#regulus|character

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          But the horror… The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. 

          It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.

A Crimson Peak AU

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Sirius & Regulus | Black Flies

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The Deatheaters Anonymous brochure

Known members:

Evan Rosier

Regulus Black

Barty Crouch

Narcissa Malfoy

Walden Mcnair (goes to watch people cry)

@heroicintention

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AU! AU! AU! AU! AU!

Five AU’s! Fun!

First one up, is one of my canon-divergent AU’s for Regulus. Basically, it goes off the idea that Regulus doesn’t die? Not quite at least. He exists between life and death, in the inferi cave. So when, Albus and Harry go to retrieve the locket, and Regulus crawls out, unaware of the fact that so long has passed? There is a lot of complications. For one, Regulus has no one. His brother has died (telling him that was Not Good. He was very close to searching out Bellatrix and killing her.). The rest of his family is either, a) part of the Deatheaters, the people he can’t go back to, without dying, and they’ve grown up anyways. He’s 18, mentally and physically. Everyone he knew is either dead, or in their 30′s. So new name, and he joins the order, it’s not like he has much other choice.

Number two is… defection AU. This one is where Regulus and/or Barty, do precisely that. They defect. Instead of going after the horcrux alone, they go to the order first. With the support of at least one other person (who defects depends on who goes with), they manage to retrieve the horcrux without anyone dying! Score one for the good guys?  So yeah, that’s that one. In theory, Regulus manages to repair his relationship with his brother.

I can’t really do any for Ilya, because he has none as of yet. Let’s go Albus!

So, it’s a character specific one, but I really want to do one, and had a thread where Albus, at like 18, just months post-Gellert ends up messing with a time-turner, or (time) magic he ought not be messing in, and it sends him 50 years into the future, where he meets young, charismatic Tom Riddle. And Tom, is well, exactly what attracted Albus to Gellert, and the anger and the hurt is still fresh enough, but without the wisdom that comes with time. So the idea that maybe he shouldn’t get involved with (morally skewed) revolutionaries hasn’t quite sunken in yet? And let’s face it, Tom would use this opportunity. Access to a young Dumbledore? It’s like a gift of fate. So I yeah. I really want to do something where Albus ends up co-Dark Lording with Tom. Albus has grey morals already, this would push him properly evil, and I love it.

Another one of my character’s ends up siding with Tom Riddle verse? Cassandra’s. In her’s, she is still engaged to Bartemius Sr. and she hates that fact. She’s smart, and not terribly ambitious, but enough that she catches Tom’s eye. It’s easy enough to convince her parents he would be a much more suitable match… alternately, elopement. Somehow, she ends up married to Tom. He’s still Tom. Still cold, and very Slytherin, but he’s hers. And he’s brilliant, and listens to her input. It’s a lot of Hades/Persephone vibes for it. Fun, at any rate. Granted, I seem to be a fan of a lot of ships where one person is legit dark/evil and either drags the other participant down with them, or the other person goes willingly.

And for the final verse! I already added this into an ask for this meme but damnit it, I like this verse, so it gets to go again. Barty’s survival verse! The base, start is; after the war, and the dementors are no longer used, provided the human body is still alive, some people regained their souls. Barty is one of the lucky few. It’s a bit of a trying time getting out of Azkaban. But he does, either by proving his innocence for some of his crimes, or by being able to pull the ‘I’ve paid penance, I lost my soul, I’m a changed man, give me a break’ card. So he gets out, and he doesn’t know what to do. He has no money, no friends, and no family (his cousin doesn’t count. He couldn’t do that to him. He has a family, has a life, Barty made his choice when he was 15, besides, the guilt would kill him). No respectable business would hire him, so he goes to knockturn alley, and Borgin and Burkes hires him. He’s smart, if a little broken, and good at remembering the stock, there are worse jobs. It keeps a roof over his head. It’s a small, cramped apartment. But it’s home. A lot of life is living one day at a time.

(Bonus: The original ship for this was a Remus who lived and Barty.)

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Okay... I’m caved. This is me writing a meta on the Black brother relationship according to how I write it... This might be long, or split into several parts.

When Regulus and Sirius were small, they were really close. They were close in age, and their parents were at best, negligent, at worst (and most likely) properly abusive. It was survival. There were so few other people, so Sirius was Regulus’ only person he could properly rely on.

And then Sirius went to Hogwarts, and he befriended the Gryffindors. Aside from feeling like he was being left behind and forgotten, Sirius was gone for most of the year. Suddenly it had stopped being the brothers Black against the world, and felt more like Regulus against the world. The first year wasn’t bad at least. Not really. Sirius was still his brother, even if he was adorned in red and gold, he taught him spells, and told him stories of the marauders, and Regulus would listen in rapt attention.

But then, Regulus had gone to Hogwarts, and things went wrong. He was sorted into the wrong-right-wrong-right house. He was surrounded by purist views, and darker magic, and Sirius had gotten farther away. Regulus didn’t blame him, not then, the anger came later. His first year he didn’t notice the growing distance as much, school was exiting, and he got to be a part of it. During the holidays he still played with Sirius, and he was still Sirius’s little brother.

Second year was very much the same, as was third, and fourth. Their parents got more abusive, and Sirius became more distant, but they weren’t antagonistic yet. Then fifth year came, and Sirius ran away to go to the Potters, to leave him behind. Sirius stopped being his big brother after that, because he wasn’t there. In one night what had been building for years crashed and burned. Regulus didn’t want to resent Sirius for it, he knew, logically, that it was the only option Sirius had. But that didn’t make it easier, and with Sirius gone, his parent started pushing him to join the Deatheaters, to follow his cousin Bellatrix.

It was easy to say no for the first little while, the first year even, but come sixth year, he couldn’t say no anymore. And he caved, severing any chance he had at repairing his relationship with his brother.

By the end of that year Sirius had graduated, and had been gone from home even longer. Regulus had managed to perfect his facade and it wasn’t like he could go to Sirius for comfort anymore. So instead he pushed his anger and his love for his brother to the back of his head, and had focused on the hate, and the apathy consuming his life instead. It was less painful, less that could be taken advantage of.

He pushes thoughts of the elder Black far away during the war. There is no place for sentiment as a Deatheater. Regulus had considered asking for his help to go to the cave. He din’t do it, couldn’t do it, but he had considered.

The thoughts of Sirius came unbidden when he was in the cave though. Regret at letting the bond between them deteriorate and vanish, anger at Sirius for letting it happen, anger at himself for letting it. The only reason he made it through the potion was the inner voice of his brother encouraging him on. If he had muttered delirious apologies to the specter with him no one would know. The thing Regulus regretted most however, was the fact Sirius would never know what he had done.

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regulus and sirius black // in the darkness i will meet my creators

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Regulus Black • I have made mistakes