#sirius and regulus

[addsalwayssick]

james who makes jokes hoping to make lily and regulus laugh, but they think he needs to get his ego in check so they never laugh and just side eye each other. lily and regulus thinking they’re helping james by making sure his ego doesn’t grow but it’s actually breaking james’s heart because the two people he wants to make laugh the most probably think he’s annoying. he slowly stops making jokes and lily and regulus think it’s working but it’s actually james getting dulled.

[lifeandlies-of-regulusblack]

Please….Please save me from the regulus discourse I keep seeing…i saw 7 posts about it in succession…he doesn’t deserve this…I need…regulus headcanons…

JUICY HEADCANONS HERE WE GO.

tagging @rizzulusarcturizz @villain-crown @ilovefanfics @arcturusblackregulus and @queerregulusablack because i love them.

regulus smokes his first cigarette in his brother's room, taken from a pack sirius left behind. he keeps the pack even after he's smoked all of what's inside, because that's where he puts all his little notes for sirius.

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sirius likes to tell regulus that he loved regulus before he was ever born, and little regulus would always laugh at that. he tells his big brother to stop being silly, and sirius plays at being offended. "i'm not being silly! it's true! i was waiting for you all along!"

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pre-hogwarts regulus and sirius once fought over regulus fussing over kreacher. sirius was looking for regulus only to find him trying to convince kreacher to let him wrap his injured finger with his handkerchief.

Sirius calls regulus out in annoyance because he didn't want his brother touching the elf, he was uneasy around them and he didn't think it was regulus' role to care for beings meant to serve them (as they've heard their entire lives). but regulus wouldn't budge. he grips on to Kreacher's hand tighter while glaring at sirius. the shock at regulus' ire turns into petty rage and jealousy, as the poor elf keeps telling regulus that it was okay, mumbling out a dozen other protests about how master regulus didn't need to lower himself and— and— this makes sirius angrier. so much so that he ends up yelling at kreacher to shut up. which in turn makes regulus scream at sirius to go away.

and so sirius does, angrily, hurt, and feeling slightly betrayed. so unused to regulus... fighting him. "Stupid little brothers," he says to himself. "See if I ever play with him again!"

Sirius was still by himself, thinking of turning regulus away when his brother inevitably came to his room later at night, to sleep in his bed, when he hears his brother's wailing cries. this puts a primal fear into his being that far overshadows whatever childish anger he was clinging to. he runs down the stairs to see what's happened. and there, he sees his brother, clutching at his cheek and cowering from the tall figure of his mother looming over him, wand drawn.

regulus was caught with kreacher.

for once in his (relatively young) life, sirius is frozen. he doesn't know what to do. this isn't a broken vase he can say he broke. this wasn't something he could say regulus did for him. the act of nursing an injured elf was so clearly an action belonging to regulus. only regulus would do this.

he looks at their mother and sees the disgust and disappointment lining her features. regulus was her perfect boy.

and her perfect boy had wrapped his handkerchief, with the black family coat of arms embroidered right at the center, and used it to bandage an elf's bleeding finger. his mother is incandescent.

sirius is too slow, too short, to reach his brother as walburga reaches to shake his brother with a frightening vigor that has regulus crying out in alarm.

"Don't you ever do that again, you hear me?" his mother shouts over regulus' panicked cries. At sirius' shout of alarm, she lets regulus go with a harsh shove and makes her way to him.

"You should've taught him better! What use are you to the family if you can't look after your brother?" she yells at him. she prods at his chest, making sure her nails dig in painfully, "This is your fault, you foolish child." Sirius can't even muster the rage he so usually feels at his mother, yet again, finding ways to blame him. At least she's let regulus go.

When, after their mother has left, sirius gathers his little brother into his arms and shushes him, rubbing his back best as he can. they're both reeling. regulus at being punished for what he thought was right, unused to being the recipient of their mother's anger. and sirius for not being able to do anything, to help him — replaying the way his limbs froze, his mind unable to think of something quick to say or do.

he wants to punish kreacher for his brother's tears.

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regulus is top of his class in potions. really, it's him and severus that become the talk of the school. prodigies. Slughorn's two favorite students and the topic of most his open bragging. a lot of students remark on them being fortunately in separate years, avoiding the cutthroat competition that would've been for the top spot. they don't necessarily like each other, but the respect is there.

regulus expected to receive the brunt of severus' anger regarding his brother. he tells him this as they end up in the same library aisle, discussing which potions book had better methodology. and the older scoffs.

"It's sad how you keep wanting to be like your brother."

and the statement stings. he idolizes his brother.

"Get over yourself, Black. It's a compliment. You're not your brother and you've already made a name for yourself."

oh...

"Never talk to me about this again. I don't hate you but we're not friends."

After finishing 6th year, Severus gives him his potions book.

"Here, see if you can do better than me. Use it and let me know how it turns out." he stops before he walks away, "Or not. I'll probably hear about it from the professors."

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something something regulus asking to apprentice under madame pomfrey. regulus slowly gains her trust and respect. eventually, she lets him help with remus, after he comes to her telling her how he knows, and how remus knows that he knows.

"I mean... Moony? Really?" he asks incredulously. He shoves his wand harshly under Remus' throat, "Do you think I'm stupid?"

—

Regulus tells Sirius to leave. He'll follow but not in the near future.

"Come on, Sirius. I'll survive without you. But you won't with me." "That's not true! Together or not at all, remember? We promised. I promised." "What, you think I'm not brave enough? Too soft to ever completely leave the family behind? That I'll lose myself to them?" "No, I think you've always been brave. Too brave. You don't have to be brave for them and not this way. Can't you see Reggie? This way's fucked up. We can just leave!" "It's... It's not that bad Sirius. Or at least it never was for me. I can be strong for the both of us and I want to — just promise you won't go where I can't follow." "As if. What do you want me to tell moony, you little shit?" "That I love him." "This hurts you know? This entire conversation has been one big pain in the ass, and it's going to be for a long while. Man, fuck you. Honestly. I can't blame you, but this hurts, just so you know." "I know. I love you." "...I know."

[moonyrab]

Regulus and Sirius

Sirius and Regulus

[made-by-moon]

The Marauders era characters as things people in my school said p.2:

"My fingers are so small it's depressing."- Sirius Black

"I'm so gonna bob ross you."- Marlene McKinnon doing Sirius' make up for the first time

"I'm Fleamont Potter. I don’t have any pets but I have two children so I think that counts."- Fleamont Potter at some book club introducing himself (after adopting Sirius)

"You have no shame in English."- Regulus Black (prob after Sirius said some outrageous shit)

"Awww you know me so well. It scares me."- Remus Lupin to Lily

"They would go to an Irish pub but they would run away because people started to sing and that induces homophobic feelings or something."- Remus Lupin

"They're so straight, they're gay."- Dorcas Meadowes about Barty and Evan

[midnightstargazer]

In OotP, when Regulus is first mentioned, this is how he's introduced:

"He was younger than me," said Sirius, "and a much better son, as I was constantly reminded."

The juxtaposition of those two things - younger and a better son - stands out because the Blacks are such an old-fashioned family. Sirius and Regulus seem like a typical "heir and a spare" situation, so for the spare to be a "better son" than the heir is a big deal.

In DH, when Harry visits the top floor of Grimmauld Place, one thing he notices is that Sirius had the larger bedroom. To me, this suggests that, at least when they were young children, their parents showed more favoritism to Sirius. He was, after all, the oldest and the heir. Given that Bellatrix and Walburga didn't have quiet, passive temperaments either, I doubt his personality would be seen as a problem until he ended up in Gryffindor, befriending the wrong people and rejecting everything the family stood for.

Regulus's more dutiful and obedient attitude was no doubt something they appreciated once Sirius really started rebelling, and it's easy to imagine them pitting their sons against each other: look at your brother, he's in the right house, he's rarely ever in detention, he's got friends we approve of - why can't you be like him? But still, they didn't disown Sirius until he ran away at sixteen. This suggests to me that any favoritism towards Regulus was, at least at first, an attempt to bring Sirius back into line and get him to behave the way they expected.

Even after Sirius ran away, they kept his room exactly as it was. Even if everything on the walls was attached with a permanent sticking charm, it shouldn't have been too difficult to cover it up. Furniture and personal items could certainly be gotten rid of. The fact that the room was still pretty much untouched tells me they kept holding out hope he might come back.

However, I do think that things would have changed for Regulus after Sirius was Sorted into Gryffindor and after he ran away. In both cases, there would have been more pressure on him to live up to the family's expectations. The impression we're given of Regulus in the books is of someone who didn't really think for himself and was very proud of his conformity. It seems reasonable to me that that would have come from growing up with an older brother who constantly defied their parents and, as a result, had lost their favoritism. And knowing, of course, that their love for him was just as conditional.

(That's not me saying he was forced into anything. I actually don't think Orion and Walburga would have forced either of their sons to join the Death Eaters. But I do think Regulus felt he had something to prove, was taught basically the same ideology at home, and was therefore easier to radicalize. And I think that feeling of having something to prove probably came, at least in part, from watching Sirius go from favorite son and heir to scapegoat to disowned.)

Both brothers, I think, ended up living very different lives than their family would've chosen for them. They would've been expected to marry pure-blood women and have kids, to support the blood purist ideology but not actually risk their lives for it, and either to live off their inherited wealth or to work in relatively safe, prestigious careers. So, in different ways, they both fell short.

I do think there was definitely a scapegoat and golden child dynamic, but I think it's a bit more complicated than that: changing favoritism through the years as it became more and more obvious that Sirius wouldn't fall into line with the family expectations, first to pit them against each other and then to cut Sirius off and replace him with Regulus.

[binvibin]

sirius black would have personal beef with those angst this or that slideshows on tiktok

[garncarkakucharka]

ok but why no one has ever write Marauders Thirteen reasons why fic?

I mean

Regulus Black as Hannah Baker?

James Potter as Clay Jansen?

I desperately want to read that fic.

but I have no skills for writing... (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥) can someone write this fic for me??? please???

[sweetdiss]

how friends find me after I listened to taylor's new album (I'm just a marauders fan):

[that-bitch-kat3]

I wrote some stuff about lily and sirius talk about their siblings last night and while I'm not sure that I like it I've decided to post it. Also heres my AO3 which I guess I've never needed to post before. okay here it is:

"I did everything I could-" Lily said, but even as the words came out she knew that they were a lie. She stopped herself and sighed, but then she did something that neither of them had been expecting. She told the truth. "No, I didn't."

"What?" Sirius looked over at her, eyebrows high, but Lily didn't see his expression. She didn't even look at him. She just stared out at the sky. It was an unspoken rule that they didn't look at each other on nights like these. When they sat at the top of the astronomy tower, moping and looking for someone to trade burdens with.

Lily's confession shocked them both, but she just stared straight ahead into the night and kept talking. "I didn't do everything I could. I could've- I should've written more. And when I was back for breaks I should have tried harder, to talk to her, and to keep up with her interests." Sirius looked back out the window, going back to following the unspoken rule, but Lily had hardly noticed his gaze at all too lost in her regret to even really be aware of the boy sitting next to her.

"I shouldn't have let Sev take over my life back home, and I really shouldn't have picked fights with her." Lily sighed. "but she's just been so cold since I left. I felt like fighting with her was the only time when I could even get through to her- or not get through to her, but, talk to her?"

Sirius nodded looking out at the night sky. The moon was a sliver in the sky, but the stars were out and they lit up the sky well enough. Without even meaning to Sirius sought out the Regulus star. "I didn't do enough either," Sirius admitted and they sat in silence for a beat before he continued. "I pushed him away. I knew what they expected from him- from us, but I was so determined to not be what they wanted that in my efforts to be different, to be better, I isolated him."

Lily nodded. "I feel like I abandoned her." She whispered her confession to the darkness, but Sirius heard anyway and this time it was his turn to nod.

There were several moments of quiet before Sirius gave up one more confession, one more secret to the sky.

"I did abandon him."

[prongsiess]

I haven’t been on here in forever, but i realized i never shared my rosier twins headcanon. SO, here it goes:

basically, they’re not twins… but they kinda are. HEAR ME OUT. So when i was in primary school I had a teacher who was a twin and married a twin. my teacher, twin A, married a man, twin 1. BUT, her sister, twin B, married twin 1’s twin brother, twin 2. So basically, two sets of twins married each other. AND to make it weirder, both couples had a kid, (couple A1 had a boy, and couple B2 had a girl) THE SAME YEAR. I might be getting this wrong, but their kids are like a month apart. The girl was my little cousin’s best friend and i grew up around them, so it was never weird to me, but now that i look back on it, it was quite a peculiar situation.

The hc goes as follows: Druella Black, née Rosier, married Cygnus Black (brother of Walburga and Alphard Black). They had 3 daughters; Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa. Druella had 2 younger identical twin brothers. For the sake of the story, let’s name them Pierrick and Emeric Rosier. Since Druella was a woman and was married off the ancient and most noble house of incest, the house of Black, Pierrick and Emelien shared the responsibilities of being the Rosier heir. The Rosier boys were married off to a set of identical twins girls (again, just humour me) of the Nott family (, I’m choosing names by throwing darts on a wall here), Pascaline and Esther Nott.

So these 2 sets of twins were married off, and were eventually made to have kids. Now, whether this be by accident or on purpose, both couples got pregnant and were expecting their first (and only) child on September 22nd, 1960. Pierrick and Pascaline Rosier were to have a little girl, while Emelien and Esther Rosier were to have a little boy.

On September 7th 1960, Evan Rosier was born 15 days before his due date. On October 7th 1960, Pandora Rosier was born 15 days after her due date (I know 15 is a lot, but I do know someone born 2 weeks late so let me have this. Making Evan and Pandora cousins, but also genetic siblings, who, for all intents and purposes, could be mistaken as fraternal twins. Since their fathers shared the duties of heirs and their mothers were quite close, being sisters and all, they lived on 1 vast property, containing 2 mansions. They were raised as close as siblings, being much closer to each other than their other cousins, the Black daughters.

This also means that Sirius and Regulus (sons of Walburga and Orion Black) shared cousins with the Rosier not-twins, Evan and Pandora. Those cousins being Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa. Which is a whole ass other post.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[starchasers-sunseekers]

Sirius Black has 100% figured out how to make himself faint. Just to reach peak drama

[addsalwayssick]

the marauders to peter after the betrayal

[half-bl00d-princess]

“He had read love beautifully and horrifically flawed, but he would never know truly what it was like, not until he could count every freckle on james’ cheeks. And one day, he would. But now, he envies.” -Regulus in If I Saw Him I’d Still Kiss Him by Robbies_Restroom.

I just started this fic and it’s written so beautifully and poetically. I just know I’m in for a world of hurt 😭

[maiiefizz]

I had a new wolfstar fic idea.

Completely bombarded with angst, again.

Why can't I have cute fluffy ideas?

And where is my motivation to write again?!

[pearlynia]

When Sirius found out about Jegulus, he wasn't mad, no but instead he was sad because his best friend and brother felt like they can't tell him. they thought he wouldn't support them. and that made him feel like he failed as a best friend and a brother.

So he reassured them that he'd be supportive as long as they're happy (and giving the "talk" to both of them). he still dramatically act disgusted when James and Regulus kiss as a joke but they all know that he's like a proud mom inside

[digital-kam]

where can i read crimson rivers? i searched on ao3 but nothing comes up in english pls help