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(you look so tired) of living like a kite by thewolfskid
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Mar 2025
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to the world, james potter is confident, charismatic, fearless. everyone at hogwarts sees him as the perfect boy—never able to be weighed down by anything.
but oh how they’ve been fooled. beneath the surface, beneath the mask he wears every single day, james struggles with crushing social anxiety—his stomach twisting into knots over simple messages, calls, or even conversations with his closest friends. no matter how much sirius, remus and peter reassure him, he can’t shake the feeling that he’s not enough, that everything he says or does falls short. like he’s taking up space and time they could never get back. and that guilt is eating him alive.
enter: regulus black, the master of keeping up appearances. raised in a house where emotions were a weakness, he learned early on how to hide every thought, every feeling, behind a perfectly constructed mask.
but when he crosses paths with james, he recognizes the weight of unspoken struggles beneath all that supposed confidence. and maybe, just maybe, helping james find his voice will finally teach regulus how to use his own.
and james begins to realize that this journey isn’t about changing who he is—it’s about finally accepting that he’s always been enough.