okokok so i’m thinking dottore and signora constantly experimenting on the reader and hurting them and just being flat out EXTREMELY physically and mentally abusive (lots of blood hehe)
Reader becomes the center of Dottore’s research, him pretty much planning to use them until they’re dead or even worse
Scaramouche finds out about this, and pretty much decides to kill signora and steal the reader (because she’s important to dottore’s research) and they wake up and are scared of scara because he’s fatui but ends up earning their trust and pretty much falling for them?
sorry if it’s too much :(
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Thanks for the request chick anon! Aw man, why you gotta do my man dirty tho? Jk, I love writing helpless readers with evil villainous mfs--. My dear @theonlysol wanted a tag so, here!
Where Would You Like To Go?
You should be saddened by the news of Signora's passing, but your body rejects that sentiment. Your instincts say that you are glad of that horrible news.
"You seem pretty glad that she's gone, I am too, don't worry." Dottore chuckles, cleaning the scalpel in his hands before setting it down on the metal plate on the surgical tool table next to you.
"That only means that I can have you all to myself now." He gives off a vicious grin, sending shivers down your spine as you laid on the table tied up and bound.
"She's been holding me back from such precious research, all to have her part of fun in torturing you. But don't worry, dear. You won't feel anything when you're with me." You sighed tiredly, before seeing the shine of the needle in Dottore's hands.
"I'll be a little merciful now and just put you under--." BANG--
The man collapses to the floor after a metal sheet was hit by his neck. A boy stood where Dottore was prior, an annoyed look on his face as he quickly unbuckles the binds around your wrist and ankles. It was Scaramouche, one of Dottore's colleagues another one of the Harbingers.
"And I thought killing Signora was easy." He chuckles, pulling you off the table only for you to almost fall as your legs have given out from the long periods of time you were always bound to the surgical table.
"Let's go, we don't have that much time--."
"Why are you rescuing me?"
"Questions later, just get up." He hisses, taking a cloth from one of the drawers and putting it over Dottore who was still breathing but was out like a light. You struggled to get on your feet, holding the drawers on the side only for Scaramouche to carrying you over his shoulder and sigh.
"Why do I have to do everything goddamnit?!" He mutters to himself before running out of the room and rushing past the Fatui guards and members that just so happened to be inside the building. You thought they wouldn't try and get you back, but everyone's expressions just gave extreme horror or confusion.
He suddenly runs out into the open snow, the winds raging with snow and ice as the you could feel his body sink lower and lower into the snow.
"Where are we going?!" You yelled through the howling snow as he just pushes through the thick layer of white. In the distance you see a speck of blue light shining at the end as you heard the sounds of distant yelling.
"They're coming." You muttered under your breath, yet he heard your panic through the thundering snow.
"Don't worry, we're almost there." He assures, as he pushed through the snow and reached his hand out to the waypoint. The sound of galloping and neighing horses suddenly erupted through the snow, making him turn around and push closer to the waypoint until his fingers touched and the snow around you disappeared
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"Damnit! We're too late." Dottore hissed, as his horse staggered through the snow before a shivering Fatui member followed behind and hushed.
"Lord Harbinger, shall we throw a search party?"
"They couldn't have gone too far. These waypoints only take a person so far." The doctor snickers before tugging on the horse's reins and galloping off, leaving the Fatui member to freeze out in the snowy storm.
===
You screamed at the burning sensation of flames travelling down your hips down as the sound of Signora's laughter echoed through the halls.
"How pitiful. Your screams are quite a unique symphony. To the point that I always look forward to seeing you." She cackles, burning your shoulder with her fiery grip while you just whimper and whine in pain.
"Rosalyne! Stop ruining their skin!! It'll be too hard to work with their skin if it's all burnt!!" Dottore yells down the hall in a fury while she just rolled her eyes.
"Stop being so dramatic, Zandik. You know fully well that you can heal up all the burns on their skin. No issue."
"I prefer them in one piece, you bitch." He growled before you felt his hand on your burnt skin making you flinch.
"
You woke up inside a cave, a gentle warmth set beside you as you sat up and panicked at the new surroundings of yours.
"You're fine, but not completely safe." Your eyes darted to see Scaramouche staring off at the distance, all but white snow and foggy darkness. You felt the warm Harbinger coat around you as he just stood up and pulled out a black box filled with food in it.
"We're not too far from the base, but I plan on changing that once we get to Inazuma." He says before giving the box to you.
"I can't take that--."
"It's not poisoned, promise." You flinched before he just chuckled, looking away.
"Not that I have poisons or anything." You eyed him suspiciously, as your hand subconsciously reached out for the box only to hold it back into your chest.
"What about you?"
"Me? I don't need to eat. I'm a puppet. I don't need food to survive." He says before shoving a box into your hands.
"Now eat. I don't want you dead because of starvation."
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As the snow storm settled into the night, Scaramouche decided that it would be better if you both started walking towards the nearest Statue of the Seven. Through the thick layer of snow, you both dragged your feet through, walking for miles and miles under the beautiful borealis lights that danced above you.
"Keep it up! We're close." He calls out, looking behind at you to see you lagging behind, slowly and tiredly before you fall face first into the snow, yelping in shock and the sudden cold contact of snow on your face.
He leaves out a cackle, basically mocking you of your weakness before he walks down the small hill and pulled you off the thick snow.
"Come on, just a little bit more. You'll be safe in no time." He says before, you blushed under your skin at the sudden softness of his tone. Usually when he entered the 'laboratory' all he does is just scoffs at your weakness, give a back-handed comment about your uselessness and leaves.
He helped you walk up to the Statue of the Seven and sighed.
"So, where do you want to go?"
"Don't you know where to go?" He just chuckles and shrugs.
"I'm only here to keep you safe. I'll follow you wherever you go." He says nonchalantly with a gentle smile on his face, contrast to his usual malicious smile. It was strange that he acted differently with you. Yes, he was cruel to his colleagues, workers and lackies alike, but he's only ever name called you. But you could only recalled his pained expression when he looks down at you and call you names.
"Are you trying to elope with me?" He looks at you with wide eyes before chuckling.
"So that's what it's called, huh.." He laughs to himself before gesturing at you.
"Well, it's all up to you. As long as I know that you're safe and... happy." His voice cracks at the end. As a puppet he was built not to carry any emotions, you were however. He knows fully well what happens to humans when they have never felt happiness in their lives, you were no exception to that rule.
Happiness, something he could only chase for the rest of his life as he was but a hollow puppet, void of emotion. If he cannot have happiness, then he shall be the one to take it from everyone else
Or provide that happiness.
You smiled at him, before approaching him and hugging him tightly.
"Thank you so much." You whispered, nuzzling into his chest as he stood there, frozen in shock before he hesitantly returns the hug.
"Anything for you." He whispers as the gnosis in his hands glows lightly before they disappear into the night.
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You were both nothing but pawns in this game of chess, but there is always a chance that a pawn becomes a Queen. Scaramouche would become a Queen, one that would decimate the field, but without you by his side he would be nothing but a flicker of fate's hope that would be extinguished by the snap of a finger.
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His eyes fluttered open, sitting up from the bed as he was greeted by the misty window of his room. He sighs, slipping of the covers and dressing up, walking into Dottore's laboratory to see him prepping for the surgery along with his assistants.
"Ah, you're awake. Good. We can start early." He smiles as Scaramouche just sighs and looks to the side, to meet your profile scratched out with a deceased stamp.
"Are you still not over them, Kunikuzushi?"
"Don't call me that." He hisses as the doctor just laughs and shakes his head.
"Oh don't worry about that! I have something special for you in store." He says before gesturing for him to sit down on the table.
"That's something I don't hear everyday."
"I know you have always wanted my little subject since day one." He glares at Dottore, his fist clenched as jealousy and rage stirs up in his chest.
"Despite them being a lot more interesting than I anticipated, I eventually lost interest."
"Let me guess, you decided to discard them?"
"Me? Discard? No no no, I wouldn't dare do such a thing." It wasn't inherently a lie, he sometimes did preserve certain subjects of his, one that he took great interest him. That didn't answer his question however.
"I preserved them, in a way you're quite familiar with." The mad genius smiled before the side door opens to reveal you. He stares at your lost expression before you run to his arms and hugged him tightly.
"Enjoy your little 'happily ever after' when you finish your mission. I honestly don't care what you will do." Dottore rolls his eyes, internally puking from the cheesiness of the scene while Scaramouche just glared daggers at the man.
"Are you alright?" Scaramouche asked as you just nodded into his chest before a small smile grows on his face. He takes you by the chin and raises it up to meet his dark violet eyes before asking.
"Where would you like to go, princess?"
