This very much did brighten my day! You did well for our fandom ❤
The tsunami of fresh blood in our fandom is just, so heartwarming. I’m loving the fanart, the cosplay, there’s plenty of new fic, it’s awesome. Netflix has IWTV and QOTD up, so I think some ppl are seeing it there for the first time, there’s also the new book recently out…
I dug around in my memes for something special to give you for leading those two young twenty-somethings dressed in elegant business casual to the books, and this doesn’t entirely match up, but it spoke to me as wanting to be posted in response, so have this!:
♛Merci ma chérie! As always,your etiquette is perfection, no wonder they call you the Lady of the Manners. Lovely sentiment *blows a kiss*
You know my taste for sumptuous apparel and interior design so well, and with your aesthetic so closely aligned with mine, I might have to whisk you off one of these evenings on a wild shopping spree… I assume I have a standing invitation… *winks*
For Ricean vampires (idk the rules with others), I don’t think dye would last forever bc they can cut their hair, and the dye would be effectively removed.
Dye is a color treatment on material that’s basically dead and outside their bodies. Even though their hair does not grow longer than the length it was when they were turned, it can be cut off and will grow back their natural color. I don’t think the dye would vanish during turning, either, like nailpolish wouldn’t vanish during turning. The nail underneath would change to that vampiry glassiness, but not be visible. The hair would change in texture inside the dye.
With something like a tattoo, I would think that it could be permanent, if the mortal had them before being turned, because the ink is under the skin, but maybe the vampiric parasite would reject the ink as being unnecessary. I don’t think we have any tattooed vampires in canon to know for sure.
I treat vampires as just very long living humans, which means even tattoos fade over time as the skin cells regenerate. Vlad has one (it features in the book) which he had done while alive, but after 400 years it has faded into a smude under his skin. In another few hundred it’ll be gone entirely. They’re undead not dead, with abnormally lengthened lives, so regeneration seems plausible, unlike a zombie who cannot heal.
So things like hair dye would grow and fade out too, in my universe too. Which means now I’m imagining hair dying parties with other vampires cause they can’t see whay they’re doing in the mirror.
For Ricean vampires however I’d say cutting the hair off would probably remove the dye and purge any tattoos from under the skin, especially the metals found in the ink.
I very much agree with “I treat vampires as just very long living humans, which means even tattoos fade over time as the skin cells regenerate.” and in fact, Ricean vampires do change, whatever animates them is working to convert their flesh; they can even accrue supernatural gifts over time*. I agree, then, re: your Vlad character, and it would probably be the same for Ricean vampires. Fading tattoos.
*Injury may also contribute to this, it’s implied that suffering damage will make them stronger (the old “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” thing, probably).
Which means now I’m imagining hair dying parties with other vampires cause they can’t see what they’re doing in the mirror.
… he’s definitely on his way to completely exasperated.
Do you all have TagViewer? This thingie:
…bc the tags on this post ARE AWESOME:
(I totes mean that! In an internet sociable way, y’know <3)
Hit the jump for moar…
IKR?? I know it’s just a dude throwing grapes at another dude BUT THERE IS SMTG ABOUT IT OK. SMTG CAPTIVATING. Maybe bc it’s kind of the opposite of what sexay vampires should EVER DO? Maybe bc neither one of them can eat grapes?? It’s inexplicable.
Louis has perfected near zen-like patience bc honestly LESTAT HAS DONE SO MUCH WORSE TO HIM AND REACTING ONLY ENCOURAGES MORE.
And the calmer reactions:
#True facts.
#Accurate.
They’re only bothering to pretend bc in the books Lestat’s dad was living with them at the time. And he WAS BLIND SO THEY PRETENDED TO EAT DINNER WITH HIM FOR SOME SENSE OF NORMALCY.
“i-want-my-iwtv is such a beautiful human being. Her gifs and posts are just HILARIOUS! I love when she RP’s as Lestat, it’s always a joy to see and interact with. It’s great to see her opinion and perspective on things that she includes when answering asks.”
♥u♥ I would LOVE to… that’s very kind of you especially, being a Lestat RPer yourself! (BTW thought I was following you already, pardon me on that! Just followed tonight).
It’s more of a time constraint than a creative one, and I wouldn’t want to seem rude, only being able to RP in a limited way. Maybe people will let me sort of sneak in these little RPs in the meantime 😉
I could even try RPing as different characters since i-want-my-iwtv isn’t a character-specific name.
I-want-my-IWTV 