Armand after his little tussle with Lestat in TVL. I thought it was just the most wonderfully written violence, I loved the idea of Armand’s beautiful face broken in two because of Lestat’s beating. So wonderful.
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Here’s an Akasha thing I did a couple months back ;0
( @i-want-my-iwtv I told you I was gonna do Akasha fanart and well I meant to do it digitally but I didn’t get around to it so here’s this version- )
two from goretober this past fall, ritual sacrifice and gashes/lacerations. u v u the only ones I did digitally as I had no time to finish the whole month…. definitely going to start early this year uhuhu
Reminds me of Amadeo when he was forced to become Armand.
Horror Vacui
Exploring the darkness 2/?
A memorable scene of Lestat finding piles of blond haired corpses in Magnus’ tower.
Bodies were collected from various 19th century French paintings and arranged into an almost ornamental composition. The main source of inspiration being of course Gericault (The Raft of Medusa and studies). As in his works, the drawing explores the fragility of human body and the limits of human desperation when it comes to surviving.
“In a deep prison cell lay a heap of corpses in all states of decay, the bones and rotted flesh crawling with worms and insects. Rats ran from the light of the torch, brushing past my legs as they made for the stairs. And my nausea became a knot in my throat. The stench suffocated me.
But I couldn’t stop staring at these bodies. There was something important here, something terribly important, to be realized. And it came to me suddenly that all these dead victims had been men – their boots and ragged clothing gave evidence of that – and every single one of them had yellow hair, very much like my own hair. The few who had features left appeared to be young men, tall, slight of build. And the most recent occupant here – the wet and reeking corpse that lay with its arms outstretched through the bars – so resembled me that he might have been a brother.” – The Vampire Lestat
#one of my fave scenes of course #bc i am gross apparently #is when Lestat sees this horror and tosses his cookies and then
#well #eats the tossed cookies again bc 5 second rule right?
-exploring the darkness, 1/?-
Did that scene ever happen? Was that another one of Armand’s lies? It doesn’t matter. I wanted to explore the classical motive of David with Goliath’s head, here inevitably twisted, losing its victorious aspect, leaving only the figure of a young boy, holding a severed head.
I hope to God that this story was just something that Armand made up; somehow trying to intimidate the others, displaying the cruelty he could be capable of. This whole section though had me enthralled, the middle section of TVA was some of Rice’s best writing in my opinion, and the image of this–the Botticelli cherub, dressed in dusty and outdated but once opulent 18th century clothing, beneath the Paris streets, the stench of rot, old graves, and the filth of the city permeating through the earth, in a dark room lit by greasy tapers of tallow candles, hacking apart the body of this thing, this abomination as he sees her, this obstacle to his newest fascination, that of Louis, and he will demolish her, just as the hands were removed from the violinist in a mad attempt to reach Lestat again, this devil with an angel’s face capable of Lucifer’s cruelty–its a world of obscenity for its beauty, sublime in its composition of a clash of ideals, and shows like two unlikely titans of evil within the series as the most innocent in the face.
As always, perfectly captured by the wonderful @sheepskeleton
“I tried to grant her fondest wish, that she should have the body of a woman,
a fit shape for the tragic dimension of her soul.
…Enough. I won’t relive it.
I will not.
I never loved her. I didn’t know how.”
– The Vampire Armand
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