The Master of Pretending (to be something that they're not)

His whole life he had dreamed of this. Dreamed of coming to the city, of escaping his strict upbringing, of getting to learn to perform, of getting to be free and have fun with a bunch of other people who just wanted to be free in the way you can when you’re performing. He had honestly thought for a long time it was impossible.In acting you are given directions to do, text to say. You always know what’s coming next. Except improv, which is also why he hates improv. No one sees you when you're acting, they see whatever character you are playing. Everything’s much nicer that way.What if the Marauders era characters all went to acting school in NYC? Definitely not inspired by my time going to an acting school in NYC,,, why would you think that?Mainly jegulus, pandalily, and wolfstar, the other pairings are background.

My fandom friend and I discovered we went to the same acting school a cycle apart. So we of course started discussing the Marauders in acting school and this exists now. Thank you to Seralina for inspiring this fic and inspiring me to write again after years. Thank you to the Marauders Audio Project and all the fabulous people in it for helping me stay motivated (especially Lea, Ez, and Maeve for many writing sprints). And thank you to all the peeps who offered to beta this fic for me: Ez, Sydney, Mads, and Emma!