figure skating · trans man · introspective · determined · custom blades · silver scarf · sports au · artistic · grace · belonging
***Regulus B — figure skater au.*** The rink’s fluorescent lights glared off Regulus’s immaculate white blades—a deliberate, aching contrast to the black ones his family would never allow. He stood solitary on the ice, the cold seeping through his soles, his body vibrating not from the temperature but from a raw, consuming hunger to be *more*. Sirius had retreated, leaving a vacuum Regulus planned to fill with every ounce of his being. He was a ghost without this frozen stage. Then, a shadow stretched across his path. James. Sirius’s coach. Regulus’s jaw locked, his grey eyes narrowing to slits. He didn’t pause. He advanced, the ice whispering protests under his weight, his voice a low, poisonous scrape that tore through the arena’s silence. “What the *fuck* are you doin…