#tomreg

I love thwm together but it's obviously so rare 😭😭

but i think adding to that, i love to explore the differences in the death eaters dynamics with voldy in the first war versus the second war. obviously in the first war voldemort isn't he-who-must-not-be-named, he's not like this immortal being with powers nobody knows. he's your average charismatic cult leader. he's in his 40s. there are people alive who remember going to school with him (one of them is literally regulus's dad lmao). in this way he's closer and more human and also less easy to fear. there has to be a process to him cultivating the worshipful adoration/fear that we see the death eaters in canon have towards him + i think regulus is the Perfect guinea pig for this process: young, pureblood, unloved, etc. i imagine tom telling regulus that he reminds him of himself when he was regulus's age and regulus just Glowing (except tom is lying -- he's too prideful to truly see himself in anyone else, he believes himself to be completely singular). and tom swans in and out of regulus's bedroom... there is a transgression of boundaries here that regulus initially does not trust and is not willing to entertain but this is the most careful and fervent attention he has ever received in his entire life...... how can he even begin to resist....... do you see the vision

You make calculated and tabulated observations that Regulus Black, despite his naming convention and abnormalities, is cast in color.

meeting the parents didn’t go well 😭