Don’t ask me my lgbt+ hcs on the marauders era characters because I DONT FUCKING KNOW
THEY ARE ALL EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT THE SAME TIME
Barty “if your dad traumatizes you, traumatize him back” Crouch Jr.
i present to you: jily
inspo: @irunaki
every fic after tcoptp feels like whiplash tcoptp was the slowest of all slowburns and now im like literallt what the heck when the characters know eachothers names by chapter 1
Okay 6th year gryffindors learning the patronus charm and James is one of the first to get it (after Lily and Sirius, remus found an excuse to sit it out bc he didn't want to risk the class seeing a wolf and putting things together). They've already done the theory so they know the whole 'reflective of your soul' or 'changes to represent a loved one, especially if they are your happiest memory' and when they eventually manage corporeal patronuses, James' happens to be a lion.
A big, prowling, majestic lion. Most of the room are impressed and a little jealous but not too shocked by it, they automatically assume that it's the animal which most resembles him because...gryffindor lion. It doesn't get much more James potter than that. But his group are very confused. Patronuses were supposed to match animagi and they'd already managed that one, so they had silently accepted that it would be a stag. So when it isn't, they have to hide their shock. They sort of brush it off after a while because James is similar to a lion so maybe it's just something to do with strength in the memory he chose?
But James knew the second the lion looked at him that it wasn't his animal. He would always be a stag, he knew that much for sure. This was Regulus. Cor Leonis. The lion, brave, strong, and powerful but cowering behind the powerful women in his life and 'lazily' biding his time until he has no choice but to do something. More importantly, James loved him, and nobody was supposed to know. His patronus has shifted from a stag- prideful and representative of James as an individual- to a lion- a symbol of his love, power and courage. And he is the only one that knows.
Lily, walking into a common room: We need to talk about Sirius Sirius, not sure what she's talking abou: I didn't do it! Marlene, also unaware of what Lily is talking about: He did do it, I saw him
you know the marauders brainrot is bad whenever you see anything red and green together and immediately think of ahb instead of christmas..
propaganda i'm not falling for:
straight remus lupin
the MCD tag on ao3
kittywater
lily evans hate
the marauders hated peter
dumb sirius black
halloween 1981
the new hbo tv show
james cheating on lily
straight marlene mckinnon
Wolfstar hits harder if Remus isn't conventionally attractive.
Because while Sirius is still deep in denial and internalized homophobia, he's convincing himself like "it's okay, i'm not gay, anyone would want to kiss Remus once in a while, he's just objectively hot"
Except Remus is ankward and quiet when not around friends, he's too tall like he grew up too fast and doesn't know what to do with this extra height, his scars scare people away, he wears grandpa sweaters, drinks tea in his free time and goes to sleep at 9 pm, he can't flirt for the life of him (even though he could bc he's witty and sarcastic) because he has no self-confidence and it shows.
He's basically a loser (affectionate) and Sirius is like "it's okay, no need to panic, he's the sexiest man on earth but that's just an astute observation, no gay thoughts here"
and i just think that's funny as hell
Sirius became Sirius Lupin, he wanted nothing to do with the Black family anymore
Regulus became Regulus Potter-Black, while he wanted nothing to do with his family, they were still a part of him, but he was more than them, and he was a Potter first