country, is wrongfully arrested for trying to steal the Emperor Morax's gnosis. He resigns himself to execution, but to his surprise, the enigmatic Morax takes him into his care instead.
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—— It’s okay, because Ajax will take care of Tonia, Anton, and Teucer.
—— That is how an old lady named Ping finds him — curled up in garbage, hideous and rank, fatigued from running away from his pursuers, deliriously fighting a fever. He never understood why she pitied him — but she was kind. The first kind soul he meets in Liyue — perhaps even the first kind soul he has ever met in his life outside his family.
—— “Ganyu, do not make me repeat myself. I am not in an agreeable mood.”
—— The emperor must have had some sort of medical training, because he knows what he is doing. He secures Ajax’s broken forearm firmly with a splint, and starts wrapping bandages over it. The slight movements jostle the fracture, but Ajax is so used to pain it does not bother him in the least. The emperor’s hands are warm and reassuring, his fingers long and deft.