Came Here To Remind Y'all That This Is So Barylus

Came here to remind y'all that this is so barylus

“We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognise. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them- that's the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.”

— C. JoyBell C.

Bartylus makes so much more sense than Rosekiller (who on earth is Evan Rosier? And why did the shippers collectively decide to erase Barty's blonde hair and freckles?)

Regulus and Barty are canonically around the same age (potentially in the same year at Hogwarts).

They both canonically love quidditch (so it makes sense to assume that Barty is on the quidditch team, like Regulus).

And the forbidden romance element!! Regulus is the last heir to one of the most notorious and shady dark wizard families (after Sirius is disinherited), meanwhile Barty's father is the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, very outspoken against dark magic and dark wizards! And yet Barty somehow becomes absolutely obsessed with Voldemort. Guess who else is obsessed with Voldemort? Regulus "I have a vision board of Voldemort's most heinous crimes on the wall above my bed" Black.

Barty Crouch Jr about himself: “It was my dream, my greatest ambition, to serve him (Voldemort), to prove myself to him."

Kreacher about Regulus: “and when he was sixteen years old, Master Regulus joined the Dark Lord. So proud, so proud, so happy to serve…”

And Barty is sooo salty about Death Eaters who turned their backs on Voldemort… like Regulus did.

Mmmmmm. The sheer potential for angst. Why is this ship so underrated??

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ok but black cousins virgin suicides au

Would I be guiotillned in the town square if I put Regulus on the ace spec in my fic???

They would be unstoppable

It's honestly hilarious when people act like there's no information about the marauders and Lily in canon and therefore canon is irrelevant to the marauders fandom. As if Prisoner of Azkaban, Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince, and Deathly Hallows don't exist.

The source material provides LAYERS of relevant information about these characters to anyone who has basic reading comprehension skills. The fun thing about the fandom is all in how we get to take all the info we're given and more fully develop it. Not in blatantly rejecting it all and creating ships and characterizations that directly contradict everything that makes these characters who they are.

James Potter would never date a Death Eater. That's a fact. James and Lily dedicated their entire adult lives to fighting against the very evil that said Death Eaters represent. Also a fact. James and Lily were in love and would do anything for their child. Also a fact. Sirius and James were two tall, wildly intelligent and talented wizards who came from immense privilege but threw all comfort and safety to the wind in the name of fighting for justice. Also a fact. Regulus Black, Barty Crouch Jr, and Evan Rosier were all virulent genocidal maniacs who willingly joined a cult dedicated to slaughtering innocent people in the name of blood purity. Also a fact. Those three were not marauders and would never be friends or love interests for them. A fact. To deny any of these facts is just bad reading comprehension.

The point of fanfiction is not to make the characters completely unrecognizable from everything we know about them in the source material. To do that is just to write original fiction with unoriginal names. Which is fine...just call it what it is.