In Vino Veritas (trope)
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| Synonym(s) | Confessions under the Influence |
| Related tropes/genres | Fever Dream |
| See also |  Fanart for the Merlin story Truthspell. Arthur confesses his personal secrets under the influence of a truth spell and Merlin is there, listening to all of it. (art by tinnny) |
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In Vino Veritas, or Confessions Under The Influence, is a trope in fanworks (which also occurs in canon), where under the influence of drink, drugs, truth serum, truth spell or the like, one character confesses to lust or love[1] for another character. The character who the confession is about is usually also present in the scene/being confessed to and is often less or not under the influence. A common trope is for the confessing character to forget their confession and the other character having to deal with this new knowledge without giving themselves away.
The confession under the influence frequently, though not always, leads to first-time happy endings.
Examples
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do by amireal, SGA. Under the influence of alien drugs, Rodney confesses. (December 2004)
- Do You Know What I Know? by devildoll, SGA, first-time McKay/Sheppard. Under the influence of alcohol, John confesses. (2007)
- Or Something Like It by semivowel, SGA, first-time McKay/Sheppard. With a lot of work, Rodney stops long-term-truth-serumed-John from confessing several things he might not want to. (2008)
- I Wanna Hold You 'Til I Die by lazy daze, SPN, first-time Wincest. Under the influence of a curse Dean can't hide how much he wants to cuddle. (2008)
- Truthspell by vensre, Merlin, first time Merlin/Arthur. Arthur gets hit with a truth spell and spills a load of embarrassing personal secrets. As happens. (2009)
- Last Minute Shopping by kisahawklin, SGA, first-time McKay/Sheppard. Under the influence of special cookies the team starts telling truths and John panics. (2010)
- Twelfth Night: Being a Parody of the Author's Work, in One Act by Katie Forsythe, Sherlock Holmes, Holmes/Watson, "As I walked very carefully, one foot in front of the next in the familiar back-and-forth progression, up our seventeen steps that evening, it was with a blackened eye, a box full of broken glass tucked beneath my arm, and a bottle of 1867 Chateau Lafite in my opposite hand. All of these circumstances will become clear in due course, I expect. I hope they will, as I have a ghastly hangover." (January 2010)
Also check out stories with the the title "In Vino Veritas" at Archive of Our Own.
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- ^ Or in the cases of certain characters -- why hello there, John Sheppard! -- any feelings at all.