People talk about Remus, Reggie and Lily being a power trio, which, fair enough and I do love their dynamic. But not enough people talk about Evan Rosier and Sirius Black secretly bonding over their shared protective nature for Regulus. They don't like each other, they barely tolerate each other ffs, but nobody can compare to them when it comes to being the Regulus defence squad (alongwith Barty and Pandora). They know Reg can protect himself and they trust him enough, but they're every bit of the scary overprotective brothers simply because they care so much. They don't fight his battles for him, they just prevent anyone from ever attempting to do anything malicious.
Barty had always truly been Regulus's best friend, and that includes not liking Sirius because he thinks Reg deserves better.
But Evan knows better. He knows Reg's pretense to dislike his gryffindor blood traitor brother, he knows how much he still cares for Sirius's opinions, because that never changed. Sirius was always the most important to Reg, because he truly loved him, his true family. It wasn't a belief, Reg just knew Sirius loves him, his little brother, just like the sun rises in the east, Sirius would always be there for Reg. Contrary to what people thought, Sirius didn't dislike Reg because he was a Slytherin, as he was still his Reggie. Regulus craved the approval from his parents, but with Sirius, it was just there. He knew, if he asked, Sirius would do anything for him.
Evan had very few people he could trust to call his friends. Regulus was without a doubt one of very few people he would kill for, and one of the two people he would die for. He knows that just like how him and Barty are important for Reg, just like how Reg absolutely loves Pandora, Sirius is just as important, if not more so. It was an easy choice, a deal really, a friendship of convenience, a mutual fulfillment.
He himself distrusted Sirius, but knew just enough to know Sirius would not betray Reg's trust. Sirius distrusted Evans perhaps even more than he disliked him, but he knew he needed someone in the snake's pit, someone who actually cared about Reg, to know he was safe.
They worked in surprising harmony, and read between the lines to know much more than what they initially let on. It wasn't really affection between them, far from it, but the common motivation was shockingly stronger than their hate. A quiet companionship, they never put a name on. They got along fine enough to know the clues they spoke while in the facade of being absolute enemies in front of others, clues to know when Reg was in danger, because regardless of what people thought of Sirius, he was plenty cunning, had ambition in spades, he just valued bravery more, for he wanted to be brave enough to publically stand against the disgusting beliefs his parents had.
But he understood the slytherin's usual dancing around the words just fine, vague attempts at warning, and Evan was brave enough to pursue a "friendship" even though he never trusted Sirius. Because courage was never just a single house's trait. Because ambition was not something exclusive to just one house either.
And because one thing that made them so alike was that they were loyal to a fault, loyal to their respective houses, loyal to their beliefs, but above all loyal to the people they chose as family, loyal to the people they loved.
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Your question is very ccrime actually because ctommy didn't take cdreams final life bc the revivebook and the chance to bring back cwilbur so in a way he chose his loved one/brother over saving the world/smp from cdream <- i am crazy
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