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        He shines like the first Light of a dark world, white clay crusted and contrasting blurring bronze hands, specs tangled with hair so awry Regulus knows it will take years to paint the maze of each coppery strand.          He is working like the end of the world is scratching the paint off the back of his chair with beckoning, bone-thin fingers; like a new idea is sprouting in his mind by each speeding second; he traces an eyelid with a frantic fingernail just to smudge it into an empty socket with his thumb a moment later.          Regulus is mesmerised. 

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Regulus Black/James Potter, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Pandora Lovegood/Lily Evans Potter, Barty Crouch Jr./Evan Rosier Characters: Regulus Black, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lily Evans Potter, Pandora Lovegood, Barty Crouch Jr., Evan Rosier Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Art School, Everyone Is Gay, painter Regulus Black, Sculptor James Potter, this is actually disgustingly gay get ready, Tattoo Artist Sirius Black, so many people are gnc mwahah, Genderfluid Character, Trans Male Character, guess who the trans one is...., Trans Regulus Black, omg who could have guessed that, Canon Autistic Character, Asexual Regulus Black, Denial of Feelings, slow burn but not that slow because i'm impatient, Religious Guilt, Regulus Black is a Little Shit, French Regulus Black, French Sirius Black, Regulus Black Speaks French, Sirius Black Speaks French, James Potter Needs a Hug, James Potter Has ADHD, Painting, Sculpture, Fanart, fanart will be included in later chapters...., teehee., Gay Panic, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Lesbian Lily Evans Potter, why does it say evans potter if it's the lesbian tag :(, No Lily Evans Potter Bashing, We love her, Past Regulus Black/Barty Crouch Jr., Past James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Warning: Walburga Black, but we don't really mention her alot, just vague references, also fuck u jkr booo i'm making everyone trans, Mentioned Peter Pettigrew, he's just kind of there sometimes, Title from a Hozier Song, also many hozier references, I Wrote This While Listening to Hozier's Music, Enemies to Lovers, but mainly reg is making up the enemy part. james is just disgustingly in love, Idiots in Love, did i mention they're both competing for the same art prize, Autistic Regulus Black, forgot to mention he's the autistic one. big surprise again, fade to black but after a lot of gay things happen Summary:

His fingers itch with the thick flow of paint through his body as if it was a second bloodstream, sending his heart pounding in technicolour. He maps each perfect ridge, a symphony of hues washing over the once-blank canvas like a wave. Regulus meets those sunlit eyes, holds them like a gift he doesn't know if he deserves. He could get used to looking in James’ eyes.

His chisel moves with forewarned freneticism, desperate to unearth the boy’s features from unwieldy marble. The lithe slope of his arm as it dangles softly over the table, the way his dark curls pool under a pale cheek. His hands map the glittering marble; the unearthed slope of his waist, hips nestled in the stern of the ship James carves roughly around him.

’You’re supposed to be focusing on the background, darling. Don’t get lost in the figure yet.’

The chisel pauses, the marble takes a shuddering breath at the cessation of its exhumation.

‘Let me be lost if it means I can look at you a little while longer.’

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Or the Prestigious Art Prize competition between a painter who can’t look at people long enough to paint them and a sculptor who stares too deeply to ever add anything but their face.