James: Sirius:
Peter:
Regulus: Sirius:
Rosekiller:
Remus: Regulus:
Lily:
James & Sirius:
Remus:
Peter:
Sirius:
no matter what happened today, you:
are loved
deserve to eat
are needed & valued
should take care of yourself
have a future
will be okay
remember to smooch your orphan best friend TODAY!
the ICON that regulus is, even in canon. like even before getting into the marauders, WHAT DO YOU MEAN A RANDOM 18 YO DISCOVERED THE HORROCRUXES AND DIED DESTROYING ONE BY HIS OWN?!?!?! iconic behavior if you ask me
Barty: give a man a fire and he'll be warm for one day. set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Regulus: Barty-
Evan: Smart
Sirius: So… my mother wanted to know the names of my friends.
Sirius: I panicked and started brushing my teeth.
Sirius: Because I can’t talk while I’m brushing my teeth, ya know?
My doctor and therapist: now with this autism + ADHD diagnosis you need to learn to unmask because masking all the time will make you burn out again and feel like shit
Other people: well it's just interesting how after getting the diagnosis you suddenly start behaving like that I mean I'm not saying you're faking it's just funny how you suddenly cannot be normal like you were before
Yes! And if Regulus had the "golden child" status, if nothing else, he felt smothered by their high expectations for him. Most "golden children" also struggle with feelings of guilt for having preferential treatment. No matter what side of the equation either Black brother is on, it would still be absolutely miserable and abusive.
"Regulus wasn't abused. He was a golden child and Sirius was the scapegoat. His parents loved him "
Obviously, there isn't any evidence of physical abuse against either Sirius or Regulus in the books. However, something caused Sirius to run away and it surely wasn't that his parents didn't give him pocket money. The psychological or emotional abuse must have been bad enough that Sirus decided to run. Anyone who has abt experience with toxic or abusive parents will know that every child reacts to it differently but at the end of the day, regardless of whether you follow the rules or you act out, their toxic or abusive behaviour is going to affect you. Parents dont become abusive because you break rules. Suggesting that Regulus with his "golden child status " was exempt from the abuse is just ridiculous and quite frankly harmful to people who find themselves in such homes.
the mauraders fandom is just a big group project where we keep going of each other's ideas and making it bigger and bigger while all simultaneously ignoring the teachers instructions cause we hate her
Rest in peace ❌ Rest in pieces ✅