#reguharry

[stag-geringseeker]

It's funny seeing people get so offended and disgusted with Regulus x Harry when it's honestly not even that bad, as let's say, Sirius x Harry, Hermione x Snape, or any Marauder era character x Golden era character. Those have toxic and "problematic" themes/dynamics because of the age gap, their relationships to said characters, and the active participation in their lives (being teachers, guardians, yada yada).

Regulus isn't an adult. He never was, and he never will be. He died at 16-17. He has absolutely no recognition of, or connection to, any of the Golden era children because he died before he could ever meet them or before they were ever conceived. He is a "frozen in time" character. So there is nothing really problematic with Regharry or Regulus x any Golden era character (unless someone wants to make it so).

I mean, just think of all the pieces of media where a character is chronologically like 100+ years old but looks and acts like a kid/teen because they were frozen in time, preserved, or whatever (it's literally any vampire romance fantasy you can think of, or even "Avatar: The Last Airbender" with my favorite ship, Kataang). This is mostly how these ships with Regulus operate. He's either made stuck in time or preserved rather than being dead or dying, or he's brought back to life at the same age that he died.

I get that people like to age Regulus up so he can be with James, or age James down, or whatever, but canonically James is forever 21 and Regulus is forever 17 (both corpses, btw, lmao). Do you ship said 21-year-old and 17-year-old together? No, you turn the clock to change things around so they're around the same age again, and it's not weird. The same thing the other shippers are doing, you're not so different in that.

(but also, canonically, Harry is like 30 to 40 something years old now, while Regulus is still just 17…so maybe that's the real issue here?)

[stag-geringseeker]

Regulus and Harry are jealous of Sirius and James' relationship because they would choose each other over anyone else in the world.

Regulus hates James for "taking" Sirius away from him, and he hates Sirius for choosing someone else over him, but he also has feelings for James (that he doesn't like to acknowledge) and a strong attachment to Sirius.

Harry loves both James and Sirius, but he also has really complicated feelings about them because they would choose each other over him, and unknowingly, they sometimes make him feel out of place in their lives.

One night, Harry and Regulus were piss drunk, feeling depressed and complaining about James and Sirius, when one thing led to another, and they were having the most pathetic, sloppiest shag ever.

They told themselves it was a one time thing and that it would never happen again, but time and time again, they find themselves in bed together. To cope with everything, they decided to continue with the "relationship" in secret, but they promised never to catch any real feelings for each other because they can't deal with that, it's simply sex, and nothing more (it's so they can feel wanted).

They eventually end up catching feelings for each other, but they're so scared of it that they deny any possibility of it, pushing it down and praying (iykyk) that it goes away, while trying their hardest to be "normal" whatever that means for them around each other while continuing with their relationship.