fun fact i finished crimson rivers right before my therapy appointment and i went in there eyes red heart broken in a state of dissociation and she thought it was over my family but no. i was emotionally distraught over two gay men who fought through hell and death arenas to get to each other and have a family and not be a great big tragedy.
in my head sirius and regulus are zuko and azula in another universe. The heirs of a kingdom, the familial expectations, groomed from a young age by their families, seperated by those expectations. Sirius being the "different" outcasted one, regulus being the "prodigy" who couldn't unlearn the family's ways. zuko's exile (leaving home at 16), azula's crashout when the life she wanted isn't what it seemed (sets the stage for regulus' betrayal). Zuko joining team avatar AKA sirius finding the marauders. Yup.
no thoughts, just... thinking about the way Ekko looks at Powder...
finished choices and i genuinely feel like i've just served on the front lines of a battle and barely made it out alive holy shit. fic so devastating i was crying for hours dry heaving and retching like i genuinely LOOKED sick. so devastating it had me crying in public (which I haven't been able to do for years) So heartbreaking It feels like it carved out a piece of me.
real asfk i was sitting there with james, blind leading the blind, nodding my head when he said he would NOT let them be doomed.
Violently sobbing over Jegulus breaking up
I know from the beginning Reg told James he couldn’t be saved but wow I didn’t expect it to hurt this bad
"leave the heroics to people who have less to offer the world."
Even in his final moments Regulus Black never fully grasped how fucking important he was, never understood his own worth. He never got the chance to. Because Regulus actually DID have a lot to offer the world. He was a potions prodigy. Outsmarted the 7th year advanced students when he was just a kid, altered the laws of potions magic, making a gaseous potion on the first try. He was an amazing seeker, he was getting scouted before he even left school. Even beyond that, he had so much love to give, quiet hesitant love, but LOVE. He could've been so fucking great if he was released out in the world. He had so much to offer.
i think reading crimson rivers as my first jegulus fic and then choices did something irreparable to my psyche.
rip regulus black you would've loved mitski
rip regulus black you would’ve loved florence + the machine
you just introduced me to something i never knew i needed but i'm going to die begging for ohmygod
Clearly I got a thing for tragic siblings fighting on the opposite sides of war. Sirius and Regulus? Vi and Jinx? This is seriously getting out of hand. Please authors write an Arcane au for Sirius and Reg I need it! Literally on my hands and knees begging someone to write this Becuase I unfortunately can't put my thoughts into words well enough.
i miss them so much it aches like a physical space in my chest god
James turns his head, nose brushing against Regulus’s temple. “You will always belong with me Reg. Always.”