Hispanic James this, Desi James that
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north African James
omg imagine James being north African and understanding the French Sirius/Regulus speaks...
exactly.
he would pretend for the longest time that doesn't understand a lick of french until one day regulus is like "je l'aime Sirius.." Infront of him and he can't tell if it's about him or some other bloke because you can't say that in front of the person you're talking about even in another language and he just blurts out "qui??" n both Sirius n regulus just stare at him startled
yes yes, and regulus would slowly turn to him with a face like 0_0 "tu comprends ce que je dis, là?" and james would just smirk.
regulus is losing his mind because the things he said before in Front of James!!!??? he has to kill him or marry him now.
he would stand up and "how!" waiting for him to say something like "I learned it for you"
James would shrug n say"it's my second language"
"YOUR SECOND LAN- WHAT!?"
James would lean back "I thought you'd know that by now, surprised you didn't realize it sooner, scratch that,you didn't realize at all"
Sirius has his face his face in his hands "I've been living with them for fucking years I didn't think of that,god ,they always used french-"
i can't this is hilarious
regulus: i have to kill him or marry him now
sirius (exchanging a knowing look with regulus): ...
james: :D
sirius (sighing): fine. (then to james->) i'm sorry james
regulus (taking a knife out of his pocket):
james: D:
and then regulus laughs, and takes a ring instead and kisses james passionately, and sirius is rolling his eyes and then they get married 👍
also i'm noting the acting skills it might have trained james to have to keep a straight face when he was in the same room as regulus simping over him to his brother...
and they lived the happily ever after-
like yeah James is a master at poker face at this point and everyone is confused because he was so bad at it,how and why did he get better?
nobody knows how he got better... (the first time it happened it thought it was funny he could eavesdrop on them so he didn't say anything. all the following times he was too scared of the consequences of revealing he had eavesdropped all of this, because he had underestimated the depth and shamelessness of their conversations in french)
yeah because Sirius and Reggie are talking down and dirtyyyyy like wthhhh
regulus: je le laisserais me marcher dessus. je le laisserais me faire n'importe quoi, vraiment. il a des grandes mains, tu sais ce qu'on dit... grandes mains, grosse- (i'd let him step on me. i'd let him do anything, really. he has big hands, and you know what people say... big hands, big-)
sirius: quelqu'un pour m'achever? (someone willing to kill me?)
.... can't believe i typed this consciously.....
James looking out the window trying not to tell him to come forward and get it
then turning back to the brothers "English please?" 'im trying not to bust in my pants'
"no ,potter" regulus always answers
HAHAH "no potter" and james has to act slightly disappointed, shrugging it off (in his head he's taking notes for later + bonus boost for his massive ego)
he hopes one day regulus will tell him in english tho
and sirius just stares at james, his hand gesturing to cut it there, to drop it with wide opened eyes, disgust on his face
James has TONS of notes by now:)
Sirius is like "cut it mate, private matter."
James is like "ok ,sorry"
apparently James Potter is a private matter,even to himself
sometimes it's not down and dirty, sometimes regulus says the softest,most loving, delicate things that has ever been uttered but another human,and James has to fight tears because he'd do that for him??🥺
awww yes absolutely
he just wants to hold regulus and kiss him softly <3 but he can't :/ these sweet and absolutely lovely things he says are what makes him hesitate the most to tell him he understands what he says but he doesn't want to push regulus too much and embarrass him either...
he'd start a journal (in the in his native Arabic there's so many Arabic so nobody understands it or can translate it, (especially if it was Tunisian/Marocan/Algerian bc that's the hardest Arabic tongue) and he'd write all the sweet things regulus says so he'd never forget
he'd learn all of it by heart, like poems, with how much he re-reads it and thinks about it, and maybe he'd write a few songs too... no one understands what's in the journal so he leaves it there on his nightstand, cause if anyone wants to read they won't understand anyway (he's smug about that)
like Remus n lily would kill to understand it but James is adamant, when asked about it "just contacting with my mother tounge is all"
he writes some little imagines he wants to try with regulus
yep. also to camouflage a bit and to help his point of just writing Arabic to not lose the language he'd also write tons of recipes from his mother in it and he'd say it's mostly recipes in the diary. he'd want to try them with his friends tho cause Effie's cooking >>>> and James inherited of her food giving as a love language
the recipes are mostly in mix of native tongue and actual Arabic so when lily does use a translation charm only the recipes get translated so they just give up
or even better: he charms the book to transform the diary entries to recipes x) OR when lily tries to translate it with magic and make the diary reveal its secrets (with the assistance of Remus behind her shoulder), the lines of writing form drawings of badly hand drawn james winking and saying "nice try!" or "try again!"
yesss
and James' is so smug about it and they hate itttt
he's be writing in it every time after a hangout and people are teasing him about it but he just rolls his eyes and like "only if you know"
when Sirius talks in french with regulus, Remus is having literal heart eyes at him and James is like "I hate seeing Remus making heart eyes at Sirius with the context of regulus getting railed by me"
he keeps the secret until him and Reg date (probably one of the secrets he's kept the longest)
he would indeed hate it x) though sometimes he'd hear Sirius talk about Remus in French and he'd mention it to Remus later, "randomly"
