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glamourofthegods asked:(Hi! I saw your VC sketches, and I was wondering if you could do one of Bianca, Marius, and Armand? š Thank you!)
Well here it is, Bianca, Marius and Armand :>Ā
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Hello, sorry to bother you if you’ve seen this before, but I just found Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man for the first time, and his expression reminds me of Armand even more than the angel paintings! Maybe how Armand stares and stares at people lol. Hope you have a nice day!
My day was very good, thank u! Hope yours was/is, too.Ā
I looked for the painting and I found 3, there are probably even more than thatā¦ thanks for pointing these out to me, I hadnāt seen them before, I can definitely see some Armand in each of them.Ā
In all of them I see the āspun amberā hair thing, as David Talbot being a borderline perv including touching him w/o asking firstĀ describes Armand in TVA:
āYour hairās like something spun from amber, as if the amber would melt and could
be drawn from candle flames in long fine airy threads and let to dry that way to make
all these shining tresses. Youāre sweet, boylike and pretty as a girl. I wish I had one
glimpse of you in antique velvet the way you were for him, for Marius. I wish I could
see for one moment how it was when you dressed in stockings and wore a belted
doublet sewn with rubies. Look at you, the frosty child. My love doesnāt even touch
you.ā
Apply that description to these:
^Portrait of a young man holding a medallion.Ā Altho this one doesnāt resemble Armand to me, it reminded me of his painting the ikons in the caves. āYeah this took me maybe a half hourā¦ commissions are closed.ā Bonus points for the subtle trompe-l’Åil effect of his finger sort of out of the frame like that.
^Portrait of a Young Man 3. This is more physically Armand to me, and of the attitude of Armand, who has perfected the very difficult to achieve front-facing side-eye expression. Heās also throwing a gang sign, is that a W for west coast or an E for east coast? Armand is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
^Portrait of a Young Man.Ā This one has awesome hair, all swirled like that. You might call this portrait boring at first glance but if you give it more of a chance, it has a haunting effect. Is he leaning forward a little? It seems like it. This is more of the coven master face to me than the other two.Ā āIf there were a leaderā¦ I would be the one.ā
I know another good choice for Armand might be Caleb Landry Jones. He’s currently 27 and I constantly forget he’s that old. I always think he’s like 20, 21. He’d be a good pick too, in addition to all the others you have named 8D. I’ve also seen some Armand rpers use him as a FC. Not many, but one or two. I’d, personally, be fine with her maybe aging Armand up into his early twenties. That’s a reasonable reason to age him up. Not wanting an actor to age too much while in the role.
@gingerhairedimmortal-archived used Caleb Landry Jones as a face claim. I agree w/ the age thing, he definitely could pass for 16, IMO.
Thereās a sweetness to him, heās got some charm.
Can he be bad ass enough? Idk, I havenāt seen him in much. Only Byzantium, which I really did not like, which wasnāt his fault. He wasnāt very remarkable in that movie to me.
This is one of those ābeauty is in the eye of the beholderā things, I canāt quite articulate why he doesnāt come near my headcanon for Armand, but hey, he could be a fantastic actor. Youāre not the only one whoās suggested him, so Iād screentest him, if it were up to me ;]
//tbh if armand had been born in the 20th century instead of the 15th heād probably be talamasca
^These tags tho!: #ooc, #way too much creepy psychic shit going on, #i mean shall we make a list, #out of body experience, #near death vision, #religious visions, #channeling god/trancelike state, #crazy telepathy skills, #projection of visions, #seeing ppl’s auras, #seeing and talking to ghosts, #(like srsly no other vampires besides david can do that???), #spellbinding/dazzling/confusing/calming ppl, #aka the mindwhammy,
Yeah, Armand seemed to exhibit quite a lot of abilities (these are a mix of pre- and post-turning), so maybe the vampiring just enhanced what he already had.Ā
Working at the Talamasca could have been perfect for him.
For armand: Vinchenzo de la Roccara Marmolatta de Venetzia
Do you think Marius was jelous when Armand was hooking up with that english lord? Because I think he was, which is curious because he didn’t have a problem with him fooling around with the half of Venice
Marius is one of our more Problematicā¢
characters in canon, so take every discussion about him and his treatment of Armand/Amadeo with a huge truckload of salt and patience, bc there are some strong opinions out there.
Marius knew about Armand (known then as āAmadeoā) and Lord Harlech. He might have been jealous, but didnāt say so in TVA, only that he was worried for Amadeoās safety:
āHeĀ has quite the reputation, your English lord, slamming down his knife on the board inĀ any tavern he chooses. Do you have to consort with common murderers? You have aĀ nonpareil here when it comes to those who take life.ā
@auburnandamberangel, @sheepskeleton,Ā @amadeo-child-of-the-renaissance,Ā @faceofabotticelliangel, @annabellioncourt,Ā @vraik, andĀ @anton-mordrid would all probably have better answers for thisā¦ anyone is invited to reblog/comment and add their thoughts.
The main difference I see is that Marius gave Amadeo the autonomy and independence to make his own choices in this regard, and Amadeo was more rebelling against Marius in his fling w/ Lord Harlech than furthering his sexcapades education. It turned out that LH was bonkers,Ā got all weird and overly possessive and wanted to kidnap Amadeoā¦ it was a bad breakup.
[X, @cloudsinvenice said: Iām thinking Armand when he fights Lord Harlech, personally.]
Thereās some debate about why Marius sent Amadeo around for all those sexual escapades and I always read it as part of Mariusā full-rounded education deal that he wanted Amadeo to have; to have experienced all the good things in life that can be humanly experienced, and to show him that physical intimacy doesnāt have to be the horrible experience it was when Amadeo was kept in the brothels. Not necessarily the best cure for a sexually abused child/teenager but Marius was probably thinking of it asĀ exposure therapy:
Exposure therapy is a technique in behavior therapy used to treat anxiety disorders. It involves the exposure of the patient to the feared object or context without any danger, in order to overcome their anxiety and/or distress. Procedurally it is similar to the fear extinction paradigm in rodent work.Ā
āAnd as I closed my eyes I feared only one thing in the whole world – that this bliss should not last.ā
āĀ Blood and Gold – The Vampire Chronicles.
this is a not a redo (since I still like the picture) but a tribute to the first Armand picture I ever posted here. that was a few days shy of two years ago, so hereās ya boy Armand ā¦ your angle or yuor devilā¦..
Armand sketch dump
I probably draw too much of him xDĀHoney: you cannot draw too much Armand, especially with your skills
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