can you give us a small hc what you think it’s like dating tom riddle ? doesn’t sound too pleasant to me tbh
Of course on this platform I bend Tom/Voldemort to conform to the plot of a thread. It is Muns option that, if I can reason it a clear manner Tom/Voldemort can act some what out of character.:
Which is what I think of him dating. Totally something unheard of to him.
Now of course Tom Riddle has and often woo’d people. He dazzles the members of the staff and its not unthinkable that he would someone closer to his age. Being careful of his limited money he would actively find sets and themes to cater a “relations” with his target*. Even bending a event to make everything look like fate.
For example its Hogsmeade weekend. Tom has broken from his group. “I’ll catch up with you all later. At the Three Broomsticks. Give me a few hours.”
Tom turns to look over his shoulders. His group snickers at each other. They have their orders but semi knows what's going to happen.
Tom turns off the easier road for one a little more steeper. Its more of a faster slide down embankments. Its a fun little game for the younger years. An act until their foot finds something unseen and take a roll down.
In fact Tom is betting on that to be the outcome this time.
He turns and spies his target. Tom looks there way. They make eye contact. Tom makes sure to hold it.
He is careful to keep his eyes to himself. Always some curious person trying to catch his line of sight. A cut to start a conversation Tom never wants. He is a busy man.
But here Tom is betting on it. Holding the gaze with a smile as they start their decent. It works as their expression changes. Their foot having found his trap. They tilt going down hard and fast.
Tom could almost laugh. It turned out more rough then he expected.
Shame, he thinks. If he was fighting with them this would have never worked.
But Tom springs into action. Making the save. His arms wrapped around them. Tending to their wounds. Ignoring their embarrassment. He knows the right spell for that. Dabs the blood. Gets annoyed at their constant worry about being a bother. Damn isn’t he helping?
But Tom offers to escort them on. Just in case. It turns into a light talk. Then lingering. Why not take a walk around? Good, fine. “Tell me more.” Well everyone wants to talk about themselves.
Perhaps about not the things he would like to say. But Tom holds back. This is the first step. He needs to sense if they are ashamed of or unschooled in the whole reason he has singled them out. He wants information/a willing helper/someone to take the fall/dirt on/ them
Time up! Already getting a headache from the many pauses. “Your friends look worried.” A good way to end things. He touches them cause he can. They won’t fight back. He just helped them. Could be helping them with a tender care. Its not at all about that but what he could get away with.
Never going further then that. Tom is still a boy but does not what to look the fool. Rather leave them guessing then admit to knowing nothing about sex. But that too is too soon with them on one date.
They part. He’ll avoid them for a good while. Either needing space or having to much school work as usually. When he returns they will be even more will or he will have to work his magic all over again.
*I sort of see him more attracted to qualities then gender per say. Although I can’t openly say he is Bi or such. Due to his not actively pursuing relationships.
**Dating would just be a show of power. Manipulation. Using another. And frustrating.
