Reposting from marauders era final part
James Potter has a semicolon tattoo in a paper clip⦠do what you want with this information
Edit: the context for this is very heavy, so massive disclaimer. I personally headcanon that James mental health was so bad that he used to have a problem with self harm like it was really bad to the point that sometimes he would end up at the hospital. Heās been admitted to the mental hospital multiple times during summers, his parents even put him in every type of therapy or a place where you put your kid so they wonāt end themselves. But sadly nothing ever stuck with James, and his friends never knew about it because James is a suppressor whenever he feels like he just wants to die, all he does is smile and pretend heās happy and but in reality He feels so detached from reality that sometimes he doesnāt even remember how we got to places or situations or that he was in pain until someone pointed it out. The only time that James was ever able to fully let go of himself to just feel was at the Astronomy tower where he would just let himself cry and cry for hours having a full mental breakdown or panic attack attacks so bad he could barely breathe, just bawling his eyes out because frankly that was the only way that he could fully experience his emotions without constantly worrying about being a burden or too much to other people because he doesnāt feel like he deserves to feel this way, because thereās no āreasonā for it.
That is⦠until he became friends, than later lovers with Regulus, and he was the first and only person history that James fully let himself just be with. Nobody knows how Regulus managed to do it, but he got James to stop self harming and to see that he is just as worthy to feel sad as he is and he has a highly abusive parent and James in return got Reg to see that he to was worthy of happiness and all the love and passion in the universe. They were what each other needed. So James in honor of both himself and the promise he made to Reg. He got the tattoo to remind himself that even if he goes into another episode in the future, it wonāt be the end. Because he will have his friends, family, and the love his life right beside him.












