QOTD Reading update: Can Gabrielle PLEASE be y mom. She’s such a badass oh my god. She isn’t taking any shit and is like, “all I care about is my son so can we hurry this meeting up so I can go back into the wilderness?” I actually laughed out loud at “If I waste this bitch, to use the vernacular, do I waste the rest of us too?”

Gabrielle is a BAMF. 

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[X](Yes, Gabs. That’s what happens. As of QOTD. Also that’s your son’s GF you’re talking about wasting,… awkward…)

I loved the new chapter, but ahhh, why can’t all my babies just get along??? Lol. I can almost imagine the four of them going on a double date. Sounds like the definition of disaster.

Thank you! omg! @wicked-felina lookit this! Ppl are loving our dysfunctional vampire AU babies! Double date you say? What an idea…. Yeah there’d probably be a foodfight, at the very least.

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ANYWAY the next chapter is ready early and I have permission to post it so UP IT GOES… 

We are talking about Signature Blend, our coffee shop AU, in case I haven’t spammed you enough about it….

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vcsecretgifts:

For: @superhiki

From: @i-want-my-iwtv

Prompt: 

Honestly, anyone in winter fashion is so immediately endearing. I love using pictures as desktops and phone backgrounds so image manips or fanart of this kind of theme would be excellent.

Well I hope this makes a good wallpaper! We’ve got the gang in winter gear circa post-QTOD, having a romp in the snow in Paris (or wherever!)… who’s responsible for crashing the boy’s sled is up for debate okay fine it’s Lestat, but to be fair, Daniel was probably messing with his concentration… Gabrielle is a much safer sled-driver, hence Louis rides with her ;D

They’re not sledding in daylight, there’s just really powerful lighting on the mountain. REALLY powerful.

  • Lestat – Martin Rolinski
  • Daniel – River Phoenix
  • Armand – Bjorn Andresen
  • Gabrielle – Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Louis – Brad Pitt

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Lestat I love your mom!! I admire how strong and determined she is. Are you spending this Christmas with her?

♛What a coincidence, I love my mom, too! There’s no one quite like her, they broke the mold when she was made, as they say. 

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I haven’t heard from her in a long time. She’s not answering her text messages, probably lost her phone somewhere for the millionth time *sighs* …There is reason to believe I’ll see her for Christmas, though…

//OMG Gabrielle having an underground glass lair or a few around the world) where she could see things growing in the dirt, everything within it is high tech. Like how Seth and Fareed are the Physical Doctors and Neurologists of the Vampire world Gabrielle would be the biologist, ecologist, geologist, etc of their world with her own team (well prob just only Eleni).

Sounds good to me! 

//No but imagine Gabrielle paradoxically being a huge science buff but at the same time preferring to stay away from civilization and most other vampires in nature at the same time. Like she’d know how meteor showers, supermoons, and auroras work, as well as biology of animals and plants in great detail but she’d sleep under the dirt and soil at the end of the night.

I don’t think that’s a paradox at all! Gabrielle could have a lab somewhere in a rural little town, w/ internet access and equipment to study whatever natural phenomena she likes, and I bet she would have preferences for sleeping in different kinds of soil, the different textures and scents. Maybe with the vampire Eleni at her side…

She loves the act of climbing out of the earth every night, like a plant pushing it’s way up, killing her breakfast, and then rinsing off in a stream or waterfall…

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[^X by @takemetocoffin-or-losemeforever for the @vcsecretgifts exchange last year!]

//Now it would be something else if the coven met up and Gabrielle was there and Gabrielle brought them to the wild and let them place bets on how long bears and ferocious wild animals will last against her just for the laughs.

Aside from the whole animal cruelty aspect, bc this is FICTION… That sounds like an entertaining fanfic, write it! #Fanfic request #Fanart request, here’s a prompt:

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She would probably have to make it a more fair fight for the animal by tying one of her arms back, or wearing her hair out of its braid, idk.

//Hhmmm… Headcanons on personality? Like I like to think that she’s not as cold, reptilian and shallow like some characters like to describe her like. Also I like to headcanon that her prey will typically be men that abuse women, so any prey/hunting headcanons? OH and who do you ship her with if anyone?

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Gabrielle de Lioncourt headcanons….

So as always, #your headcanon may vary but these are my headcanons… 

Personality: She is perceived by other characters as cold and reptilian bc for the most part she refuses to go through the motions of civilized discussion, it all feels superficial to her. In not engaging that way, other characters might struggle to get to know her, but few would call her “shallow.” They know she doesn’t perform for anyone. She absolutely CAN be warm and effusive and physically affectionate when the stars align when she wants to be. She’ll crack a smile at coven gatherings! She has a sense of humor and often makes a beeline for Daniel, he always has a fresh joke ready for her. She is actually more intimidating than Lestat, and few can withstand her undivided attention for very long. 

I headcanon that her Mind Gift was very strong as a fledgling, and rather than try to tune out all the mental radio waves bombarding her, escaping into untamed nature w/out anyone in it was the obvious solution. The cold never bothered her anyway. 

Prey: We would love to project onto her the image of an avenging angel like her son, specifically targeting men that resembled her husband, but in the end she tolerated him, she didn’t have the urge to go back to the Auvergne to get sweet vengeance on him. She felt like Lestat was wasting his time to go back and take care of his decrepit old father, but she didn’t have any moral objections to it.

Hit the jump for more, cut for length.

Since Gabrielle spends most of her time in the wilderness, I headcanon that she’s more interested in hunting large wild animals than people. She may come upon lost tribes, too, but in those situations I imagine she just takes the weak or elderly to put them out of their misery, but never children. Gabrielle is probably one of the only vampires in the coven who has never killed a child. 

When she is in a more civilized place (like when she’s visiting the coven), I headcanon that she’s more of a Louis-style vampire; taking those who cross her path, more bc she just wants to get it over with than any other reason (Lestat finds this distasteful in her case bc she should know better!, but completely reasonable for Louis). Gabrielle does not enjoy toying with human prey but she loves a fight with a grizzly or a panther.

Shipping: You asked me this awhile back, and I think that answer still stands. As AU, sure, #ship all the ships!, but in my headcanon I don’t really ship Gabrielle with anyone. If I was forced to choose…

Gabrielle/Eleni would be my primary ship for her bc I think their personalities would mesh well, Eleni has a well of inner peace, really, the patience of a saint, so she wouldn’t be possessive of Gabrielle. Neither would be too demanding on each other, but they would be drawn together based on similar interests at first (SCIENCE) and find each other disarming and sweet and the love would be natural. 

There’s no denying there is something intriguing about the Gabrielle/Lestat ship, and I don’t see it as completely taboo bc after she’s turned, she’s his fledgling, which (for me anyway) effectively

cancels out the fact that she was his biological mother. They will always be drawn to each other bc noone else is truly like they are, they learned how to vampire together, and relied on each other in those early years. I see it as 95% psychological and 5% bloodplay (she taught him his first bloodkiss!) and does not involve any penetrative sex. NONE AT ALL. But we can still tease him about his Oedipus complex ;]