A/N: This is Regulus' backstory that I made if you want to read it. It is my interpretation of his backstory from his named chapter. This is mostly for those who don't know Regulus's backstory. Sorry for the short chapter.

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Extra Chapter: He Who Rejected Changes

Third Person P.O.V

Ever since he could remember, he always wakes up to an undesirable hunger.

*Growl*

No matter how much he wants to close his eyes and go back to sleep in a bed that can barely be called a bed, he cannot as his stomach continues to protest until he is forced to open his eyes.

'Why do I have to go through this?' That is what he thought as his eyes' color of gold were being shined upon by the morning sun. In a room that seemed to have too many cracks and holes to count, Regulus, who wore dirty cloth, seemed to be lying down on his bed thinking about why his life is like this.

'What a miserable life this is.' That is what Regulus thought without even taking a second to think if there is anyone else in the world that has it worse off than him. In truth, however, Regulus was better off than most as he at least has a loving family, but Regulus himself can't notice that. Perhaps that is due to his nature, or the environment that shaped him that way causes him to not notice that fact, but regardless of reason, it has always been an undisputed fact that he always got doted on by his parents. However, the only thing Regulus derived from those acts of love is 'pity' and the belief of being entitled to things that are given to him.

Being in poverty, the foods that Regulus thought that he was 'entitled' to are always too little, does not come so frequently, and always comes at the time when his hunger is almost unbearable.

One day, he might be lucky and get scraps of food, and the next he got one loaf of bread. Whenever he got the food that he deserved, his stomach would still be left unsatisfied.

The feeling of being entitled to things only builds up hatred within Regulus as he believes that everyone just denies him what he is entitled to.

With him not getting enough basic necessities to his satisfaction, with him not having a good roof above him or a single decent cloth that wasn't dirty, he thought that no one really cared about him, and thus he developed hatred.

Along with that hatred for others, there comes hatred for himself and the low self-worth that follows after what he thought others view him as, someone who is pitiful, someone who is lacking.

He hated himself for being low, for being so pitiable, and so when he got the power to prevent himself from ever needing anything again, the power to stop time for himself and only himself, the power that liberated himself from the feeling of being 'pitiful' and 'worthless', he use it to hide away from his past that is laughable.

With the power to stop his time, disconnect him from the flow of it, there comes the freedom of no longer needing anything, no longer being restrained by anything, no longer relying on anything for his continuation such as food and water, and no longer needing things like shelter.

The point of shelter is to protect oneself from rain, cold, and the deadly rays of the sun. But with his body condition being stopped, his body is now optimal for every situation as his body is being stopped in the state of equilibrium.

He doesn't need sleep as his body stopped in a state where he was fully awake, unchanging. And with his body not changing, his health also wasn't in his concern.

He no longer needs to be provided for and so he no longer requires a family. And since he no longer needs them, he gets rid of them as he believes that they will only tie him down. Same as friendship. Friendship is all about give and take, and since he doesn't need anything, he doesn't need friendship either. He also doesn't 'need' wives. The only reason he gathers beautiful women to be his wives is so that he could liberate them from the chain called "love" that prevents them from gaining independence, or so he convinces himself.

With his Authority of Greed, he basically has accomplished everything in life by not needing anything to live.

That power that caused him to become the embodiment of 'perfect' and 'satisfaction', that is what he depends on to escape his past, the poor and pitiful him of the past that he'd rather forget that was barely able to receive the most basic of necessities that cannot satisfy him.

He latches himself onto that power and builds his ego around his 'Authority of Greed', something that makes him 'the most satisfied being in the world'. Since his entire image was built upon his 'Authority of Greed', he lashed out at those who went against that image, after all, that image is all he has. And since his ego was built upon the image of being 'perfect', someone who doesn't need anything to live, a perfect human who everyone could ever hope to reach, he feels that he already got all the respect in the world. But… that is just his conscious thoughts.

In his unconscious mind, however, Regulus is, in fact, wanting to show off, to seek people's recognition, validation of people to build his fragile ego to prove that he is not lacking and that he is perfect. Regulus is just like a kid, who viewed themself as stupid, wanting to complete their education to prove their intellect; Regulus seeks validation to build his ego of 'being perfect' to prove that he isn't 'pitiful lacking existence'.

He denies everything that he perceived as an attack against his ego, by destroying and killing, to continue to be able to live in that lie, in that bubble of comfort, in his own world that he created that he himself didn't notice.

Regulus never changes. His heart and his mind were stopped a century ago, therefore he is still that same kid that killed his entire village because they 'pity' him. He never grew, he never improved, he never realized his sins, and still thinks that he is rid of all wrongdoing even if it presents to his face as he rejects everything, rejects all changes, isolates himself in a world where there is only himself, where there is no outside interference that's able to change him.

Even after he died, he still has not once changed. His entire image was built upon the image of 'being perfect', for that reason, if he accepts changes, it means he acknowledges his flaws. Acknowledging something that he rejected, something that he denies for years, decades, centuries, that can't simply be done, and thus he denies changes.

Even now, as he is falling to what was once hell, he's still oblivious to the fact that he never acted upon his promise of going 'serious', 'not holding back anymore', and 'stop being too merciful' that was in his mind previously; he kept talking and talking, without changing anything in the end. Even if he thinks of 'change' he wouldn't act upon them and go on like normal without changing, for his heart and mind were 'stopped' a long time ago.

It might be true that 'change' happens before it happens, as it first happened when 'we thought about change', making it the starting line; for Regulus, however, acting upon his thought of 'change' is the last obstacle that he could never hope to overcome, he is simply long gone in the spiral of chasing his own shadow. The shadow that's called, 'the most satisfied being in existence' that he himself created.