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Why everybody hate benji? I need valid reasons!!

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Um… so many reasons… and I haven’t read that book in awhile so I’m not the best resource for this. The fandom tends to hate on Benji bc:

  • He’s a shameless Gary Stu
  • He’s a child, maybe 12? Marius knows better (without spoiling anything, I’ll leave it at that).
  • He smokes (not a character FLAW per se, but it seemed to be a cheap way to make him look “tough kid” or whatever)
  • Emotionally/intellectually he’s flawless! He’s such an angelic person! He can do no wrong! Such characters are inherently unlikable maybe bc we can’t suspend disbelief for someone so PURE OF HEART. 
  • The way he talks seems oddly teenage? I remember someone saying that as a complaint.

Mostly we hate him because (and this can all be applied to Sybelle equally) of his existence, how he came into Armand’s life, and what happened to him seemed wildly out of the VC universe and out of character for everyone involved.

Here have some fanart:

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Co-existing by luizagm2

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goddessoftofu:

taihaku-tk:

Cutest human award goes to Anne Rice.

I know she’s the author…but it’s like she’s making her own fanfiction…is that possible??

So cute, the idea of AR making her own fanfiction. She does make these fanfic-ish comments occasionally and I, for one, love them, regardless that they sometimes seem out of character/canon. 

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faceofabotticelliangel:

mariusthevampire:

faceofabotticelliangel:

No u don’t understand Armand is so touchy over Marius because of the whole Sybelle and Benji thing and it just  draws up 500 years of abandonment and having to realize that what Marius and him once had was not a relationship and what happened since that night he brought him home from the brothels can never be fixed and trying to bestow him with “gifts” to woo Armand back into it only broke that tender last straw. Sybelle and Benji were not Armand’s Bianca and Riccardo 2.0 They were his saviors and he merely wanted to see them grow, not be stuck like he was or be strung along like he did Daniel and Marius foiled that. But lord is Armand trying. Keeping his distance but trying with Marius.)

// Ooooo gurl Armand and Marius need to have some words.

I’d like to see them try.

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