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If the VC chrachters were the greek gods ,what god do you think will fit each ?I think Gabrielle will make a PERFECT Artemis wnd Armand a good Hermes indeed
Ooooh! VC chars as Greek Gods!
I did these based on character and not on the gods’ family tree bc that would’ve added more consideration and this is more fun so shut up.
[All descriptions from Wiki-to-the-pedia.]
Lestat = Dionysus – Let’s just get that out of the way right now bc it’s easy. And in fact I think Neil Jordan would agree; he has Lestat playing with a bunch of grapes in movie!IWTV and that could be a reference to Dionysus. God of wine, parties and festivals, madness, chaos, drunkenness, drugs, and ecstasy… He was depicted in art as either an older bearded god or a pretty effeminate, long-haired youth.
[fanart by Dany&Dany]
Gabrielle = Artemis – Works except for the virgin part, but I’ll let you have this one, Anon. Virgin goddess of the hunt, wilderness, animals, young girls, childbirth, plague, and the moon.
Louis = Apollo – Not that Louis is skilled at making music, but he does have a very deep appreciation for music, art and literature, poetry specifically, and also he’s drop-dead-gorgeous so y’know, there’s that. PLUS, this would make him Artemis’ twin brother and that works, too, if Gabrielle is Artemis! God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, archery, and the sun… In sculpture, Apollo was depicted as a very handsome, beardless young man with long hair and an ideal physique. As the embodiment of perfectionism, he could be cruel and destructive (OH LIKE BURNING DOWN BUILDINGS?), and his love affairs were rarely happy WELL THAT SOUNDS LIKE POINTE DU LAC.
Armand = Hades – Okay I love Armand, but this is more for when he was the coven master! – King of the underworld and the dead, and god of regret.
Daniel = Hermes – I actually think Daniel fits this better by the description than Armand, since it was Daniel who started what would become the written record of the Coven of the Articulate: God of boundaries, travel, communication, trade, language, and writing… Hermes is the messenger of the gods… He was depicted either as a handsome and athletic beardless youth…
Marius = Zeus – Okay so I am running out of dudes at this point, but actually, Marius is a father figure at least through books #1-4. In a way he was the Patriarch of the vampires while taking care of TWMBK. King and father of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice.
Pandora = Athena – I actually struggled with Pandora, probably not as self-confident as Athena, but she has the debate, wisdom, peace skills so there u go. Goddess of intelligence, skill, peace, warfare, battle strategy, handicrafts, and wisdom.
David = Poseidon – Okay so I picked this one based more on the physcial description but also bc David is strong, and David first act as new vampire was to take a swim in the ocean. God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, and earthquakes. In classical artwork, he was depicted as a mature man of sturdy build with an often luxuriant beard, and holding a trident.
Maharet = Demeter – She was the Matriarch of the coven and the Mayfair family so all that motherly stuff. Goddess of grain, agriculture and the harvest, growth and nourishment.
Jesse = Hestia –
Works except for the virgin part, but Jesse doesn’t seem to have had notable ships in her life so this works well enough. Virgin goddess of the hearth, home and chastity… she appeared as a modestly veiled woman… In some accounts, she gave up her seat as one of the Twelve Olympians in favor of Dionysus, and she plays little role in Greek myths.
Mael = Ares – God of war, bloodshed, and violence… Homer portrays him as moody and unreliable.
Akasha = Hera – Queen of the gods and goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires… Her sacred animals are the heifer, the peacock, and the cuckoo.
I just read you Lestat/Life = OTP answer to the anon, and a thought came into my head: Do you think through the series Lestat, as you said, has so many different lovers and so much love to give because that’s just what he’s about, or do you think it has a little to with AR needing to give him new lovers as the series progressed to keep things interesting and give the reader a new way of connecting with him? (Also: my headcanon where Lestat just owns a bunch of fluffy dogs that make him happy).
[This post right here, is the Lestat/Life OTP post, if anyone wants to catch up]
BRACE YOSELF FOR A WALL OF TEXT™©®
…like GDI YOU ASKED FOR IT.
^This is like the only time they hold hands in the movie ;A; not ghey enuf
I think I can say w/ 100% certainty that AR did not set out to write the Vampire Chronicles as we know it now. When her original short story of IWTV was published in 1973, she didn’t plan for a 2014 VC that diverged from canon, sinking several ships in its wake (including Lestat/Rowan).
No, I don’t think the VC relies on Lestat’s romantic relationships specifically to keep the series interesting and keep ppl connecting with him. There are ships in canon other than whoever Lestat is throwing himself at! Armand/Daniel, for example. Marius/Pandora. Marius/Amadeo.
Of course, I’m sure some readers need the romance in VC in order to stay interested/connected to it, and that’s fine, too, but I would ask them to consider looking deeper.
TL;DR: Lestat is all about love, yes, but not necessarily in pursuit of specific ships. He’s filling a void that was made in his childhood and no one seems to be enough to fill it other than simply the pursuit of it. AR does throw in a little fanservice now and then, but I think she writes for deeper reasons, and the romance aspect – or lack thereof – is part of her exploration.
Hit the jump for more. I also address your doggie headcanon 😉
AR wrote the first short story basically to ask why her daughter died of leukemia. She wanted to interview God, the Devil, and/or Death himself. She wanted to know: Was she and/or her husband being punished for being bad Christians, or was their daughter a bad Christian? When a parent loses a child they want to know why. So she made Louis, and he answered her, “There was no reason, that girl was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don’t serve Heaven or Hell, I was just hungry, I’m sorry, I feel like shit. Also, blame Lestat.”
Then she had to interview Lestat and find out where the evil comes from. How evil can he be, when he was forced into vampiring, totally against his will?
Everything else that followed in the series stems from that central question. Why do bad things happen? Why do people do bad things? What if the person doing the bad thing did it accidentally? Or they feel terrible about it? What if they are trying to change and be better? Why do they want to be better?
Lestat strives to be good bc he wants love. He is making up for an enormous void, his formative years spent mostly unloved and untouched, a childhood in which the only love he got was from his animals, the teachers in the school he briefly went to, the theatre troupe he ran off with, and a teensy bit from his mother. When he expressed himself, he was often shot down, and with beatings.
He knows the equations he’s been taught:
- Be Good —> Get Loved.
- Give Love —> Get Loved.
- Be in Control —> Take Love.
So I think his huge heart is a hungry one, he can’t get enough, and he can’t seem to get enough from one person. I think he’s afraid of commitment. To commit to one person is to risk that person having too much control.
Having lots of relationships, well, I do think AR was doing a little fanservice when she set him up with women. That was probably a response to so many POTP begging her to set him up with a woman for a change.
But I on the other hand, I feel like alot of his dating record is unsurprising. Who can predict their future lovers? I think we can all learn from our past relationships, and that improves subsequent ones. Lestat does tend to repeat some mistakes and he does have issues with consent in relationships, but he at least is good at confessing these things and presumably working on them.
We all agree Lestat is a dog person!
He had a pack of them as a mortal, and yes, I think he’d love to own a bunch of fluffy dogs that make him happy! But dogs do not like vampires:
“I’d expected to hear from [the dog] before this time, for surely it would pick up my scent, know instinctively that I wasn’t human, and then begin to sound its natural alarm of growls and barks. Dogs had done that enough to me over the centuries, though they don’t always. Sometimes I can entrance them and command them. But I feared the instinctive rejection and it always sent a pain through my heart.” – Lestat, Tale of the Body Thief.
That’s part of what made Mojo so special, that he seemed to override whatever natural dog instinct with love for Lestat ❤
Lestat also has expensive tastes in terms of furniture and fashion, and that’s incompatible with having a pack of dogs. People with even one dog have to dog-proof their home to some extent or risk sacrificing things to a curious doggie.
And plus he’s a wanderlust, he likes to just up and leave for long periods, and he can’t leave a pack of dogs with Louis to babysit. Plus, he knows he can’t be there for all those puppies during the day when they need to be walked and run around, so I would imagine he would have to set them up to be taken care of on someone’s huge farm or wherever so he can play with them occasionally when he needs a good dose of animal therapy ❤
also Lestat how was it to give that one girl her very last foot popping kiss?
♛I assume you mean this – very expensive – lady of the night?
I give many people their very last “foot popping kiss.” The act is different for everyone, although I admit that I do enjoy such displays of unleashed passion, when the victim’s mind is completely swept away in the best orgasm of their lives and their bodies can no longer defend themselves against it, no silly societal shame or embarrassment, just a quivering mess of fleshly bliss.
Having Louis there watching me always adds a layer of extra thrill. Even when he was being a rebellious child *laughs* He’s much more involved and deliberate in his actions when we share now.
Add to all that the other lady of the night, unaware of what was happening so close by… and her little hand on my leg, such a skilled touch, she had absolutely shared men with her partner-in-crime before, and she knew just how to stimulate. I didn’t even know that area behind the knee was such an erogenous zone before, this old dog is always learning new tricks *winks*
hi, long time fan just wanted to say you’re my favorite person and I love this blog. also I think Lestat is my favorite flawed vampire.
Aw thank u so much u sweet sleepy party person! I am grateful for long-term followers who have stuck with this madness for any length of time (and also the (metaphorical) fresh blood of new ones) ❤ I AM UR FAVORITE PERSON?! Go on… tell me more about meeee…. j/k… or am I really just kidding hehehe…
Lestat is MY fave flawed vampire as well, obviously… and Pssssst: Lestat is also his OWN favorite flawed vampire shhhhhh top secret that everyone knows….
LOVE your blog. I check it all the time, it’s just such a great compilation of all fun VC type stuff <3 Thanks for being there!!!
Awww merci beaucoup! Fresh memeything for you bc of the wait like honestly this was 8 days old i do apologiiiize
Lestat shows up to the alley and they all just grab one of the bowling balls that they place has to borrow, but Lestat takes out that velvet one and Louis looks into the camera like the office and no one tells Lestat until after his third strike and the ball is an oily greasy mess
#COVEN GAME NIGHT #HEADCANON ACCEPTED
^BEHOLD, A RED VELVET BOWLING BALL. [X]
I honestly tried and tried and could not improve her story other than making the ball red fucking velvet bc YOU KNOW he would want it to be red fucking velvet not blue! like of course, but i bet it is blue in the fashion show bc blue balls are hilarious aren’t they?
(Also Lestat is the biggest cheater and uses the Mind Gift to knock down the pins his ball doesn’t hit and they all groan bc he is getting all these cheat strikes and the alley has to award him the top slot on the chalkboard)
What was the most romantic thing you ever said to Louis?
“I’m getting into the coffin and you will lie down on top of me if you know what’s good for you.” Now, I’m quoting directly from Louis’ insipid novel in which he provides the barest skeleton of how this scene actually played out. It was really quite romantic on my part, while he on the other hand was being a prissy baby.
I-want-my-IWTV 