Obsession’S Crown: Two Faces, One Heart
Chapter 1
꧁༺ 𝓒𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓪 ༻꧂/Author
Astral Souls, I’m back with a brand new story—darker, deeper, and more twisted than ever.
꧁༺ 𝓒𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓪 ༻꧂/Author
🎂 And yes… I dropped it on my birthday. Let the chaos begin.
꧁༺ 𝓒𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓪 ༻꧂/Author
Hope you all love it as much as I’ve loved creating it for you ✨🖤
Military Intelligence Command Center, Ooty Highlands, South India
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(deadpan, scanning the hallway)Steel walls. No photographs. No windows.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
This isn’t an office. It’s a vault designed to hold something dangerous.
Receptionist
(nervous)Ma’am, General Raghav will see you in the command chamber.You’ll be alone.
Aarti Varunanth /Hex/FL Bff
(In her bluetooth) Alone with a walking emotionless enigma?
Aarti Varunanth /Hex/FL Bff
Damn girl, at least wear red. You might end up on a wanted list or a wedding card.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(dry) I profile killers, not cuddle them.
Aarti Varunanth /Hex/FL Bff
(mock gasp) He’s both, probably.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
That would explain why they called me.
She enters the chamber. Dim lights. Digital silence. And one man standing at the far end, unmoving, as if silence itself needed a physical form.)
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Lieutenant General Raghav Devrath
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
(withoutturning)Ms.Rithanya. You’re late.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
You said it was urgent. Not fatal.
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
(turns, gaze blank)In this place, there’s no difference.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
They call you the Black Monarch.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
But from the looks of it... you prefer silence over symbolism.
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
Silence speaks. Symbols lie.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
And yet… you're hiding behind both
He walks toward her. No rush. No emotion. A controlled storm.
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
You’ve profiled traitors, sociopaths, bombers.
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
Why accept a military leak case?
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Because your file has forty-three missing hours…
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
And two kill orders signed in handwriting that doesn't match your own.
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
Speculation.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Evidence.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
You signed a kill protocol on a man who was already dead.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
You gave orders from a location you weren’t in.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
And the person who requested me… was you
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Except you don’t remember that either, do you?
He says nothing. But something in the air shifts. A tightness. The cold wraps around her spine.
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
You believe I’m compromised?
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
I believe you’re haunted.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
By something that doesn’t use your voice—but wears your face.
He blinks. And then — it’s not him anymore.
Unknown
(voice lower, smoother, darker)Smart girl.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(heart skipping, but steady)You’re not Raghav.
Unknown
(smiling slowly):Correct.
Unknown
He’s the soldier. I’m the secret.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Name?
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
Yugendran Aadityan.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
But in darker circles… they call me Requiem.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
A melody that plays right before your mind breaks.
She doesn’t back away. He steps closer. No threat. Just obsession.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
(softly)I’ve been watching you long before he ever noticed.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
I don’t forget things, Rithanya.I collect them.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(cold,challenging) Collect one wrong thought about me…
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
And I’ll make your mind bleed.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
(smirking)Oh, sweetheart.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
It’s already bleeding.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
The moment you walked in wearing control like perfume...I wanted to ruin it.
He blinks. His face clears. Raghav is back — blank and confused.
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
You look shaken.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(steady)Your alter just introduced himself.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
He flirts like a serpent and talks like sin.
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
I don’t have an alter.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
No? Then who just threatened to collect pieces of my mind like souvenirs?
Silence. He says nothing. Which says everything.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(stepping back, eyes sharp) Lieutenant General…
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
You’re not a case file.
Raghav Devrath /Black Monarch /ML
Then what am I?
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
A fractured god.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
And one half of you... is preparing to burn everything down.
She reaches for the door. It doesn't open. Not because it's locked. Because he doesn’t want it to yet.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
(inside his mind, darkly amused) Let her walk.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
She’ll run.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
But I’ll always be faster.
Introduction
Alias 1: Black Monarch (Lieutenant General — disciplined, emotionless)
Alias 2:Requiem (Underground Mafia King — obsessive, seductive, violent)
Psychiatric Profile: Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) due to childhood emotional neglect and war trauma.
• A cold-blooded military tactician in the day.
• A dangerously obsessive underworld ruler at night.
• His love isn’t gentle — it’s possession wrapped in lust, violence, and intense loyalty.
• Torn between protecting her like a soldier… and owning her like a king.
• He’s the storm that destroys her walls and the shadow that burns for her soul.
Dual Personality Contrast:
• Black Monarch is emotionally repressed, protective, calculated, and calm.
• Requiem is sensual, territorial, brutally possessive, and emotionally chaotic.
Alias: Veritas (Elite Profiler & Criminal Psychologist)
• Renowned for solving impossible criminal cases.
• Her sharp eyes see through monsters — until she meets the one man she can’t profile.
• She’s not a victim. She’s fire wrapped in logic.
• But obsession doesn't play fair… especially when it comes with two faces.
Character Flaws & Strengths:
• Emotionally guarded from childhood neglect.
• Refuses to admit vulnerability, even as Raghav shatters her walls piece by piece.
• Her biggest strength is her mind — but love and obsession will challenge it.
Chapter 2
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(to herself, pacing): He blinked. One second.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
And another man answered with his face.
She tosses her jacket over the chair, fingers trembling before she catches herself.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(deadpan) Get a grip.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
It was a trauma response.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Visual dissociation. PTSD-induced manifestation—
Her words cut. Her breath stops. On her pillow: an envelope.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(whispers) That wasn’t here before.
She approaches slowly. No label. Just a black wax seal. A symbol stamped deep: a raven holding a shattered crown.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(coldly) A predator with manners.
She doesn’t touch it yet. Instead, grabs her phone. Dials Aarti.
Aarti Varunanth /Hex/FL Bff
(groggy) You better be calling about a body or a billionaire.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(calm, measured) Someone left a sealed envelope on my bed.
Aarti Varunanth /Hex/FL Bff
(snapping awake) What the actual hell—when?
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Just now. No sound. No scent. No prints.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Only this symbol... waxed in black.
Aarti Varunanth /Hex/FL Bff
What kind of psycho leaves wax-sealed envelopes like it’s a royal funeral?
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Not a psycho.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
A message.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
And a warning.
She places the phone down but keeps the line open. Slowly peels the seal.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(reading aloud, quietly, eyes narrowing)
“Project VINDHYA — Experimental Phase.
Subject: R.D.
Condition: Early Onset Dissociation.
Trigger: Female Child. Repeated Proximity Episodes Confirmed.”
Her throat dries. Eyes dart back to the photo inside. A military cot. A boy. A girl.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(hoarsely) That… that’s me.
Aarti Varunanth /Hex/FL Bff
(alarmed) What? What do you mean you?
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Six years old. Rusted bunk.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
This photo was taken in a classified psychiatric zone…
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
No one should have this.
Aarti Varunanth /Hex/FL Bff
(urgent) I’m tracing your location feed. Are you armed?
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Aarti.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
This was taken before I even knew what a camera was.
Silence. Then — static crackles. Her call drops. Phone dies. Light flickers. Just once.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(calmly) He was in here.
She checks the lock. Bolted. Windows shut. Yet every hair on her neck rises like someone is still breathing behind her.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
(watching from across the rooftop, whispered to himself) You looked at me like I wasn’t a monster.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
And that... Was the day I became one.
He adjusts the lens. Not to see her. To memorize her.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
You stepped into my world once.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
I’ve been rebuilding it around you ever since.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
He touches his own jaw, the scar only she ever made. Unknowingly. Unforgivably.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
(low) He forgets.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
But I never do.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
Not your name. Not your voice.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
Not the way you said “Don’t cry. I won’t tell anyone you screamed.”
Back inside. She reboots her phone. Camera light flashes once. Unprompted. Gone.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(to herself) He knows how to breach military encryption.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
He knows my past better than I do.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
He’s been watching.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
(smirking) And she’s starting to remember...
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
The shadows that never stopped watching her sleep.
The air hums. Not electricity. Not tech. It’s a presence. Heavy. Still.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(repeating the file line softly) “Emergence of Secondary.”
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
I was the trigger.
She closes her eyes. A faint memory surfaces. Bars. Screams. A boy curled under a light. Whispering her name.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
(in his mind) You named me.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
You built me.
Yugendran Aadityan/Requiem/ML 2nd PL
You walked away.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
(opening her eyes, sharp) And now you're back...
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
Not as a ghost.
Rithanya Venkatesh /Veritas/FL
But as the part of him I can’t profile.
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