So much advice to give, and yet, when others have given me advice it often fails to sink in until I’ve learned it the hard way… that’s why the “brat” part was wedged into my title *sighs*
There’s too much to tell, and I’d rather not bother with the obvious things your maker should have taught you, or if you lacked one as I did, things you learned yourself in the first few nights (for your sanity: try to keep to a diet of evildoers only, try to cover up your kills, try not to kill in your home, spare no expense on lair security, etc.)…
But I’ll give you a few other choice pieces that I’ve picked up along the way, which can apply to mortals as well:
♛Satisfaction is not guaranteed, ma petite. In every sense of the phrase.
You do know that there’s more involved than simply a bite? I have to actually kill you first. It’s extremely erotic, but extremely painful. I have to actually forcibly pull your life away entirely – and you’ll fight me through it if you want to survive – and then feed a demon, a kind of cancer, into your body and soul. We still don’t know if it’s contamination or evolution. And it doesn’t always work.
There are worse things than death.
Every time the Dark Gift is given, a soul might be condemned for eternity. Some might say anyone I “keep with me” is condemned to the torment of my presence, or the desperation for me in my absence. Admittedly, monogamy has never been a strong suit for me. Not everyone is “tall enough to ride this ride,” if you get my meaning.
Like mine. You ever gonna take me up on that invite? 😉
♛Ever?!It’s been five days, child! Have you considered that I am a Rock Superstar and might have a packed schedule trying to catch some facetime with the Pope while he’s in the US?
Think of my perspective: if I say yes to you, I have to say yes to everyone, and there are only so many hours in a night. Perhaps I’ll have to visit unannounced to take you up on your offer privately.
Further, watching a lion kill is nothing like watching a vampire kill. Lions do not, to my knowledge, have long drawn-out evenings with their victims, plying them with charm, drinking in their last hours, before spiriting them away to an alley to suck a gallon and a half of blood out of them. And then trying to find the best way to dispose of the mortal coil that’s left over. I need to make friends with a cannibal like Dr. Lecter to take care of that aspect…
I can’t even convey to you how twisted my victims can be. I detest sex offenders and yet, since by nature they work alone, they’re easier to draw out than drug dealers, who tend to have a whole entourage these days.
You don’t want to be around sex offenders. You’re too precious for that.
*Takes a deep breath* *Tries not to write a lot* *Writes a lot anyway*
I think it was both. Added for effect for the movie but also, their eye color IS enhanced with the Dark Gift. Here look at Louis’s pretty eyes change color:
First moments as a new vampire would be intense, Vampiring has just been installed into the system and director Neil Jordan probably wanted to make it very clear to the audience that this moment is as significant a moment as birth, and other than seeing the blood dry up and absorb into his face, and now we see the blue veins more prominently, it’s the eyes that really convince us that a change is happening. The eyes are the window to the soul!
In VC, it’s often noted explained at enormous length and exquisitely vivid detail how beautiful Louis’ emerald green eyes are *u* Both before and after turning.
Short answer is, in canon, the Blood enhances what you already have. The amount of that enhancement varies.
~Hit the jump for 3 Shades of Lestat’s eye color.~
Movie!IWTV does not align with book!IWTV on eye color. It isn’t mentioned in the books that their eye color changes by a particular tonal measurement; the Dark Gift is different for each of them, but what it does do consistently is enhance what the fledgling already had as a mortal.
For example, Armand has warm brown eyes as a mortal, IIRC, and they take on a golden (or amber) glow when he is turned.
Their eyes brighten and darken at different times in the movie, maybe it’s related to the intensity of their emotional state. I know for a fact that they all (main adult cast, not Claudia or Denis) had at least two shades of contacts in their color: a normal set and a brighter set and of course there may have been times, as with Orlando Bloom in LOTR, that someone forgot to put the contacts in before shooting, that’s human error.
3 Shades of Lestat’s eye color:
Chastising your idiot child who could’ve finished you both would be intense:
Finding out that your daughter has polluted her own bed, less intense or intense in a different way? i mean it’s HER bed after all you don’t sleep with her thank goodness:
Pleased with self for A+ parenting, low intensity:
ouo another one claimed by the VC fandom. It stands the test of time, it can really be rewatched many times, you can watch it for something different every time I sometimes watch it for the extras in every scene, they do a great job, too ;]
Accidental Steven Rea marathon hahaha. I think he would appreciate that.
absolutely no worries on lateness, I’m sorry I couldn’t reply sooner. VERY touched by your words, so flattered to hear that I was the one (REALLY?? MOI??) that got you poisoned with this addiction back into our beloved fandom.
Re: dragging you back in,sorry not sorry.
The idea of the dark gift, of becoming a vampire, is that you transcend gender. You don’t have to worry about gender anymore. You sense the worth of every human being regardless of age or gender or how they look; for your vampire eyes they all have a tremendous beauty and a compelling depth […].
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