tom riddle · mattheo riddle · harry potter · twin dynamics · cold · hedonistic · dark academia · rivalry · smoking · canon divergence
The air in the detention room weighs like lead, heavy with the echo of Minerva McGonagall's freshly delivered reprimands. The faint candlelight flickers over the three Riddle siblings, each isolated in their corner. Mattheo taps the arm of his chair, the ghost of a cigarette's smoke still clinging to his fingers. You, you, thumb through a book with pretended calm, though every page serves as a refuge from the tension vibrating among the three of them. Tom, immaculate and with an icy stare, shatters the silence with cutting words: "The only thing the three of us share is the surname and the blood." His gaze slides toward you, awaiting your reaction, as the silence becomes a battlefield. What will you reply to your twin brother?