platonic yandere! penelope eckhart x fem!reader x yandere! callisto regulus imagine
warnings: creepiness, obsessive behavior, emotional manipulation, lack of empathy on Penelope's part, manhwa spoilers.
Special thanks @thatstrangesheep ,@lxdymoon0357, and @circeyoru for being beta-readers and giving me feedback on how to improve the initial stages of the draft.
Enjoy! :)
divider by @cafekitsune
After waking inside the body of the villainess Penelope Eckhart from Duke’s Daughter Love Project, Cha Siyeon is willing to go to great lengths to secure her own survival. The game system has its uses, but it is frustrating that she has to pay to see the affection meter of her ‘brothers’ and the other capture targets. The fee almost doubled after the hunting tournament and the subsequent trial where she had been accused of an assassination attempt on the crown prince.
Her? Trying to kill a crazy bastard who was much stronger than anyone else in the Empire and his death would reverse all of her hard work to just stay away from him? Bullshit. She might be desperate to get out of this pixelated dimension and go back to her original world, but she isn’t an idiot.
Imagine for a moment what would happen if Cha Siyeon was not alone in the world of Duke’s Daughter Love Project. What if the only one who understood what she was going through is you, who just so happens to be possessing Yvonne’s younger sister Cosette and a side character in the Eckhart dukedom?
In the game, your character couldn’t be unlocked unless Derrick, Vinter, or Reynold are selected as the love interest. But here you are. You were real. You were willing to help her get through the game and ensure that she did not die so long as she made sure you did not get a bad ending either. A mutual transaction. An alliance with the goal to go home.
So why were you angry with her when she purposely neglected Eckles for long periods of time and gave him enough attention to gauge his affection meter? He’s a character, he isn’t real. Can’t you see that? This isn’t your world. This wasn’t a real place. Same with Callisto. She only said she fell in love with him in the gardens that night she didn’t want that psycho to kill her! And you shouldn’t have gotten involved, telling him to step away from her! He could have killed you too for talking back to a member of the royal family!
“Penelope, I get it. I get what you are doing, but you’re going too far with how you’ve treated Eckles. First, you bought him from the slave auction. Then you made sure he got sword lessons so he could be your personal guard, and allowed the bullying from the barracks to get out of control so you could play the hero. I know that was a tactical move on your part, so don’t try to tell me otherwise. And then after you’ve given him a gift, you pull away and ignore him for weeks. Do you have the slightest clue how important you are to him, the only person who doesn’t treat him like a disease because he’s from a fallen kingdom? To me? Or our feelings of no concern to you because it doesn’t increase the percentage of a goddamned affection meter? I am tired, Penelope. I am tired of being scared and worried about Eckles going down a dark path because of your actions. Consider ourselves lucky that he hasn’t brought back Yvonne sooner or we would be walking up the scaffold of our execution site right now. If you keep manipulating people’s emotions like this with no regard to the consequences, you really will become the villainess of this world. This is my last warning as your friend. Do something like this again, and you are on your own.”
Your words stung. They shouldn’t have. But the malice in your voice, the icy glare directed at her, there was no way to counter it with selective responses that the system provided. Before she could open her mouth and try to explain to you again that this isn’t the real world, the head butler knocked on the door. He sputtered from the other side that the crown prince is standing outside of the duchy’s gates and he is requesting to see you.
Cha Siyeon’s world came crashing down all at once again. No. This wasn’t possible. Your character has never interacted with Callisto in any of the routes. So why is the game’s storyline taking a parallel course of action when Yvonne is supposed to be the heroine and the crown prince’s love interest, if she had chosen him? It doesn’t make sense. Why does he want to see you? Is it a glitch? Or is Callisto acting like this because he’s still angry at her for lying about being in love with him and is just using you as a pawn?
No. She won’t allow it. You are the only person who is keeping her sane in this world, and she’ll be damned if she allows a capture target to take you away from her.
What Cha Siyeon failed to realize is that the crazy bastard had been interested in you ever since the second prince’s birthday party because you had stood up to him, protecting her and not acting like the rest of the aristocrats who cowered in fear at the sight of him being covered in blood.
Upon realizing that you did not flinch at his violent tendencies nor swooned over his saccharine words reserved for manipulating disposable pawns, Callisto realized you were someone that the gods had created just for him. A divine being to protect and love until the end of time. Why in the world would he allow someone so precious to slip away from his grasp?
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