. I see. He looked down at our tangled hands, and I could see it in his eyes trying to make sense of my feelings. I mean, that the moment I think Im remotely over what happened, you are released. All day, all week. Rio 354 pages. Quoted as being the most academic of them all: he knew what he was doing. We fell asleep right there, on James small couch, with him draped over me like a human blanket, his limbs lost in mine, and our breathing happening in synch. If we were villains _ M. L. Rio Como um dos sete jovens atores que estudam Shakespeare em uma faculdade de elite, Oliver e seus amigos desempenham os mesmos. They help him realize that, maybe, his feelings aren't 100% platonic. The Merchant of Venice is a very racially controversial play. But I dont think its at Meredith that youre mad. The rest have not really commented on supposed Joliver. At first, John and Oliver were on a mission to find and kill Deadshot but after learning that John's brother's death was a planned hit he was apprehended by Amanda Waller and put in the . In and out. Rio, inspired by the secret history by donna tartt, I love you so much it scares me half to death (The other half I guess Im giving to you), Alexanders confused but he has the spirit, And Richards still dead (small victories), The Course Of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, Alexander is really not ok guys he needs help, I didn't like the way Oliver handled the situation in the library, No beta we die likemy sleep schedule apparently, but i found it cute and interesting to explore, this is my first time writing a straight couple, I have no clue when the other parts will come out, the sexual content isn't bad it's super brief, you got a nine to five (so i'll take the night shift), I'm not saying that you love me (I'm not saying anything). When the door is obviously answered by said death-faker (because obviously), the dramatic love birds have to sort a few things out before they can actually get together. When the door came within reaching distance, I knocked, forcefully. No, I dont think so. By clockwork art. The book was layed out similar to a script, split into sections with each section being an act in a five-act drama. There were also a lot of Shakespeare references and quotes throughout, as the students not only perform his works but sometimes speak in Shakespearean quotes in their day-to-day life. You must, since you figured this is where I was.. And just as my nose had always remained slightly crooked to the side, the loss of James hadnt healed yet. I say hes alive. A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. It went like that for maybe a few minutes, until my fingers stopped at his left temple, and I finally met his eyes. James and Oliver. James is alive, and Oliver should think of their trip to Del Norte to find him. Only difference would be I would have been arrested for a crime I did commit. He had always been the most serious student . We were quite blind, werent we? I wanted to laugh. See a recent post on Tumblr from @secrethistoryfan about if we were villains. I also really liked that the book was divided into Acts as it helped to drive the action and was a lovely nod to the Shakespearean aspects of the novel. Please consider turning it on! Change). He went about his little kitchen, putting the kettle on and then sorting out their drinks. Oliver accepts but requests that Colborne not act upon what Oliver will tell him. But I am saying you also cant blame her for what she did when she found out. Only because that was something I could do now. With directions of a path no one else would even dream of walking, even if I explained, even if I tried to make them understand. Its just this, I dont understand it., To be honest, maybe I dont understand it either, not fully. And we learned she was a holder of James secrets, a protector of the groups heart, and a Shakespearean expert. Some of the dialogue written out in a script-form, particularly when they are performing or rehearsing for plays. Until loving him was more dangerous than the consequences of what we did.. we are left with the same uncertainty oliver feels except he has the chance to find the truth and we dont (rude if you ask me so imma assume he found him and they lived a happy gay life together), i'm with you. Wash me from shore to shore, and left me breath. He bent down and kissed my face where it had landed, resting his lips there for a moment. Ive been screaming this at the walls and youre gonna hear it now., You were selfish, Oliver. And they could finally be together. Inside, James had clearly made some work to make the place habitable. Im not going to deny that I love her-,. I moved. Only long enough for me to finally realize that I could never give myself to her like that, no matter how much I loved her, no matter how attracted to her I ever was. Dont say it like that, James, you dont know what she was thinking. I said, maybe sounding more defensive of Meredith than James would have liked me to. James takes Wren to bed with him, his revenge on Oliver. In the only way that made sense for a method actor who played his role with such reality, such truth. As if sensing my brain fume with concerns for the uncertain future, James began to shift on top of me, his head slowly rolling sideways on my chest to look up at me. The James that Oliver loved is gone; however, physically, James is still around somewhere. As underperforming students are purged every year, the seven of them are the only fourth-year acting students remaining. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still. Check out the Cast List for If We Were Villains first! [4] Regret it? He asked, in a small voice. Hi, I said, that being the only coherent thought I could seem to form. After 10 years of reclusion, even the most dramatic of Shakespearean actors would step back when it came to how much immersion they allow themselves into. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Shakespeare is fully immersed in every part of the book. Do you think it wouldve have been different? 0 Discussions. Oliver and James. Oliver is assigned the part of Banquo and is surprised to see James, rather than Richard, appear as Macbeth on Halloween night. Oliver recognizes it as a monologue from Pericles, Prince of Tyre, in which Pericles laments the apparent death of his wife, Thaisa, in the middle of a storm at sea. Come find me at @bluejaey10 on insta if y'all Wana talk. He buried his face in the crook of my neck, and my hands made their way up and down his back, soothing him. And Meredith, he spoke her name with a little more disdain than I cared to stand. I closed my eyes and felt him shuddering against me, his whole body shaking in growing intensity. I am once again returning to the land of dark academia for a (spoiler) review of If We Were Villains by M.L. Why did you do it? I blurted out. What James had done was absolutely insane, and yet, it felt like a plausible line of thought to me. After the students return from break, they prepare to perform scenes from Romeo and Juliet, another tradition, at the Christmas masquerade ball. As Richard stormed out of the Caesar cast party, he assaulted Wren, who was trying to calm him. For strength, in case no one did. Single Sentence Summary: At an elite art college, seven young acting students (performing only Shakespeare) are the best of friends until one is found dead and another is charged with the murder. I actually came all the way here intending to do so, he confessed. In this secluded world of firelight and leather . If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio. To protect you, to have you. Discover more posts about if we were villains, oliver marks, classic books, james farrow, grey academia, literature quotes, and iwwv. I am not blaming you! If wed crossed this line before everything happened.. 10 years after the events, Oliver is approached by the former police officer who investigated his . Just James's thoughts and emotions. - stream 11 if we were villains playlists including iwwv, Chris Cornell, and Lorde music from your desktop or mobile device. I only nodded, embarrassed by how right he was. I was starting to give up., I-, I wanted to go to you. "Despite being a classic Flash villain, the original Captain Boomerang spent more time fighting Green Arrow in this universe His last appearance was in the Arrow season 5 finale, where he cornered Malcolm Merlyn who had stepped on a landmine, they both exploded" Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. The novel drew mixed reviews. Alexander, Filippa, Wren, Meredith; to them, he had been dead for years. Can you believe we shared a room for four years and never did this?. The bathroom scene when Oliver tells James it wasnt a one-night stand with Meredith bc shes not just some girl and . He nodded and rested his head back on my chest. So, I think his note to Oliver is to say that he's "killed" James and has adapted a new self - one that is free of the torment that James suffered from. As you begin reading "If We Were Villains", you start reading through our narrator, Oliver's perspective. Rio, was published in 2017. If We Were Villains by M.L. Now, he hovered above me, the curls of his overgrown hair falling at the sides of his face, producing a curtain, a shield keeping the rest of the world at bay. An exploration of Filippa and Camilo's relationship, which I'm not even sure is canon but found interesting to explore anyway. Oliver is eager to reunite with James, who had eventually stopped visiting, but is informed that he drowned himself four years earlier. Having everyone around but being so alone. Instead, Oliver goes to visit Meredith, now a television actress living in Chicago. If We Were Villains is the debut novel of American author M. L. Rio, first published in 2017 by Flatiron Books. I kissed the top of his head. All seven of us. Die TikTok-Sensation auf Deutsch als Taschenbuch Jetzt bei Penguin entdecken und bestellen. I brought both my arms around him, and a single pull was enough to have him losing all strength and falling on top of me, sobbing. And that wouldnt have been just an accident. I do love her. It has always been about that, even when we didnt know it was.. The group agrees to wait for Richard to die, then call the police and pretend he was already dead when they came upon him. I felt sorry for her being always the one left behind, but I couldnt give her what she deserved. It still wasnt fair, James said, voice heavy. His hand, which had been holding onto my shoulder, started stroking my skin right there, and he slowly cracked his eyes open, blinking away the sleep and the dried tears in them, and taking my face in. Truth is, I couldnt say myself, and it was probably the both of you. He also desperately tried to avoid Meredith, but she snuck her way into his mind and filled it with ugly, hot flashes of guilt. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. James also admits that Filippa knew about the murder, and it was she who burned his bloody shirt in the fireplace. James, we would have ended up exactly here. The events of "If We Were Villains" told from Filippa's perspective. "Summer Thrillers: Daring Escapes and Other Acts of Derring-Do", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=If_We_Were_Villains&oldid=1141467345, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 05:52. 9781785656477. The next morning, Oliver and Meredith are awoken by Filippa. For you. Let Del Norte be the only place on earth, and the two of us, the only people in it. Its easy. Not ever. as well as I think the ending is supposed to give us false hope that hes alive but I saw his death coming, and I choose to believe that Oliver got therapy and lived his days with Meredith. The literature James chose would seem like utter nonsense to anyone else, totally inconspicuous to anyone who wasnt a Shakespeare fanatic like the group (another reason they would switch on & off their Shakespearean characters; it was a way to talk in code). M.L. But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students' world of make-believe. aka James pov (mostly) behind the original story since the end of the performance of King Lear. They became used to playing particular roles, on stage and in daily life, from the hero to his best friend, the tyrant, the temptress, and the ruler. Oliver is a meek, mild, and quiet young man. Not very platonic of us. She leads the group to the lake, where they find Richard with his skull broken. Oliver and James. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I WANT him to be alive and waiting for Oliver but it makes too little sense and I can't help but think of this one line from one of the previous chapters. 27 Feb 2023 03:01:03 i feel like that would make any person go mad. . We were blind., Yeah, we were. 100% loved and adored this novel. The house stood just as abandoned from the outside as I remembered, from all those years ago, when we had been there last. Yeah, I do. However why should he fake his own death? 4.23. Realizing their time is up, James kisses Oliver onstage. "It was good that I had taken the time to breathe before setting the scene into motion, because once the door opened, complaining slightly at its hinges, my lungs stopped. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. You went to Meredith when you got out? He asked, hurt by it. Press J to jump to the feed. The night of the Lear cast party, James gets drunk and begins acting erratically, only speaking in character as Edmund. Rio. He uses a mash-up of different lines from Lear to try to tell Oliver what he's going through without saying it outright using the Fool's line from Act 1, Scene 4 and then skipping ahead to a scene between Edmund and Edgar. It wasnt long before my own tears were joining the one that James had left on my cheek, and, soon enough, it was undistinguishable where his pain ended and mine began. It incorporates Gothic and vintage style elements, as well as references to ancient Greece, Rome, and the Renaissance. No, I said more firmly, not allowing James to go down that road. Richard is a bastard and won't count. He, suddenly, raised his head and spoke. No, youll listen to this. 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