#this is sooo long and only sort of about jegulus i’m so sorry !!

[dykefever]

thoughts on jegulus ? <3

hellooo umm!!! this got unforgivably long and i’m not sure it makes much sense but it’s all under the cut x

i have written them as a side pairing before (really their relationship is v important to the plot of here we are, again) and i had a lot of fun i won’t lie! we have very little canon information on either of them and in particular regulus but there are bits that make the idea of them interesting to me!! however i don’t really see how they could’ve dated at hogwarts AND that james would have kept that a secret from sirius?? that seems insane to me given their relationship.

sirius and regulus as a brothers dynamic i think is deeply interesting to unpick and i really enjoy exploring that relationship in my own writing! i tend to agree with how it was depicted in the nothing left series on ao3 and then in turn how james also wants to some degree save/help regulus from that household as he has done with sirius. and that’s where his investment begins (and perhaps, ends, for many people lol) but i simply cannot see them together in hogwarts when regulus is sinking deeper into fascism because that is so deeply against all of james’s beliefs and what makes him such a Good character, he would in my opinion find it abhorrent to be with someone that held those beliefs. HOWEVER! in my fanon-ish view of regulus i can see him being drawn to the goodness in james and james wanting to unpick all regulus’s defences etc etc (in some kind of au)

with regards to regulus’s character i agree a lot with what ridi says and just am so bored of the uwu-ification of him and being a knock-off remus character! that’s so boring! like, it’s exceedingly interesting to me to explore how someone comes to fascism and begins following a fascist leader, and then how they come to resist that and risk their life in such a way to stop that leader than whatever seems to often happen with regulus where they make him somehow a Total Good Guy with no agency in the process. okay and final words! i was kind of into the idea of jegulus when it first started gaining traction but whatever the fuck happened and is still happening in the fandom really puts me off reading and/or engaging in the fic! there seems to be such strict ideas of how regulus and james can be written that feels worlds away from how i see them and write them. everyone is really intense about it all and it’s just! not for me! i prefer my little corner of the r/s fandom

but long and short of it: i can enjoy them together, there’s just caveats to that :-)