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Regulus has always known he's destined to drown. He feels it deep in his chest, past his rib cage, nestled somewhere behind his organs. He feels it in his arm when his mother squeezes it a little harder than a mother should. He felt it, the water rising in his throat, when his brother slipped out the window and into the night. He often wonders if it'd be easier to just let himself sink.
He often wonders if he has a choice.
Regulus gets sent back to school with a mission from the Dark Lord himself— find the “beast in the chamber” and claim its fangs without killing it. But when a certain curly-haired bespectacled boy asks for a rather large favor, everything suddenly gets a lot more complicated.
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07 Oct 2025
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Less than a week into the new school year, a loud knock disrupts the quiet of the fourth-year Slytherin boys' dormitory. The last person Regulus expects to find on the other side of the door is his (somewhat) estranged older brother, Sirius, his handsome face bloodied and bruised.
Even more shocking than Sirius's sudden appearance, is his request - if they'd be so kind, could he bunk with them in Slytherin 'for a bit'?
His brother's refusal to explain his abscondence from Gryffindor is irksome, but Regulus lets him in regardless, confident he'll unravel the mystery in due time. After all, Sirius has never been very good at keeping secrets from his younger sibling, and Regulus can be *very* persuasive when he wants to know something.
Unbeknownst to the Black brothers, however, their choices in that moment set off a chaotic chain of events that will have lasting repercussions for The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, and change the trajectory of their lives for good.
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- Part 1 of Black Sails in the Sunset
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19 Aug 2025
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“Oh. Never heard of him. Does that mean I get a Greek god name too? I mean, it only seems fair since I can’t just tell you my name now.” The boy's tone was cheeky, making Regulus glare at him. His expression quickly turned thoughtful as he considered which Greek god this radiant boy could be named after. A boy who seemed to shine brighter than the moon in the dark cemetery. The answer was obvious.
Or.
A chance encounter in a graveyard gifts young Regulus with a stolen kiss and a promise to live forever in the sun's radiance. As the years pass and he becomes entangled in shadows, James is determined to bring his "angel of death" back into the light, even if it means failing Potions along the way.
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- Part 1 of moonsickness
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19 Aug 2025
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The Sensation of Screaming by itsallinthenamereggie
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Aug 2026
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Night fell in Grimmauld Place like a thick black cloak. Looking at it, all looked still. But within, if you were watching closely, if you listened very carefully, you found that the fabric really covered very little. It was more the darkness you had to get through.
Regulus was listening.
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THIS IS A LONG FIC WITH A LOT OF HEADCANON. We start before Sirius and Regulus are even in Hogwarts and I literally have plot planned through the war. We explore characters in depth. You're going to hate and love (but mostly love) every single character in the fic by the end if I've done my job correctly. Well. Except for a few of them. We don't play apologetics for child abuse here. If you like it, please tell me. If you don't, please write your opinion down on a piece of paper, then burn it :)
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06 Aug 2025
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When Regulus Black woke up in 1991 after he was supposed to die twelve years prior, he realized two things. One, the locket he had worked so hard to steal had never been destroyed so the Dark Lord was still alive. And two, Harry Potter, James Potter's son, was in danger.
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Regulus goes to school with the Golden Trio.
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- Part 1 of the golden king
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13 Jul 2025