my most unpopular marauders opinion is that james is not the nice guy everyone portrays him to be.
is he kind? yes, to people he deems worthy of it.
I think that the idea that james is so nice and empathetic to regulus that he switches sides takes away from a lot of the nuance that makes jegulus so interesting. (this is specifically toward hogwarts fics btw, when you take out the whole Voldemort aspect it becomes completely different.)
jegulus is interesting (to me) because of the exploration between good vs evil. i think that james is a person that lives in a world where everything is very black and white. you’re either good or you’re bad, and there’s no grey area. i think james is an asshole to people who he thinks are “bad”. this is seen in canon with him to snape. snape is the epitome of a bad person who hurts james friends, therefore he doesn’t give a fuck about being mean, to the point where he becomes a bully. that’s why it’s hard to be mad at snape for hating james. in the end he wasn’t “evil”, he just lived in a grey area that james didn’t think existed.
regulus also lives in the grey area. he is doing what it takes to survive. he grew up in a hateful household, and we see him in canon break away from that, with sirius never knowing. the negative influences around him are so encompassing, its not even close to surprising that while he realized what was happening was wrong, he didnt have the strength to break away from it. even when he does break away, he does it in secret, assuming nobody will know what he did, and then he dies before he can face the consequences.
james first real experience with blood purists was sirius, who was defiant and eventually left. in his head, why would anybody choose to stay? i think thats where jegulus becomes so interesting. james finds someone who is bad on the surface and is an asshole to him. but then he discovers there is so much more underneath. (the perfect enemies to lovers trope) regulus is someone who expresses good thoughts, but won't follow through with them. and james just cant understand why regulus wont leave. he struggles with knowing what side regulus is on, but he never considers the grey area.
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TW// Abuse implication
Thinking about possible Vox and Angel's interactions and how they'd go down. Theres such a unique mix of hatred to each other and common ground with their different experiences with Valentino, has me thinking.
Also just want to clarify I love Vox's character a LOT but ofc obv don't sympathise with him or think he is any way shape or form a decent individual, cant with stupid toxic dumbass x
AND IF YOU SEE ANY MISTAKES OR TYPOS NO YOU DONT- (i was so tired when drawing it forgive me TwT)
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part 2 of Zoro in WCI
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I tried to write something to sum up my thoughts on this, but then it got longer and longer and tbh I'm itching to write a fic set in this AU djjdkf I think I could develop on their inner feelings more than in the comic form
Before posting the first part I didn't realize people had such strong opinions on how this would play out lmaooo
imo, of course Zoro wants to fight Sanji, not with actual intent to harm (they threaten each other on the daily, come on), but because that's how they are together, how they communicate. He respects Luffy's decisions and their goal here, which is to learn what's really going on with Sanji, but he's gonna be pissy about it all he wants. They both have so many intense and conflicted feelings about this and neither has any idea how to resolve them. So they fight.
ofc yall are free to headcanon this interaction any other way you want <333
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