Haven't been able to stop thinking about how I'd design the Marauders era characters so I went and did it
Reasoning for bigger deviations under the cut:
REGULUS: "[…] though he was smaller, slighter, and rather less handsome than Sirius had been." Regulus is clearly framed as emasculated by Sirius, who is handsome and popular, whereas Regulus is not. Timothy Chalomet is the only fancast where I reflexively go "well that's just not correct".
REMUS: The entire premise of Remus is that he reduces himself as penance for being a werewolf. There is a deep catastrophizing anxiety and self-loathing within him that would make him avoid Harry, jeapordize the safety of the students by hiding the animagus situation, and abandon his child, so I want him to be visibly tepid. I know he canonically doesn't have visible scars let me have this
PETER: The most emasculated character in the series. Intriguing he kidnapped Bertha Jorkins by successfully pulling her, implying he once had some level of charisma and/or hotness. Sirius makes fun of him for kissing James' ass in SWM, but he does come off as a likeable guy who enjoys being a powerful man's scheming eunuch.
LILY: 1. She doesn't look like Ginny. Come on, guys.
2. Give her some 1970s kick
BARTY: Barty is described as having straw-coloured hair and freckles. The point of Barty being outed as a death eater was that it shook the pristine image Barty Crouch maintained. I got the impression he had a Dorian Grey-esque (or rather, Tom Riddle-esque) boyish innocence to him. There's an underlying intensity in his customer service smile his daddy trained into him. Ravenclaw to separate him from everyone else.
PANDORA: People love Luna so much they want her twice. AND YET. Xenophilius is obviously the space-case and the reason Luna's personality is so bizarre; one of the only things we know about Pandora was that she was the one tidying her child's appearance. I think she likes to dote on someone with psychological problems
MULCIBER: Conceiving Mulciber as an older boy who attracted younger followers, a role Lucius also performed. This Mulciber-Malfoy paternalism unit would be a recreation of their father's role in the Walpurgis era (thing I made up), which makes Snape a much more charged figure in their gang.
EVAN: Really really like the idea of Evan being the closest to a normal friend Snape has in Slytherin and him also being a gawky loser taken in by the careful hand of the older boys, but treated MUCH differently as the pureblood son of an OG Death Eater.
MARLENE & DORCUS: Marlene and Dorcus are never given ages. It's a little silly to assume Dumbledore is gung-ho about mass-hiring child soldiers for the frontlines and I think the adults with more responsibility would have been the first to go. Using their Pottermore designs because they contrast really nicely.
MARLENE: I figured Marlene is around Arthur/Molly's age. I envision her as a family woman who kept the morale up, a role Molly takes up in the second war.
DORCAS: Voldemort personally executing Dorcus is likely because she held political importance (just like Amelia Bones), so it makes more sense she's older (his generation or close). I do believe this makes Dorlene go crazy.
VOLDEMORT: There's countless indications that Voldemort's appearance was already distorted since he came back to Britain. Voldemort is very queer-coded, so let's just double down. I like to imagine he'd later lose his femme playfulness as the DE 1st gen died out and he became the new patriarch. What are we doing to our beautiful queens
BELLA: Went full 80s starlet since she already has the hair. Mildly resembles his mother, which could mean nothing.
Now going by heights - Sev is the shortest, Remus is the middle height, Sirius is the tallest.
Sirius is mostly the bigger spoon and will just have his arms randomly over the both of the them, by sometimes (a lot of times) will pull a puppy face to get to be in the middle of Remus and Sev to feel cuddled.
Bonus of him sleeping in his dog form on cold nights for extra warmth.
Severus is mostly an outer-spoon, given the fact that he wakes up a lot in the middle of the night and doesn't want to wake up the others.
Also given the fact that being an outer-spoon gives him more of a breather, he feels suffocated easily.
But at nights where there feel like he needs more support or to have an eye kept on him - Remus and Sirius will have him as the small middle-spoon, and will (try to) stay up with h if needed.
Sirius would most likely fall asleep and his weight will just detain Severus while Remus talks with him into the night untill they both fall asleep.
Remus doesn't really mind for his position. Mostly the middle spoon, being hugged by Sirius and hugging Severus.
On full moons he gets saddened that he can't sleep with them, but given Sirius' animagus form and that the potion makes Remus unharmful - they both join him into s pile on a mattress on the floor.
Severus find the wet-dog smell hard to ignore from both of them, but he's tired enough to fall asleep either way untill Remus waked up and starts to panic that they both took that "risk" and wakes them up with that.
The character that is closest to Regulus personality-wise and the only one I agree to use in order to characterize Regulus as accurate as possible is Percy Weasley, and I will die on that hill.
Losing their families figuratively, Regulus with Sirius and Percy with his entire family, in a chase of what thought was right.
When understand too late they were wrong, Regulus getting himself off, and Percy losing Fred while fighting side by side him.
They both cared for their families. Percy in his way wanted his to stay away from Harry because he saw him as a threat to their safety. Regulus asked Kreacher to never tell his family what he had actually done.
And their ambitions with what they were after, Regulus with the Death Eaters collecting snippets about Voldemort, and Percy with the ministry willing to overlook his freedom of thought to just do what he was told to climb the ladder.
I don't want to see a Snape carbon copy. I want to see the uptight ambitious fanboy he actually is.
first of all
i hated harry potter universe my whole life
and here i am 24 y. o. simping over not-so-young wizards
second of all
i'm a sucker for gentle kisses
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