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• A Pride & Prejudice Parallel by BlameLucien (WhatVenusWrote)

  Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Pride and Prejudice (TV 1995)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  25 May 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Original Female Character/ Original Male Character Elizabeth Bennet/ Fitzwilliam Darcy Jane Bennet/ Charles Bingley
  • Elizabeth Bennet
  • Jane Bennet
  • Charles Bingley
  • Fitzwilliam Darcy
  • Mrs. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Mrs. Gardiner (Pride and Prejudice)
  • George Wickham
  • Mr. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Caroline Bingley
  • William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Lydia Bennet
  • Catherine "Kitty" Bennet
  • Mary Bennet
  • Charlotte Lucas
  • Lucien Ashbourne
  • Octavia Everston
  • Dark Academia
  • Slow Burn
  • emotional tension
  • Love Letters
  • Literary References & Allusions
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • ballrooms and shadows
  • Original Character(s)
  • Lyrical prose
  • smouldering glances
  • Fanfic reimagining
  • My First Fanfic
  • What ifs and longing
  • pride and prejudice re-work
  • Sexual Tension
  • candlelit conversations
  • Illicit glances across the dance floor
  • Literary foreplay
  • One bed-too much pride
  • Longing but make it art
  • sharp tongued female lead
  • Men who fall first and fall hard
  • he's ruined for anyone else
  • she writes he bleeds
  • Gentlemen with dangerous intentions
  • secret letters not so secret feelings
  • Cousin of the Bennets
  • Regency era but unbuttoned
  • Not your grandmothers Jane Austen
  • Lucien is not canon but he should be
  • Alternate Universe - Pride and Prejudice Fusion
  • Inspired by Pride and Prejudice
  • Regency Romance
  • Ballroom Dancing

  Summary

  A Pride & Prejudice Parallel
  This is a Pride & Prejudice reimagining that includes all your favourite canon characters — Elizabeth, Darcy, Jane, Bingley, and the entire glorious, chaotic Bennet mess.

  But this story also asks:
  What if someone else had been watching from the edge of the room?
  And what if their version of the story changed everything?

  Enter Octavia. Enter Lucien.

  They are not replacements. They are a reckoning.
  She wasn’t born a Bennet. He wasn’t written into Austen’s pages.
  But between the letters they didn’t send, the glances they couldn’t hold, and the truths they refused to swallow, they wrote something of their own.

  This parallel unfolds alongside the familiar plot, but with added layers of POV from characters we never truly heard — Darcy, Bingley, Jane — giving voice to the silences in the original. Through Octavia’s eyes, we witness Jane’s heartbreak. Through Lucien’s, we see what pride looks like when it finally bleeds.

  All the romance, wit, and social stakes of the original but more brutal, more intimate, and far too modern for the drawing room.

  Series

  • Part 1 of What Venus Wrote

  Language:

  English

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