━━ CAESAR ON A TV SCREEN ━━
remus lupin & elizabeth dunham
a marauders band au fanfiction © vogueriots
Money, Power, Glory. Those were the three pillars this world was built upon. If you had one, you were doing well. If you had all, you were a god. Elizabeth Dunham had spent too long living under somebody's thumb. She wanted it all.
But nobody can get those on their own, you need to have something to build upon and, unfortunately for her, Elizabeth had never been great at making friends. From screaming when a boy borrowed her pink crayon without asking to accidentally spilling paint water on a girl's uniform, her standoffish seclusion and social ineptitude seemed to follow her like a curse.
Until one day, stuck in isolation after getting in a fight in the school canteen, she met a likeminded girl called Marlene.
Marlene never began that initial stage of friendship where you're sickeningly sweet just to gain favour, instead, she looked Elizabeth dead in the eyes and told her that her eyeliner was ruined. Instead of feeling anger or insult at that, Elizabeth smiled, and told Marlene there was ink on her chin, and they decided they trusted each other with their lives.
Music was one of the only things that kept them sane, with Elizabeth feeling alive behind her drums and Marlene seemingly born to pluck at a bass, the pair ended up spending every lunch break tucked away in the music classroom, thankful to every saint and star that the music teacher was one of the few who didn't hate them.
But that sweet escape only lasted so long, and before her sixteenth birthday, Marlene's parents split, and she moved to London to live with her mother's side of the family, leaving Elizabeth with the fear she'd be forgotten in favour of the girls Marlene grew up with.
She should've known better, because Marlene McKinnon wasn't someone easy to get rid of and just as the girl had wormed her way into Elizabeth's heart, she refused to leave. Over the years and summer holidays, they stayed in touch, occasionally taking trips down to London or up to Newcastle to visit.
Marlene kept her updated on her urban life, how she'd formed a band with her friends, Lily, Mary, and Emmeline, that they called Reverie, and how they'd established a rivalry with a band whose members she'd also grown up with—The Marauders, they called themselves—because their lead singer kept calling Lily fit and their guitarist kept talking ( loudly ) during their set at one of their local record shops.
So when Marlene's newest update is about a renowned battle of the bands and the fact that Emmeline, had unfortunately moved to America for university, indirectly begging Elizabeth to join them and save them from the humiliation of not applying, she can't quite find it in herself to say no.
In Reverie, there was only two rules; play good and do not, under any circumstances, hook up with a member of The Marauders, but Elizabeth's choice to stay in a hotel instead of on the girls' couch and her favour for a cider after a long day prove to be cause more trouble than they were worth.
Did she blame Remus Lupin for her newfound confusion and internal conflict? No, she blamed him for all of it.
MEET THE BANDS!
REVERIE: we could write hamlet but shakespeare couldn't write the feminine urge
ELIZABETH DUNHAM . . . lizeth selene
i ❤️ confrontational drummers!
instagram lizdun777
twitter elizabethdunham
MARLENE MCKINNON . . . beatrice laus
i ❤️ cocky bassists!
instagram marlsmckinnon
twitter marleynotbob
LILY EVANS . . . riley keogh
i ❤️ ambitious singers!
instagram lilyevanss
twitter irldaisyjones
MARY MCDONALD . . . towa bird
i ❤️ social awkward guitarists!
instagram marymaccers
twitter marymcdaddy
THE MARAUDERS: yeah, i don't remember writing that. living next to a pub has its pros and cons, i guess
REMUS LUPIN . . . robert keating
i ❤️ mysterious bassists!
instagram remuslupin
twitter rlupin
JAMES POTTER . . . dominic fike
i ❤️ himbo singers!
instagram jamespotter
twitter jamespotter
SIRIUS BLACK . . . elijah hewson
i ❤️ arrogant guitarists!
instagram siriusblack
twitter siriusly
PETER PETTIGREW . . . ryan mcmahon
i ❤️ shy drummers!
instagram peterpettigrew
LEGACY: oh yeah that's just a metaphor for sex. i hadn't seen my girlfriend in a long time when i wrote it
DORCAS MEADOWES . . . laura bekaert
i ❤️ confident drummers!
instagram dorcasmeadow
twitter dorcasmeadowes
REGULUS BLACK . . . timothée chalamet
i ❤️ secluded guitarists!
EVAN ROSIER . . . josh jenkinson
i ❤️ sweet bassists!
instagram evanrosier
twitter evanrosier
PANDORA ROSIER . . . tyla
i ❤️ sexy singers!
instagram pandorarosier
twitter pandorasbox
✮ SOUNDTRACK ✮
i. Money Power Glory Lana Del Rey
ii. Caesar on a TV Screen The Last Dinner Party
iii. OMG Suki Waterhouse
iv. Demi Moore Phoebe Bridgers
v. Sunshine Baby The Japanese House
vi. two reverse Adrianne Lenker
vii. Any Pile Dominic Fike
viii. Sunsetz Cigarettes After Sex
ix. Got Me Started Troy Sivan
x. I'M THAT GIRL Beyoncé
my angel Adrianne Lenker .xi
Not My Fault Reneé Rapp .xii
I Wish You Would (TV) Taylor Swift .xiii
Bags (Electric Lady Studio) Clairo .ixv
Touching Yourself The Japanese House .xv
Stay Gracie Abrams .xvi
Sofia I'm Sorry Jesse Detor .xvii
Handle Me MUNA .xviii
Stayaway Muna .ixx
The Brown Eyed Driver Flora Rose .xx
( all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter. . . )
sweetadoring goddessrots witchesraves -always4ever lversr0ck madekwesluvr iinrainbows girlplights vampiricspells girlmanics lovediorss starsforsaturn salkulti ivysfolklore Iiebedich loversrocks -petrovaxx bardotcouture sugarhits charliesluv
( disclaimers & warnings. . . )
this fic will include sex jokes/references but no actual smut, mentions of anxiety and other mental health issues but nothing very detailed
( author's note. . . )
shoutout to lana and elle who were told i'd post this a week ago. . . sorry, but she's here now!!!! i love stupid and fun books and this is going to be so stupid and fun i cannot wait and i hope you love her as much as i do 🫶💕