#regulus is icarus

[moontides-1971]

I go on tiktok just to like every regulus edit to let down

[sunchasingstar]

Icarus and the Sun except Icarus doesn’t fall this time. Icarus and the Sun except this time they’re named Regulus and James. Icarus and the Sun except the Sun doesn’t burn this time, he warms Regulus in his light. Icarus and the Sun except when the wax melts, it’s not the waves that catch Regulus, it’s James and all his sunlight.

The labyrinth is the walls that built the house Regulus and Sirius were trapped in. Sirius built the wings to fly, he warned Regulus not to fly too close to the sun, the fall is not worth the risk but Sirius was never drawn to sunlight like Regulus. Regulus craved sunlight as if he would gather the beams in his hands and drink liquid gold until his throat burned if he could. Sirius had never known that desperation that lived in Regulus since he was born with his blood already frozen. No, Sirius would never fully understand why to Regulus any risk was worth basking in James’ sunlight. There’s something addicting about craving the sun when you’ve been cold all your life.

There was something like fate that tied them together. Even in the sky, the Sun finds its path meeting Regulus, as if even the stardust they’re descended from feels that very same pull. As if the cosmos understands the desperation that lives inside of Regulus because it placed it there itself. Regulus would drown in every lifetime if it meant he would have the chance of being in James’ orbit for even a minute. James would rather burn himself and the world before he’d let Regulus fall anywhere that wasn’t his arms.

Icarus and the Sun except this time Icarus doesn’t fall. Regulus and James except this time they live.