#while peter + regulus + severus are textbook type 2... evan is another character who straddles both

[foursaints]

i realized i pretty much exclusively enjoy male characters when they come in one of two heavily traumatized flavors. and he has to be either: A) the domineering aggressor, infallible abuser, perpetrator of patriarchal (often sexual) violence, who is deeply repressed and merely continuing the cycle of male violence foisted onto him in childhood, OR B) a thoroughly un-sexed male victim, meek and pathetic and pliable, typically coded as a child because of dubious nymphet waifery and/or lack of bodily autonomy, who exploits their perceived helplessness in service of MALEVOLENT REVENGE

and barty crouch jr is the special exception cause he's literally both