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Hi! Love your blog more than ever! What are your thoughts on Armand/Louis? Or specifically Louis’ feelings for Armand? Louis always seems to gravitate towards A whenever he is at loose ends with Lestat. If I am doing the math correctly, they have spent more time as companions than L/L. For some reason, though I love L/L, I am fascinated by A/L. Thanks again for your awesomeness in the VC fandom. <3

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Thanks, dearie! What do you love about it specifically, hmmm? Simply my awesomeness in the VC fandom? You don’t need to answer that, my awesome is unquestionable hehehe…

Armand/Louis: To ship or not to ship?

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[by garama bc apparently I’m having a GARAMA APPRECIATION DAY]

I have alot of Armand/Louis feels. The way they view each other seems built on their first impressions of eachother:

  • Louis saw Armand as the teacher/mentor (and lover??) Lestat could not have been. Armand definitely used some mental persuasion to draw Louis closer, but it seems the attraction was mutual, mostly natural chemistry.
  • Armand saw Louis as someone who could help him see the world anew, through younger eyes, and someone who was very much in tune with their emotions. Armand had closed off alot of those feelings, and was not very connected to any of the vampires in the Theatre des Vampires. Also he wanted Louis as a lover, but don’t we all? Also, Armand had advised Lestat in TVL that your fledglings will never make perfect companions, what you need is someone else’s fledgling. AND, it’s possible that Armand was even more attracted to Louis after reading his mind and knowing he was Lestat’s, whom Armand had a major unrequited crush on.

So they both sort of filled a void for the other, but couldn’t be together initially, as Louis was devoted to Claudia. Armand’s responsibility for her removal is subject to interpretation, whether it was his order or not, and other things that happened to her, but it seems to me that Armand had intended for Claudia to leave with Madeleine. He admitted to forcing Louis to make Madeleine for this purpose.

After all that, you would think Louis would want nothing to do with Armand, but he chose to spend some 100 yrs with Armand before passive-aggressively ignoring him until he left Louis, disgusted and on the verge of suicide, Louis not being a good boyfriend. (vampiredevelopment!)

Your math sounds about right, but a relationship’s quality is not based on the amount of time it lasts. Louis was probably much happier when he was with Lestat and Claudia for some 65 years. Of the 100 yrs he spent with Armand, much of it seems like Louis was going through the motions, letting Armand have him as a companion in various ways, but not really engaged fully in the relationship.

Lestat does often have to go off on his own adventures and leave Louis alone. There’s a kind of mutual respect between Lestat, Armand, and Louis now, it seems all of their past transgressions to each other are mostly water under the bridge. 

TL;DR: Louis does still gravitate to Armand, maybe not as the mentor/teacher he saw him as before, but more as an ex-boyfriend that he is on good terms with, someone he cares about, and who cares about him. Extended family.

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remarried:

Yet within six months he had dropped the movies for video cameras and must make his own films. All over New York he dragged Daniel, as he interviewed people on the nighttime streets. Armand had reels of himself reciting poetry in Italian or Latin, or merely staring with his arms folded, a gleaming white presence slipping in and out of focus in eternally dim bronze light. 

– “The Story of Daniel”, Queen of the Damned

Source: remarried

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lestatemperorofthedead:

luthi69:

cloudsinvenice:

lestatemperorofthedead:

Please, if anyone knows who made this amazing Armand, I can’t find it on deviantart. Tell me please!!

Someone on a Russian forum had saved the file with the name Armand_by_MaGLIL, but that user on deviantART doesn’t have it in their gallery, or favourites for that matter. I followed a few other trails where people had saved it on Pinterest and it was attributed to a dA user, but again, I wouldn’t find it when I went to look there. I hate it when this happens; it’s such nice art! Anybody? 

Had to dig into the past in my DeviantArt account, but yes, the original artist is maglil, I know this because I once posted (2009!, gosh it’s been a while) a desktop screenshot and I tagged her (The-Vampire-Armand).
I do have the original she posted saved (still!) on my computer and it’s very close to the quality of the one shared here, so… hope that answers your questions.

Yes, it does, thank you so much! 🙂

Source: vc-aesthetic

// I dunno, “My Immortal” is still so much worse, in my opinion. But that BV excerpt is still close enough to that level of bad that you can’t not see it.

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The resemblance is uncanny!

(talkin’ bout Blood Vivicanti vs. My Immortal)

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[myimmortalchronicles is magic!]

Are Daniel and Marius in a romantic relationship? Because I’ve been under the impression Daniel was romantically involved with Armand. (And even though Armand has a history with Marius, he’s more so involved with Daniel????) I’m so confused. Please help.

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It depends where your headcanon stops in canon. If you accept all of canon, according to Anne Rice, “Daniel

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Marius love each other very much” in Prince Lestat. daniel-james-molloy asked Anne Rice that question explicitly and was answered without a definitive Yes or No:

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[source]

Yes, Daniel was romantically involved with Armand in QotD; Armand is Daniel’s maker. So if your headcanon stops at that book, then they are still a couple.

Armand was romantically involved with Marius in TVA and B&G; Marius is Armand’s maker. 

Other people might accept all of canon, so for them, Daniel/Marius might be a real ship. They’re living together. Armand is living elsewhere with other vampires. 

But the vampire couple in Only Lovers Left Alive live apart and still love each other deeply, so it all depends on what your own headcanon of what a ship is. Can it survive long-distance? Can it survive polyamory? Does it have to be monogamous? 

These are the real questions 😉

Top 5 Things You Like About Armand

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vagabonddaniel-recordedarchives:

In no particular order, as they come into my mind:

1. His curiosity. His thirst for knowledge is as insatiable as my own. He wants to take the world apart and see how it ticks, and that’s a desire we share.

2. His laugh. It’s rich and boisterous and damn hard to get out of him sometimes, but I will walk through hell itself to make him laugh.

3. The twisted, strange way his mind works. He may not be the enigma he wants everyone to believe he is, but he sees the world from angles I never would. (Insert short joke here.)

4. How he looks good in everything. Yeah, he usually trims his hair short and puts on a crisp suit and manages to look every bit the young professional. But since I’ve known him, I’ve seen him wear any number of outfits. Acid washed jeans, corduroy bellbottoms, cowboy shirts and boots, torn denim vests, skin-tight mesh shirts and leather pants… Whatever he wears, he pulls it off. He is a chameleon, able to blend into any time or place with ease. It’s kind of incredible.

5. His overpriced, fancy-schmancy basil mint shampoo. It’s not a very strong scent but it lingers on his pillows and shirt collars. I hated it at first but I’ve come to associate that scent with home.

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alexkerners:

Vampire Chronicles facecast (2/?)

Miles McMillan as Louis de Pointe du Lac

“Louis de Pointe du Lac… slender, slightly less tall than Lestat, his maker, black of hair, gaunt and white of skin, with amazingly long and delicate fingers, and feet that don’t make a sound. Louis, whose green eyes are soulful, the very mirror of patient misery, soft-voiced, very human, weak, having lived only two hundred years, unable to read minds or levitate, or to spellbind others except inadvertently, which can be hilarious, an immortal with whom mortals fall in love”

I was watching IWTV (for the second time today) and I thought at the scene in the Taverne du Chat Noir, at the beginning, was Lestat influencing that guy’s mind to not kill Louis? Do you have thoughts on this?

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Quite possibly!

Lestat’s Mind Gift at that time was more for when he was directly interacting with the person, but  in TVL he could call a horse to him from a distance with it. 

I don’t know if Lestat’s Mind Gift was ever as fine-tuned as Armand’s, tho, in the sense of bending someone’s will as far as Armand could bend it. Armand used his Mind Gift to manipulate Louis into making a vampire, which was the last thing Louis ever wanted to do!