#xenoreg

XENOREG!!! they're winning first place at the local freak off, let me TELL YOU....

i don't even know how to formulate their vibe into words. like... where to do i even begin honestly. muggle au i guess?

xenophilius is like. a crazy bug. he's like this crazy weird looking insect regulus found on a nature trail once and refused to put back. he's a crunchy kind of guy; he hikes and collects herbs for home remedies he grew up taking and he likes slight of hand magic. he introduces reg to illicit substances (mostly just weed and shrooms) and they listen to indie folk pop on xeno's old ass broken phone because he also doesn't believe in phone cases. xenophilius is a walking fever dream and his personality/way of life (he lives in a renovated school bus with his friend pandora and her girlfriend btw) genuinely gives regulus whiplash for a solid 2 months.

xeno dropped out of school at 18 and spent like 3 years backpacking across multiple countries, playing music at festivals every summer. i imagine he meets regulus at a little concert sirius dragged him to somewhere in the states. maybe like. i don't know, upstate NY or connecticut or something. and he sees xeno performing on the grass for a small group of people after, and he is MESMERIZED!!! that white american man (cuz yes xeno is american here) with long, almost white blonde hair and colorful tattoos nearly makes regulus swoon

xeno on the other hand takes a while to develop those feelings i think. he finds regulus a little weird (because he is) so he likes him right away pretty much. he likes that he talks a lot and loudly when he's comfortable, he likes how strangely polite and careful he is. and also how blatantly new regulus is to kinda dirty music festivals, smoking shit he's never even thought of touching before. he also likes how smart he is though!! reg is a biochem major and wants to be a forensic scientist, though he has a big interest in earth science, so he and xeno talk a lot about that. school and the planet and chemistry and all that entails, and at first he thought xeno would hate it but nope!! BECAUSE! xenophilius was actually an ecology major before he dropped out of college and he thinks regulus caring about the environment is soso attractive!! the feelings mutate and grow from there

this got long but I'll add a few more things: in every au i think they have an age gap. not too huge, maybe like five years max, but yeah xenophilius is older than reg always. they are kinda level in intelligence i think (with regulus being just a tad more articulate and driven with his education) but xeno is more spiritually aware than him.

jegulus | 11/10 - i love them so much. when i rejoined the fandom in 2022 and saw how the ship had blown up in the years id been gone i was really confused, but then i read just lovers and was immediately convinced lmao. they are the epitome of sunshine x grumpy and i adore them both

bartylus | 5/10 - theyre not very compelling to me, but theyre not bad by any means. i think they work better as friends but i understand why people ship them. i just prefer other ships personally, but ive read many great fics with them too!

jegulily | 20/10 - im obsessed with them. i love regulus, james, and lily separately, but together they balance each other out. plus it helps that its a combination of my two most favorite monoamorous ships (jegulus and regulily), like whats not to like? theyre definitely a top tier ship

moonwater | 10/10 - they are so cute and so overhated! theres so much potential here, like they could be friends to lovers or enemies to lovers or rivals to lovers, basically any trope you can think of lol. and think of the angst! the drama! i love them dearly

regulily | 1000/10 - yall already know how i feel about these two! they are literal soulmates and i love them to bits. their personalities mesh so well and, this might be a controversial take, but they make more canonical sense than jegulus does imo (not that canon really matters in this fandom lmao). i could wax literal poetry about this ship i love them so much

rosewater | 6/10 - i have other ships i prefer for both of them but theyre still cute and i can see why people ship them. honestly its a similar situation to bartylus, except they intrigue me just the slightest bit more lol

regumary | 4/10 - im sorry i just cant see this ship. i can see their relationship being platonic but not romantic. i also think mary is a lesbian, which doesnt really mean much considering i also love the trans girl regulus headcanon, but most of the time when i see this ship its very cishet and just not my thing. sorry yall!

regdora | 2/10 - i just cant see this ship either. its not bad necessarily, i just see the relationship between regulus and pandora as that of a sibling relationship. no hate to people who ship them, its just not for me lol

rosestarkillerchaser | 6/10 - i understand why people ship them, its combining three popular ships (jegulus, bartylus, and rosekiller), but im sorry i just cannot see james dating barty and evan. im not hating on people who ship them and its not bad by any means (i like them more than most other ships involving evan & barty) i just dont actively ship them. ive read some good fics tho!

rosestarkiller | 5/10 - similar situation to bartylus yet again, its just not compelling to me. i think regulus works better with evan & barty as his friends rather than lovers which you can probably tell given my other ratings lol

blackeclipse | 10/10 - ooooo i love them. all the best aspects of jegulus, moonchaser, and moonwater in one, its elite. james brings the buoyancy that regulus & remus need while regulus & remus help keep him tethered. they work so well together and i love them all dearly

xenoreg | 8/10 - a crackship ive come to enjoy recently! definitely a weird x weirder kind of ship which is the best. oh to be a fly on the wall of the slytherin common room when regulus told barty, evan, and dorcas that he was dating xenophilius lestrange, ravenclaws resident conspiracy theorist (pandora, of course, would have been overjoyed to have someone to trade ideas with)

regulene | 7/10 - they intrigue me tbh, like marlenes brashness and regulus’ coldness contrast in just the right ways. theyre like fire and water and i love that. plus the potential for a quidditch rivalry is phenomenal, especially considering that they could both be the seekers for their respective teams. theyre kinda similar to dorlene imo

I didn't think much of it going in. Its not a rarepair I have ever really seen (is it a rarepair? or would it be considered a crackship? is there a difference?)

Anyways.

XENOREG/ STARDREAMER MOODBOARD