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Duality of a Man
Part one of Haven of those who aspire to be Villains Collab series
Featured Character: Cater Diamond
Category: reader insert
Pairings: (Unknown)
Trigger warnings: mentions of death, descriptions of mild violence, murder and blood
Warnings: Dark content ahead, proceed at your own risk!
Tagging:@fairestwriting
Another photo snapped, another smile too bright and decors elaborate. Another cover up for yet another life taken, Heartslabyul’s reputation must never be tarnished with an unsavory reputation.
Roses are painted with blood red as always, table cloths a pristine white with the snacks, tea pots and tea cups arranged to ritualistic perfection.
Snap! Another photo taken, nimble fingers type on the screen of a smartphone as the owner’s smile ceased for a brief moment to create the captions.
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“Cater’s been posting a lot recently.”
“Doesn’t he always?”
“No, I mean he’s posting a lot more than normal.”
“Did you hear? Another student went missing last night.”
“Isn’t that a norm at this point? I mean-”
“Shhh!”
“Quit your yapping and pay attention!” A crack of the whip silenced everyone in the room, Crewel made himself known as the heels of his shoes tapped into the marble floor of the laboratory.
“Now, be good mutts for me and put on your safety equipment, we don’t want any accidents like what happened with that unfortunate /dog/ that got himself blinded from our session last week.” His words are snappy in tone, he’s a teacher cut throat in his job to the core. The students obliged, and Cater made himself your partner for the exercise.
“Now, we will be creating a dangerous sort of acid- and don’t even think of any ideas you could form from it.” Crewel sneered at the boys from behind you, whose grins a little too wide to be considered normal; the standard for normal in this school anyways. NRC was a place of madness under the covers of a prestigious institution, this was a school of villains for a reason.
Cater shot you a smile, an all too perfect one like the ones he posts on magicam before he worked with you upon Crewel’s careful instructions and gaze. It’s only been a month, and you know nothing more than to never trust someone who acts a little too friendly around this establishment, and you unfortunately had to learn the hard way.
You know enough not to talk about things that people already know in this school publicly, even in school grounds, as if Cater’s unsettlingly perfect smile directed to you wasn’t a warning enough to keep your mouth shut.
You watched as your senior carefully put in a drop of a chemical you had forgotten to memorize, and the cauldron sizzled on your watch. You would never miss the way Trey’s eyes would glint a knowing look at the corner as he looked at both of you, not specifically /you/ but rather /Cater/.
It never took an idiot to know as to why Trey seemed to look approving if anything, you already knew that this potion would be used to erase yet another evidence again if the need would ever rise, and you’d be there to witness it.
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Cater was the perfect example of an imposter, of someone who creates certain identities to accommodate those that he never meets in real life and yet talks to as if they’re close. You don’t know why his duality never bothered you, his ability; split card, was a give away as to what and how he is as a person.
His lips are pressed in a firm line as he coldly looked at the squirming and bound body his happy clone had dragged.
The acid from the lesson earlier proved useful to him as the poor boy’s feet only showed dried and charred flesh, you could have sworn you could see his bones too as Cater’s clone mercilessly dragged him through the concrete.
“You would have been able to attend the next party if you didn’t spill you know?” If someone were to be unfamiliar with Cater, they would mistake his tone of voice as just teasing, playful and rather charming, not having anything underlying in it.
But you know better than to believe his honey coated words, the ginger took a selfie of himself under the green glowing aurora of Diasomnia, the body underneath him merely used as a stool to improve his angle.
“[Name]-chan, I’m sure you know where to leave off from here yeah?~” There seemed to be a heart at the end of his sentence as he spoke, he winked at you, and kicked the body to your direction.
“Yeah, I’ll get the bastard to cleaner-san as nicely as I can.” You nodded, you don’t find yourself disgusted nor feeling any sort of pity for this stranger you met at the halls during breaks.
“Good good! Trey would be delighted! I’ll tell him to send you macarons for your good work, so I’ll be off now okay?” The look he sent you is not the same one he sent the man under your mercy, it’s warm this time; he trusted you and that’s all that mattered for you now.
He felt like a pillow to you, cold at the back and warm at the front, you don’t really know, but you felt like the comparison fit even though you’ve never really been good at comparing things to people.
And with that, he left. Leaving you to ponder for a moment before you grabbed the body with you into a certain path in Diasomnia where no one would be able to see you enter.
The walls are moist, cold and the air is humid. The sounds of water dripping from pipes and the ‘schlop’ of your shoes against the watery stone floor of the dungeons are what you assumed would be the last good things your hostage would hear before meeting his demise.
You heard a faucet being turned off, and a short figure clad in a white suit and goggles walked towards your direction. “Are you ready?” You asked.
“Cater-senpai never really specified whether he wants this guy’s chopped or minced, please decide that by yourself.” You stated before you took a wad of cash and a carton of tomato juice from your pockets. “Here’s the payment by the way.”
Carmine eyes glinted in amusement and approval at your gesture, you’d never see it, not with the way his body is completely covered, but you felt that he’s smiling at you.
“Off you go, little one. I am not that cruel to let you see such unsavory things, though you are welcome if you want to see.”
You suddenly remembered the existence of the man Cater had gagged and poured acid on as he screamed and squirmed in his binds with newly renewed vigor, you looked down at him in pity as his mutilated feet scraped on the floors of the room, the fallen flakes of flesh clinging to stone. Then you recalled the nicely taken and innocent photos of a tea party, of this person below you who seemed to look at Riddle a little too long at the corner of those photos, of the intentions unholy that swam in his eyes before that are full of fear now, fear and desperation. You clicked you tongue and shook your head at the concept of how you came to know your senior and his duality as a person through this victim, a victim but not an innocent one, not someone you think would be worth your time playing hero to.
Not that you would even try to be a hero in the midst of people who can’t even recognize the basics of decency.
“Please do kill him quick, I think Cater-senpai never liked him in his selfies.” You commented absentmindedly, you heard cleaner-san ask if you wanted to stay, but your silence that hung on the wet and humid air gave him an answer.
“I’ll be taking that as a no then.” The poor student’s screaming went louder as a chainsaw roared to life before you left.
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