trigger warning! if anyone is sensitive to the topic of food or weight fluctuation then please don’t read this post! having irregular weight is completely normal for some people who aren’t even werewolves! anyway, enjoy the post if you’re about to read it 💕
i’ve seen a lot of posts talking about remus not eating a lot because full moons make him feel kinda ill and stuff
and so i got thinking... what if, since he is literally part wolf, it was the complete opposite?
so here i present to you...
so one of the telling signs of remus having some sort of secret was in first year
very early on the marauders noticed how remus most definitely ate a lot
sometimes sirius would catch remus sneakily stealing a piece of chicken from his plate and quickly snatch it away with his fork
they’d have a snack stash in their dorm room, which they assigned remus to fill when it was empty
“well i’m not filling it, because half of this box is filled with stuff i don’t like. james only picks at the bertie bot’s and peter only eats the corners of the biscuits.”
it was when they found out he was a werewolf that they finally understood why he ate so much
they would ask him a lot of questions about it at first, such as...
“rem, do you like meat the most out of all foods?”
“why do you like chocolate so much when it’s poisonous to dogs, and you’re like, part dog?”
“how many mushrooms can you fit in your mouth?” (that one was sirius, very curious)
he would always answer these questions very truthfully, secretly finding them funny
“let’s just say... quite a lot siri”
however, eating a lot wasn’t just another attribute of his, it came with consequences
since during the full moon, he’d burn off a tonne
so he would always be a bit smaller than before afterwards
madame pomfrey encouraged him to eat more to gain back his strength, so he never really stopped
from his boyfriend’s point of view though, every point in the cycle was brilliant
he liked the immediate post moon, since remus would usually let him big spoon
he liked running his fingers across his rib cage and feeling the slight precense of bones there
sirius is very naturally cold, but remus is only really cold at around this time, so he enjoys the extra blankets they have in bed
around the middle of the cycle, remus gets “FRIGGIN RIPPED” as james says
he has regained his regular stature now and has veins for days on his arms
sirius’ favourite part about this stage is the little dip in his abdomen where he would have a six pack “IF he joined the quiddich team!” “more like quiddick team...” (you can decide who said what and in what way for yourselves)
it’s at this point where he gives the best bear hugs, which is especially good for sirius, being nearly a whole foot shorter than him
he often gets smothered by his pecks, which he doesn’t mind to be honest
this is what remus himself likes to call “peak remus form” as he feels minimum full moon effects, he is more confident and he has a lot of testosterone
and finally, around the end of the cycle, a week or so before the full moon, he starts to get a little bit tubby
and don’t get me wrong, sirius ADORES every remus body
but there’s something about this one that sirius has an incredibly soft spot for
first of all, in bed remus is so warm
remus likes to wrap his broad shoulders around sirius’ smaller ones and stroke his hair
he has a little bulge where that abdomen line used to be and sirius cannot control himself
he loves to snake his arms around his waist and touch any exposed skin he can find
he always finds himself resting his head on top of remus’ stomach at this time
and sirius loves to be carried at this point
cause his arms are all soft and he fills out his jumpers a bit more
so it just makes sense for sirius to love, who doesn’t want a very cuddly form of transportation?
nonetheless, sirius loves remus no matter his weight
(he finds him very sexy at all moon phases)
