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There were a few vids made for the series but it is sometimes difficult to properly credit them today because not everyone who has a vid on tape knows who created it.

OaT Works at the AO3 - some older stories from the nineties and at least one Yuletide story from 2010.

The duo have to pretend to be lovers after moving to a gay neighborhood to solve a missing person case

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Going Deep by AnneZo is an enduringly popular slash story that uses the Undercover in a Gay Bar trope to get Vic and Mac together.

In 2000, RatBoat ( link), a yahoo group mailing list was set up with fanfic being automatically archived at The Agency. The fandom continues and occasionally stories for OaT will be written for Yuletide. Once A Thief fiction could also be found on the actor specific website Focussed on Nick Lea.

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Wild OaTs was an archive for Once a Thief adult fanfiction. The stories and manips were Vic/Mac slash. The only zine of the fandom was the two-volume The OaT Zine that was published and illustrated by The Theban Band and later released to the net. OaT fanfic was originally included on TER/MA, the main Mulder/Krycek archive and RatB predecessor, and later on RatB before The Theban Band created the Once a Thief archive The Agency. There were same actor crossovers for both Krycek and the character Nick Lea played on Highlander. Some of these crossovers were Mulder/Victor, in other stories Vic and Krycek were the same person. The fanfiction was mostly Mac/Vic slash, with occasional Li Ann/The Director f/f, and several X-Files crossovers.

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While the canon setup of Vic, Mac and Li Ann as a threeway professional partnership mirrors the relationships on Leverage or even Pirates of the Caribbean that led to popular threesome ships in those fandoms, OaT fandom existed before that kind of story became mainstream in fandom.

Once a Thief was to some degree an offshoot of the X-Files slash fandom and the fannish output leans heavily to slash. Meanwhile they have to solve their cases or get into trouble with the Director, who is a scary lady with an interest in results (and she owns a sex club). They try to be friends but that doesn't stop all the sparks between Vic and Mac. After episode three, Li Ann breaks off the engagement and says that she has no interest in marrying either of them. Vic and Mac hate each other at first sight. She is now engaged to another agent, the ex-cop Victor Mansfield (who was framed for something he didn't do and spent some time in jail too), and all three of them are on the same team. When he arrives in Vancouver, he learns that Li Ann works for the same Agency. However, Mac is very much alive and in prison.Įighteen months after the explosion, the Director of a secret Canadian Agency blackmails Mac into working for her. She thinks he is dead, grieves, and ultimately moves on. The plan doesn't work out, the two get separated, Li Ann gets caught by the police, and the last time she sees Mac he is trapped inside an exploding warehouse. After getting a closer look at the family business, which includes arms dealing and killing, Mac convinces Li Ann to run away with him. At the beginning of the pilot they are secret lovers but their relationship is in peril because the biological son of the godfather wants to marry Li Ann. Two of the main characters, Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, are thieves who have been adopted by the godfather of a Hong Kong crime family.

The fame of Krycek's fannish nickname Ratboy found its way into Once a Thief canon when in the X-Files homage episode The Director's Files, the Mulder impersonator snapped, 'Don't call me Spooky, Ratboy' to Nick Lea's character. The series lasted one season, had 22 episodes, and fannish interest was guaranteed because the character of Victor Mansfield was played by Nicholas Lea, who played fan-favourite Alex Krycek on the X-Files. Once a Thief was a television show based on John Woo's 1996 movie/series pilot of the same name.

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