Which face claims do you think fit Akasha?

90′s Jim Carrey!

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Just kidding, just kidding. Just wanted an excuse to use that gif hehehe…

You’re asking face claims, but I’m going to treat this like a VC casting post. Face claims are truly “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and I consider ppl for these characters more for their acting than their faces. An RPer might prefer to choose a face w/o the character that comes with someone who is well-known. So if you’re looking for a face claim for RP purposes, you might want to look at model sites, or instagram accounts, etc., and try to find a face that we’re not already so familiar with.

Casting-wise, it would be great if we could get an ethnically accurate actress, but I would be satisfied with person of color, since I don’t know what ppl from that area looked like back then. 

Canonically, she needs to have that little girl beauty AR loves so much, but she also needs to be intensely frightening without trying very hard. I headcanon her dark eyes being hypnotic, seductive, but also terrifying, like a shark’s. Someone who is accustomed to being worshiped and expects it ;]

In no particular order:

Sophia Jawad I approve of @wicked-felina​‘s suggestion of Sophia Jawad [X] who might be the most ethnically accurate, to quote her, “Akasha was from Uruk, which is roughly modern-day Iraq.”

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[X tbh there are not enough pics of Sophia out there, but this was the most Akasha-like pose I could find quickly, I’m sure she can look a lot more fierce]

Rihanna – she’s a fandom fave of sorts. She is extremely regal and childlike at the same time. It would be really hard to demand she wear dark contact lenses tho! Her eyes are so gorgeous! Maybe we can sacrifice that bit of canon.

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[^X from @lachrymist‘s aesthetic set]

Nicki Minaj – Another fandom favorite. She would probably bring a lot of sexuality to the role, a lot more aggressiveness, which could be great!

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[^X fanart by @demdoodles]

Tyra Banks – bc she’s a supermodel, she knows how to manipulate her features very subtly, she can smile like a CoverGirl while murdering thousands of men.

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Aaliyah – was great, imo the best part of that movie. Idk whose idea it was for her to move the way she did, but it was compelling, like she existed at a different frame-rate than everyone around her, flexing and curling her body, she was more snake than human.

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[^X by @charlesluciano]

Okay so does Armand look like young Hugh Dancy or…

I haven’t done my Armand headcanon yet, still thinking about it!

Young Hugh Dancy, no. Hugh looks more like a Nicolas to me, but even then, not really my headcanon. For me, physically and emotionally, he’s too manly to be Armand, too earnest and soft to be Nicolas. He is adorable tho, just look at him! And he does look perfectly believable in period costume. I’d take him as another VC character.

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[^X by @oruczadesolmaz and they have more in their post, please reblog their photoset from them!]

Not wanting to bother you but a while ago you said you’d do a headcanon on Armand after you had done Louis and Nicolas (/post/150171804542/omg-pls-do-nicholas-and-armand), and I just wanted to remind you because I love your headcanons and I can’t wait to hear about your Armand headcanon! Thank you so much! You’re awesome!

[Anon refers to this one right here] Omg, that’s so sweet of you to nudge me on that! And merci for the lovely compliments.

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I was away on vacation for almost a week and mostly offline, and I decided I needed to reread TVA in order to properly provide this headcanon. So guess who’s rereading TVA? IT’S ME I AM REREADING IT. I want to see if my impression of him changes this time around, bc my headcanon of him is mostly based on IWTV and TVL.

I’m probably not going to do any major TVA analysis, unless something really strikes me, but I know Armand is a fandom fave, so I want to do my headcanon of him justice. 

What are the vampires favorite holidays?😀🎃🎄🎁🎉🎈🎂💘🎆

Sorry, I’ve had this for 2 months, but it’s too broad a question, too many characters to think about! I think it varies for different vampires at different times in their lives and unlives. 

Louis didn’t get very excited about Christmas until Claudia. She had been with them for only a few months, and then Christmas was upon them. Lestat transformed the parlor and courtyard into a little winter wonderland, Claudia was excited about that (and she put up a fight in March when he said they should really take it down), and she had a stack of presents under the tree on Christmas night. 

Her first priority was giving Louis his gift, which was a pack of drawings bound in a soft leather portfolio Lestat had picked out with her. Drawings she had done of him, Lestat, their little family, their house. He was deeply touched, and few Christmas gifts ever topped it. It was at that moment that he finally understood the point of that holiday and his anticipation for that kind of moment does build, he gets into the spirit of it with everyone else *u*

On the same vein as the question of sense of humor. What is your favorite? Does it slip out at the wrong times? Which of the VC characters are easily amused? Oh look a Wraith, gonna go back to SGA now.

♛Some might describe my default disposition as “immature,” when it’s really more that I’m just easily amused. “Immature.” What a little word. So limiting. Considering the avalanche of shit I’ve hacked my way through, I hardly think “immature” describes me.

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[X] My sense of humor? It’s detailed in my first book. Anything can set me off. All still true. Something I didn’t have then: short internet videos, Vines, these things are amazing and the coven all send me links to the best.

Who’s easily amused? Daniel, David, Marius, Jesse. In that order. Jesse and I have inside jokes that are facial expressions only. 

I put the “fun” in “funeral,” and the “laughter” in “slaughter,” but I make every attempt to stifle it when it’s truly inappropriate. It can sometimes improve a situation. Intimate moments where I’m trying my best to be sensual and attentive, something about the language of seduction, verbal or physical, might strike me as overly serious and I can’t help but giggle at the pretentiousness of it all. I’ll get playful criticism from the object of my affection, and then we may give up on the seriousness of it all, opting instead to come up with taunting terms of endearment for each other, and having less control entirely.

My favorite of all types of humor? Nobody makes me laugh like I do. My own sense of humor is my favorite. What’s my sense of humor? Something pointed and sharp at times, soft and generous at other times. Everything in between. Children’s jokes can slay me. 

Armand makes me laugh harder than anyone else. Even when he’s being cruel to me. Probably the same principle as mentioned already, that in his seriousness, he almost seems to be playing a role, and I can’t help but see it as a caricature. If it were real emotion, real care, it could fracture something inside me, something buried deep.

Are you ticklish? If you are I’m totally going to tickle you. If Louis is ticklish that I might just tickle him instead. After all he is my favorite vampire out of all the vampires in the VC.

♛I’ll confess that I am very ticklish, when I’m in the mood for it. More so when I was a child. My nurse, who you’d call a “babysitter” now, or a “minder,” I suppose… an older villager with limited energy, she would shuffle after me down the halls of the castle, I’d let her catch me up and reduce me to a painful amount of giggling on the floor. She wasn’t satisfied until we were both hoarse from laughter! 

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Anon, let me be very clear: my defensive reflexes are too fast for a mortal to get to those sensitive areas, unless I’m already compromised… with sufficiently adulterated beverage. You’ll have to find me somewhere in that state if you hope to accomplish this little mission of yours *winks* and then there’s the added mystery of where those areas are since I’m not telling you *smirks*

Louis is your favorite? I’d be offended but that we have that in common, he’s my favorite, too. Getting Louis into full-blown laughter is a real challenge. More of a mental game than a physical one, but I’ll use anything at my disposal to make it happen when the moment is ripe. Protip: he is not physically ticklish unless he is warm and well-fed, and already in a pleasant mood. The difficulty is that much of his pleasure is experienced inwardly.

One of the best and cheapest tactics to get Louis to laugh audibly is the simplicity of a staring contest. He can’t help it. No need to announce when the contest begins, just set yourself up comfortably before him and begin staring. He can’t resist the challenge. Even from mortals. 

Omg, pls do Nicholas and Armand!

I’m so flattered that you want my headcanon *cries* So I’ll do Nicolas now, Armand in the next one ;] Previously: Louis.

Same disclaimer: #your headcanon may vary.

Nicolas is often compared to Louis, and I do see them as both being thin men, almost 6 ft tall, not huge in the muscle department, and they have similar hair color and texture (dark and wavy to their shoulders). They also both carry themselves in a fairly dignified manner, they both have long legs and yes, nice butts. But the differences are very apparent when: 

A) You are within a few feet from them: Nicolas is more fidgety, often crossing and uncrossing his legs, changing positions, gesturing more when speaking. He has wider shoulders than Louis, and is small-waisted due to a high metabolism in life, he ate an enormous amount of food w/o any consequences. Not athletically inclined, just great genetics (altho I picture his dad as very barrel-shaped, which was part of why he liked to dress his son up so much, better model!). Conversely, Louis was malnourished and the quality and amount of what he was willing to eat/drink would have ended him if he hadn’t found someone else to do it first.

B) You take off their clothes: Nicolas’ high metabolism and hearty appetite (even in Paris, he was eating that great French bread and wine) made for muscles like a racehorse. More for savory than sweet; I don’t imagine Nicolas as having much of a preference for pastries, which he would eat only bc Lestat was something of a foodie and brought treats home now and then. 

I would also imagine Nicolas is darker-skinned than Louis and Lestat, and this complexion further defines his muscles, especially when his skin is wet, all those sharp edges really shine ❤

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[X] ^I couldn’t find a good human body as an example so here’s a thoroughbred. Not this dark color for his skin, example is for the muscle definition. Nicolas would not have been a horse that would let many ppl ride him, tho.

C) When you get very close to them: Nicolas has a sprinkling of birthmarks that are not mentioned in canon, which form constellations mainly on his face, neck, chest, and arms. Louis might have these too, but a lot less. Lestat liked to trace connections with his finger when they were in bed together and Nicolas secretly loved that

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^Kylo Ren has these facial birthmarks.

Also, differently from Louis’ blazing green eyes: I don’t think Nicolas’ eye color is mentioned in canon, EDIT: “His brown eyes were very big and trusting.”… “large sober brown eyes” I always pictured them as that great light brown w/ dark limbal rings that absorbs all the light in the area, almost gold in sunlight:

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[X] He also has long eyelashes, longer than Louis’ eyelashes, and along those lines, for performances at the theatre, I headcanon that he let Lestat apply some guyliner for dramatic effect ;] Not that he needed it, but that he liked Lestat giving him that kind of special attention. 

But what if one had a broken nail when turned into a vampire? Would they grow uneven for eternity? So annoying!

Fingernails are not subject to the Rule of As-Is, my new term for the aspects of appearance someone has as a mortal that will be strictly adhered to when they are turned (like the fact that they are missing a limb, or their hair is shoulder-length, things like that).

[X Lestat left one of his vicious little thumb rings w/ me <3]

It could stay uneven/broken for other vampires in other media.

Why aren’t Ricean vampire fingernails subject to the Rule of As-Is? Well, as you say, an uneven/broken nail would be hella inconvenient for eternity! But none of AR’s vampires ever mentioned having this issue, and with so many vampires, who have known so many more vampires, collectively, surely one of them would have brought it up by now if it were a thing. So I have to conclude that fingernails are not subject to the Rule of As-Is.

[^Claudia’s aren’t long but she was a child, special exception. In Ricean vampires, their nails also have a kind of glassy sheen also my hands are prettier than Louis’ hands]

I headcanon that their nails grow to a certain length when they are turned, longer than they were in life, and will grow back to that length after being filed down. Lestat files his nails, he’s doing it in IWTV:

“And he drew
from his pocket a nail file, and, seating himself on the foot of the old
man’s bed, he began to file his long nails…  I could
hear the old man talking to Lestat; Lestat, who sat with his legs crossed,
filing and filing, one eyebrow arched, his attention on his perfect nails.”

Bc in vampire lore, in general, abnormally long fingernails are considered a sign of being a vampire. This comes from the fact that when you exhume a body from its coffin (to check to see whether dead Auntie Vivienne has been turned into a vampire *gasp*), the nails appear to have continued to grow, therefore, Auntie Viv must be undead! In fact:

“It is not that the fingernails are growing, but that the skin around them retracts as it becomes dehydrated, making them appear longer. When preparing a body, funeral directors will sometimes moisturise the fingertips to counteract this.” [X]

I have always imagine Louis being quite femenine ( obviously not as much as Armand ). Like, having a remarked waist, long legs ( and of course nice butt ) and overall a delicated figure. But besides his hands, his body has never been described I think. What do you think? How do you picture him? ( english is not first language :c Sorry for the mistakes! )

No worries, I understand what you’re asking ❤ I could write SO MUCH on this, so I’ll try to keep it short and basic.

We all picture him differently, I think that’s what will make it so hard to cast an actor. I still debate with ppl about his hair: whether it’s chestnut-color (like in movie!IWTV), shorter and curlier (like in Lestat the Musical), or dark, longish and silky as in a lot of the fanart. We all apply our own ideals of beauty (which are influenced by our own cultures, art, families, romantic partners, and/or friends, etc.) onto him. Plus, the other VC characters are generally more poetic when they describe him; they detail his inner qualities more than his physical ones. 

That said, I agree that he would appear at first to have an overall delicate and almost androgynous figure, and he moves with a lot of grace and dignity, but he can definitely kick ass when necessary; there’s muscle and skill packed into that slender build >;}

I imagine his eyes as being more of a sea-green, maybe not like lasers ALL the time, but with a sparkle to them, 

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…with a good fringe of inky eyelashes when his eyes close, 

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^and that feathery but still masculine eyebrow.

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^X these eyes belong to Steven Kelly. His lips are a lot bigger then I picture Louis’s lips, but his jawline is right (it’s a flattering angle tho tbh), and Louis is described as having a narrow head.

As for the body, I picture him as a little underweight due to the state of physical unfitness he was in in the month(s) leading up to his turning, but still muscular:

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^X Simon Nessman would probably not like to hear himself called physically unfit, what I mean is, he’s got the basic setup, is a little underweight, not all !bursting! with muscle. (yes I imagine Louis has dark nips like this but a more pronounced happy trial *blushes*)

@eibhlis97 and I agree that he has great thighs due to riding horses all his life ;}

And a view from the back, bc yes, he requires, as you put it: “long legs ( and of course nice butt ).”

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^X Louis will wear heels for Lestat on occasion. Very special occasions. Right, @vampchronfic?

Lestat is a Capricorn but there’s no information on Louis’ birthday. I always think that he’s a Cancer or Pisces. What do you think? lol

What you’re asking is not written explicitly in canon, iirc, but fandom has generally accepted the following info, maybe bc AR told us over the years? I don’t remember when we were told…

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  • Lestat’s birthday is November 7, the birthday of Anne Rice’s late husband Stan (whom she partially modeled Lestat after).
  • Louis’ birthday is October 4, which is Anne’s birthday.
  • Claudia mentions her birthday in her diary (in QOTD) as being September 21, but she’s not sure if that’s really her birthday and her dads won’t explain it further

    (it’s probably the day she was turned, given the context of the diary entry). That’s Michele Rice’s birthday, Anne’s late daughter.

So Lestat is a Scorpio and Louis is a Libra. I don’t know much about astrology, you’ll have to take it from there, anon!