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 His relationship with his older brother, despite this, is strained. Regulus harbours an unhealthy amount of animosity and resentment towards Sirius, even though once he'd done nothing but admire Sirius's courage and will. After Sirius had left, Regulus was dealt an incredible amount of Walburga's mental and physical abuse, despite having once been the benchmark for a perfect son. Regulus suffered (and still suffers) with anxiety and PTSD. He still has his Dark Mark - it has been severely scratched up, so it stays bandaged and Regulus does not expose it at all. Reintroduction to wizarding society has posed to be Regulus' greatest challenge - the Black name, when not in conjunction with "Sirius" is hardly taken well, and any standing and any friends Regulus may have acquired disappears. It's with the help of the order that he even finishes his NEWTs through private tutors (all of which lament the loss of such talent in the wizarding world) but he has no intent of rejoining the rebuilding society - since his mother and father didn't end up changing the will after he'd defected, he's still left with a bountiful vault of old money that is more than enough to sustain him until he dies. Gideon's guidance is what brings him to rediscover his childhood passion for art, first with messy doodles in the sides of his history papers and then to charcoal on thick and rough sketch paper. It, as cliche as it sounds, becomes an outlet, and though he's still figuring things out, he thinks that he could make quite the living selling anonymous illustrations should he desire to rid himself of any of his pieces. |
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