Okay, hyperbeeb tagged me in the 10 Favourite Characters thing, and I decided to pick one per canon because otherwise there is a very real danger it would be nine Anne Rice characters and Tony Stark or something. Also, multiple versions of canon count as one canon, because otherwise the various Marvel and Holmes canons would get unwieldy:
1. Tony Stark; let’s get him out of the way first (MCU/616)
2. Sherlock Holmes (all the versions of canon I know except Sherlock; leaving Watson out of this kills me, especially in light of Elementary, but that’s the arbitrary rule I set up for myself)
3. Jane Watkins (Merrily Watkins series by Phil Rickman)
4. Hermione Granger (HP books/movies)
5. Arya Stark (ASOIAF/GoT)
6. Sarah Connor (all film/TV/comics incarnations of Terminator)
7. Marius (The Vampire Chronicles)
8. Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
9. Ykoriana (The Stone Dance of the Chameleon)
10. Astrid Magnusson (White Oleander)
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Hannibal is difficult because if you count the books as well it becomes a dead heat between TV!Hannibal and Clarice Starling. BSG is similarly tied re: Starbuck and Gaius Baltar, and for several other fandoms like Jonathan Creek, I have no clear favourite.
The other interesting wrinkle is that in her book, Pandora describes him as returning to Rome from his wanderings with long hair, which was very much not done, it being a barbarian look. I like think that he let his hair grow so he could mingle better and get them to talk to him (in much the same way that people will – often unconsciously – alter their speech patterns to fit in) to get material for whatever he was writing at the time.
Of course, as you say, the situation with the druids was a whole other thing, but the fact he’d kept his hair long against social custom in the past explains why he doesn’t always rush to cut it in later times – apparently in Europe in the 15th century men could get away with whatever length they wanted, though I’m trying to narrow it down to 15th century Italy, or even Venice, because jesus christ I require all the Marius knowledge apparently…
“The VC fandom has easily the best approach to the problematic aspects of canon I’ve ever seen from any fandom I’ve been in.”
There are a ton of problematic aspects in this canon, and it’s been so good to watch (and participate sometimes) when our fandom ppl have public discussions considering these problematic aspects within the context of the times those things take place in, the (subconcious and conscious) motivations of the characters, etc., in a thoughtful and respectful manner to canon and eachother.
One of the reasons I love fiction in general is that it offers “to hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature,” as Shakespeare put it (Hamlet). Fiction can be considered a speculative reality in which we can have problematic things happen and see them play out fully, to better examine why they happen, and how they might be prevented in the future.
Hey all!
I was wondering if any of you know where I can buy one of the original Blood and Gold bookmarks that was released with Blood and Gold when it first came out. I know that they are super rare, and William and I are having a hard time finding one. It would be preferable if we could find just the bookmark and not the book set. 🙂 if anyone could help us out, that would be amazing!!! We really, really need this bookmark. Please reblog this, or if you have any info about where to find one, or if you want to sell one, send me or William a message! Thank you!! 🙂 -Bethany
I can’t explain all those relationships! Even the characters involved couldn’t explain them. They’re a big ol pile of dysfunctional hipster vampires and their ships are a hot mess.
BUT I SHALL TRY. Nobody attack this please, I’m grossly over-simplifying for the sake of this one Anon’s overwhelmtion ;] #your headcanon may vary, #ship and let ship.
At their most basic:
Lestat/Louis – Murder husbands, OTP, 5ever
Lestat & Marius – not a pairing, but there’s definitely a mutual respect and caring in a paternal sorta way.
Lestat & Armand – not a pairing, but there’s definitely a mutual respect and caring in a fraternal sorta way MURDER BROS.
Lestat & Daniel – they’ve not had a lot of canon interaction but I’d bet Lestat is forever grateful that Daniel basically started the VC which eventually brought him back together with Louis. There’s fic and RP (see daniel-james-molloy) out there that would support a Lestat/Daniel BROTP, possibly an actual ship, I likes it.
Lestat/David – Post-TOBT David has had little canon interaction with Lestat in a loving fledgling/maker way. There have been one or two scenes of extreme feistiness between them, which were hot and problematic, but they seem to have reached a kind of amnesty and even care for eachother.
Armand & Marius – have a kind of amnesty between them. Marius has done some pretty insane things for Armand, with good intentions, but still.
Daniel is with Marius these days.
David is sort of a loner but he does visit with Louis, Lestat, and Jesse on occasion. They seem to be his closest friends.
I would say that the relationships change throughout the series, and that some ppl simply do not include certain books in their headcanon, which changes relationship dynamics, too. Including “present day” ship dynamics. For example, if you don’t include Prince Lestat in your VC headcanon, then Marius and Daniel have a different sort of (probably specifically and clearly) platonic relationship than they do if you DO include Prince Lestat.
For more specifics, check out VC Wiki, but there’s gonna be spoilers. Fair warning.
Give me a vampire couple that’s been on and off again for like hundreds of years. Like they fight like crazy and break up and not see each other again for a long time but then come back together like nothing has changed and are all over each other in love. They won’t admit it but they’ll love each other forever no matter what, even if they’re not always together.
Am I the only one who saw Lestat, Louis, and Claudia in that “One Unfulfilled Idea of Family” in Hannibal, Will, and Abigail? Or am I just one of those helpless cases of VCians who can easily find reference to VC just anywhere and everywhere? 0_o
It’s definitely not just you. I know I’ve talked to adirotynd and wicked-felina about this very phenomenon. There’s a hell of a lot of common ground between the VC and Hannibal: perverse yet more-intense-than-anything-ever intimacy based on mutual experience of (committing) violence; heightened sensuality; a fine line between black comedy and high-flown philosophy… and then of course Hannibal is in itself a fanfic-like remix of the Thomas Harris canon, which is interesting to look at, considering the fanon that has grown up around the VC over the years.
I was surprised-yet-not-surprised when I found out that Bryan Fuller was a huge IWTV fan growing up – there’s a Nerdist podcast in which he describes how, at the age of 13, he phoned Anne Rice because he wanted to work on the IWTV screenplay. The story is a gem and starts about 32 minutes in, but the whole thing is really great:
Edit: basically what I’m saying is, if you’re a VC fan who can handle looking at gore, there is a very good chance that Hannibal will be right up your street. Meanwhile, if you are a Hannibal fan who enjoys historical settings and can cope with a canon that gets increasingly bizarre as the series progresses, you might find a happy home in VC fandom. Hey, I like to matchmake.
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