#sirius and regulus and bellatrix and orion and andromeda

[starchaserdreams]

One time I spent a month completely obsessed with stargazing, went outside every single night, learned new things every day including how to tell direction and time by the stars

And it was ALL a sub-fandom of the Marauders because I was so obsessed with the Black family that I wanted to go outside and say hi to them in the sky every night

Anyway yes I am very good at being way too over the top about obsessions

[not-rab]

regulus who dyed his hair from blonde to black to look more like sirius

narcissa who dyed her hair from black to blonde to look less like andromeda

[nothingtoseeherebyeexx]

the black cousins

all the hidden meanings!

colors:

red is the color of sirius’ shirt, narcissa’s lips and regulus’ pocket handkerchief. red represents how they rebelled against their family (sirius ran away and was openly against their morals, narcissa lied to voldemort and basically helped defeating him w her words, regulus turned against voldemort at the last moment, dying for his cause)

narcissa and andromeda are the only ones not wearing black, and they’re the only survivors in this picture.

clothes and accessories:

andromeda is wearing a white dress that resembles a bride’s dress, because she ran away to marry ted. her and sirius’s clothes are also less restricting than regulus and narcissa’s, because unlike their younger siblings they got their freedom.

andromeda, like her cousins, is wearing silver jewelry, aside from a gold ring (her engagement ring), and with her hand she’s covering a family pendant (she chose love over her family). regulus is wearing a pin that looks like salazar’s locket.

poses and such:

andromeda isn’t looking at the camera because she was the first to “look away from her family”, and sirius is looking at her because he would soon follow in her footsteps (andy also has a hand on his shoulder to further represent her influence on him). similarly, bellatrix (who is the only one smiling) is keeping an hand on narcissa so she wouldn’t leave. narcissa has a hand clenched in a fist, covered by her left, (as a way to hide her defiance).

ok i think this is all but i’m not sure lmao xx

hope you like it ^^

[sweetnnaivete]

bellatrix plays the cello, regulus plays the violin, narcissa does ballet..

and then there's andromeda and sirius who started a garage band called something stupid like "we are the ones who tread across the vast desert of despair"

[wafflinglumos]

Sirius and James were not the same type of rich, I see this a lot, and a lot of people think that it’s canon, which is just, incorrect. James came from new money, Sirius came from old money.

Fleamont Potter’s business heavily, HEAVILY contributed to James’ wealth, sure Harry by our terms and by wizard terms inherited a LOT, absolutely, but from what we know from canon it’s incomparable to the Blacks fortune, it’s like comparing Draco’s and Harry’s wealth at the start of the series, you can’t.

Another thing to add is that the Most Noble and Ancient House of Black has that name for a reason, now sure, just because they’re known doesn’t mean they’re rich but we can quite confidently say they were, if you wanted to argue for the Potters’ being wealthier, you could I guess say that at the time the Blacks were a declining old money family, but they were still incredibly, INCREDIBLY wealthy.

We don’t know for certain how rich they were, or if they were richer than the Malfoys but because of how money works, old money specifically, we can say that at some point in the last few centuries(pre 1980) that they were as rich, or even richer than the Malfoys, however they weren’t as rich as them when it reached the 80’s. We can also guess they had the same amount of money or one of them had more, because Narcissa married Lucius so theoretically, Narcissa would have to be on the same level as Lucius in terms of wealth and vice versa.

Another thing we can use to calculate their wealth is their past history with house elves, from what we know from Ronald Weasley in Chamber of Secrets, a wizard/witch has to be “rolling in dough” to have a house elf, we can then look at the wall of dead house elves heads that the family had, and can make assumptions from there.

So, with all this information, we don’t have an exact amount, but, we know that even if they weren’t as wealthy as we paint them they were still known, and their opinions were highly regarded by an astounding amount, but then again, they were still insanely rich, and in terms of wealth and fame, leagues above the Potters.

The Potters were extremely wealthy, but the Blacks were loaded.

Anyways that’s the end of my Ted talk.

[altinaii]

the person is like, "I'm mentally balanced," and then they tell me about their favorite headcannons about the Black family

[passinhosdetartaruga]

Maybe there was never a Black Family curse. Maybe that house was just covered with lead paint.

[regheart]

i'm thinking about how the characterisation of the black family tends to be really difficult to get right and one of the reasons that i can think of is that we don't know enough of wizarding culture, so we try to convey the atmosphere and the dynamics through codes that are familiar to us

that's why they are so victorian in so many fics. they act and speak like they're inside a victorian novel, they only ever wear black and dark green, the high society/pure blood circle is also composed by meeting for tea, and having balls, and discussing politics, and arranged marriages

and that's not bad!!! i read and love some fics like that, but i think this is an aesthetic that completely ignores some of the things we know about wizards and about the blacks

first of all, the clothes. wizards wear robes. not late 19th century clothes, robes. and they're most often dramatic and colorful. this is something easily observed in the very first chapter of PS. so i think the blacks should wear deep purple and emerald green and silver and burgundy and turquoise, make outfits fun!!!

second, grimmauld place tells us some things about its inhabitants. the fact that it's a muggle house in a muggle neighborhood shows that they must have some level of cognitive dissonance in terms of what elements of muggle culture and lifestyle they hold (but i don't think that applies to holding the same patterns of views and behaviors of high society, again, it's about how the writers tries to convey "rich and uptight" with codes that are familiar to them). the decoration choices for the house are also very telling, family heirlooms, big clocks, tapestry... troll leg and house elf heads??? that's morbid. that's camp.

and my point is, black family characterisation lacks on campiness. wizards are inherently weird. anything in which they're overly polite and too aristocratic is inaccurate. they are bigots and lobbyists and one of them was literally headmaster of hogwarts. they are into the dark arts but they don't torture their children. make them funnier and messier and weirder and more like real people instead of a bunch of lines from downton abbey glued together

[metalomagnetic]

It’s Battle of the Blacks, they’re all alive, healthy, and in their magical prime. Who comes out on top?

Oh, boy!

Let's assume it's an organised battle, with rounds and stuff, and not just straight up chaos.

If it's straight up chaos, Bella wins.

But if organised, let's see:

First round:

Melania refuses to compete, she can't bear to cause harm to any family member.

Irma vs Hesper- they both get disqualified because they are nuts and take each other out anyway.

Andromeda vs Narcissa. Narcissa wins.

Bellatrix vs Walburga. Bellatrix wins.

Druella vs Cygnus- Druella wins, because she pulls out some unheard of crazy ritual that brings the whole house on their heads. It's a big 'oopsie moment' but she's left standing in the ring, so there it is.

Old Sirius vs Arcturus. Old Sirius wins. (RIP Arcturus, his dad destroys him)

Orion vs Pollux. Orion wins.

Sirius vs Regulus. Sirius wins.

Alphard has no one to match with, and he's drunk anyway, and distracted by a handsome audience member. Disqualified.

Second round (the unfair matches. Tessuth was tired when she arranged them):

Bellatrix vs Druella. Bella wins.

Narcissa vs old Sirius. Yikes!

Orion vs Sirius. Sirius wins (in part because he genuinely earned it, in part because Orion can't bring himself to hurt his son too much).

Final round:

Old Sirius vs Bella. Old Sirius wins, though he's impressed by the fight Bella put up! He always liked her the best (that is to say, he only bothered to get to know her from all the sisters).

Old Sirius vs Sirius. They fight in the ring, and in the skies. It's a tough one.

Old Sirius is crowned winner. He's handed the medal.

But because Sirius and Bella are extremely sore losers, they team up and fuck him up.

They rip the medal in two, and each wear one side around their necks; they're soulmates anyway, so they can also be medal-mates.

But perhaps the true winner is Regulus, because he predicted every single match outcome and placed bets on who will win. He predicted the final winner from the get go, but he also predicted the cheating shenanigans Bella and Sirius got into at the end. He cleans everyone of gold, and buys himself a manor far, far away where he can go have a drink in peace once in a while.

[plonn]

the black family be like: we can abuse, hurt, destroy, fuck, kill each other, but no one else is allowed to do anything to one of us or they'll pay for it (Ò ‸ Ó) (•ˋ - ˊ•)

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

some children are simply born with tragedy in their blood

[blueebeetl]

“marauders modern muggle au!” girl you put the ‘noble and most ancient house of black’ in a modern muggle setting it would literally just become succession

[enbysiriusblack]

Sirius' opinions on his family:

Walburga- loves her so much. and also hates her equally as much. thinks of her as an evil monster but also as an irrevocable part of him and just wants her to pay attention to him and to love him

Orion- loves him and also hates him and wants to see him miserable. thinks he is an irrevocable part of him and will always have a metaphorical broken chain around his neck from Orion's leash that he freed himself from

Regulus- loves him but would never admit that. thinks that he will never be able to free himself from the family and that he is an idiot for not wanting to free himself from the family. wants him to escape so they can be brothers again more than anything, but knows regulus will never want that

Bellatrix: Got on with her as kids, but hates her as he got older. Thinks she is completely unstable and insane. Knows they have a lot of similarities and hates that about himself, which only makes him hate her more.

Andromeda: His favourite cousin. Loves her. Doesn't particularly like meeting up with her as they just remind each other of all the past trauma, so they don't see each other often, but Ted does write to him a lot with updates on their lives, and Sirius writes back.

Narcissa: Thinks she's a priss. Finds her the most amusing family member to irritate. They are complete opposite people that have never once agreed on anything other than that Frank and Alice are good people.

Alphard: Loves him so much. Imagine Zuko and Iroh's relationship. This is that. Thinks he's very wise and has a terrible sense of humour but learnt a lot from him and felt like he had no more family left when he died (until James comforted him)

[deadchaoticcosmos]

do you ever wonder what the black family would be like if voldy didn't exsist or didnt do the things he did?

[wafflinglumos]

I need Black sisters centric fics, I don’t want Regulus and Sirius with a side of Black sisters I want Narcissa having to deal with Andromeda being cast out and Bellatrix’s descent into insanity, I want Andromeda having to choose between the man she loves and her family. Honestly I want more Andromeda content in general because this fandom loves LOVES to gloss over her getting disowned because of Sirius. Which is insane to me because Sirius didn’t get disowned until AFTER he ran away (still love Sirius though) while Andromeda got disowned because she married Ted Tonks and then got SHUNNED by her sisters because of it. Bellatrix’s spiral into insanity would be so interesting to read about and there’s so much potential there too.

The Black sisters are so complex and this fandom makes them so one dimensional and or side characters to push Sirius or Regulus’ character development further

Anyways that concludes my Ted(Tonks) talk

[altinaii]

The Black family is like the Targaryens in the wizarding world. Incredibly rich, incredibly strong and with centuries of history behind them. But it ruined them. They had every chance to survive the war and after, but they ruined themselves. Incredibly confident to admit their mistakes, incredibly proud to look back