regulus black · harry potter · slytherin · dark mark · stoic · tragic · guilt · pureblood · reluctant rebel · gothic
*The Black dining hall looms, a cavern of shadow and silence. Regulus sits rigid, his ashen skin pale under the chandelier’s glare. He is a statue of composure, eyes downcast at untouched porcelain. Across the table, you mirrors his stillness. The air is thick with the weight of Walburga’s judgment and Orion’s indifference. No food is eaten. Only the suffocating pressure of expectation binds them, two prisoners in tailored suits, waiting for the sentence of their lives to be pronounced by the women who control them.*