#Canon Regulus Black

[eclipsedechoesofmywords]

I want Sirius to act just a little like Regulus. Maybe when he's angry, maybe when he's sad, maybe without realizing it.

It wasn’t often, and it never lasted long, but in those rare moments, Sirius would catch himself. There was a flicker of something deeper in his eyes, something that looked a little too much like his brother: the cold detachment, the sharpness, the intensity.

His temper, usually so...all over the place, would shift into something more controlled, more dangerous. The words that escaped his lips were precise, cutting, each one like a dagger thrown with perfect aim. His gaze would become distant, as if he'd removed himself from the situation, leaving behind only the sharpness of his anger.

It was a fleeting transformation, gone as quickly as it had appeared. But in those moments, there was no denying the resemblance to Regulus: the same coldness, the same distance from the emotions that were otherwise so clear and easy to grasp to Sirius.

It scared him because it meant becoming more like his parents, his family, too.

I want Regulus to act a bit like Sirius. Maybe when he's happy, maybe when he's warm, maybe when he's feeling rebellious.

There were moments when his control slipped, when the weight of the expectations, the family, the life he had been raised into, became too much to bear. In those rare instances, he would find himself doing things that felt utterly unlike him: making jokes with a rare humor, speaking with a passion that startled him too, or expressing emotion without the usual mask of disdain.

Sirius had always been a symbol of everything Regulus had distanced himself from—wild, unrestrained, free. But in those moments, when Regulus acted like him, he could understand why Sirius chose the life he did.

Because, in those fleeting moments, he didn’t just act like Sirius—he felt like him. And the possibility of that scared him, more than anything else.

The Black brothers were just that after all, brothers, raised the same, but such opposites they were, followed completely different paths, they did. That always so interesting, isn't it? Because they both ended up in the same place.

Death is an interesting creature indeed.

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

regulus "lucky is she, who lives unaware, who doesn't get bothered by all that's unfair" black & sirius "unlucky me, who knows way too much, who fights to make changes and music and such" black

[maladaptivewriting]

the thing about canon regulus and what we know about him is that most of his supposed character traits come from sirius who is an unreliable source. sirius didn’t know who his brother was in the end, so his opinion of someone who hurt him cannot be trusted to form a canonical characterization of regulus

[siriusblack-the-third]

Start rant/ Jegulas sucks Wolfstar’s ass /End rant

Incorrect, anon: Jegulus and Wolfstar both suck heteronormative ass. Esp those where they give Regulus all of Sirius' traits (All-Round Badass Motherfucker™) and make Sirius short small stupid whiny omega submissive to tall giant smart aggressive Alpha dominant Remus. Like what the actual fuck is up with that why do you want toxic heteronormativity in a queer ship? Like I don't mind Wolfstar as the ship itself, but the carricatures that they have made of the actual characters?? Hell no. Fuck no. Absofuckinglutely NO. Wbk Canon Sirius wouldn't even consider Remus as a potential partner like come on the man's canonically a coward and as for fanon Remus Sirius would just scoff and tell the man to fuck off

And now on to Jegulus. Keeping aside the fact that James wouldn't even look twice once at Regulus (hello that dude is a literal Voldemort fanboy bro had newspaper clippings on his walls 💀💀); why are y'all so insistent on villainising Lily?? Why do you want Regulus as Harry's parents and why do you bash Lily for it like for what??! I don't mind Lily bashing, but like. Don't use women as a tool for mlm ships ya assholes. Also, in what world would a queer James even look at anyone other than Canon Sirius? AND WHATS WITH THIS "JAMES POTTER HAS A KNIFE KINK" BULLSHIT?! WHY IS IT EVERYWHERE IN THE JEGULUS FANDOM FOR WHAT??? *clears throat* Anyways.

Both these ships would be absolutely fine if the writers stuck to canon characterisations, but they didn't and now I'm angry.

[maladaptivedaydr3amer]

“I have very child like rage, and

very childlike loneliness.”

-Richey Edward(via Medusa-poet)

.Regulus Arcturus Black.

-“My idiot brother, soft enough to believe them.”(Sirius Black; Order of the phoenix)

[ezkel]

the most relatable part of canon Regulus is that he sacrificed himself to try to turn the tides of war against Voldemort only for his selfdeath mission to actually make it harder to take down Voldemort.

I just think that's relatable. like sure his me-dead note was incredibly iconic, but the fact that what he sacrificed his life for only got in the way...

anyway I just think that's funny

[thebibutterflyao3]

I understand the angst-adjacent reasons for people imagining Regulus as an inferi, and by all means destroy yourself (/affectionately), but just so we all understand, creating inferi requires intense dark magic directed at a corpse. Alive people cannot be made inferi. Inferi can not turn someone else into an inferi. There is no evidence that Voldemort returned to the cave, so Regulus was dragged beneath the water and drowned. I believe the dead man that Harry sees floating in the water is meant to be Regulus.

No hate on your headcanons, my loves! My touch of the ‘tism demands clarification though. 😹

[neverenoughmarauders]

Sorry what? Regulus and James were flat?!

“in all honesty i love it because it takes two characters that were very flat in canon and it just gives them so much depth and potiential. Also yeah maybe because they'd look hot as shit together, sue me”

Fanon on Jegulus

Sorry, just one second...

Let's start with James Potter.

If the fanon stopped whitewashing him, they'd see he is a hugely interesting character to explore in canon. He's rich, spoiled, pureblood - and a great, big, arrogant bully. Yet he is also not bigoted. He marries a muggleborn and he breaks the wizarding law to become animagi for his friend. He joins an organisation dedicated to take down a dark wizard and his DE followers.

In school he goes from being this great bully, disliked intensely by Lily Evans, to dating her and marrying her. He is downright horrible towards Snape but he risks his life saving him. James goes from trouble-maker in chief to Head Boy. He is described as exceptionally bright, clever and is seen as a great friend - yet he cannot even entertain the idea that one of his friends have turned traitor.

At three different occasions he and his wife thwarts Voldemort. They get married, have a child in the middle of a war they are fighting in. Why? Was it planned? Was it not planned?

James Potter is no angel - but man, there's a lot to unpick here! Now I have yet to see anything near this depth in the fanon versions with Jegulus.

Regulus Black

Tbh, I don't that crazy about this dude, so someone else might be able to do a better job, but the man grows up and believes in the pureblood ideas his family has. He saves newspaper cut-outs about Voldemort, and signs up as soon as he can.

I still don't buy that it's a canonical fact that he wanted out because of Kreacher. I always read him as becoming disillusioned in general and Kreacher's story was the final straw - but in either case: you either have a story of someone who was fully bought in until the moment his servant/let's be honest, slave, is endangered. This is so anti-a-lot-of-the-things-DE-stand-for: to want to defeat someone who didn't care about a slave. Like, the man was totally okay with Voldemort killing muggles. But his slave? (I am not saying slaves are worthless, but that's what they are typically viewed as by PB families). Or was Regulus already disillusioned - why? what happened? He knew quite a bit of Voldemort and his doings - was it just that doing it was far worse than reading about it in the paper?

What was his relationship with his parents? He seemed to love them, we know that he wanted them to stay save. And how did he understand exactly what Voldemort was hiding - what the locket actually was?

You know what - there's not much about Regulus in the series in terms of number of words, and yet there's so much to dig into.

Flat?! These characters are so much more than the fanon gives them credit for.

[goldrushenthusiast]

Sometimes I actually physically hurt whenever I remember literally everything that Regulus, even canonically, went though.

Like even without James what the fuck. Like I’m going to strangle JKR and make her write a happy ending for him because what the hell. Who did she hate named Regulus. He genuinely has one of the saddest stories/backgrounds in the marauders fandom.

[neverenoughmarauders]

This saves me a post ! Yes!!!!!!!! All this!!!!!!

Unpopular opinion but......

Am I the only one who misses the og marauders? The marauders fandom isn't even about the marauders now, 99% of their canon personality traits hv been replaced with cliqued behaviour. For some reason there's a massive obsession with their sexuality and I just don't get it? Lyk can't u have a character with any sexual orientation with personality traits outside it anymore? Does there really need to be a complete erasure of their most defining traits? I just wish we could get the actual marauders era characters back

James Potter: Pureblood, rich, intelligent, arrogant, a bully, but extremely loyal; took Sirius in and turned into an animagus for his werewolf bestie when the whole world would have shunned him; he could have led a life of utmost comfort but chose to risk his life and fight for those he loved in a war that didn't even concern him personally. His last words were asking his wife and child to escape while he tried to hold voldy off without a wand

Sirius Black: Haughty, a bully, extremely good looking, cool, rich, blood traitor by 16, comes from a family of literal death eaters, very intelligent, loyal, will do anything for those he loves( especially james and later Harry), thick as hell (my boy really survived in a depression prison for 12yrs, tht too after all the horror he'd seen before that), dark, very traumatized and broken

Remus Lupin: Gentle (yup u read that right), kind, mischievous (ppl really overlook this), very insecure, let james and Sirius bully Snape coz he was too thankful for their acceptance and affection to tell them off, considered himself undeserving of love, his self loathing prevents him from being a responsible adult/ parent for Harry, lowkey manipulative. Very compassionate and empathetic even after everything he's been thru tho

Peter Pettigrew: Considered slow and stupid, insecure, tags along with the others for protection, but obviously cunning and manipulative, a disgusting rat tho

Regulus Black: Teenage Reggie worshipped death eaters, he had newspaper clippings of them on his wall, completely believed in those racist ideologies until he realised what the reality of being a death eater was. He tried to bring voldy down but there's no evidence of him completely changing his beliefs about everything else like muggle borns, muggles, werewolves etc. Very cunning and intelligent tho, he discovered voldemort's secret before Dumbledore did. Liked kreacher but kreacher was also brainwashed with pureblood ideology, so I ll only give him half the credit. Bravely sacrificed his life in the end, but he still chose to protect his racist family.

Lily Evans: muggleborn, good at portions, described as popular and vivacious, pretty, the favourite sibling, isn't afraid of standing up to ppl (tht smirk in swm tho?), very brave, and most importantly (ppl really choose to forget this nowadays) a mother who stood in front of her baby boy in hopes of saving him from the darkest wizard alive even tho she herself was only 21 at the time, tht too right after losing her husband. Tho I'd still say that lily is a badly written character

It's fun to explore characters but not one of these core characteristics r even present. They're turned into one dimensional social justice warriors who r always right in everything they do

Now I get it, ppl want them to fit with current day ideals, but y not just create different/new characters then? What's the point of holding on to that nostalgia if most of their character isn't even there anymore? Where's all the toxicity coming from? And anyone who doesn't agree is homophobic and whatever other -phobic u choose to employ in the most irrelevant context ever. It's all so stupid smh🙄

[alloffandoms]

13yr old Sirius telling 13yr old James that his "sister was absolutely out of limits" about 12yr old pre-transition Regulus.

15yr old James telling a very angry 15yr old Sirius that, in his defense, he had said his sister was out of limits, not his brother.

[eweexiy]

*the black brothers gossiping in french*

sirius: who's the hottest guy in school?

regulus: my james, of course.

sirius: no, you're dating him, it doesn't count-

regulus: your boyfriend.

sirius: WHAT-

*regulus looks slyly at lupin and grins*

*remus and james, who don't speak french, look at each other nervously and uncomprehendingly*

black brothers; wolfstar; jegulus;

[curiouslymyown]

Regulus: wtf people actually tell their crushes they like them????

James: what the hell do YOU do?

Regulus: I die? lmao what kind of question…

[dellaray]

Some Reggie sketches.. trying to figure out what he looks like in my head is tougher than I thought it’d be, but I accept the challenge (no one challenged me)

[maladaptivedaydr3amer]

I just made a post comparing Canon Barty to Fanon Barty

So now I’m going to compare our darling Reggie.

Canon Reggie(art is by upthehillart)

And then Fanon Reggie issss

I love both versions.

I like fanon Regulus’ personality and shit

But I really love canon Regulus’ appearance

[auntiejohn]

I think people that say that sirius completely hated regulus are only children because if you have a sibling, especially a younger sibling you would understand more that sibling relationships are so complicated and idk about anyone else but I truly don't think I could ever hate my baby sister