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I know people probably already hc this but what if while Sirius learned ballet, Regulus learned how to ice skate.
Sirius loved ballet but couldn’t skate for shit meanwhile Regulus learned how to do all the tricks and flips and stuff (I don’t skate I have no clue what the lingo is)
So whenever the lake was frozen over he would go super early in the morning and practice what he only got to do a couple months a year.
James, being the maniac who gets up at five in the morning to go for a jog, is one of the only people to actually see Reg skate.
At first he couldn’t see it was him and thought ‘this dude’s gonna fall on his ass trying to ice skate in the dark’. He couldn’t make out much but was mesmerized by the figure who moved so elegantly on the ice.
He would only realize it was Regulus an hour later when the sky finally started to lighten up. Regulus was taking off his skates when he looked up and saw James fully facing him (away from the jogging trail). They both stayed silent until James whispered ‘bloody hell’ and speed walked back to the school.
Every morning they would see each other, maybe nod, exchange pleasantries, until one morning. The ice was too thin to skate on and Regulus certainly wasn’t going to risk it, so instead he joined James for his early morning jog. It shocked James, and if Regulus was being honest, it shocked him too. They ended up having a really nice conversation. That was the morning they both realized they had a crush on each other.
Regulus Black Headcanons
He was extremely pale but when he blushed his whole face turned red. He hated it, especially because of how easy it was to make him blush
He had hemophilia (as a product of inbreeding). Something about it just makes sense.
He resembled his father while Sirius resembled their mother. He was quiet, reserved, and was often seen as apathetic. (But he could scream like a fucking banshee, he had to get something from his mother)
He’s the kind of person to kick you when your down b/c he thinks it’s really funny. He only does it to his friends b/c he knows they can take it but he definitely talks shit about other people to them. Like, Barty would get a really shit grade on a test and Reg would say, “Well at least you’re good looking, oh WAIT”and run out before Barty can throw something at him.
He reads muggle books and enchants the covers so no one knows.
He lies about his favorite book genre because it’s trashy romance.
He was a hat stall because he was having a whole conversation with himself in his head and the hat couldn’t get a word in. After five minutes of him weighing the pros and cons of each house he says to the hat ‘okay, put me in Ravenclaw’. The hat stays silent for a second and screams ‘SLYTHERIN’
Regulus can hold a grudge like a BITCH. He’s still mad at the hat for not going with his decision (even though he knows it was right)
He had a hard time growing hair when he was little and was really insecure about it. Just imagine him with the worst little rat moustache.
He took pride in his hygiene. He had a skin and haircare routine, flossed, and moisturized. He clipped his nails and made sure they looked nice (or tried to since he bit his nails a lot). He even brought silk pillowcases to school.
He wrote music. You can’t convince me other wise. This bitch played piano and violin, two of the hardest instruments to learn, and wrote pieces for both of them.
He bit his nails. He thought it was really disgusting because he hated germs but he wouldn’t realize he was doing it until he was three nails in.
He absolutely had a blanky when he was little. He slept with it but hid it from his dorm mates in his first year. Bellatrix set it on fire and Regulus didn’t leave his room for weeks.
I want a jegulus fic where Regulus has to sit through James flirting just so badly with Lily that he has to intervene.
Like he straight up looks him dead in the eye and screams ‘SHE’S JUST NOT INTO YOU! HOW MANY TIMES DOES SHE HAVE TO SAY NO BEFORE YOU CAN GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD???? DOES SHE NEED TO SAY IT IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE OR SOMETHING???’ And continues the rant through all the other languages he knows.
And James stays silent the whole time with this love struck expression while this twink screams at him.
And Lily gets the peace she deserves.
Tw: toxic behavior, manipulation, trauma
I feel like Regulus is the most manipulative dick out there.
His entire existence was just lying.
He was taught from an early age how to repress his emotions. His parents and governesses would always make him repeat things back to them over and over again until they felt he learned his lesson.
He’s incredibly observant so he figures out people’s personalities (and insecurities) really quickly. He just automatically mimics their personality when they’re with him so he can get people to trust him.
He can use all of it to get people to do whatever he wants. Through blackmail, manipulation, gaslighting, or thinly veiled threats (because the Blacks always keep it classy).
However, he usually doesn’t rely on other people. He just does it himself.
So, basically, he can do a lot of damage, he just chooses not to. It makes him feel secure to know everyone’s secrets and to know exactly how to keep them complacent if the need ever arises.
Obviously learning this trait at such a young age (literally from birth) caused him to never fully understand who he was. It made him feel emotionless, less than human.
Sirius also learned how to mimic people’s behavior which was why he was always so much more vibrant when he was with James and super quiet with Remus, but soon realized that he didn’t have to hide (and it’s super unhealthy to do) so he quickly unlearned it.
K so like, Sirius always wanted to be a rockstar right? He always dressed super punk and has the voice for it.
But imagine…
Regulus felt like he could never talk with people about his problems. He was always so alone and felt even lonelier.
But then he over heard from some Ravenclaw that they keep a journal to help them get all their emotions out.
He decides to do so. He writes everything he feels he can’t say. He lets his handwriting get messy, he scratches things out. Some pages are just lists or bullet points. It’s the one place he can actually be himself. The only way he can figure out who he is.
He stops feeling like he’s fading away. He has something to hold onto. He can identify his feelings and really understand them.
Soon he just has journals filled with half finished poems, song lyrics he overheard (from people like his brother who refused to turn down their music), chord progressions he can’t get over from his concertos, and now, he has full songs.
He knows who he is now. He runs away to muggle America and starts a career as a mysterious new singer who just showed up on the rock scene. Violin and guitar are basically the same instrument, right? Of course his skills will translate.
His songs are filled with anger, sadness, and pain. He writes about his family, the loss of his brother, his cousin, his uncle, and what it feels like to have everyone who you loved forget you. But he also writes about joy. For having had a brother at all, for having friends (even if they are three feet tall and hate everyone except for him), for falling in love with a boy he met in a recording studio who was saved by music just like he was.
He writes about the war and the guilt of running away instead of fighting alongside his brother. And about reconnecting with said brother after Voldemort was killed by Dumbledore (Just go with it).
He was finally happy.
And if his brother got super jealous after finding him on the cover of a magazine in the boots he used to wear, well that’s just a bonus.
Wait, I thought we were all agreed that Reg’s a shithead and we’re just making fun of him. Like straight up I didn’t know people actually thought he was a good person.
I never knew people thought he was a better person than Sirius. Sounds like a Snape kinnie to me ngl. (No offense to Snape kinnies you do you)
To me he’s a morally grey person and I have my own reasons for that but I’ve never considered him better than Sirius. I wonder why people think that way.
How the hell can people think Regulus Black is a good person? I see so many fanfics and headcanons that he’s actually a good and sweet person, I see people saying that it’s canon that he’s a better person than Sirius because he treated a racist house-elf with respect. Like wtf? Did y’all miss the part where he idolized Voldemort and willingly joined the death eaters and was perfectly ok with murder and torture until he got personally effected? He’s giving Snape vibes and that’s not a good thing. How does that scream “good person” or “hero”? You’re a hero when your intentions are to help other people, not when it’s just to give Voldemort the invisible middle finger. Fuck Regulus and anyone that tries to claim that he’s a better person than Sirius can square up because wth.
Regulus’ first crush was Newt Scamander. He would always reread fantastic beasts just so he could get to the picture of him at the end. He didn’t really understand why he would start to blush if he looked too long. His dreams were filled with curly golden hair, high cheek bones, and a tiny smile that he wouldn’t mind kissing.
His passion for magical creatures would bleed into his fascination for this man and vice versa. This was why he loved them so much.
This was also why, a few months after first getting the book and sitting with his brother on the train ride to Hogwarts, he could barely look Remus Lupin in the eye without his whole face going red.
An internal monologue I wrote from Regulus’ perspective about Jily. *Incredibly angsty.* (i don’t know how to do the read more thing but know that I would if I could)
I can’t identify my feelings while watching you. You walking in with her on your arm. You move your arm around her waist. She nuzzles into your neck, you kiss her hair.
You look happy. Different from when you were with me. You were happy with me too, but not like that. You look calm. At peace. Like everything has finally fallen in place. Well, everything was already in place, I guess I was the only thing that wasn’t.
I can’t even get mad. Trust me, I am. I am devastated.
No one knows. No one can see. But I am in mourning.
People say love shouldn’t hurt but love is hurt. Love is pain, jealousy, anger, fear, a slow and unmarked torture.
There’s a reason they call it heartache. To ache to be near them, to ache when you’re apart from them. There’s a reason you ‘fall’ in love. It is not deliberate, nor wanted, and if you don’t figure out how you’re going to land before you do, you’ll break.
But I have no right to hurt. I thought you were mine. You told me you were. But seeing you now… I guess we were both foolish. Because I will always be yours, but you were clearly never mine.
I can’t be upset with you when I was the one to fuck it all up. I was the one who pulled away when things got difficult. I was the one who shut down when you yelled. I was the one who couldn’t give you a proper answer. Couldn’t tell you just how much you mean to me. I hope you know I tried. I tried so hard. I promise.
I don’t think my promises mean much to you anymore.
But now, here we are. With you so happy, and me so far away. We were always in different worlds. Living different lives. But there was a point in time when you actually convinced me we could create a new one together. Just for us.
That’s the cruel thing about time. It gives you so much. It lets you experience things, love things, only to take it all away. The feeling lingers, the situation does not.
I wish time would speed up. Then the ache would fade. Then you would graduate and I wouldn’t be forced to watch you fall without me.
Then I would be dead. A fool who loved in silence. A fool who died in love.
Then you would be dead.
A fool who loved out loud.
A fool who died in love.
Young Sirius to James: You and Regulus are gonna love each other and then we’ll all be brothers!
James: *makes fun of him*
Reg: *doesn’t realize he’s joking and ends up hexing him.*
Sirius: 😃 you gotta be fucking kidding me😃
Jamie (everyone does)
Lover (As I said before, James calls him love)
My king (he’s the king of Gryffindor)
Bumble bee or bee (James reminded Reg of spring so he called him spring related things -also James has bee vibes)
Sun (James insisted on giving him a star name so obviously he’s gonna give him the sun. Bright, warm, etc.)
Four eyes (he couldn’t resist)
Also broom boy (just as affectionate)
Reg never used any of these in front of other people except for ‘Jamie.’ He found nicknames super personal and didn’t think everyone should know about them.
James knew how Reg felt about nicknames. He felt so special to be called anything by him. His face lit up even when Reg called him four eyes.
James: tied them around his ankle. He also wore Velcro shoes because he thought they were more fun. (He also had rollerblades and Mary taught him to skate)
Sirius: didn’t tie them. Ever. Like a fucking psychopath. He would make a show of not doing it whenever someone told him he should tie them. He also had light up shoes and heelys. (Imagine almost getting decked in the hallways because some dumbass didn’t know how heelys work.)
Remus: tied them normally. He’s not about to lose the circulation to his foot or eat shit because he couldn’t tie his shoes properly. They’re just shoes to him (but he also definitely wrote book quotes or song lyrics on the sides)
Peter: tied them with a bow tie knot cause that’s how he learned it and just never broke the habit. He would always change the shoelace color to whatever he was feeling that day. (They were always super funky)
Regulus: had the slip on fancy shoes. Never learned how to tie laces. (Was really insecure about it). Sirius also gave him a pair of stilettos as a joke gift and Reg set them on fire.
Lily: tied them normally. Was really smug whenever pure bloods didn’t know how to. Wore a bunch of sandals and flip flops.
Little king
Lionheart
Little star (NOT to be confused with bright star who is Sirius)
Love (Reg calls him lover)
Gumdrop (because it annoys the FUCK out of him)
Lucy (let me explain. Everyone calls him Reg so he decided to call him the end of his name instead of the beginning but ‘lus’ was weird so he said Lucy)
Broom boy (affectionate)
James calls him lots of things but these are the most used.
James even called him shawty once and Reg only spoke to him in French until he promised not to do it again.
Okay look I know what I posted two seconds ago was contributing to this but it still confuses me:
Why is it that Snape lovers trash Regulus and vice versa?
Like, Snape lovers use Regulus to justify Snape’s actions because he switched sides when Regulus never did.
But then Snape haters say that Regulus sacrificed his life to take down Voldemort and Snape was just saving his own ass.
Of course there are many more arguments, but I just feel like you can’t really use their characters against each other.
Personally, I do love people having debates about each characters morality, but some people take it way too far for it to be about made up characters in a kids book.
It’s just like, why Regulus Black, y’know?
**this is my own take on Regulus. Literally none of this is canon.
One small difference between other death eaters and Regulus is how they react to people wanting to join the death eaters.
A younger slytherin comes up to them and tells them they want to become a death eater too.
People like Barty and Snape are fully supportive. They tell them all about the glorious things the Dark Lord has done. Tells them they will have to work hard to gain such an honor and he will be waiting to see them at the next meeting.
Regulus tells them they are making a huge mistake. They will be used as a pawn in Voldemort’s game and, if not willing, forced to kill. He would say it isn’t worth your life.
He tells that kid every horrific thing he’s seen or heard about (he’s still in school so he hasn’t participated in it yet). Better to be scared than dead. He makes sure they don’t want to participate in the war at all.
They are all death eaters, they all support Voldemort and have seen the unspeakable things that have been done. But Regulus knows when he’s being manipulated, and he’ll be damned if he let someone be in the same position as him. It’s too late for him, he’s too deep in the war. He realizes it never mattered what they were fighting for, people are dying no matter what they believed in. He doesn’t want to contribute to that number more than he has to.
*Story involves Drarry (probably the only drarry I’ll ever post)
This has been floating in my head for a while:
So Regulus and James dated but then broke up and Jily happened.
Regulus doesn’t join the death eaters and they all survive the war.
So one night Harry wants his whole family to meet his new boyfriend. So James, Lily, Sirius, Regulus, and Remus are all in the living room when Harry comes home holding hands with Draco.
They all look at this emo slytherin boy who’s the son of Narcissa Malfoy née Black. Then they see this tan boy with crazy hair and the biggest smile. Sirius just bursts out laughing.
Harry doesn’t know why his dad and Regulus are staring at them in shock or why Sirius is dying laughing. He asks what’s wrong.
Sirius composes himself and just says, “Do you also happen to fancy a ginger?” Regulus kicks him out of the room for that comment.
That’s the night Harry found out his dad and Regulus used to date.
Young Anton Ego from Ratatouille is my Regulus fancast
rip regulus black you would’ve loved florence + the machine
Regulus “all bark, no bite” Black and Sirius “all bite, no bark” Black
Does anyone from the HP fandom who loves the 1st generation ship Marulus? Like Marlene and Regulus ? Cause I saw nobody but imagine how cute they would be! And Marulus is like the brother that Sirius let go for James and Marlene the girlfriend he let go for *insert name of who you want*