12. Wet Kiss
It was raining when it happened.
Lestat is awake again, but this time she hasn’t left. And Armand means to criticize her, demean her of her motherly rights because she has never been there out of all the beings on this planet and above that Lestat could ever cry for. No, it’s always been her. She ignores him when he brings it up, spits acidic words back at him when he comes forward out of the safety of the Rue Royale and joins her soaked form beneath the stormy skies.
“You are a liar and a bitch, for lack of a better word, if you think you can use the veil as an excuse for not hearing him after all these years. Once in the chapel and not again since!”
She is opening her mouth to spit back, or avoid answering to her crime when Armand adds, “It’s hard to believe he still loves you…when no one else has the heart to.”
Thunder cracks in the distance, and Gabrielle, always unnervingly honest in her expressions, is stunned. And yet..so is he. As if they had both opened a plane of understanding in just that moment—yes, you were once unloved by all but him too.
He forgets what happened after the next thunder crack, but his hands are caressing her back and cupping her cheek, her head tilted gently into him when Armand realizes he’s kissing Lestat’s mother. The woman who turned him away after her son redeemed him, their mouths open and wet against each other and devolving into smaller, almost apologetic kisses. He For a brief moment, he forgets he hates this woman down to the very marrow of her bones.
That’s where the memory stops. They’ve never spoken of it, but somehow it pops into Armand’s head whenever she turns her cold, icy glare on him.
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*pokes and kisses his cheeks*
Bianca! Where have you been?
// It’s been a long time since I’ve read the Vampire Chronicles
But didn’t Lestat himself wonder, at some point, why vampires were always beautiful? Was it because they picked out the young and pretty to turn or because everyone became beautiful after the change?
I always found that rather funny, wherever the question came from, on a very self-referential level. Why are vampires always young, beautiful, without flaws or wrinkles or liver spots or greying hair?
Cult of youth, probably, let’s be honest.
Haha this always catches my interest too! I think in canon in the later books, one of the vampires actually starts trash talking on “modern day” immortals because they were no longer picked out of being beautiful or held the romanticism in killing that the “old generations” did. Correct me if I’m wrong but. Kinda funny!
//Yes, if I’m not mistaken it was Marius who actually makes both of these observations in Queen of the Damned. First in the “vampire bar” makes a mental note of how different and almost comical the newer generations of vampires are. Then in Sonoma when he’s taking stock of the entire coven he notes how uniquely beautiful each other them is and wonders, “Was nobody ugly ever given immortality? Or did the dark magic simply make beauty out of whatever sacrifice was thrown into the blaze?”
Honestly, I think it might be a little bit of both. In the old covens of the Children of Darkness it was a rule to turn only the beautiful because it was more perverse to do so. I think Armand might make mention of it in TVL and then in TVA he explicitly states it.
Marius also tells Lestat that if he is going to make a fledgling it should be because “he likes to look at them.” As a generality, I think vampires tend to fall for the exceptionally beautiful anyway. They come in contact with so many humans and each one is magnificent simply on the grounds of them being alive. Therefore it makes sense that they would end up falling for and turning those who are exclusively “above average” because they stand out.
At the same time, however, think about what vampirism does. It smooths the skins, makes it gleam, the hair is fuller, eyes are brighter. All imperfections are done away with and there’s a certain allure that comes with perfection. BUT if the person was not beautiful to begin with, the effects can just make them look monstrous. Magnus is a perfect example of that. He was much older when he was made and was not very nice to look at, by his own admission.
Sorry, this sort of turned into a rant, but it’s a very interesting discussion point.
[1/?] Quotes by Armand, The Vampire Chronicles
[2/?] Quotes by Armand, The Vampires Chronicles
[3/?] Quotes by Armand, The Vampires Chronicles
REQUIESCAT IN PACE BITCH
ooc: Marius de Romanus’ dream that he wish it’d happen (or at least most of it)
Marius: We have a pending settle of accounts to be made. *death glare*
Santino: … *swallows hard*
Marius: *approaches him, grabs him by his hair and starts furiously making out*
Santino: *cries out of joy because senpai finally noticed him*
Marius: *sucks the life out of him through his neck and kills him with the Fire Gift before whispering* Requiescat in Pace bitch.
Santino: *dies*
Armand: *goes into Marius’ room, sees a small pile of ash and naturally doesn’t give a fuck* We’re going to be late.
Marius & Armand: *walks hand in hand towards the horizon & live happily ever after*))
REQUIESCAT IN PACE )
I LOVE THIS SO SO MUCH THANK U FOR MAKING IT!
REQUIESCAT IN PACE BITCH <– what a wonderful phrase
The sixteenth century called, they want their hair back.
Doth I giveth a fuck? Nay; for the fucks that I may giveth are but specks of sand in this vast ocean of romantic delusion in which we swim; for in thy eyes are not treasures for which fucks I would giveth but the swirling pools of Inglorious War; Nay, my dear, nay for the borgeouise. Nay for the driving pigs of capitalism. Nay for the death of true righteousness and beauty in thy soveriegn gaze. I have no fucks to giveth Lestat. Not one.
[High res]
Read it and weep.
I asked the author. This is what I get. xD
……….. If your goal was to make me weep, then congratulations.
Anne………………You couldn’t even spell your own character’s name right…..wh )
// …Oh the (in)humanity
I-want-my-IWTV 
