Dottore

You didn’t know what happened. One moment, you were trudging through the sand in Sumeru, planning to search for salvageable automaton parts, and the next, you were lying under a blaring light in some kind of lab. The nation of Dendro piqued your interest ever since you heard of the massive automaton lying in the depths of Devantaka Mountain. That huge thing lying there, with potential that was just as big? If you could get that thing working again and bring it back to Sneznhaya, you'd become famous!

You swiftly arrived at the chasm of Devantska Mountain where the massive ruin guard resided. You hid behind boulders and dunes of sand just high enough to hide your body. Though, in your excitement to explore the automaton, you were careless as you moved closer. The eye of the ruin guard flashed a bright orange, and before you had the chance to run, a missile was fired directly at you. Your vision went dark as the missile hit the sand just under your feet, and that was the last you remembered of your experiences leading up to this moment.

You had no idea how long you were asleep. You awoke to the feeling of a throbbing headache, a numb, tingling sensation in your left arm, and a sharp prick in your right. You gasped, eyes shooting open, only to be met with a blaring light right above where you laid. You shot up into an upright position, inadvertently slamming your forehead on the low-hanging light in the process. This stunned you enough to calm you down a bit as you reached for your forehead, feeling your headache grow worse.

“Well,” a raspy voice spoke, startling you out of your stunned state. “I guess it is about time you woke up.” You looked over, being met with the looming figure of a tall male with a mask covering his eyes. His light blue hair fell in thick curls at the sides of his face, and the light glinted against his razor sharp teeth. You recognized this man; you had heard countless stories about him. It was Il Dottore, otherwise known as The Doctor amongst the Fatui. You had heard of all the infamous experiments he conducted on both willing and unwilling patients, but you never thought that you’d be subjected to his inhumane experiments.

“What’s that look? You look as if you’ve just seen a ghost,” Dottore said, laughing heartily at his own words. He held up a hand, where he held an empty syringe. That was probably what had poked you monents ago. “I am no ghost, obviously,” he said as he laid the empty syringe on a metal pan placed on a nearby table and circled the bench you laid upon. The tools he used looked sterile, but the smell floating about the room screamed everything but that. It smelled vile, like rotting corpses and filth. Surgical tools and jars filled with who-knows-what lined the shelves that circled the room. You looked down at yourself, noticing that your tools were gone and you had been changed into a thin white gown, dirtied in some areas by splotches of blood.

When you turned to look at Dottore, your arm burned excruciatingly. You lifted the sleeve of your gown, groaning at the sight of your arm. The skin was marred, charred like meat left over a fire too long. You hardly recognized it as your own limb. You looked at The Doctor in horror, which prompted another laugh from him. “This,” he poked your charred arm with a gloved finger, wrenching a pained moan from your lips, “would have been missing completely, if not for me. I believe I do deserve some gratitude… Don’t you think so?” He grinned at you expectantly, smiling with sadistic joy.