Why everybody hate benji? I need valid reasons!!

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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thechurchofbobsaget:

I think “dildo” is a perfectly acceptable insult. Like, I’d call you a dick but you’re not real enough. 

[X]

mariusthevampire:

vampire-chronicles-rp:

There’s something I’ve been meaning to talk about for a while, but for some reason I always push it aside.
But basically, you know the whipping scene in the vampire Armand? Marius acts all disgusted at what happens (you know, the thing) but really he was turned at forty, I’m sure he understands how the human body works….so what the fuck did he expect to happen?
Did he fucking expect It to be like “pull this for free sweets!” Fucking no.

// I think it had more to do with what came after it.

Young men and boys experience sexual pleasure and even feel orgasm before they can actually ejaculate.  It’s what Armand referred to when he spoke of “wet pleasure.”  As in that he was too young for wet pleasure.  I think that refers to ejaculation.

When Armand had his orgasm after the whipping scene, he ejaculated.  That was perhaps the first time it had happened with Marius.  Marius realized when he looked at it that Armand was becoming a man, and soon he – Marius –  would have to make a hard decision.

At least, that was how I interpreted the scene.

chrissydeath:

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Draw your favorite characters doing the Ice bucket challenge!! Can be just 1 image, or a comic, or doodles… anything works! Donate to ALS too, if you can.

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Well, I’m sorry my dear cherub – but I couldn’t resist. Again. C:

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unionthesalmon:

Idk Lestat trying to break Armand’s blender and Louis beating the crap out of both cuz ye idk man

You know what I think blending random shit is the only thing Armand and Lestat would get along doing

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unionthesalmon:

Have some really self-indulgent Marius/Armand 

gingerhairedimmortal:

i-want-my-iwtv:

viaticumforthemarquise:

epicureanmarius:

everlastingporcelain hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet “do you think that, after so many books by the Coven of the Articulate,…”

yep

viaticumforthemarquise replied to your post: do you think that, after so many books by the Coven of the Articulate, some Talamasca Members started shipping the vampires? 

//100% yes. This is the beginning of half of their trouble. Just think, if you could meet your OTP, what might happen?

Just imagine 30 pages of elaborate essays on why one pairing is more canon than another with hundreds of references throughout the different books 

//OMG No stop, that’s hilarious. Because I’m pretty sure you are correct. They probably have whole sections of the vampire division dedicated to all of this. Long charts of who has fucked who over the centuries…

SPOILER: all lines just lead to Lestat. 

SPOILER: all lines just lead to Lestat. 

^True facts.

And how psyched was David to get added to that tracking document?! He would never admit to it but you know, deep down, he fangirled over himself/Lestat. At some point. Probably. 

While Armand has his own copy and sits glaring at the fact that the only line that does NOT lead to Lestat is his own.

What does he need to do for the Brat Prince to fuck him as well?

[gingerhairedimmortal has the full comic to that fanart!]