My favourite villain is actually Peter because he got the most complex character and villain arc
Him being a traitor is so interesting. How did it happen that he didnāt saw any other possibility than to betray his closest friends in the knowledge that they would die plus an innocent little child?
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So I've been working on this for a while now, and I think I'm finally ready to share it. These are some of my favorite Regulus fics that I've read.
This is based on my personal preferences, which means you'll find mostly gen and rare pair fics, canon universe (but not necessarily canon compliant), with morally gray characterizations of Regulus
I grouped them by length and topic and included what the main ships are, if any. There may be other background pairings, past relationships, etc. Some do have M/E ratings, archive warnings, etc., so be sure to check the tags!
under the cut because it's pretty long
Long Multi-Chapters & Series
Through a Glass, Blackly by wheresmejumper
Renascentia series by kuchikopi & tonberrys - Regulus/Emmeline
Blackpool by TheDivineComedian
Power the Dark Lord Knows Not by Fantismal & Jormandugr - Wolfstar
The Horcrux Hunt by lostmy_keys - Wolfstar
No Longer Will You Be Forsaken by JulisCaesar
A Means to a Triumph by Naodrith - Moonwater
A Study in Choices and Second Chances by queerofthedagger - Regulus/Harry
Spitfire series by LimeOfMagicLimo
rewrite my heart (let the future in) by secretpersona - Regulus/Pandora
Shorter fics (under 50K words)
Childhood & teenage years (ending before his death if it's canon compliant or while he's still a Hogwarts student if it's canon divergence)
my past has tasted bitter for years now (so I wield an iron fist), by kuchikopi & tonberrys
the silver-forked sky lit you up like a star by tonberrys - Bartylus
Out of the Shadows (Into the Abyss) by missvega - Bartylus
it's cold on the floor by dracure - Bartylus
soft speak, with a mean streak by krystian - Rosewater
A Boy and his Cat, by aCanadianMuggle
How The Dangerous Thing Is To Love by Vivi_ZzZ
Remembrance by Vivi_ZzZ
history forgets the moderates by cleopatroclus
What's So Special About Christmas? by AmethystHeart2421
Caged Bird by GertrudeCC - Moonwater
Ancient Runes series by Soupy_George - Moonwater
The locket & the cave (all dealing with his death in some way - either it's shown on page, or it's not explicitly shown but it's is a major plot point)
Wormwood by acari
The Cruel and Most Lamentable Tragedy of Regulus, Scion of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black by aCanadianMuggle
I'm going home to see my mother by TheSharkGuy - Bartylus
monster, moongazer by electricnectar - Moonwater
The Three Soulmates of Pandora Lovegood by AmethystHeart2421 - Pandora/Xenophilius
a soul like silver (tarnished) by rachel614
Parting Words by Dear_Theadosia
And He Drank by Grey_Kenaz
Memento Mori by Trex_Patronus
On Royalty by booksandreadingismylife - Rosewater
Ghost Regulus
He Can't Hurt You if You're Already Dead by unspeakable3
A Transient and Embarrassed Phantom by unspeakable3
Haunted by pennygalleon
Unfinished RABusiness by withasideofangst
in our bedroom, after the war by krystian
Hiraeth by The_Seismic
Hogwarts Professor Regulus
Out of the Lake series by BennieLee
this is family by xslytherclawx
Disconnected Connection by dottie_magic
regulus is dumbledore's spy (the smiths' version) series by pottersxredheads
Ex-Death Eater Regulus (where he's not also a ghost or a Hogwarts professor)
no answers for no questions asked by tonberrys
Hope by Grey_Kenaz
sanctuary by unspeakable3
Beneath the Ocean Waves by aron_kristina
First Footings by wheresmejumper - Jily or Jegulily
living in the red by griddlebones - Regulily
Flowers Sleep in the Winter by daydreamerdisease - Regulus/OC
someday by justwhatialwayswanted - Rosewater
The Wolf at the Door by lusilly - Moonwater
and if it's all over, I'm taking this moment with me by underburningstars - Moonwater
All the Ashes in My Wake by Antologia_Mil - Moonwater
Regulus Black canon timeline because I need reference again notes app:
-He was in a blood mania when Sirius left. (I'm trying to push it as late as possible. Generally boys starts to do these things when they are 13-14 but Draco was 11, maybe I should write him as one from the start. Feels unrealistic but also realistic Idk. Sirius' little influence might push it a bit later.)
-He died just before or just after when Voldemort started to kill everyone standing in front of them. This might be an influence on Regulus' sacrifice??, not unrealistic, the theme troughfully written for Draco. 1979. The dates doesn't match because order was founded before 1978, but they could be preparing for the war, it was inevitable, maybe they just hurt muggles at that point, I doubt Regulus cared about muggles. We don't know if Voldemort hunted muggle-borns in the first wizarding war, and don't have enough information about Regulus to guess if he would care. (Draco did) But Snape would, so I'm guessing it started as a ruling over them thing. People just didn't know how much Voldemort was willing to harm.
-He ran away and died the next day ( this is important) I believe they learned it from the tapestry, or there is some kind of magic that tells Voldy if one of the DE is alive or not. He wouldn't have let him go otherwise.
-Oh Regulus volunteered Kreacher himself, so eager, probably the only thing he did for him personally. He wasn't important enough. Interesting. He was 16 (likely in sixth year, depending on his birthday if he was in 79' class) when he joined and a year later, 17 when Voldy took Kreacher. When Kreacher returned he was worried... very worried.
-A little while later, kreacher says, JKR confirmed Voldemort accidentally slipped the info on horcruxes in a meeting and Regulus figured it out with the information he already has, he found kreacher, they went to the cave he sent Kreacher back then died. Didn't tell anyone to protect them. Oh sweet summer child. Stupid idiot.
I've thought a lot about the canon Regulus timeline, I hope you don't mind if I share my thoughts!
When Regulus started believing in the pure-blood ideology: I would guess he's very similar to Draco and learned it from a young age. It wouldn't be something he had given a lot of thought to pre-Hogwarts, probably, but the seeds would be planted early on, and being in Slytherin alongside a bunch of other future Death Eaters would only reinforce that type of thinking
The war: in Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone chapter 1, McGonagall and Dumbledore mention the war lasting 11 years. So it started in 1970, just before the Marauders et. al. started school. Sirius does mention his parents supported Regulus when he joined but got cold feet later - I would guess it became more brutal, more out-in-the-open, and they started targeting magical families (i.e., not just Muggles and Muggle-borns).
This part:
I'm guessing it started as a ruling over them thing. People just didn't know how much Voldemort was willing to harm.
I think this was for sure the case for Regulus:
"For years he talked of the Dark Lord, who was going to bring the wizards out of hiding to rule the Muggles and the Muggle-borns" (DH, ch. 10)
I'm not sure how much this was an actual shift in how Voldemort presented himself vs. Regulus projecting his own goals and ideology onto him, but it's not a typical Death Eater mindset during the second war. It actually sounds more Grindelwald-ish.
Though he must have known at least to some extent that Voldemort was willing to use violence, because he did have the newspaper collage
How they knew Regulus was dead: my personal headcanon is that Voldemort can sense whether the Death Eaters are alive or dead through the Dark Mark, but the tapestry also makes sense.
Regulus's age/the timing of his death: it's hard to know exactly without knowing when he was born. Personally I like to give him a summer birthday, and have him as a Death Eater from the summer after 6th year (just before his 17th birthday) to the summer after 7th (just after his 18th). But the only thing that's actually said in canon is he joined at 16 and died about a year later, so it can be pretty much whenever.
What Regulus did for Voldemort: along with volunteering Kreacher, I think he probably helped recruit other Hogwarts students. There's nothing in canon to imply this, but it would be one of the most useful things a Hogwarts student could do (assuming he was given tasks he could reasonably accomplish and not something like Draco's mission where he was set up for failure). I also think it would make sense to have him participating in attacks during the school breaks once he's of age. But yes, volunteering Kreacher is the only thing he's definitely confirmed to have done
With these infos I think it's safe to create a kind and soft but also prideful canon compliant Regulus doesn't confradict canon. "Stupid idiot, soft enough to believe them, he was probably kind to Kreacher." Are the only personality descriptions we get from him and it's funny how all of these contradics fanon Regulus.
He sees muggle-borns and muggles as lower beings but also house elves. You can be kind to people you see lower than you so he may be kind to them. Also slurs are always not welcome in polite company. And I think it's canon people don't talk like Draco even if they are blood-purists. He was just an another level.
I don't think Regulus got out of his way to bully people. Maybe some insults and slurs if they get into their nerves. I'm planning to make him and Sluggies fave student of their year "Dirk Cresswell" academic rivals. He's a muggle born so we may see some real rude blood purist Regulus there.
But generally people looks at him and thinks how can you look this aproachable and be a fucking blood purist, kind of vibes.
I plan to make him the opposite of Sirius in every way. Majorly on purpose. If Sirius is a rude and loud manece, I will be proper and kind kinda thoght proccess.
Prejiduce has so many grey areas to explore, like everything it's not black and white.
That's pretty much how I see him, too: buying into the family's pure-blood mania, very convinced of his own inherent superiority and believing that putting pure-bloods in charge was a worthy goal - but less cruel than the average Death Eater, and even showing kindness to his "inferiors" in some situations (e.g., Kreacher - he certainly didn't see him as an equal, but the contrast between their relationship vs. the Malfoys and Dobby is pretty notable)
The fic you're working on sounds really interesting!
Also, I would love to read a fic from Regulusā pov in which he is a blood supremacistļæ¼ and fully believes in pure-blood ideology. I want him to be the canonically ābad guyā without his character being āinnocent babyā-shaped, while he still believes in his own morals and actions and would consider himself the āgood guyā (like a lot of people in reality did/do while doing objectively bad things) (Do I have to mention n*zis?). In the end, he either dies a villain or has a drastically change of his morals and believes.
In the second kind of scenario, itās even possible to include Sirius or James.
Same goes for every other pure-blood supremacist like Barty, Evan, Bellatrix etc. Let them be the villains they fought to be.
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never cared about what other people thought of him
knows what he wants and how to get it; heās cunning and determined, and he will never go down without a fight
had a (maybe not so) small crush on james all throughout their hogwarts years
fast runner, thanks to his long legs, which often gets him out of trouble (quite literally)
doesnāt like borrowing cigarettes from other people, heās picky with what he smokes
sleeps in sweatpants
knows how to throw a mean punch
he often falls asleep in jamesā bed because they always have hours-long conversations before going to sleep. heās also a light sleeper
has a high alcohol tolerance
enjoys reading, unless itās the reading he has to do for classes. heās a big fan of albert camus
has a happy trail
heās a very unpredictable person, and therefore no one expects anything of him, not knowing what they should look for
has a very high pain tolerance
wary of most people. the only person which he truly lets his guard down with is james
moved out of the pottersā as soon as he could into a small apartment in soho and it was, in his opinion, the best decision of his life ā he finally was independent
sirius black who drives with one hand on the steering wheel, who helps peter tie his tie, who draws on his arms in class, who always hands in his essays last minute, yet perfectly written and always well over the requested length, who wears huge boots and jeans too large for him and a leather jacket one size too big, who loves the beach and the sea, who pierced his nose in his dormās bathroom with a sewing needle, who only listens to james, whose favourite weather is the cold winter because the wind sends shivers through his bones, making him feel something, who leans put the window when he smokes in their dorm because james always complains the smoke, who does crosswords in pen and ink because he knows heās not wrong, who hurts the people he hates and longs for the people he loves, who is reckless and determined and intelligent and arrogant, whoās loyal as a dog and whose words are as sharp as knives.
observant sirius black intelligent sirius black ambitious sirius black resourceful sirius black arrogant sirius black bright sirius black charming sirius black charismatic sirius black talented sirius black fierce sirius black calm sirius black mature sirius black rogue sirius black thoughtful sirius black analytical sirius black energetic sirius black
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Itās a sad sight: Remus staring longingly at Sirius, Sirius twirling his hair as he laughs at Jamesā unfunniest jokes, James chasing after Lily. Itās pitiful really, Peter thinks snidely, Iām glad Iām not involved. Well, not involved except when he has to pretend to listen to Jamesā monologues about Lilyās hair, her eyelashes, her whatever. Itās a miracle James hasnāt noticed the pain in Siriusā eyes, the resignation and envy in Remusā. They used to rule the school, delighting in the power they abusedābut now theyāre āgrown upā and āmore matureā.
Can he really be blamed then for going to Sirius with his āworriesā about Remus, his suspicions? Heās the only one whoās noticed how Remusā pining stares are starting to be reciprocatedāso he takes his power back, by destroying it.
this is a very weird and niche take but I have to say that I believe that we, HP readers, never got to see the full capabilities of the Marauders Map. Ā
like, itās introduced to us by Fred and George, who have inexplicably figured out how to open it, and we briefly see Remus (who is endlessly pained by reminders of his fallen friends and the tragedy of the Marauders, imo) interact with it at the end of the 3rd book - but I just feel like the map had way more to show than just what the twins figured out.
I mean. youāre going to tell me that a group of students who became animagi by their fifth year and essentially wizard-coded an interactive map that had personalized responses for various people it didnāt like wouldnāt customize it?
youāre going to tell me that James Potter didnāt have a special Map Password that would weed out the extraneous people and only show him his loved ones, just to check in that they were safe every now and again? youāre going to tell me that Sirius Black wouldnāt have enchanted the map to fly open and go nuts every time Death Eaters approached his brother in a classroom? you really mean to tell me that the Marauders didnāt have some special alternative incantation thanĀ āI solemnly swear I am up to no goodā that would have shown them which secret passageways were the safest to take any particular evening should they need to get to the Shack or, alternately, just take a trip to Honeydukes?? you really want to tell me that???
to me thatās just another tragedy of James Potterās death; if he had been able to hand down the map to his son, or even live long enough to see it lying on his kitchen table one day after Harry gets it from Fred and George, he would have shown us a whole new world of the Map. Ā butĀ thatās just my headcanon.
Imagine Sirius charming it so if the Marauders feel strongly about someone it changes the way their name shows up on the map. One day all of a sudden the name Lily Evans has hearts surrounding it and Sirius is like hmm wonder what this is about JAMes??? And James is like srsly WTF
Clare the possibilities are endless here for what the map should be able to do!! Alarms, filters (only show fifth years, Hufflepuffs, Quidditch players, professors etc), the ability to highlight a specific person they are looking for, vibrate if someone comes close even if the map is closed (Filch!!). Endless possibilities!!
or like, if Lily happened to pick it up one day by mistake, the map would instruct her to say something likeĀ āfor once in my life, I am up to no goodā and instead of a map (because as she is not yet dating James, this is still a well-treasured Marauder secret) itās just various incredibly cheesy love poems dedicated to her written by Sirius but made to seem like theyāre written by James
and later sheās just like āā¦um. James why did your parchmentā¦flirt with me?ā
Imagine McG asking for homework and seeing James and Sirius working on it in class. Enraged, she claims the paper they write on and she doesnāt know it but itās the marauderās map so when she looks at it, it says āIām sure youāre clever enough to figure out my true inner sense.ā
McG absolutely knows that something is off but instead of digging, she just says āYou better show me the essay about history of transfiguration.ā and the maps doesnāt hesitate!!
Secretly, McG is proud of her boys and answers the map āHave a cookie!ā
okay, still on this, sorry. but you u think effie and monty didnāt teach that boy how to stand up for himself??? you think they didnāt teach him to take no shit??? from anyone ????
like james potter???? boy who stands up for all of his friends all of the time and calls out the injustices in the world as he sees them??? you think that doesnāt start with himself first and foremost??? like if you canāt canāt stand up for yourself and bite back, how are you gonna recognize it when it happens to your friends and loved ones ????
james is canonically arrogant. in my head itās because he knows what heās worth. heās not gonna be a doormat for anyone. trust.
- remus is so badly mischaracterized, the shift from him being a soft sensitive kid despite the violent nature of his condition was so so important but now he is turned into this mean angry alpha male. i feel like the point of him being so sensitive was to contrast w him being a werewolf ya know. bring back weird and awkward remus
- gay ships that are just there because theyāre gay is pretty strange. iām speaking of the whole jegulus/pandalily/whatever new thing ppl come up with i donāt really understand the point of just thinking that making a couple gay makes them more interesting. seems a little counterproductive .
-jily loosing its popularity is killing me. bring back my 7 year slow burn prophecy beautiful love story they are the most important ship
-sirius being a feminine dramatic gay twink. this man was a motorcycle owning rebel strong guy. and believe it or not he CAN be gay and still be that. him being gay ( in our head canons) doesnāt mean heās a woman
- turning gay ships into basically a straight relationship by making them so stereotypical ( wolfstar w feminine af sirius and strong man remus)
- shipping character that died and fought against a certain ideology and people that were actively apart of the problem is kinda crazy. like jegulily? my brother in christ regulus wanted her dead.
-fanon regulus. he was a strong willed DEATH EATER he wasnāt forced into it or abused by his family. it.is.stated.in.the.book.
-deatheaters are interesting characters BUT donāt tell me people are babying and glorifying them in a effort to explore their complexity.
-some of you are blinded by the fancasts and forgot all about what the characters are.
- the new fan casts are meeeh. theyāre not all supposed to be supermodelsā¦
- jegulus taking over the fandom is insane.
-andromeda should be getting the regulus treatement she is what you made regulus into.
-frank and alice should be more loved.
- the romantization of that whole pureblood supremacist squad is NOT cute.
-james potter my beloved.
- i donāt really like the idea of the casanova being remus. i feel like it would james or sirius based on how remus talked about his high school years
- jily is way too important to the universe to be discredited.
-lily evans being put behind regulus is CRAZY. my girl did not die for this bs
-sirius being criticized for leaving is wild. regulus was not abused and didnāt even want to leave. sirius was mistreated.
- i kind of like the idea of the developed character of walburga. sirius said she wasnāt a deatheater. and i like people writing her as a more complex character.
- as much as i love wolfstar, james and siriusās relationship stays the central point of the gang.
-ships have taken way too much importance over the friendships of the group.
-i feel like a people make female characters into lesbians ( like lily ) just because they are strong characters and itās weird.
- yes once she got married to james she was lily POTTER and she was a mother just like james was FATHER theyāre is nothing wrong with that.
- jegulus/ any ship between a member of the order and a deatheater is just plain stupid sorry but if your head canons goes completely against the core of a character itās just a wrong statement.
before you start āLEt pEoPle dO whAT thEy WaNtā these are MY opinions
Agree with every point although I do ship jegulus (and jily, my girl is important!!). There are millions of really good written jegulus fics like crimson rivers especially
btw no where in the books is it stated that any of the deatheaters (marauders or golden trio) were forced into anything. they chose that road. they are literally racists. people are allowed to hate. regulus black was a racist. its stated in the book that not even walburga and orion were but that regulus WAS. he loved that shit. severus snape was a racist. no matter how hard you try to baby them and make them a pretty little boy toy they are FACISTS. and you literally cannot compare james potter being a bit of a bitch when he was a teenager to them being facists.
most of you have forced this idea of them being forced to be evil but you know what real characters you can like for that? the potters were a pureblood family that resisted that ideas. the weasleys as well.
if you need to change completely the characters entire person to make them likable maybe itās just that theyāre not likable.
The way people are like āregulus didnāt want to be a death eater, he fought back against his family to resist them, heās a tragic heroā.
Babe, that is SIRIUS. Sirius did that. Sirius is your tragic, misunderstood hero. Regulus was more on board with Voldemort than either of their parents until it didnāt benefit him anymore. But yāall have reduced Sirius down to a vain, stupid, talentless, just-there-to-be-remusās-hot-boyfriend version of himself so youāre missing it completely.
Also, Remus character shifted into something totally different from canon. Heās literally not him anymore. His personality was changed so much, heās a completely new person. Heās now the canon version of Sirius, while Sirius lost so much of his canon personality. I grieve ātragic cool misunderstood heroā Sirius. Who is that ādrama queenā Sirius? Why does he exist? Thatās not Sirius but someone else who replaced him entirely.
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Everyone always says James "I would die for you" Potter and Regulus "I would kill for you" Black
But I think James "I would kill for you" Potter and Regulus "I would die for you" Black has so much force
Like James is not a violent person but would become violent for the ones he love in an instant, and Regulus is a martyr, a tragedy, but at the same time he would only sacrifice himself for the ones he truly loved in every circumstances
Honestly, the most girl boss moment around is when James hears Regulus say they're engaged, has no idea that he was and just fucking rolls with it. Bro went from being the confused pikachu to YOLO.