Look you don’t have to publish this for your own sake but regulus in canon was a coward who only showed his regret when he knew he’d be dead and didn’t have to face the consequences. Same as Snape pretty much. Lily did so while alive. She’s the MVP
Haha thank you! I had more to say but the children have apparently never encountered discourse before, which is so strange when they so often try to start it.
You’re so right, and even the false equivalence between Lily and Regulus as characters and moral actors is an insult to their ‘queen’. And yet, the thing is that They also know that, hence the constant disavowal of canon. What drives me crazy is how so many people are on that post with a seemingly earnest bewilderment as to why anyone would dislike Regulus as if we’re all in the same fandom and share their characterisation of him.
Like I don’t care if it’s all fanon for these people, they seem to be having fun most of the time and I love that for them. But could there at least be some acknowledgment of the allegorical bigotry and facism they’ve chosen to build that fanon off of and that people are More than entitled to have a negative view of that foundation and even perhaps that choice. Maybe that makes them uncomfortable.
Maybe it should.
