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Puppeteer and Pawns, Paupers and Prince by wirtsdramaticpoetry
Fandoms: The Secret History - Donna Tartt, If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
21 Sep 2025
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Two schools, two perspectives.
One follows the views of a pauper and their unwillingness to play as the pawn.
The other follows the puppet who'd rather die in stage than act as a prince.
A chase for beauty, romance, and peace. Combined moments from behind the stage and the revealing of the deleted lines in one's script.
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This is kind of post canon but at the same time AU. Kind of just Wren and Pip's relationship.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 939
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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If I lose mine honour, I lose myself by Sailing_ShipWreck
Fandoms: If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
10 Sep 2025
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I’ve played the hero and the villain for long enough now. The same goes for your role as the sidekick. We’ve done our parts, and it’s time for a change.
Become the hero, Oliver.
Throw yourself in a mad search for your long lost companion. Ignore all the advice that says it’s a doomed mission. Beat the odds and believe. Believe in me. Believe in us. Then the audience will believe in you too.
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fear is just a part of love (and one thing i found is love is what you deserve) by manes_manibus
Fandoms: If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
08 Sep 2025
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Oliver Marks has been in love with Meredith Dardenne for all of the 4 years he's been attending Dellecher. One day, he brings this up to his roommate, and best friend, James Farrow in order to get advice on how to approach her about it. Things are going great until they're not.
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Drown me, my love. For you've done it to yourself. by W31RDX0
Fandoms: If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
11 Aug 2025
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The air was locked out of his head, dizzyness washing over him as he stared at the screen.
There had been no body found.
James had pleaded for him to be saved and he had waited too long.
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Oliver breaks. In his delusion he runs, and when he runs, the past follows him.
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In another world, Oliver and James fall in love, wren and meredith never get in the way, Richard doesn't die and there's a happy kiss for somone in it at the end.
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I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes by snailie
Fandoms: If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
28 Jul 2025
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After their final show of third year, Oliver, James and the other five celebrate with a lot of alcohol and partying at the lake. But the combination of alcohol and the adrenaline of the show tends to make them kinda horny, and when Oliver and James are the last ones on the beach, why wouldn't they take their chance to experiment a bit?
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(Read the Tags. Or don't. I dunno if they're actually beneficial or not. I apologize in advance, either way.)
At around one in the morning, Dellecher's Castle door gets a knock from the hands of Detective Colborne. A sickly woman with straight blond hair lets him in, and before she gets the chance to speak, he questions her.
"A fine night it is, Ms. Sterling. Is an Alexander Vass around?"
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Alexander Vass gets accused for the murder of Richard Sterling, and has to sit in jail for the next ten years of his life. It changes nothing. It changes everything.
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- Part 1 of If We Were Villains crap
- Language:
- English
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- 591
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 3
- Hits:
- 108
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[Podfic] dream things true by ShakespeareStoleMyURL
Fandoms: If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
22 Sep 2024
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Oliver: I dreamt a dream tonight.
James: Dreams often lie.
Oliver: That’s not your line either.
James: It’s not like it matters. We’re already reading from the wrong script anyways.
or, canon divergence about the line “who’s going to stop him from drowning me this time?”
Podfic of dream things true by circees.
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Oliver Marks is a young prince about to embark on a daunting journey to find a magical artifact and finally bring peace to his kingdom...maybe.
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As she applied her mascara, she couldn’t help but wonder what a horrible idea to do her makeup was, especially here. Her mirror was so crowded with pictures of her “friends” she couldn’t even see her face. Instead, the only thing in sight and mind were memories of better days and foolishness.
“Oh is all forgot? All school-days’ friendship, childhood innocence?”
Based on the pictures that Meredith has on her Mirror, the days in which they were taken, so basically the gang interacting before all the tragedy, but of course there still needs to be some angst so don't worry that's supplied too.
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O Death (Made Proud with Pure and Princely Beauty) by ShakesqueereanTragedy
Fandoms: If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
09 Jun 2024
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Left to his thoughts, Oliver starts to think about his involvement in Richard’s death- and how maybe he has more blood on his hands than he originally realized.
- Language:
- English
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- 562
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 10
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- 179
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When I think of Oliver in these recent summer months, I think of our last night at Dellecher as third-years. We were on top of the world, brushing our fingers against the underside of the cloud lines as though there was nowhere to go but upward. We were rising to Olympus, academic heroes reaching to achieve fourth-year privileges alongside the eventual Shakespearian godhood. With the new millennium imminent and the world our oyster as life after college began to take form, it felt like anything was possible.
I fell for him that fateful night, an Icarian turn of gratefulness toward the sun before the fall that would be my undoing.
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The year was 1993, Alexander Vass had just turned 18 years old.
It was mid June, which marked the beginning of summer and meant that the days drew sooner and sooner to when Alexander would pack up all his belongings and move to a small town called Broadwater but more specifically to Dellecher Classical Conservatory where he would study Shakespeare’s plays in the school’s Theatre Department.
To say he was excited was an understatement. Alexander hated meeting new people, he hated change. But for once in his life, he needed to get away.
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as there is sense in truth, and truth in you by feather_and_quill
Fandoms: If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
07 Oct 2023
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Oliver and James talk about what happened in combat class (Act I, Scene IX). (Reminder: James had hit Oliver accidentally, because they messed up the blocking. James was supposed to think of what would make him hit Oliver, Oliver, the opposite, was supposed to think how he could've provoked this attack. He did not succeed in thinking about that though, a little distracted.)
Or: We all physically need more happy James and Oliver.
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Después de que James le mostrara los moretones que Richard le dejo, Oliver se vuelve loco y cree que puede hablar con él para hacerlo entrar en razón y evitar un desastre.
Sin importar lo mucho que James le ruegue, no hacer nada estúpido, inicia su búsqueda en la madrugada, topándose con un muy borracho y cachondo Alexander; que lo lleva a la locura, placer, exploración personal (que no quería tener) y meterse en una situación demasiado comprometedora, no solo con él... sino también con Richard.Que apareció en el momento menos indicado.
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James descubriendo su sexualidad de una manera poco convencional y cuestionable
- Language:
- Español
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- 11,884
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 7
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- 201
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alexander vass and colin hylands are in love and happy and yippee idc.
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He let out a hollow laugh, “How fucking stupid”, he whispered to himself.
Because now, it all seemed smaller, more insignificant, because what true control did he have if he spent all of it fearing when it’d be lost? No. he was not in control, he was in fear. Deluded, disguised, untimely fear that drove all of his concentration to a non-existent moment in time when something he never held would be lost. It was already lost. Always lost as long as the fear inside of him would be too scared to even let control in and truly hold it. Missed was the certainty that could have been his if he allowed himself to open up even a bit of space inside of him to keep control safe. That way it’d never be lost.
Suddenly another voice interrupted his thoughts.
“It might feel strange, even unsettling, now that the depths of your vulnerability lie exposed,” James confessed, his voice laced with dear understanding. “But isn’t shit like this what makes us _truly human_, Oliver? I can’t deny that I find profound beauty in embracing our imperfections, and in acknowledging the flaws we carry. Because it is within those flawed places that the most potent seeds of possibility and transfiguration reside.”
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Your purple sweater's sitting in my room I tried to wear it, but I knew that it would smell like you by Wildemercury
Fandoms: If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
09 Jun 2023
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The Dellecher Eight (because Colin is the honorary member) share a sweater over the course of the years. I just wanted to write them as friends :’)
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If We Were Villains au where Oliver got his ass up and actually went after Richard instead of staying in.