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How would you cast David Gandy?

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He was a fan-fave for David Talbot 2.0* for awhile, and still is for some ppl. I think I’ve seen David RPers use him as a face claim.

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Personally, idk if he’s really that compatible with the description anymore for my headcanon, either as young mortal David or David 2.0 (*if you catch my drift, y’know, David Talbot at the end of TOBT) but I’d love to screentest him as a Talamasca agent, or a vampire, maybe Santino? He’s only 37 yrs old, still plenty of life in him yet! 

He’s also been a model for Dolce & Gabbana, which I headcanon as one of Lestat’s fave fashion labels.

OT but you’ll have to indulge my venting. If they’re doing the whole Vampire Chronicles, I can’t imagine anyone else doing justice to the patrician grandeur of Marius but Ralph Fiennes. The guy even paints! A white-silvery mane of non-human hair buoyant as his paintbrush. Picture it! The intense sweep of the eyes dissecting the other characters like portrait compositions…. restrained power.

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Lemme just say: your description of Marius was so lovely! Whoever is cast, yeah, we’re going to need magnificent hair and we’re going to need to see him actually painting ;D

@sheepskeleton‘s fanart (which is based on Michael Fassbender) is more Marius than Ralph Fiennes, for me, tho…

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[^X @sheepskeleton has a bunch of Marius pieces, this is one of my faves.]

Does Feinnes really paint? That’s pretty cool! 

Feinnes is 54 and Marius was turned at 40. Movie/makeup magic could make him look younger, but I think we’d need a Marius who wouldn’t age through the course of a TV series that could last for several years. He’s going to be 60 in 6 years 😛

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^Idk when this gif is from but I gotta say, yes, he’s got this great fatherly quality and Roman enough features… but the age thing… *sigh*

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[X] I’m more into Michael Fassbender, 39 yrs old,

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^or Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, 46 yrs old.

… or even better: someone new! Someone less expensive than all those dudes 😉

James Paxton, blond, for Lestat.

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First of all, RIP Bill Paxton ;A; I loved him in Twister, and other movies.

I haven’t actually watched James Paxton in anything, I don’t watch him on Eyewitness, but I have seen some borderline NSFW gifs of it on tumblr, and…

I see potential… Can’t quite articulate why, not even being sarcastic. He seems to have the right blend of cockiness and tenderness, and he’s already experienced with making out with another guy on screen, and it would be gr9 to have that in the new VC adaptation.

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^I mean, again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I think this lighting is working for him, softening his features somewhat. He seems pretty w/o being like, a model. He has a boy-next-door quality. I imagine that some of what drew ppl to Lestat as a mortal was his blend of confidence, shyness, and caring, those are the things that make what would have been a slightly-above-average-looking guy into someone really gorgeous <3. Then vampiring enhanced what he already had going for him.

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So yeah I would screentest him! Send his name over to AR.

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Some borderline NSFW gifs of him under the cut, more of this kinda Lestat/Nicolas ship: #philkas at @jamespaxt0n​ ❤

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Headcanon: Reading about Parisian horror theatres pre-WW, I noticed a lot of them worked by trap doors, some lost for years. It’s entirely possible Armand planted the idea of a glorious bonfire, having set it up with the cover of it as a set, and Nicolas decided to use the trapdoor to disappear. Fire is the way Lestat was abandoned by Magnus so he wouldn’t question the finality and tricking the others would be easy. If Armand did find him later, he could smuggle him out with some manipulation.

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Tom Hiddleston quotes Josephine Hart, gifs from here X]

Well yeah, there have been trapdoors in theatres for ages. A trapdoor wasn’t necessary for this since Lestat got the info of Nicolas’ death from a letter. If you mean that even Eleni was fooled, then, yes, that’s possible. But I think Eleni was close to Nicolas and would be in on the scheme.

So who knows, maybe Eleni wrote the letter at Nicolas’ request, or Armand’s request… maybe Nicolas himself asked her to do it. We don’t know his reasons for suicide just as we don’t know why he’d fake his death. If he faked his death, we can probably assume he didn’t want Lestat to know he was alive or try to search for him, EVER. Eleni and Armand are both still in canon as far as Prince Lestat, so only they can answer these questions.

@devilsviolinist wrote a good post on Nicki survival theories here. Check it out.

Did AR intend that death to have been faked or real? We have unreliable narrators *shrug* She hasn’t made any hints as to Nicolas resurfacing in the next book, but at this point IT WOULDN’T SURPRISE ME. In fact, I would love for us to have our very own Civil War >:D