Marius and Armand at Marriage Counseling for @laurasking
This was a fun commission, I love it when people give me a whole scene to work with! As you can see, they have a lot to work out between them…
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Dear Lestat: According to David, while Louis was bewitched by Merrick, he appeared in your New Orleans flat wearing a “handsome gray velvet suit, and…dark violet tie.” Given Louis’ well-known indifference to fashion, and given the dearth of such outfits pret-a-porter in the year 2000, where, one wonders, did Louis find such an ensemble on short notice? Did your darling fledgling BORROW YOUR CLOTHES to impress the girl?
♛Mademoiselle King, I am struck by your attention to detail, well done *applauds*
Ordinarily, you might think that information like this would send me into a froth of jealous rage, that he would wear my clothes to court a witch while I lay incapacitated and alone on the cold stone floor. The real fury was at the larger issue, that she had plotted this all out and ensnared him, and that we almost lost him forever! What he was wearing, destroyed, presumably to impress her, was a misdemeanor.
Fury. Death for her for her crimes… would have happened, had I not heard the entire story from everyone involved. I heard it in more variation than I would have liked, considering that it all boiled down to – as you put it so concisely – that Louis was completely bewitched by Merrick. So thoroughly bewitched that he did things he would not have ordinarily done. I forgave him his trespasses, and I forgave Merrick for what she did to him, because at the end of it all, she did come to love him, and wanted to give more than what she originally sought to take from him. I felt that she had earned a place in our coven, but perhaps she had bewitched me, as well. She was a powerful witch.
As he’s told me of that particular infraction – and mind you, he is always welcome to the contents of my closet, and it usually charms me when he wears anything of mine – it happened quite by accident.
If you recall, I was not myself. Louis had visited my quarters and spent some time reminiscing among my things, seeking some clarity from the thick confusion Merrick had spun in his mind by that point, seeking a key that might wake me from my sleep. He put on that suit and tie, and several of my rings, being one of the last outfits he had seen me wear in livelier times, and fell into some contemplation there, in my room.
When the time called for it, without even thinking to change, he flew to her. So he was wearing it when he met with her.
@laurasking
replied to your post “I considered Chumsfanleigh but I thought that was too mean also, as it…”
Rufus Smolton McBossypants.
That’s what ppl have called him as a term of endearment, I’m suuuure….
[fanart by @garama]
@laurasking submitted: I headcanon that when he’s out driving his Bentley (or other expensive cars), Armand carries a driver’s license that gives his name as So-and-so the Third, while the vehicle registration is in the name of So-and-so the Second…so any cop who pulls him over assumes he’s joyriding in daddy’s car.
Yep, believable. Armand loves to f*ck with ppl’s perception of him!
Hey ppl, any ideas for good pseuds for Armand?
@laurasking submitted: If vampires had a TV soap opera, it would be called “All My Fledglings.”
Eheheee… and Lestat would have to be a leading character, as he is one of our more… erm… fruitful makers. He’s not at all embarrassed about it, either.
How does the fandom joke go? Every time X sound occurs, Lestat makes another fledgling? *facepalm*
Tbh I think he’s just addicted to the act of doing it at this point.
Doesn’t he go by Armand le Russe in Prince Lestat?
Following through the comments on my post, there is the idea that “le Russe” is an epithet, that it’s not what Armand goes by, but something Rhoshamandes calls him. It’s only mentioned once in the book, IIRC, by Rhosh. I’d believe that.
^Kitty by @berrym [X]
Anne APPARENTLY made up “le Russe” in PL. Which I had totally forgotten until I was reminded a little while ago. As far as obviously made up surnames go it’s even worse than de Romanus lol. ETA: I need to do a closeread before I speak lol, it sounds like that’s an epithet rather than a name.
SO LIKE I MEAN, the only part (to my recollection? plz correct me???) where it mentions “Armand Le Russe” is in a Rhosh chapter and that guy is such a salty fuckin tool and I got the impression that he was calling Armand that to be petty and sarcastic? Cause then she started listing the vampires at the end of the books and she still just refers to him as “Armand” without a last name.
“Only the clever ones like Gregory Duff Collingsworth and Armand Le Russe–who could thrive right in the midst of mortals–were undisturbed by the shrinking of the planet.”
YEP that’s what @laurasking pointed out to me too. That’s totally plausible. Also since Rhosh’s experience with Armand relates to coven era BS in Paris (idk if I’m even remembering this correctly but isn’t he pissed that allessandra ++ were forced into the covens) it might possibly be a thing left over from that era as well??
laurasking said: Well, Rhoshamandes calls him that, but no one else.
moral-cipher said: Laurasking – ohhh i forgot that. So it’s probably an epithet, possibly left over from the Bad Old Days. That makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
laurasking said: I thought fanon was that he assumed de Romanus.
@i-want-my-iwtv: ^Re: de Romanus, I assumed that was the name Armand used when he was with Marius, but after he was taken by the Children of Darkness, they changed his first name and I would assume he never used “de Romanus” again, either ;A;
Thanks to everyone who had discussion on this!
THE DATE (NSFW) – LSRichards – Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice [Archive of Our Own]
A fanfic crossover of Lestat and Adult!Wednesday Addams, you guys! By our own @laurasking.
THE DATE (NSFW) – LSRichards – Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice [Archive of Our Own]
Dear Lestat: From PLROA: “The tentacles of the nano-particle thermoplastic luracastria.” May I ask, do such literary constructions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of some previous study?
♛See below.
Plz for all that is holy… *praying furiously to any god that will listen* Let this be good news I cans not take any more shit from 2016….
(thanks @firelight-fading and @laurasking for shares this with us!)
So interestingly as of 4th of November the official IMDB page for the new film has changed to The Vampire Chronicles. And now seems to be officially in pre-production.
@i-want-my-iwtv do you have any news?
I don’t have any other news but I’ll share yours, good find, @claudias-ashes! IT’S REALLY HAPPENING!
However, I would suggest that this is still just a temporary title, bc Josh Boone intends to adapt TVL and include some of IWTV in it, do a trilogy and possibly a TV series for ALL the side characters, so for now, it’s probably safest to put it all under this blanket title. @phoenifia/@firelight-fading linked us to an article about that, here’s the relevant snippet:
But the fact that the status was updated to “Pre-production” so recently is promising!
Of course I can’t find it now but @laurasking and I were rolling around the idea that it could be great to have this film begin in a darkened theatre, playing movie!IWTV, and then we pull back to see Lestat is watching it there by himself. He rented the theatre just to watch it on the big screen ALONE, …he stops the film, slings an arm over the back of the chair beside him, and he turns around in his chair to look at the viewer and break the 4th wall with:
“Do you believe this garbage? *gestures at the screen* Let me tell you what really happened.”
I-want-my-IWTV 