François Arnaud is good Nicolas stuff. I’m gonna have to watch the Borgias now, right? Yeah. Bonus points:
Canadian, but born in Quebec, where French is the official language, so I’d say he’s got authentic enough French heritage (and he speaks English, French and Spanish fluently!)
Can sing and play the piano so he must be able to read sheet music LET’S PUT A VIOLIN IN HIS HANDS
6’ 0¾" (1.85 m) tall :D, Lestat is about the same, which is important, bc they share clothes in Paris ❤
31 yrs old but can still pass for his early 20′s.
Looks damn fine in period costume
(Re: Michael Sutton, can you find me a good gif or two? I’m having trouble getting one bc there are alot of Michael Suttons out there or smtg.)
I don’t have a gif for Michael Sutton but here are a couple of photos from Dracula The Dark Prince were he played the character Radu, Vlad Tepes brother.
Now, Michael – look wise – has the dark and brooding look of Santino (back in the days when this TV movie premiered, I pinned him for Santino, his age might be a problem now, he’s 46 but can pass for a 35 years old man and since news of a VC script are harder to get than water the Gobi dessert, this will remain as a wishful cast on my side).
But…as I was cruising for photos, I stumbled on an old fancy of mine…Todd Lasance – Caesar in Spartacus War of the Damned and Julian in The Vampire Diaries.
Blond, blue eyes, 33 years old, could pass for late 20s.
at first, I pinned him for Lestat but something wasn’t quite there for a full Lestatish experience. Then I kinda saw Marius – Caesar, the whole Roman look. He can act vicious, he can be cute, he can do drama and he can make men and women swoon.
Well, you make a lot of excellent points, I can’t really argue! As far as the age thing is concerned, idk how hold Santino is meant to appear, but erring on the side of older rather than younger works for me; he’s meant to be somewhat imposing and scary, at least initially.
Thanks for the followup, and merci for the compliment ^u^
♥u♥ You’re so so welcome! I’m happy to serve in my own little way *stops self from getting all super mushy bc you’ve all heard it all before so i will put it in the tags*
François Arnaud is good Nicolas stuff. I’m gonna have to watch the Borgias now, right? Yeah. Bonus points:
Canadian, but born in Quebec, where French is the official language, so I’d say he’s got authentic enough French heritage (and he speaks English, French and Spanish fluently!)
Can sing and play the piano so he must be able to read sheet music LET’S PUT A VIOLIN IN HIS HANDS
6’ 0¾" (1.85 m) tall :D, Lestat is about the same, which is important, bc they share clothes in Paris ❤
31 yrs old but can still pass for his early 20′s.
Looks damn fine in period costume
(Re: Michael Sutton, can you find me a good gif or two? I’m having trouble getting one bc there are alot of Michael Suttons out there or smtg.)
I, PERSONALLY, don’t need AR’s validation of my opinion on canon. We all have our own headcanon. We can all love the characters in our own way. A good story (or piece of music or art, or whatever) DOES make you “read between the lines,” it DOES make you curious. It leaves things open enough for you to fill in the blanks. It doesn’t need to explicitly state everything for you, and the author has no obligation to do so, either. This has been true ever since the very first story was ever told, the first artwork ever made.
Most of all, I’m forever grateful for the gift she has given us. I don’t have to agree with her to still feel that gratitude.
If you don’t like a character’s trajectory in canon, that’s what fanworks are for 😉 Just try to be respectful of each other, abide by the Fandom Laws and we can all enjoy it all together, which is what we all want, right?
I will never ever be able to watch this scene without thinking about this gifset and I think you should know I love you for it, but also hate you a bit.
That’s a really long answer, we don’t know ALL that much about his backstory, just that he was a Marquis (never named) in a little rural village in France, so he has some local power/respect in title, but he’s really poor, is not a particularly good husband or father, he’s blind by the time Lestat is 21… and we know that he treated Lestat BADLY during his childhood. Louis described a little of his time living at Pointe du Lac in book!IWTV.
In short:
For more, read The Vampire Lestat (the Marquis is in the beginning)(gif below used for humor, not intended to be rude!) The Marquis is not mentioned again in any later book. He does not get to vampire.
There is some fanon that the Marquis’ physical abuse of Lestat extended further, but that’s not in canon. If that were true, it could be part of Lestat issues with relationships and consent.
I-want-my-IWTV 