A WandaVision/X-Men fanfic Iāve started writing.
Summary:
Someone, or something, took his son. Stole him away to another universe, far from Erikās reach. The X-Men are as clueless on how to get the speedster back, resigned like Erik to simply watching Peter on the tv screen as heās forced to play a role for a grieving woman.
Set three years after Apocalypse; timeline changes explained in the notes.
Started writing this a few days ago, and then saw a Tumblr post. So not inspired by this, but itās definitely along the same lines and I wanted to share it!
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Okay. Entertain me for a second.
James Farrow is a man who believes he deserves to rot forever for what heās done. He thinks all heās allowed to do with his life is suffer because of how many lives heās ruined throughout his last year at Dellecher.Ā
So, when he (in theory) fakes his death and inevitably chooses a new name to go by, what would be the most painful?
Oliver? Sure. A few fanfics have entertained that thought and I do love that concept of he can never escape what he did to Oliver.
However, picture this:
James Farrow, going about his normal day in a whole other city, state, or even country, leaving his best friends to all believe heās dead. Heās left his home for the first time in weeks because maybe he needs to get groceries, thereās a play showing nearby, whatever reason it may be, when all of a sudden he hears someone call his nameā¦
āRichard!ā
No matter what he decides to do in the four years heās ādeadā, Richard is always there. He hears his name every day, unable to escape, unable to forget. Being stuck in a constant cycle of grief, guilt, and agony. Giving Richard exactly what he wants: seeing James in pain.
Tell me he wouldnāt do it. Tell me he wouldnāt go by Richardās name just to punish himself even more 6-10 years after the murder. Tell me he wouldnāt think of Richard Stirling every single time he hears that name, feeling Richardās presence, hearing his taunting on that day.
Tell me he wouldnāt choose the one name that would undoubtedly torment him for as long as he owns it.
Okay, so this question has been plaguing me ever since I finished If We Were Villains and I want to know if anyone else has any opinions.
We obviously know the basic facts about the night of Richardās death, but I want to focus in on when James, Filippa, and Wren are all huddled up in Wrenās room, trying to comfort her.
This heart of absolute gold literally begs James to go out into the woods to find Richard so he doesnāt do something stupid. Now, from Wrenās perspective, we see James leave the room with the intention of finding Richard. Heās gone for maybe an hour or two, long enough for Pip to get worried and go out to look for him, so now Wren is alone in her room. She knows James (and now Filippa) are both in the woods, looking for Richard.
A few (probably) hours pass when suddenly, Iām assuming, Filippa comes into Wrenās room to tell her something bad has just happened and she needs to get to the lake asap. Iām assuming Pip is the one who tells her because by the time Oliver and Meredith get down there, everyone else is standing around and Pip was the one who summoned those two.
So, in Wrenās mind, the course of actions were: James leaves to find Richard, Filippa leaves to find James (and Richard), time passes, Filippa retrieves Wren from her room, and they all find Richard dead dying in the lake.
Now, when they all agree to let Richard die, they start discussing their separate stories. Where they were at the time of the murder. And Wren makes the statement:
āTheyāre going to want to know why one of us didnāt go after him.ā
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (Act III, Scene 1)
ā¦Whatās that supposed to mean, Wren? Werenāt you the one who begged James to go find Richard? And didnāt he leave with the sole intention of doing that? What do you mean no one went to go look for him when you know full well that James did?
My theory: Wren knew the whole time. Maybe not everything, but sheās not stupid. Itās too much of a coincidence. And I donāt know what story James and Filippa would have told her to make her think they were innocent, so Iām thinking Wren, like Pip, wanted to protect James.
āShe didnāt speak, didnāt even open her mouthājust nodded, slowly. Yes.ā
-Ā If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (Act III, Scene 1)
I donāt think she knew the full story, but there is no way she didnāt think James and/or Filippa were hiding more than they were letting on.
This also might be part of the reason why Richardās death was having such an effect on her. Obviously, losing a family member would be hard on anyone, but the fact that only Wren and James were diagnosed with PTSD and went through the most changes after the death seems very telling.
Not to mention Waltonās later suspicions about Wren:
āMy moneyās on the cousin,ā
-Ā If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (Act III, Scene 11)
Which, like, come on, man. Sheās been through enough!
So, if she knew, to some degree, who was really guilty, Iām curious about her reaction to Oliver getting arrested.
āAlexanderās face was so full of sadness that there was no room left for surprise. In Filippaās expression there was only a desperate kind of confusion. In Wrenās, emptiness. In Meredithās, something violent I couldnāt find a word to describe. And on Jamesās face, despair.ā
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (Act V, Scene 7)
I think the fact that Wren never came to visit Oliver is telling, at least. Was she too guilty, like James, for letting Oliver take the fall? Did she think the whole time James was covering for Oliver? What does she really think happened that night and when does she confront James about it?
She has to have found out the actual truth at some point because, come on, who really wants to hide something like that from the victims family forever?
I just want to know how much she knew and for how long because I think seeing this story from Wrenās POV would be so interesting. At least these scenes.