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Do you still sleep in a coffin? I tried it once, but it felt odd. Like I was really dead.

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[fanart by garama​]

♛Usually not. Bed-related shopping is one of my favorite chores! Which happens pretty often *winks* I particularly love waterbeds, the heated water is so soothing. But CERTAIN PEOPLE are afraid of the potential water damage from a pierced waterbed, sooooo I can’t actually OWN one. 

Sleeping in coffins, though, I see why it would make you feel odd, dead… I think I find it… comforting or punishing depending on my mood. It’s a comfort to be in such a small space in perfect darkness, reminiscent of going to ground, completely embraced by the earth. 

I order my coffins custom – large, Italian silk lining, memory-foam mattress, and I do enjoy sharing with a loved one, you’re always invited, mon bijou ❤ 

Other times, when I don’t want to allow myself the luxury of sleeping in a bed… I climb into an older coffin, lined with towels, in the attic. It’s a real punishment. 

For safety, and on this you might agree: a large trunk is still my most trusted place to sleep on a ship. I’ve found that mortals assume a coffin contains the dead; so regardless of vehement instruction, or loads of cash, they insist on putting it in non-passenger-accessible storage! Most irritating. 

How do you feel about corsets? Also, how do you clean your coffin Lestat?

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(An ex-Lestat RPer wrote this lovely headcanon re: “What was the most arousing moment you’ve ever experienced?”  that I will share with you! Will answer the second question separately.)

Mortcharmant: “My— What an intrusive question,  étranger gris. But I shall humour you none the less…”

“I would have to say it was the night I allowed a delightful mademoiselle to put her corset on me. How it tightened and constricted was glorious and suffocating. I looked like ‘pure sex’ according to her as she added more to my “ensemble”. By the end of it I was dressed up more like a tart than she and it was exhilarating. I let her live after that moment and frequented her regularly for those games of ours. It’s a pity she died three months later at the hands of a violent pick pocket.”

[Fanart by anaryawe​]

How do I hone my psychic powers to block out vampires who want to listen to my thoughts?

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the-gentleman-chronicler:

To hone your psychic powers for blocking out vampires, it takes a considerable period of time devoted to practice and a strengthening of your personal gifts.  Also, the success rate depends entirely upon the vampire in question.  Many have never honed their own psychic powers and are only able to read surface thoughts of humans.  A vampire who has mastered their abilities (Armand, as an example, is a master of those gifts) would be considerably more difficult to keep out.

Your mind is only as open as you permit it to be.  It has been described in the Chronicles how vampires keep their thoughts obscured from others.  Images, a closed door, or sounds and sensations intended to confuse the intruding mind.  My own psychic gifts were formidable enough towards the end of my mortal life that I was able to pick up on the thoughts of vampires and mask my own from them.  I’d had a lifetime of practice.

My preferred imagery is that of a jungle when I must guard my thoughts without much notice — like in an emergency.  I scatter my thoughts throughout it like drops of rain.  By the time they have made any progress in their trek to find them, I am usually gone and beyond their lasting mental reach.  My standard imagery is a library.  In that defensible mental place, I keep my thoughts and memories in the pages of the books, and a countless number of blank ones as handy camouflage.

If you want to be successful, then you should work upon your own method.  Use things that are so familiar to you in your physical world that they’d be mentally easy to grasp.  Music or radio static are simple things because they require no imagery.  Those two are rudimentary skills that are taught for those first learning their gifts in the Talamasca.  Or basic visual images.  A closed door, a locked gate.  Literal things.

Work on strengthening those blocks in your mind and keeping out a vampire will become easy over time.

How do you think Claudia’s life would of been if she was found and turned as a teenager (like 16 or 17 years old) or found and turned at age 18 or 19? How different would her relationship be with Lestat and Louis? Do you think Claudia still would of try to kill Lestat? Do you think Armand would of still had his coven of vampires kill her?

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Answered that mostly in my notp tag, in which annabellioncourt answered the aged-up Claudia question very well:

I’ve thought a lot on the Claudia/Louis thing, and while I don’t think an aged up Claudia would give a second thought to ravishing Louis, she’s a symbol for everything that horrifies him about himself, and I don’t think that that would exactly be grounds for amorous thoughts. Sure, he loves her and cares for her, but I think if she was an adult, it’d be a lot easier for him to see just how far mentally out there she is, how evil, how unable to understand human goodness she had grown to be.

With Lestat, I think it would be much the same.

I think Claudia still would have tried to kill Lestat, bc she was after his power, too, and disgruntled that he wouldn’t give them the answers about their origins as a species.

Armand still would have had his coven kill her (one could argue whether he orchestrated that or just went along with Santiago’s decision) because he wanted Louis all to himself, and knew that Louis would have a hard time ever separating himself from Claudia.

VC: Daniel Molloy & The Reference of Ruth 1:16

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kissingandsnugglingdeadthings:

Warning; I’m about to wax at length about a
Daniel thing in Prince Lestat.
I’m probably “interrogating the text from the wrong perspective”, but so be it!
😀

So I’m poking my way through Prince Lestat again, because I
cannot resist squeezing every last bit of interesting detail out of any of the
Chronicles that has to do with Daniel, and I couldn’t resist taking a good long
look at this particular bit because I was also made to suffer four years of
seminary during my late teens, so any chance to use that knowledge for
something I actually enjoy is occasionally entertaining for this heathen.

The line from Prince Lestat I’ve been
pondering the last day or so:

Prince Lestat: He
and Daniel had to leave Brazil. This was a safe place no longer. Daniel said he
understood. “Whither thou goest, I go,”
he had said.

This is, of course, a partial quote from The
Old Testament which is full is:

Ruth 1:16: And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to
return from following after thee: for whither
thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people
shall be my people, and thy God my God

With the last name Molloy,
it’s obvious that Daniel is of Irish descent, and so it seems to have become a
fairly consistent fan belief over the years (based on the fic and discussions
out there) that Daniel was likely raised in a Catholic environment. Personally,
this quote just cemented that fan-canon thought for me even more, and with that
in mind, it really added a new layer of depth to what Daniel is saying here.

I know it’s also been
speculated post Blood And Gold
that Daniel is in a situation he has little or no control over, being left or
taken into Marius’ care. That somehow he’s become a ‘lackey’ or he’d become a low-level
replacement for Those Who Must Be Kept. I know because I was a party of that
fan-camp of thought for quite some time. So believe me, this is a really big 180° for me to be taking.

It’s become clear in Prince Lestat that Daniel has
come back to his senses, but this particular line seems to also establish that
Daniel has remained and continues to remain with Marius of his own volition. His reference of The Book of Ruth is a pretty
subtle but clear indication that he’s accepted his companion and wants to
remain at his side. Wherever Marius goes, he’s going, and where Marius chooses
to live, that’s where Daniel will live.

It also adds an additional
potential layer of Daniel’s mindset toward Armand. In the Bible, Ruth
chooses to stay with her mother-in-law, Naomi, instead of going home to her
family, hence the famous quote. I can’t help but wonder if Daniel’s also subtly
referencing that even though Armand isn’t dead in the literalist of senses,
their relationship is. That of course also begs the question if he then thinks of Marius in a ‘familiar, paternal kind of way’ but I’m not going there right now. That’ll be for another time.

Favorites

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monsieur-lestat:

Tagged by the wonderful i-want-my-iwtv

ONE
SONG: Bon Jovi: You give love a bad name

TWO
MOVIES: Gone with the
wind, Anna Karenina.

THREE
TV SHOWS: Oh, there I go. It’s so hard to
list only three, to be honest. However, on the top of the list comes Downton
Abbey –I’m absolutely fond of this tv show, mainly in spite of the precise amount
of drama and details, which so
captures my eyes and heart. It’s truly exuberant. –  Another one is North & South –This
adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell is truly wonderful, honestly. Drives me to
another epoch, something that is truly pleasant.– And now, last but not least,
comes Law and Order – The Special Victims Unit, of course. Even though I always
know who’s the killer because I’m
incredibly good at this, it’s quite enjoyable to imagine myself as
the investigator. Or the assassin. But the first one is way more likely.
*smirks*

FOUR ANIMALS: Well,
first of all, I must admit that I’m completely fond of dogs, since I’ve known
myself as Lestat. Oh, you guys may
have already expected such answer. By the way, I’m also fully amazed by the Bali
Bird of Paradise. This animal is so pompous, gracious and so full of life that
I couldn’t help but fall instantly in love with it. And the melodious sounds
that it makes? Such a wonderful creature. Alright, the next one is the lynx.
Even though I don’t enjoy felines that much,such animals can be so extremely
beautiful and agile and furtive, it’s something fully charming, indeed worthy
of appreciation. Now, lastly, we have the peacock. I know, it may sound a quite
unusual, yet such animals had always captured my attention with its mysterious,
fanciful look. If I had an spirit animal, I guess it would totally be a peacock. Or perhaps I’m just being way too poetic. Who
knows? *laughs*

FIVE FOODS: Steamy coffee, recently
baked madeleines (truly one of my
favorites, drives me straight back to Paris), Earl Grey tea, fresh apples and chilled
wine.

SIX
PEOPLE TO TAG: ofglamourisms, votumdormio, mournfulimmortal, claudiaindarkness, belloarmand, darkpatriotism

I know that in the movie that Louis (when he was human) had a wife who dies in childbirth. Is there any other info on Louis’ wife. I’m just curious with the fact that Louis had a wife and was expecting to have a baby and be a father.

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Ah, good question! WELL HAVE I GOT A TEENSY BIT OF INFO FOR YOU. 

In the IWTV script of April ‘92, 2nd draft (btw there are a number of cut lines and scenes that are in there, too), there is the mention of her name, and the child’s name:

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Beyond that, no, I don’t have any other info… I also can’t recall any fanfic that honors that wife situation, bc most fanfic seems to work more from book!IWTV w/ the death of Louis’ brother Paul.

P.S. I think the wife’s name is Dianne bc HELLO Anne Rice. Die Anne? Maybe? 

P.P.S. Is Jean Marie a girl? One RPer offered Lestat’s middle names to be “Christophe Marie,” so, not sure that “Marie” needs to be a girl’s name. 

If you could go back and do it over, what would you do differently in terms of teaching Louis how to be a vampire?

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devilsfool:

You cannot teach someone ‘how’ to be a vampire, as each experience is entirely unique and different (although I do wonder if Louis would beg to differ on this). 

With Louis, I was young and impatient, eager to assuage my own loneliness with his presence, and thus I blundered terribly with him. I have to say, though… Louis could not understand that he already knew what to look for, what to see. Louis’ gentle spirit and inquisitive nature already made him a prime candidate for vampirism, and his desire to learn and know gave him all the tools he needed to experience the world around him with his new senses. 

I don’t know, frankly. I fail so often that it’s become rather commonplace at this point, and to continuously go back and say, “Ah, I would have,” or “but if only this” seems utterly pointless. 

In short, there is this: Louis knew what to look for, even if he didn’t realise it. 

Perhaps I might have actually been honest with him in how much I loved him. Perhaps that might have changed something. 

What’s your preferred method of killing?

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nodominion-deactivated20151126:

I’m not really used to killing yet. I don’t like doing it. I much prefer to steal a mouthful from a whole bunch of mortals, leaving them dazed, but mostly unharmed.

That’s an unfair answer, especially considering I have killed. So I will try and answer you honestly.

If I need to kill, I often stalk someone for hours. I am trying to follow the only evil-doer rule, and my lack of telepathy means I only feel a kill moral if I witness my victim commit, or attempt to commit, a crime. I do like to stop my victims before they hurt someone else. Intent is enough to kill in my mind.

Often times I will invade a college campus late at night, my senses open to all around me. I’ll wait for a scream, muffled, quiet. Or perhaps laughter, malicious in tone. Within seconds I will be behind my victim, pinning them against whatever hard surface is nearby. I do not lull my prey with sweet dreams. I rip into their throat without remorse. I have learned not to be so greedy, to savor the blood, to swallow with a small stream instead of large gulps. It keeps the human alive longer. Sometimes my victim’s victim is still there, watching in awe. When I am done with my meal, I always make sure they have a ride home, a safe place to stay, and that they will say nothing of what happened.

This reminds me to ask Armand how to confuse mortals. If I have the gift at all.

My thoughts on Armand, Claudia and sexuality

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gingerhairedimmortal:

I’ve been trying to find a way to put these thoughts into words (words that will not bring my favourite hate anon back with a vengeance) since i-want-my-iwtv mentioned this earlier today.  However, I suppose I will take the chance because fuck it, I’m going on hiatus tomorrow anyway.

tl;dr – I think if Armand was convinced that this was something Claudia truly wanted (and let’s be honest, with his Mind Gift, it wouldn’t be hard for him to determine) then he would have no problems going forward with this relationship.  He sees Claudia mostly as the woman she is inside her mind and less as the child she is in body only.  While the relationship presents some challenges, I think it is possible and have no problems roleplaying it as such.

For the record:

This was very well-put, thank you for sharing!

[More of gingerhairedimmortal​‘s post under the cut.]

It is true that my Armand is pursuing a romantic, and hence possible sexual relationship, with a Claudia.  She has been aged up in that thread to avoid the usual legal and moral implications that would be involved with a five year old appearing body involved with a seventeen year old appearing one.  However, with the way the characters are, I would not have shied away from a relationship with a canon Claudia for them either (only used fade to black because while Armand may not have issues with it, I sort of squick at writing that).

However, the big issue for me is that while Claudia may LOOK like a child, she isn’t.  Armand, a character who is the most cerebral of the coven.  He knows what is going on in everyone’s mind and will occasionally alter it to his own liking.  Because of this, my headcanon is that outward appearance means little to him.  He sees people the way they see themselves.  So when he looks at Claudia, he sees the adult woman she truly is and not the body she is trapped in.

That does not mean to say that he is completely oblivious to the implications of a relationship with her.  It would not be possible for the two of them to be romantic in public, risking mortals making a scene.  Even the coven (particularly Louis I would think) would raise a fuss at the two of them together. These would be of concern but in the end would not sway them necessarily.

Most of all, for Armand, who was kidnapped to be used for sexual pleasure at a young age, he would be most concerned with making sure this was what SHE wanted.  Armand is portrayed over and over as selfish but I believe that he has a soft spot for victims of human trafficking and sex crimes.  It is one of the reasons I disregard anything past him meeting the sun in his canon because the whole story line with Benji and Sybelle is so far from my understanding of the character that I can’t believe it to be the same Armand.  

But I digress.