Adult Content Warning

This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.

• Yes, Continue
• No, Go Back

If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Yes, Continue", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). If you log in you can store your preference and never be asked again.

1. the preservation of spirit (through the weight of all we've lost) by throughaglass

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   06 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Regulus Black/James Potter
   • Regulus Black & Sirius Black
   • Sirius Black/Remus Lupin
   • Regulus Black & Barty Crouch Jr.
   • Regulus Black
   • Sirius Black
   • James Potter
   • Remus Lupin
   • Barty Crouch Jr.
   • Dorcas Meadowes
   • Peter Pettigrew
   • Severus Snape
   • Fleamont Potter
   • Bellatrix Black Lestrange
   • Marlene McKinnon
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Slow Burn
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Minor Regulus Black/ Original Character
   • Regulus Black is Bad at Feelings
   • James Potter is a Little Shit
   • Pining
   • Endgame Regulus Black/James Potter
   • Regulus Black is a D1 yearner
   • Torture
   • Blood and Violence
   • Trauma
   • Alternate Universe-Tokyo Ghoul
   • References to Depression
   • Social Anxiety
   • Similar to the storyline of TG if you've seen/watched it
   • Regulus Black & Sirius Black Have a Good Relationship
   • Killing
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Friends to Strangers to Friends to Lovers
   • Yearning
   • Lots of Angst
   • Sexual Content
   • minor Wolfstar
   • Minor Character Death
   • Regulus Black is Bisexual
   • james Potter is pansexual

   Summary

   When Regulus Black decides to go on a date with a strange, beautiful woman, things do not go as planned. He is soon thrust into the world of ghouls, and everything he thought he knew about his life is turned upside down.

   __

   Or,

   A Tokyo Ghoul AU in which Regulus Black becomes a ghoul and tries to cling to his fraying humanity.

   ___

   UPDATE 12/31: I have updated the chapter count and turned this fic into a 2 part series. The tags are still relevant and there WILL eventually be a happy ending in Part 2.

   Series

   • Part 1 of the preservation of spirit

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   50,200

   Chapters:

   13/13

   Comments:

   20

   Kudos:

   47

   Bookmarks:

   12

   Hits:

   1,187