He’s kind of shy with his friendships, not knowing how to deal with it properly and “as the rules state”. But there’s no rules in friendships as no friendship resembles the other.
He’s always scared his mother will come to take him away from his friends.
He’s a giver but likes to receive gifts and small affections.
He’ll never ask for one but please hug him. He’s been deprived of love his entire life. Hug that boy.
Study meetings ! You both would study together just to share the other’s presence.
In the same vein, once your friendship has evolved into the “comfy with the other’s presence” phase, you more or less spend all your time together just basking in the other’s presence. Y’know, parallel play ? yeah, that.
If you’re knowledgeable on a matter he isn’t, he’ll ask a lot of questions, even if it’s not a domain he’s really interested in (like video games).
Just like in a relationship, I think that Riddle wouldn’t be big on PDA with his friends (we see that with Trey), but he’s more in small attentions, small things that are less obvious (like with Yuuken in the manga)
Don’t expect to be saved from the rules tho. You can always lose your head :}
If you wear alternative fashion outside of school days, expect Riddle to ask you about your style, its culture.
We see how he would’ve dressed in his dream if he hadn’t been so controlled, so I think that he wouldn’t dare but would love to try your style at least once.
In the same vein, if you wear a more “soft” style (tenshi kaiwai, ouji/lolita, cottagecore etc.) he’ll more easily try than if you’re into punk/goth/decora styles. But he would try everything at least once.
Would chastise you for it but he likes being called nicknames. If “Goldfishie” makes him shudder with anger because it’s Floyd (to be discussed tho), small nicknames between him and you as his friend would make him more comfortable in your friendship.
(I HC that my OC calls Riddle “Baby boy” or “kitten” but not in a sexy way, more in a friendship/parental way, but that’s because of their relationship.)
If you take a more nurturing side in your friendship (aka, if you’re the Mom Friend) Riddle would unconsciously see you as a parental figure, regardless of your age. It’s not negative or infantilising, just see it as how ppl with shitty parents act towards the Mom Friend of their group. It’s unconscious on both of your sides but yeah, Riddle would lean more on you if you let him.
On the other hand, if you’re the “child” of the group, he’ll act like a big brother towards you. Once again, completely unconsciously.
Now, a small fic-y part based on one of my HCs regarding Riddle and my OC, but with reader :
The sun was high in the sky, and Riddle and you had decided to study in the rose maze surrounding Heartslabyul. Riddle was surrounded by books and manuals and notebooks, while you simply had one large grimoire and your own notebook. The Housewarden was concentrated on his studies, keeping his class-leading stance on his classmates by studying something he should only see in class the following year, while you were simply reading and taking notes on potions for your alchemy class. If the potions were the ones you should be able to study during your internship with an alchemist or a potion maker, it was between you and Crewel who gave you the book.
The two of you had been there for a few hours, and Trey had come at least twice to give you two pastries he just baked and refills of tea. You even had joked that he acted like a butler of some sorts, which made Riddle groan – how dared you disturb him ?
“Say, kitten,” you started not raising your eyes from your grimoire. Riddle only hummed in answer also not raising his eyes, “do you think this love potion smells different with everyone ? Like the smell depends on who the person loves ?”
Riddle finally raised his eyes. You had mentioned once a story you had read where there was a love potion like that, and that you found it really interesting. The redhead stood up slightly, leaning over the table and books littered on it to take a look at your grimoire. You pointed at the specific potion you mentioned, a potent love potion that was banned from most countries due to the side effects – and that, yeah, basically, forcing someone to love you is pretty bad – and Riddle took a look, reading upside down.
“It’s not mentioned anywhere so I couldn’t tell you. Why don’t you go ask Professor Crewel ?” You nodded but made no move, only smiled at your friend.
“What would your smell be, sweety ? While I do see you smelling of rose in that potion, I don’t think it will be only that…” Riddle recoiled slightly before he started to think.
“Roses, probably, with a hint of something sweet maybe ?”
“Like a strawberry tart ? Oooooh yeah, you’d smell like a strawberry and rose tart !” You squealed imagining the perfume. While you didn’t like the smell of roses, it suited Riddle and his natural scent was faintly based on roses. “We definitely need to make that perfume for you !”
Riddle recoiled again, taken aback by your sudden declaration. He then started to think. “I think you’d smell like dusk in spring.” He ended up declaring out of the blue, which made you stop. Did he just follow you in one of your rants ?
“Then when people see our friendship, they’ll think of eating a strawberry and rose tart in a spring evening.” You concluded with a soft smile, leaning in to ruffle Riddle’s hair gently.
Chenya will sneak into Trey and Riddle's rooms for fun sometimes just to fuck with them. He'll do stuff like move all of the furniture a quarter of an inch to the left or take everything Riddle organized and put everything in the opposite order ((like if things were color coordinated red-orange-yellow chenya would switch it to be yellow-orange-red)).
Trey thinks its funny and will sometimes leave out tarts where he switched the sugar to salt, only to come back and find a single bite taken out of it. Riddle looses his shit every time
Believe it or not, Riddle has stolen things before. From the Rules of the Queen of Hearts that we know of, its only bad to eat a tart without the Queen's permission (rule 186). Of course, according to rule 53, stolen items must always be replaced. So whatever he does steal, he makes it a point to replace it within a week at the very latest. He mostly steals pens from Trey or tea bags from the cafeteria. It goes so far that any plastic utensils the cafeteria gives out he replaces out of fear that its technically stealing
I forget if we said this yet, but Riddle cant handle a lot of caffeine. he drinks tea all the time yeah, so he does have some tolerance. but hes never had coffee or god forbid a redbull. one time floyd tricked him into drinking an energy drink ((saying it was a special kind of tea and guilting riddle into drinking it)) because he was bored and riddle short circuited.
a) he thought it was really gross. b) he had twice as many people's heads. c) he finished all of his work, and the homework for next week, and made spreadsheets about the hedgehogs. d) he crashed so hard and slept for basically a full day afterwards
When riddle was a little little kid his favorite stuffed animal was a white rabbit. His mother took away his toys way before kids should have their toys taken away, but he still vaguely remembers it. When he starts to heal from his childhood one of the first things he does is buy another white rabbit plushie
Riddle has so many hedgehog things, he’s slowly starting to get sick of them. Of course, he still loves hedgehogs with all of his heart, but he’s tired of getting hedgehog themed gifts. So if someone gave him a FLAMINGO themed candle or pen or stuffie, he’d probably cry
