#nonbinary sirius

"What? what do you mean you're not a girl? I've known you my whole life, you're a girl."

"But I don't feel like one."

"You will when you're older, I mean I don't feel like a boy but mum said that feeling goes away. It's just a phase."

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"Sirius can I try on your new robes?"

"If I can try yours? I'll close the curtains in case someone comes in."

"How's it look?"

"You look great... you look like me."

"Really?"

"How'd i look? it feels so swishy."

"Wow. You look pretty."

Sirius grinned, "I like the skirt."

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"Regulus? You get to pick your own name and you choose that?"

Regulus shrugged, "maybe mother and father will be more accepting if they like the name."

"Good luck with that. It suits you though... Reggie."

"Hey!"

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"I don't like being called he", Sirius said.

"Are you a girl, then?"

"No... but I'm not a boy either."

"oh... well I guess thats okay. What am I meant to use instead of he, though?"

"I don't like she or he. What else is there?"

"I guess you could use they. Like... 'Sirius is so annoying, they always invade my personal space. They're an idiot'... like that?"

"Hey! Wait... I can do that?"

"Well yeah. I haven't heard anyone solely use that pronoun before. But, it is commonly used singularly so I don't see why not."

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"Is that my boyfriend's jumper?"

"He puts spells on them that make your chest look flat! Look Sirius!"

"He's so smart."

"...you're supposed to be admiring the flatness of my chest, not Remus' brain."

"I can do both", they shrugged.

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"Are you sure you don't want to come? James will be more than happy to let you stay too."

Regulus shook his head, "with you gone they'll let be who I am. They'll have to accept me as a man in order to still have an heir."

"Just... please lie low, don't get into any trouble."

"Don't act like you?"

"Person A has the power to see/sense injuries (anything from bruises to broken bones to hypothermia). They meet Person B when they see suspicious or worrying injuries on them as they walk past each other."

Sirius painting their nails one evening in the common room

A little 1st year boy coming up to the 5th year and asking Sirius to paint his nails

Sirius let's the firstie pick out the color he wants and paints his nails

One of the Gryffindor girls seeing this happening, grabs her friends and drags them over to Sirius and asks that they do the girls nails too

Sirius spends the next three hours painting various students nails in a wide variety of colors and patterns

to live up to my username

they didn't have knowledge on gender identity, it being the 70s, and therefore didn't know what was wrong with them for years

they would wince when people used he/him pronouns for them

one day in 5th year, they started lingering in-between the boys and girls staircases, they'd stare between them not knowing why

but then during the holidays, they were in muggle London and on man dressed in leather and pins, with spiky dyed hair and heeled black boots worked in the vinyl shop they went to

sirius started messing around with some of the vinyls, and the man spoke to remus, telling him to "stop your friend as they're going to break something soon"

sirius looked to the man confused, and the man noticed

"oh sorry, you don't use that? he then? or she?"

"what? no im a boy"

the man sighed and went back to his work

but it sparked something in sirius, and the next christmas break they begged James to go with them back to that vinyl shop

and the man was there and happy to answer sirius' questions

and after their conversation, the man gave them a vinyl of ziggy stardust and the spiders of Mars, free of charge

sirius became obsessed with it, and it played a huge part in finding out his identity