A fic rec of One Direction fics that have dark academia themes as requested in this ask. You can find all my fic recs here. If you enjoy the fics, please leave kudos and comments for the writers! Happy reading!
-Larry-
🖤 Love Endless (series) by wubwubnparmaham
(E, 884k, vampire au, ancient Rome, 1970s, historical, supernatural elements, homophobia, abuse, bullying, mystery, gothic mansion, violence, angst, smut)
Love Endless is a story about ancient and supernatural love between two vampiric figures of history. Centered around Aelius Hadrianus of Rome and Alexander the Great, it chronicles the tragic loss when one of them was killed and later reborn as a bullied teen in Idaho.
🖤 Young & Beautiful by Velvetoscar / @mizzwilde
(M, 227k, uni au, drugs, alcohol, poetry, music, dark, falling in love, angst with a happy ending)
Louis, to his horror, attends an elitist university in which the name Zayn Malik means something, Niall Horan doesn't stop talking, there are pianos everywhere, and Harry Styles, only son of a drug-addled, clinically insane ex-rocker, has a perfect smile and empty eyes.
🖤 Victorian Boy by audreyhheart
(E, 101k, Victorian au, historical, nobility, enemies to lovers, slow burn, angst, sexual tension, murder mystery, jealousy, smut)
Harry the virgin Duke of Somerset knows little of love, while Louis the sly Duke of Warwick knows too much.
🖤 Coax the Cold by MediaWhore / @mediawhorefics
(M, 86k, historical au, 19th century, fantasy, mermaids, angst, circus/freak show, professor Louis, mermaid Harry, violence, abuse, adventure, romance)
When he hears whispers of a travelling freak show newly established in London claiming the existence of a monstrous sea hybrid, half-man, half-fish, Louis sees it as his ticket to credibility amongst his peers.
🖤 Loyal Knight and True by rainbowninja167 / @rainbowninja
(E, 51k, magical realism au, poetry, bisexuality, love spells, unreliable narrator)
In contemporary Oxford, Harry Styles and Niall Horan run a magical bookshop, unbowed by an entire academic establishment that insists magic doesn't even exist. Sometimes, Harry finds, it's much easier to have faith in magic than in himself. Louis Tomlinson is a classically trained poet who needs something to believe in, and Liam Payne longs to be a part of something magical.
🖤 Whispers in the Trees by hazzayoudoing
(M, 51k, murder mystery au, high school, boarding school, friends to lovers, secret crush, sexual tension, minor character death, suicide, smut)
an AU in which Louis and Harry witness a murder on the pristine campus of Wellington Academy, their posh boarding school
🖤 You Came Just Like A Flower In My Darkest Hour by graceling_in_a_suit / @graceling-in-a-suit
(T, 44k, magical realism, 1920s, historical, fantasy, magical spells, writer Louis, mute Harry, jazz, mutual pining, demisexual Harry)
Harry had spent a thousand years as the king of a false kingdom, no one but his empty-minded subjects to distract him from his loneliness.
🖤 A Million One, A Million Two (a Hundred More Will Never Do) by LittleLostPieces
(E, 42k, boarding school au, inspired by Young Americans and Gotta Be You music video, rich Harry, smut)
An AU loosely inspired by the short-lived WB drama, Young Americans, and the Gotta Be You music video.
🖤 Along The Heather by noellehenry / @noellehenrymain
(M, 35k, historical, Jane Eyre au, Victorian, abuse, panic attacks, tutor Harry, attempted murder, angst, boarding school, manor house, Yorkshire, eventual romance)
Thorgill Hall, however, holds a secret; it’s becoming slightly more eerie every day and when his life is threatened, Harry makes a drastic decision…
🖤 The Blood of Love by @mugglemirror
(E, 25k, historical au, fantasy, supernatural elements, magic, mythology, nurse Harry, Louis is a portrait, pining, witches, smut)
As desire and darkness encompasses him, Harry has to learn the secrets of Thorne Hills manor before he succumbs to the mystery that surrounds him.
🖤 Drop to Hold You by QuickedWeen / @becomeawendybird
(T, 15k, Harry Potter universe, Oxford, uni, auror training, graduate school, lust at first sight)
After the end of the Second Wizarding War and the ensuing diplomacy between Muggles and the Wizarding world, the long-defunct Merlin College at Oxford opened it's doors again.
🖤 grand old ivy by orphan_account
(T, 12k, uni au, Harvard, friendship, alcohol, developing relationship)
Even though he had been so eager to start at Harvard and leave life in England behind him, Harry found himself making friends with a slew of other Englishmen (and Irishmen) on campus.
🖤 Nighttime in the Book Shop by Larry_Klaine_Stylinson
(T, 3k, bookshop au, storm, poetry, fluff)
Harry has been working in a small used book shop for as long as he's been able to have a job. One night he and his co-worker Louis are left to close up the shop, but it's storming out, and they get trapped inside.
🖤 Palace on the hill by theglitterbee (wwxmole) / @theglitterbee
(G, 1k, fable, gothic, supernatural elements, ambiguous ending, inspired by Oscar Wilde short stories)
In Holmes Chapel you were awarded blissfulness as long as you didn’t question where it had come from.
-Rare Pairs-
🖤 we are spirits of a different sort by StormDancer
(E, 53k, Zayn/Harry, soulmates au, uni, soul marks, coffee shop, enemies to lovers, photographer Harry, rebel Zayn, literary references)
O hell! to choose love by another's eyes...Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream
🖤 if not the happiest, surely the luckiest by dangerbears
(NR, 10k, Zayn/Louis, boarding school au, new student Zayn, wealthy Zayn, popular Louis)
reform boarding school for the obscenely wealthy, essentially.
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𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡
Addicted To You - Avicii
All Lit Up - Craig Armstrong
American Beauty - Thomas Newman
American Money - BØRNS
Awkward Duet - Sons And Daughters
Beautiful People Beautiful Problems - Lana Del Rey, Stevie Nicks
Beautiful Shirts And Dan Cody - Craig Armstrong
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Blue Light - Mazzy Star
Boats Against The Current - Craig Armstrong
Buchanan Mansion And Daisy Suite - Craig Armstrong
Bye-bye Darling - BØRNS
California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas
Caring Is Creepy - The Shins
Castle Went Dark - Craig Armstrong
Cello Theme - Craig Armstrong
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Cosmic Love - Florence + The Machine
Dead Myrtle - Craig Armstrong
Didn't You Love Anything - Craig Armstrong
Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine
Don’t Fall Down - The Black Angels
Don't Forget About Me - CLOVES
Don't Wake the Dead - Guards
Dream Violin - Craig Armstrong
Everything Will Be Alright - The Killers
Falling - Harry Styles
Fallingwater - Maggie Roggers
Fine Line - Harry Styles
Five String Serenade - Mazzy Star
Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine
Fool for Your Face - Coves
Found Love - The Fly Bi Nights
Gatsby's Death And Portico - Craig Armstrong
Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers)- Daft Punk
Girls - Widowspeak
Glasgow Love Theme - Craig Armstrong
Go Fuck Yourself - Two Feet
Golden - Harry Styles
Green Eyes - Coldplay
Green Light - Craig Armstrong
Halah - Mazzy Star
Hands - Widowspeak
Happiness Does Not Wait - Ólafur Arnalds
Happiness is a butterfly - Lana Del Rey
Hearts A Mess - Gotye
Heavy In Your Arms - Florence + The Machine
Honeymoon - Lana Del Rey
hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have but i have it - Lana Del Rey
Hotel Sayre - Craig Armstrong
I'm Set Free - The Velver Underground
It's You - BØRNS
I Won't Hurt You - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Juliet's Dream - Abel Korzeniowski
Kill And Run - Sia
Laughing on the Outside - Bernadette Carroll
Let Me Follow - Son Lux
Let Me In - Snowmine
Let's Go To Town - Craig Armstrong
Lights Up - Harry Styles
Little Lady - The Walking Who
A Little Party Never Killed Nobody - Fergie
Lonesome Town - Ricky Nelson
Long & Lost - Florence + The Machine
Louisa - Lord Huron
Love song - Lana Del Rey
Magic Tree And I Let Myself Go - Craig Armstrong
Me - The 1975
A Message - Coldplay
Moon - Sleeping At Last
My Body Is A Cage - Peter Gabriel
The Night We Met - Lord Huron
No Light, No Light (live version) - Florence + The Machine
Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex
Old Money - Lana Del Rey
Orphans Of The Storm - Flyte
Over The Love - Florence + The Machine
Overture And Sanitarium - Craig Armstrong
Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground
Paradise - Coldplay
Past Lives - BØRNS
Play With Fire - The Rolling Stones
Pretty When You Cry - Lana Del Rey
Rabbit heart - Florence + The Machine
Revolution (acoustic version) - Elias
Run to You - Lea Michele
A Saurceful Of Secrets - Pink Floyd
Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Somebody Else - The 1975
Stand By Me - Florence + The Machine
Stone - Jaymes Young
Stoned On You - Jaymes Young
Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground, Nico
Swedish Garden - Brice Davoli
Take Care - Florence + The Machine
Terrence Loves You - Lana Del Rey
That Night He Told Me Everything - Craig Armstrong
To Believe - The Cinematic Orchestra
Two Minutes To Four And Reunited - Craig Armstrong
Unforgettable - Sia
Us Against the World - Coldplay
Video Games - Lana Del Rey
Wait by the River - Lord Huron
Watercolor Eyes - Lana Del Rey
When My Boy Walks Down the Street - The Magnetic Fields
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High - Arctic Monkeys
Wild Heart - Bleachers
Wish That You Were Here - Florence + The Machine
With Or Without You - U2
Wondrous Place - The Last Show Puppets, Alex Turner
Yes To Heaven - Lana Del Rey (Honeymoon Version)
You Kept My Letters - Craig Armstrong
Young & Beautiful - Lana Del Rey
Young Men Dead - The Black Angels
You've Got The Love - Florence + The Machine
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