#and he’s just [redacted] regulus in the [redacted]

[ryoko-san]

sillies

[t4llhum4n]

Yes, Blake is scary because hubris makes him blind to any sort of reason. But REGULUS --

I have words. Starting with the fact that, to me, Regulus is the scariest Redacted villain.

Let me explain.

I'm going to preface this by saying that no, Regulus does not scare me. It's the idea and dynamic between Regulus and his listener, who I will be dubbing "Mine," that's legitimately unsettling.

Let's break this down. "Mine" is an uninformed, unempowered human. Regulus is a cloaked Empathy Daemon of unknown age. Already, we have an insane power imbalance. I think this is the most imbalance we've seen in terms of power and knowledge from any Prime Redacted couple (if I'm wrong, please let me know). And it's only made worse by what Regulus does with his power over "Mine."

Can you imagine having an invisible stalker? Being watched at all hours of the day and never even knowing until they reveal themselves? That's chilling. Beyond that, you can't even see them when they do eventually reveal themselves, and you have no context as to why that might be. Magic doesn't exist to you -- there's no possible way for this to be happening. But it is.

And when this stalker finally speaks to you and confesses that they've been watching your every move, it's unnatural. They're speaking in your mind. That shouldn't be possible. You can't see them, you hear them in your mind -- could it all be in your head? Is this all just a really bad dream?

You aren't able to move. You can feel them on you, but even the parts of you that aren't touching them are paralyzed in place.

They tell you that they're going to fill in the gaps. They're going to "pour themselves into your mind like water." You're told that "you won't get a moment of respite." The invisible stalker's voice is bouncing around your brain, reverberating and echoing in your mind. And you're helpless.

You don't understand what's happening, and you're clearly completely at the mercy of whoever or whatever this being is. Who knows? Maybe if it really is a dream, then you'll just wake up from it all. Sitting up in bed, walking to the kitchen, and making breakfast, getting back to your old routine. Maybe if you just ride this out, it'll all end soon..

And that's the thing. It DOES. "Mine" is saved by the Department, gets their memories wiped, and they start a new relationship. They're happy. Regulus gets taken to containment to be rehabilitated, and it's all over.

Until it's not.

I'm gonna be honest, I low-key was a little "meh" about Regulus being more open with "Mine." It took away the intimidation of their difference in knowledge and made the relationship a little less interesting to me. That is, of course, until that most recent Regulus video came out.

Pardon my southern, but Y'ALL. That shit was insane. That audio put me on edge the entire time. The distortions, the off-putting atmosphere of the dream, the transition from "they are safe in my grasp" to "I'm going to crush the stars between my fingers and make new ones" -- all of it. Chef's kiss. Him saying that he knows it's going to hurt, but that it'll be worth it? Because they'll finally be perfect? It's so insane.

He wants to mold "Mine." That's what makes him so interesting to me. Other yanderes will be all, "oh, you're perfect the way you are, and no one will ever touch you." Regulus? Nah. To him, "Mine" is almost perfect. In every sense except for one: They're still thinking about the outside world. And it drives him crazy.

Overwhelming their thoughts with his voice and presence at all hours of every day (which, as someone who can hardly stand being in a packed grocery store for too long, is a terrifying prospect) wasn't enough. He has to make his reality their reality. That's the only way that they'll finally be perfect.

"I'll make myself so much a part of you that they wouldn't be able to separate us no matter how hard they tried."

[licnheartedd]

told myself i would never write smut again but @rizzulusarcturizz is filling my head with ideas

[perpetual-state-of-confusion]

I just thought about it, how does Regulus get food? Everything else I can guess. Water system in the house for water, general shelter is already provided. Can just open a window for fresh air.

I'm guessing he warded the place to keep people away from the house or to literally forget the house exists so Regulus & his listener don't get literally evicted.

But seriously, how's he stocking food? Is he just wandering into a store, grabbing a bunch of food and walking out? He's invisible, but I don't think that extends to the food he grabs? 😭

Some tired college kid working at a grocery store witnesses the weekly Magic Floating Food and just goes, "I don't get paid enough to give af," and just lets it happen.

[mrsmiagreer]

I need someone to draw Caelum and Regulus as cotton candy brothers :)

[daisyyy-do]

I love opening my phone to see who was uploaded yesterday, and then closing it the moment I saw Regulus.

[eggyboyoart]

I love Marcus an unhealthy amount and I can't stop-

[capitalisticveins]

Well there goes 30 minutes of my time

Was rewatching Regulus bc he’s my favorite Daemon (until Caelum gets a new video that is) and I realized something with the title

Idk if this is a writing error on Erik’s part, but Regulus went from a “Daemon” to “Demon”. I could ignore this if there weren’t more changes to Regulus.

For one, his main color is Blue. It’s the only color besides white on his icon, and it’s the color the words on his thumbnails are, but in the new video, it’s a pinkish-red. A very obvious change, but why change it at all?

Another change is the voice effect. Before, to seem angry, his voice would grow louder, and he’d have 3 voices across our mind speaking to emphasize what he’s trying to say, but he doesn’t do that in the new audio.

What he does instead is sort of, distort his voice? I don’t know how to explain it, but it grew vicious and threatening. The binaural audio does appear in the new video, but he doesn’t multiply his voice in it (at least I don’t think he did).

I could ignore one of these changes, maybe even two. But all three HAS to mean something. His playlist title still says “Daemon” so I don’t know if I’m right, but what if Regulus became a Demon? I don’t know what the differences between a Daemon and Demon are, but Demons are more vicious, and have the possibility to be more dangerous and violent (but not all, like Caelum said)

Maybe it means he’s more willing to hurt and kill people for his listener, like he said after he escaped? Who knows.

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What Your Fave Redacted Character Says About You

Davey - You value a lot of things in a man: the most important being his ability to snap you in half.

Asher - You are the annoying younger sibling who is completely aware of exactly how much they can get away with via years of experience.

Milo - When people ask you what your hobbies are you say “reading” but the silent part of that answer is “fanfiction”

Vincent - I could go on for hours about all the parasocial relationships you’ve had in your life.

Sam - You’re rapidly running out of things other than yourself to blame for your problems, and honestly, it’s just a cry for help at this point.

Lasko - The people in your life have learned not to use the turn of phrase, “What’s the worst that could happen?” Because you will immediately launch into a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation with cited sources on exactly everything that could possibly go wrong.

Damien - Your parents were PTA terrorists. They were planning your bid for student council president while you were still in the womb.

Hux - For the people who think other people are always flirting with them or buttering them up, but they’re honestly just being nice and you never really learned how appropriately reciprocate that because life has taught you that everyone is always after something.

Gavin - God gave you depression and anxiety because if he didn’t, you’d be competing for his job

Avior - You’re either a burned out “gifted kid” or you only just got diagnosed with ADHD in your mid 20s. No in between.

Vega - Dear god do you love to be stepped on

Blake - You can not fix him. YOU CAN NOT FIX HIM.

Elliott - The ultimate fantasy of every demi-sexual out there.

Aaron - Depends: if you’re a straight woman, this is just everyone’s daddy fantasy. Otherwise, you’re a white gay guy. Only they would see a 1-to-1 recreation of their bully and go, “That is my husband.”

Ivan - I’m not saying you’re scary when you’re mad, I’m just saying the Venn diagram of people who have crossed you and the people you never hear from again is a circle

James - Admit it, you find degradation just a little bit hot. Just give in and go for it, it’ll be cathartic, trust me.

Anton - Literally that meme of “Thank you for changing my life.” “I’m literally a white man from Arizona mumbling and mouth-breathing into a mic.”

Geordi - “Patience of a saint” and “persistence of a rock” do not even begin to describe you. We have had nothing but radio silence from this man for 7 months.

Regulus - You just want someone to end your existence without actually killing you and honestly, valid take.

Guy - Your insecurities might scream at every person you meet, but not if you scream louder

Ollie - Your life moves from one disaster to the next and you are desperate for a shred of stability, which is probably why you’re listening to boyfriend role-play.

Morgan - There are two kinds of people in this fandom: Those who know what “19 months” means, and those who don’t.

[kilarthmac]

Let's talk about Caelum.

I'm gonna preface this with saying that everyone is entitled to their opinions, and if once you're done reading this you decide you don't want to follow me or you want to block me, that's completely up to you. I'm not trying to change your opinion or attack anyone who has a different one than mine, I just wanted to put my two cents out there.

I also wanted to say that whatever your opinion on the matter is, it's yours and yours alone, and you should respect the opinions of other people even if they don't match up. I personally do not sexualize Caelum, but I do think he is an adult with childlike characteristics, and those two statements are not mutually exclusive. He can be an adult, but he also doesnt have to be put in adult situations.

It's okay to have strong feelings one way or the other about this topic, but it is not okay to harass people or go on a witch hunt for those with the opposite opinion to give them shit about what they think. If you disagree with someone and do not want to see their stuff on your timeline, just block them or scroll away. You alone are responsible for your own dash, you cannot make other people responsible for what you see on your timeline.

All that being said, I do not like how the fandom treats Caelum and Empathy Daemons in general.

My stance on the matter is that Empathy Daemons as a whole are adults, but because of how E'Laetum created them, they tend to have childlike characteristics. Those who say that Empathy Daemons are ALL children blatantly ignore the fact that Regulus is an Empathy Daemon as well, and that he has been shown to have adult tendancies (his BA, getting possessive over his charge, etc) while also maintaining his childlike characteristics (telling his charge a bedtime story to sleep, having a very one dimensional view of himself and his charge, etc). This is where I have a problem whenever I see people try to say that all Empathy Daemons are children. Regulus is clearly an adult. There is no "reading between the lines" about this.

Caelum is also an Empathy Daemon, but he is a very different character than Regulus. He is a lot more childlike compared to Regulus. He gets his words mixed up, he likes sweets, he likes hugs, etc. But in his most recent video (Your Bakadere Empathy Daemon Friend Visits You), even he says that he almost went down a path similar to Regulus' until Delphinus stepped in and assigned him to Freelancer, and that stopped him from falling (timestamps from 2:40 - 3:18, and 8:45 in that video). It may be uncomfortable for some people to think of Caelum as going down the same path that Regulus did, but this video clearly shows that he had the potential to. Caelum and Regulus are not as different as one may think.

Erik has also said himself that D(a)emons step out of the Elision Well as adults and they do not age. Of course they don't know everything so they still have to learn, but that's not the same as being a child. On top of the most recent Redacted 101 video, take this screenshot from Wonderworld (previously Redacted Records, when Erik was still in the server) from 2020, where Erik talks about how D(a)emons coalesce.

He even mentions how in earlier Caelum videos he didn't know what he wanted the d(a)emon life cycle to be yet, and that's why he had Caelum state that he was a "kid daemon" at one point.

Not to mention the fact that in the official timeline, it shows that Caelum coalesced in 1999, and is even older than Damien.

At the end of the day, Caelum is a fictional character. Whatever someone ends up deciding to make of him is their choice, this is a fandom after all. If it really bothers you to see what certain people make, block them and move on. DO NOT berate them for their headcanons or fanart or whatever else. People are allowed to have their own headcanons, make their own fics, and draw their own fanart. This is a fandom space, and people are allowed their creative liberties.

Anyways, that has been my two cents. Feel free to voice your opinions in the comments if u want to, but please please be respectful and don't attack anyone.

TLDR; I don't sexualize Caelum but I do think he and all Empathy Daemons are adults (ex: Regulus), everyone should respect everyone else's opinions and just block what they don't want to see on their timelines, and the fandom needs to chill out lol

[righteous-r0de0]

i saw a bunch of other people doing this so

random redacted headcanons!

- vincent can’t handle spicy food very well, even post-turning

- ivan hates fishing

- david loves egg salad sandwiches with hot sauce (it’s his favorite comfort food)

- caelum has never had cotton candy and freelancer is pretty sure if he ever did, he would implode

- gavin doesn’t like snow

- lasko on the other hand LOVES spicy food and testing his tolerance to certain things

- damien doesn’t drink coffee or tea or energy drinks, this man is just out here raw-dogging life

- kody still tries to look at all the damn crew’s socials, even though they all have him blocked

- huxley (opposite of damien) gets his caffeine anyway he can but his favorite are the caffeine pouches (similar to zyns (these are also my favorite))

- asher loves watching mma fights and tries (gently) to recreate the moves on babe (“i could have dropped you just then! you gotta keep your guard up!”)

- james “i’m exploding you with my mind” redacted

- marcus begged his mom for a mohawk in middle school but he didn’t have the right texture hair for it and she refused to buy him all the hair gel necessary to make it a real mohawk so they just had to shave his head (kids thought he had lice)

- anton loves sending and receiving physical mail. he knows it’s impractical in comparison to texting or calling, but he loves it

- ollie has a favorite blanket, pillow, and set of sheets. he’s very particular about his bedtime routine

- elliot however could drop anywhere at anytime. and that’s nothing to do with him being a dreamwalker. he’s just a fantastic sleeper

- brachium has never had candy, but he’s curious about it

- avior really really likes classical music and it’s brought him to tears multiple times (especially jupiter comp. by gustav holst iykyk)

- milo holds the door open for everyone whenever he can. sweetheart once thought he was following them for like fifteen minutes but he was still stuck at the door

- cam loves fresh produce and is a frequenter of any local farmers market

- blake had a phase in middle school and early high school where he was super patriotic and right-wing leaning and he hates when people bring it up

- aaron actually knows most of the shaw pack boys. he tried to hire them for an event before realizing they were an empowered company. david thought he knew

- sam showed pigs and sheep when he was younger. he kinda misses it but he doesn’t have the room for livestock anymore

- vega in all his years of existing both in aria and on earth has never been truly hugged

- before falling, regulus lived on earth with his charge. they had two cats

- xavier used to travel ridiculous amounts of miles to go to food festivals around the country. he took the team with him once or twice

- geordi never deleted any pictures of him and cutie. he’s still hopeful that things will work out and he doesn’t want to get rid of older memories with them

- guy was friends with a lot of the unempowered boys in school, but lost touch with them in college

- morgan is very into hair-care. his shower looks like an apothecary shop full of mystery vials and oils. he knows what everything is and how to use it though.

- porter loves classic literature and translating latin to english. it’s one of the few hobbies he allows himself to have

- hush once traipsed into doc’s apartment, mud up to his knees and all over his face and hands, holding a bull frog. he only came to ask what it was.

[maxdibert]

can i vent here?

i wanna scream every time marauders stans pulling snape-creepy-obsessive-stalker narrative (ugh but he’s not the one with a tracking map and invisible cloak, is he?)

or

when regulus stans(that are also anti snape) listing reasons why they like his character in canon discussions, and they just…describing canon snape???(i guess fanon too impactful for them huh)

istg they were not this bad before, i have a theory that the shift on the behaviour of these stans is marked by the existence of ⏰app and *redacted* fic

This obsession with Regulus has really caught me by surprise because I’ve been out of the fandom for a few years, and when I first got into it back in the days of Fanfiction.net and LiveJournal, he wasn’t a character anyone really paid attention to, or at least if they did, they portrayed him as a sort of 70s Draco Malfoy and that was about it. The fact that he’s now being treated as a victim of abuse and mistreatment who had no choice but to join the Death Eaters is laughable to me because it’s well-established in canon (Sirius himself says it) that his brother always followed the family’s rules and was actually Walburga’s favorite because of it. (Though I’ve always thought that if Walburga had so much contempt for her eldest son, it wasn’t just about politics, but because Sirius and she had very similar personalities: both were uncontrollable and insufferable, and she couldn’t stand seeing herself reflected in someone who despised everything she valued. And that Regulus probably had a calmer, more malleable, less confrontational character like his father. But anyway.)

Regulus is no martyr. Regulus was a young aristocrat completely aligned with his social class and its prevailing ideas, just like Draco or many of the Slytherins who were Death Eater children during Harry’s time. I’ve always seen Regulus as similar to Narcissa (in contrast to Sirius, who’s like Bellatrix) with pride in his surname and bloodline, with the belief that being who they are makes them superior to others, and with the firm conviction that those beneath them are worth much less or nothing at all. And, like Narcissa, I don’t see him as sadistic, just someone who joined what he joined feeling quite sure of himself but then got scared when things got out of hand. It’s something that happens to many people who join far-right groups, completely convinced of what they’re seeking, but then back down when they come face-to-face with extreme violence. But to project him as some poor victim… Please. Not only is it incoherent and a betrayal of canon, but it also takes away all the character’s depth. You’re stripping away the tragedy of his regret. You’re robbing him of the chance to become disillusioned with what happened and rebel against it. It’s a mess.

I’m convinced that the new Marauders fans simply hate Snape because: 1) he’s the living, canonical representation that their favorite characters were bullies and abusers, and it completely destroys the narrative they’ve created of the idyllic, super-progressive group of friends; 2) because they’re classist jerks who prefer to fangirl over the cool rich kids with money and status who are on the dark side, essentially turning it into some kind of magical Gossip Girl; and 3) because he’s not canonically attractive, and therefore they can’t make aesthetic TikTok videos with him. It’s such a superficial and absurd perspective, much like treating as canon a bunch of characters whose personalities, relationships, and stories don’t exist in the books because for most of them, we only know their names. But hey, fans like this have just enough brain cells to not crap themselves, so…

[vampierium]

I returned with more redacted designs (OUTDATED, CALLER SPECIFICALLY, I DONT LIKE HIS DESIGN!!!)

I gave Regulus his weird little nervous system thing because I heavily associate him with like nerves, sensory, and touch! And in honor of our lovely caller getting another audio, i tried working on his design! As of now I don’t know what he is, like if he’s an empowered human or a daemon (maybe he’s like Regulus), and I don’t have any good theories, so I just defaulted with a human ! Hopefully we’ll get more of him so I can update the design!

Also are we still naming the caller “John” or what

[crysoon]

redacted men as male thot jobs

david: mechanic

the youngest at the job

shoots shit at all the old farts there

vincent: roller coaster operator

evil

enjoys faking the count downs, nothing brings him more joy than that

swings around that fucking landyard like his life depends on it

milo: barista (starbucks specifically)

doesn’t play with tall, venti and grande (either won’t take ur order if u say it incorrectly or will jus be annoying about it)

has his favourite milfs orders memorized

writes people’s names wrong/in a weird way for entertainment purposes

asher: footlocker employee

always be yelling across the damn store

laughing at his coworkers jokes

somebody asks for their size, he just goes to the back and sits there on his phone

sam: counter employee at an apple store

never at the counter

jk (maybe)

dw he sees you

fixes your phone by turning it on and off (you’ve done this 7 times already) after your 1 hour wait

damien: delivery man

finds happiness in riling dogs in the windows

on a good day, he’ll take extra good care of your package

avior: library assistant

hates everyone

(surprisingly finds it soothing putting books back on the shelves)

(he still hates everyone)

huxley: personal trainer

wouldn’t understand why the ladies are always bringing him gifts n asking abt his personal life

ollie: substitute teacher

kids LOVE him

they fist fight over whether he’s their sub or not

(likes to bug the teachers next door, especially during class time)

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

regulus

unemployed

geordi

subway sandwich artist

gavin

bath & body works employee

tricks u into buying the 3 wicked candles

cam

nurse

vega

club promoter

lasko

EMT

elliott

cheesecake factory server

olive garden line cook

door to door salesman

fucker has a lot of jobs okay

[puffin-smoke]

It is I, someone who has never driven a car, here to tell you how an Uber Driver would review random Redacted Characters + Listeners

Darlin' - Used me as a getaway driver?? Also dumped something heavy in the backseat. I don't know what it was, but I haven't been able to get the smell out. Did tip tho

Lasko - Ended up spilling a drink all over the backseat, tried to clean it up and only made it worse. The guy looked near tears when I dropped him off, but did tip and the smell of his coffee covered up whatever the last rider did

Geordi - I think the satnav was bugging out so I dropped him off at the wrong place, but he didn't tell me that when I asked. I started driving away but he was walking the same way, so we just made eye contact with eachother for five minutes straight.

Baabe - Cleaned the car for me? Somehow managed to get both smells out and gave me one of those car air freshener trees. Were they just carrying one of those on hand?

Damien - Sat in the front seat, turned off my music and kept holding the grab handles whenever I made any turns. Pretty sure he thinks I couldn't hear him, but did say that he "should start drafting up his will". Did tip

Gavin - I don't know what he spilled in the backseat. I don't want to know. But it won't come out and bleach isn't helping

Sweetheart - Used me to chase a criminal? They jumped in the front seat and yelled to "Follow that car!". Ended up in a high speed chase, and my car got wrecked. Still waiting on that company insurance they said would pay for it. Didn't catch the guy

Regulus -

Guy - Was dressed in that local Pizza Shop's uniform? I think his bike might've broken down. Gave me garlic bread instead of a tip. Worth it

Angel - Sat up front and started singing to the music I was playing. Granted they didn't know the lyrics so it wasn't very good singing but I did appreciate it. Hung their head out of the window like a dog

Milo - His cat puked in the backseat. The air freshener tree isn't helping anymore, I need a new car

Quinn - I think he was the guy that detective was chasing? I recognise his hair. Guy spilt blood all of the front seat, put his feet on my dashboard and complained about the smell. Was tempted to drive to the police station but decided against it.

[otrtbs]

hi nat. i miss ahb regulus a lot today and i need to ask you, please, if he wasn't [redacted], how would he spend his day ?

if he wasn't redacted he'd be in brazil with james.

and i reckon he'd wake up early and make coffee and james will get up after him and open all the windows so the warmth and the sun gets in. and regulus will set out breakfast at the little table for two they have in their kitchen. and james would come in with his hair all a mess from bed and his glasses crooked as he tries to wake up and regulus would smile fondly at him from across the table, even as he's fully dressed and ready for the day. and they wouldn't say much they'd just enjoy being in each other's company.

and then james. would get ready and regulus would tend to the garden and pick all the weeds and prune all the plants and perhaps they'd walk to the beach for awhile while it's still early and empty and james would of course get in the water up to his knees. and later in the afternoon, they'd walk to the market with their bags and buy some groceries like oranges and bread and some more milk. and they'd buy enough for an extra person because mary's coming to visit soon.

and regulus would go home and do laundry while james cooks dinner and he'd make a promise to call sirius some time tomorrow. and then he'd mark a date on the little calender for two weeks out. it's a saturday. and he bought tickets to see the new lygia pape show at their art museum.

and at night when the sun's gone down and the air is cool, james lays in the grass and looks up at the stars as he hums a little tune. and regulus sits on the porch by the light of the house reading while the drying laundry swings from the clothes line. and for a moment, a singular moment, he just looks at james and makes himself commit the whole scene to memory. just an ordinary night, a night he's had 1,000 times, but one that's full of simple magic anyway. a magic that he never imagined in a million years that he'd have.