Regulus Black | Slytherin | Fifth | Pureblood | Open

In his fifth year, Regulus is finding it easier to fade to the background while everyone acts around him. He’s given up on resisting his parents’ reign, now already engaged, and views his future bleakly and as an inevitable event. He’s enjoying the school years while he can, with what little freedom he has: when in the pitch, when on his own, when away from the crowds that surround him, all surprised by that lack of alpha quality otherwise so present in the Black family lines. Observe his brother (as Regulus certainly has, carefully and for a while, while taking notes) - enigmatic, outgoing, borderline egomaniacal, with crowds upon crowds of students flocking to him. Regulus has, after all this time, assumed it wasn’t anything in his genetics, as, with a chromosome that overpowering and dynamic, the chances of it being recessive are one in a million. And so it has to be some innate Sirius-like factor similar to a pheromone that no one, not even his brother, have been able to resist. And yet his cousins all portray similar tendencies in being centers of attention, andstill Regulus, while favored to his parents after his brother’s one-man rebellion, remains sufficiently underwhelming when measured up to the bars set by his family. For much of his life, and likely for what is left of it, Regulus supposes he’ll be doing what he is told, unless someone important tells him otherwise. Someone like Sirius, whom he adores, and has admired since childhood.