Like mine. You ever gonna take me up on that invite? 😉
♛Ever?!It’s been five days, child! Have you considered that I am a Rock Superstar and might have a packed schedule trying to catch some facetime with the Pope while he’s in the US?
Think of my perspective: if I say yes to you, I have to say yes to everyone, and there are only so many hours in a night. Perhaps I’ll have to visit unannounced to take you up on your offer privately.
Further, watching a lion kill is nothing like watching a vampire kill. Lions do not, to my knowledge, have long drawn-out evenings with their victims, plying them with charm, drinking in their last hours, before spiriting them away to an alley to suck a gallon and a half of blood out of them. And then trying to find the best way to dispose of the mortal coil that’s left over. I need to make friends with a cannibal like Dr. Lecter to take care of that aspect…
I can’t even convey to you how twisted my victims can be. I detest sex offenders and yet, since by nature they work alone, they’re easier to draw out than drug dealers, who tend to have a whole entourage these days.
You don’t want to be around sex offenders. You’re too precious for that.
♛Well thank you for the invitation… saving that for later… Willing beverages are divine offerings.
I wish I could take you with me sometime! I do prefer having an engaged audience, but despite the best planning and performance, it can get rather gruesome. You might change your opinion of me after such an excursion. I wouldn’t want that.
Y’know I don’t know exactly what was going on but she was in some kind of fabulous ecstasy to not try to stop him notice him basically biting her tongue and sucking on it… Supposedly Louis can Spellbind ppl w/o consciously trying, this is one of his Gifts.
…but also Lestat is doing most of the “work” for him in this scene, she’s probably reacting to that more.
I don’t think there are any major arteries in the mouth that he could have hit, so it’s just, IDK, tongue blood. And he is spilling some. Seems like alot of effort and not much dinner for him. When we see her mouth again, her lips look a little bloody but not damaged, so he was either biting her tongue or the inside of her mouth somewheres. #kinda ew
Ever bite your tongue hard?
I have! And when I had braces (yes I had braces TOTES WORTH IT) the brackets gashed to insides of my mouth. Alot. Wounds closed and then tore afresh. It hurt. I still have scars inside (TOTES WORTH IT).
Anyway my point stands: she must like the treatment she’s getting if she’s this into it.
It’s called the lingual artery, runs along the underside of the tongue, is the reason piercing your tongue is dangerous, and you can bleed out from there with the help of a lustful vampire.
Oh! Thanks for the info thinkingnonsensically! (Used this Lestat reaction gif bc even tho I was too lazy to look that up, I’m sure ‘Stat would have known this info tho he probably would have preferred Louis go for the jugular like HE DID, like the wound was already open! No bite necessary! Louis you n00b)
//The complete truth. I do, I wanna kiss his hair. And I respect him so much. Look at me, getting emotional over a fictional character. X/ I need to fall in love with real people for a change.
[Real people aren’t nearly as interesting as fictional characters, and when they are, they are equally vicious and dangerous so it’s hard for me to stay. That’s a difficult situation right there haha. Let me just be surrounded by fictional characters, then…
But the inspiration for a fictional character comes from someone somewhere. An event or even multiple events that we see and can put together to make one being and lifestory for them, so technically when we fall in love with a fictional character aren’t we falling in love with all humanity that resembles those traits?
♛Dear Rae~ despite your “handle,” it appears that you are thinking very sensically; winning your fight against all sorts of mental problems is absolutely cause to celebrate, and makes you more than “pretty okay” in Santa Lestat’s book. *takes your hand and and kisses the back delicately* Be strong, there may yet be trying times, that’s to be expected. This comes from one who still deals with an assortment of inner demons of his own… which attack on a nightly, if not hourly, basis. As you can tell from any of my heartbreaking works of staggering genius.
These changes you’re making, I do the same when the mood strikes, when it feels a new chapter has begun. I usually resort to interior redecorating, and retail therapy, as things like hair dye rinse away upon the first touch of water… piercings are somewhat irritating and the flesh closes when the metal is removed, tattoos fade away completely during the deathsleep. But I digress…
Santa Lestat hears you, darling Rae… imagine a dance between us, barefoot in the pale moonlight, on a rooftop someplace warm. I’ll bring you a dark red velvet gown to match your new look. It’s not THE Dark Gift, but it is A dark gift *embraces you gently*
Well, I can not answer questions in the book about Anne Rice’s vampires, as that is copyrighted stuff right there, but you are more than welcome to ask me anything you want. Though I am not an expert in Anne Rice’s vampires. If you want to talk to an expert, I would turn you towards i-want-my-iwtv.
And as for the science behind burning in the sun, well, the first vampire to actually be effected by the sunlight to the point of death was Count Orlok in Nosferatu. The reason he disappears in the sun was to avoid copyright infringement on the ending of Dracula. So historically speaking, there is no lore to suggest that vampires would actually burn in the sun. In Dracula his powers were weakened but he did not burn. I think the main idea that vampires hunted at night is because humans slept at night, which left hours of mystery around what happened in the dark. If someone died in the night, or got sick in the night, they had no clue what caused it. It was much easier to think a creature from beyond the grave did it because the darkness is scary and science was lacking.
But if we want to say sure, vampires burn in the sun, we have to think “why?” The first reason might be the same reason I burn in the sun. They are pale. Pale people burn in the sun. Another reason could be because they are damned, and as such are not allowed to live in the illumination of God. God created light, after all. And if you think about it, Lucifer is known as the Morning Star, so it makes sense that vampires would have to live under the light of the stars.
Hope that answers your question for now! I will go into further detail in the book.
My idea was the vampires in AR’s books.
They say (or seriously imply) that vampire blood is flammable. Also in one of the books the vampires can absorb blood through the skin if they really really need it. That made me question the permeability of their skin—our skin is selectively permeable. Our body can more or less decide what to let in and out. What if their skin was less selective? Still hard to the touch of course but more open to diffusion by osmosis?
What if it had a susceptibility to certain radiation from the sun, which when it went through their skin, ignited their very-flammable blood?
This radiation can be IR, visible, or UV in nature, I haven’t been able to decide yet. UV light vibrates at the highest frequency of the three so it /seems/ more conducive but then UV light is blocked by glass and they could not be burned through a window. IR radiation is felt by humans as heat so that’s another likely candidate.
As you can tell, I like to steer away from religious reasoning. The science behind vampires and other creatures is my favorite thing. 🙂
Thanks though!
^This explanation is interesting.
Re: Ricean vampire skin being more/less permeable than ours, well, it is described as having a different texture and sheen so that would make sense.
Skin being permeable to absorb blood: blood is absorbed through the skin in movie!IWTV, during Louis’ transformation, and blood is absorbed through the skin in Merrick, during Louis’ other transformation (I think there was a line of dialogue, smtg like, “his whole body is drinking it!”)
BUT vampire skin is not permeable to dirt, they’re often described as not able to get all that dirty? Like the filth doesn’t really cling to them. The hardness probably contributes to that.
I don’t think window glass would be sufficient to block the destruction of sunlight on vampire flesh; Ricean vampires are always going on about the heavy curtains they use on the windows. It’s a combination of the UV rays and something else in sunlight that’s dangerous to them. Obviously they can be in a lighted room or stage just fine, so it’s not the visible light. Something else in the sunlight acts as a catalyst to burn the flammable flesh and blood.
The susceptibility to the radiation from the sun seems lessened by the strength/age of the vampire, Lestat has his little tanning sessions where he can handle a level of burn that others just can’t.
It seems, since Louis is described as tan in Prince Lestat, that Louis has been coerced into joining Lestat on these tanning excursions. So OOC.
Well, I can not answer questions in the book about Anne Rice’s vampires, as that is copyrighted stuff right there, but you are more than welcome to ask me anything you want. Though I am not an expert in Anne Rice’s vampires. If you want to talk to an expert, I would turn you towards i-want-my-iwtv.
And as for the science behind burning in the sun, well, the first vampire to actually be effected by the sunlight to the point of death was Count Orlok in Nosferatu. The reason he disappears in the sun was to avoid copyright infringement on the ending of Dracula. So historically speaking, there is no lore to suggest that vampires would actually burn in the sun. In Dracula his powers were weakened but he did not burn. I think the main idea that vampires hunted at night is because humans slept at night, which left hours of mystery around what happened in the dark. If someone died in the night, or got sick in the night, they had no clue what caused it. It was much easier to think a creature from beyond the grave did it because the darkness is scary and science was lacking.
But if we want to say sure, vampires burn in the sun, we have to think “why?” The first reason might be the same reason I burn in the sun. They are pale. Pale people burn in the sun. Another reason could be because they are damned, and as such are not allowed to live in the illumination of God. God created light, after all. And if you think about it, Lucifer is known as the Morning Star, so it makes sense that vampires would have to live under the light of the stars.
Hope that answers your question for now! I will go into further detail in the book.
I have a tag for that (#vampire physiology), which includes Ricean and non-Ricean vampire phys. discussion bc it intrigues me, too! Always feel free to send me these questions 😀
I think that above explanation works for the Ricean vampires. Something to do with the amount of melatonin in the skin that protects humans (well even pale humans prefer to wear sunscreen!) that is lacking in even dark-skinned vampires. Plus:
Vampire blood is also more flammable than human blood… when they describe drinking it, it has a notably different (fiery?) taste/texture “Like light itself,” I think is how Lestat described it.
Their bodies are described as physically less heavy than human bodies, and that could be because 75% of the human body is made up of water. Vampires do not need water (outside of its use in blood transport, I guess?) so I’m thinking they lost much of the water-weight when they were turned, and are now relatively dry creatures. Making for excellent firewood!
The religious aspect works, too, in that they should not be allowed to enjoy the sunlit world anymore, but not all Ricean vampires believe in the same god or even in any god at all.
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