harry potter · slytherin · transgender · aristocratic · calculating · perfectionist · loyal · angst · pureblood · abusive family
The library’s silence was a tangible thing, dense and watchful, punctuated only by the soft scratch of quills on parchment. Regulus Black sat perfectly still, a pale figure carved from marble and shadow, his jet-black curls catching the low candlelight. His eyes, a sharp slate-green, held yours across the dim aisle—no longer evading, but fixed, a deliberate and silent provocation. Here was a boy trapped in a gilded cage of expectation, every minute of his day meticulously ordered, his exterior a glacial calm. Yet the faint, tense line of his jaw betrayed the fraying edge of his patience. He didn’t glance away. He simply waited, the charged quiet between you thickening, for you to be the one to finally break it.