#Aaron lightner

[queenoftheimps]

The concert sequence of Queen of the Damned:

Lestat: WHAT’S UP SAN FRANCISCO CAN I GET A ‘I DESERVE TO BE MURDERED’ UP IN HERE

Khayman and Mael: -circling each other like wary cats-

Jesse: -having the most extreme fangirl moment of her life-

Armand: even though I look like an adolescent I think I might be the only adult here

Daniel: babe have you ever really LOOKED at human skin

Armand: Daniel bb I really need you to get it together ok

Akasha: MURDER MURDER MURDER MURDER

David Talbot and Aaron Lightner: hi we’re here to pick up our daughter?

[you-get-me-closer-to-god]

[Spoilers for Merrick]

And with that I close out merrick! I will say that it definitely made me want to buy Chanel no.22 and live in a jungle with jade daggers on my bedside table.

So Louis is powerful now, woot woot!! 🎉 so proud of you baybe!!

Claudia…….I don’t know…I’m still processing that whole fiasco… god damn…what an icon though

LESTAT IS UP AND AT EM!!!!!!! I feel like it’s been years since I’ve seen him. God how I’ve missed him and his immense idiocy.

Over all, I had fun reading the seventh book! The whole drama set up with the Talamasca is really interesting I wanna know what happens immediately. Anyway, can’t wait to read blood and gold!!

[ceolona]

Inspired by another post, whose author I forgot to note, I’ll submit a Mayfair Witches season 1 that doesn’t suck.

Modern Day San Francisco / New Orleans and ancient Donnelaith and Haiti

E1: Cold open with Rowan fishing Michael out of the ocean. Continues daily life with Ellie, hospital and bars. Graham and Katherine die. Aaron lurking in background. Meanwhile, Deborah is shown to be a healer, living with husband and children. Petyr lurking in background.

E2: Ellie dies. Rowan shows hospital politics. Aaron approaches Michael. Michael approaches Rowan. Meanwhile, Deborah’s situation escalates, causing internal conflict in Petyr. Lasher is introduced in both stories without explanation.

E3: Lasher continues to be present in both times. Rowan and Michael become a thing. Rowan continues to wrestle with hospital bullshit. Deborah’s situation comes to a head. Petyr goes off to Haiti. Episode ends with phone call: “Rowan, this is your aunt Carlotta. Your mother, Deirdre Mayfair has died.” Roll credits.

E4: Michael and Aaron share info. Rowan goes off to New Orleans, alone. Entire Mayfair clan introduced as a blur at the funeral. Petyr finds Charlotte in Haiti. Episode ends: “I am your cousin Ryan. All of this is now yours. Please come to the offices tomorrow” Roll credits.

E5-8: wait for the next post. :)

[fabledenigma]

In the Source Link, you will find a gif pack of Tongayi Chirisa in Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches series.

Tongayi plays the role of Ciprien Grieve. Ciprien does not appear in the novels and is based around two characters - Aaron Lightner and Michael Curry.

*This is a work in progress.

Source - FabledEnigma

[nalyra-dreaming]

Hello, could you please explain Aaron lightner's powers? I would read the witching hour but I can't stand the mayfair witches..thanks!

Tbh I can not, while I did read those books ages ago I could not make myself read them again prior to MW, and... definitely not after. Sorry. Maybe in a while :))

BUT - I found this page, and it lists his powers as:

"paranormal powers include moving objects by telepathy, veiling his thoughts from mind readers, and reading minds"

Which... sounds about right to me, from what I remember?

However, to those of my followers having recently reread the books, anyone want to weigh in here?

[urianger--augurelt]

TALAMASCA GETTING THEIR OWN TV SHOW!!!!

Ugh, too bad there is probably not going to be david or aaron.

[nightcolorz]

why r ppl saying there is going to be another “mysterious new background character is revealed to be an iconic and significant dude from the books who is a part of the main cast in disguise” twist reveal in s2?? Like sure that old man with glasses in the trailer could very well be marius in unassuming disguise but if that’s the case then I will be clowning on iwtv so hard bcus the Rashid-mand reveal was already cheesy and dumb/outlandish and very bold for an adaptation with nothing in canon even remotely similar to such a soap opera-y twist to pull, and despite it all it worked and we were invested, but TWICE ?? 😭😭😭**TWICE??** I’m not sure that is smth u can pull off twice and have it land. It’s a miracle it resonated once frankly 😭

[sam-reid]

Stuart Townsend? You're Talamasca. You were assigned to... To protect her but disappeared. Where'd you go?

MAYFAIR WITCHES 1.05: THE THRALL.

[avelera]

So now that I'm caught up on Interview with the Vampire (as of ep 2.5) I want to say a few words about the appearance of Raglan James, aka the antagonist in "The Tale of the Body Thief".

First, and on the most basic level, I lost my fucking mind when he showed up. Body Thief is perhaps a controversial installment of the Vampire Chronicles but it's actually one of my favorites (and I could write essays on why).

Once I was done screaming in delight at his appearance, I went looking to see the reaction of other book fans and here I must admit I am puzzled.

Many book fans here seem to think that Raglan James isn't what he appears. That he's Marius, or David Talbot, or Aaron Lightner, or some other book character in disguise.

I vehemently disagree with this both for Watsonian (in-universe) and Doylist (out-of-universe, practical) reasons.

Raglan James is Raglan James, the Body Thief, and I'm going to reiterate this a few times in explaining why I hold this view.

Now, to get into why I think the show is just giving us pre-canon Raglan James right now, and not already playing with his body jumping abilities by having him be someone like Marius:

When introducing a character who is effectively a shapeshifter, in this case the Body Thief himself, Raglan James, you actually do need to show him in his "normal" state first because not everyone in the audience is familiar with his ability because of the books. You have to introduce and build up this ability gradually because it's a very confusing ability for a visual medium to have a different actor playing the same character (and if you don't believe me, go check out some other famous shapeshifter characters like Mystique or The Doctor and see how carefully the narrative introduces and builds up how their power works, almost always starting by showing them in a normal "original" state as a baseline).

Showing him for the first time in another guise would only create confusion. We need to know who he is on his own before we can begin to play with the narrative. At most, I think his current form might be the body of his first "jump" into the body of his fellow inmate, but even then, I think that's something you save for later, when you introduce the ability he has. I really think we're actually seeing early or pre-canon, real Raglan (the one who had cancer) right now in his first original body. Honestly, I wouldn't even be surprised if Raglan doesn't have the ability yet and is building up towards achieving it. I think right now, he's just a normal, scummy, kleptomaniac Talamasca member.

Is "Raglan" his real name? Perhaps not, the man is an infamous con artist. But I took Daniel's skepticism to be more in line with "You made up a silly sounding name because you're a drama queen and great believer in your own legend. Your real name is probably something normal like "Bob', Raglan," rather than an invitation by the audience to assume that Raglan is, for example, Marius or another vampire in disguise.

My sense is that we're setting up Raglan to be the post-Queen of the Damned antagonist, just like he was in the books. But in order to introduce him to best effect then, instead of a totally confusing appearance out of left field (like he is in the book, tbh), it's actually very clever to introduce him now, early on, as a Talamasca member (or recently kicked out of it) before introducing him as the Body Thief. They're making him a normal, known member of the cast before they toss him out there as one of the most bizarre antagonists of the entire book series.

Personally, I think that Raglan is being introduced now as our first introduction to the Talamasca. The Talamasca is a very questionable organization on many levels, we are often meant to distrust them or view them with the same distrust as the supernatural creatures do who encounter them, despite the fact they're actually mostly benevolent in the books so the suspicion supernatural characters view with them often feels a bit excessive. So it makes sense that our first introduction to it is with a somewhat shady character, in order to justify the book levels of suspicion vampires and witches feel towards the Talamasca, because the first one of their members we meet is a con artist and a villain, even if later ones are mostly good guys.

Basically, I think instead of just introducing Raglan out of the blue after he's jumped bodies a couple times. Instead, we're going "back in time" so to speak, showing the prologue of his backstory and intertwining it with the main story so it's not so shocking when he shows up later as an antagonist.

For my money, Raglan hasn't been kicked out of the Talamasca yet or he has very recently been kicked out and is now hunting down Daniel on his own in order to get closer to his real targets, powerful vampires like Lestat or Armand. He's going to be a regular for a bit, a shadowy figure at the edges, perhaps drop away for a bit during the events of Queen of the Damned, and then come back as the main antagonist, with all the familiarity we have with him, after those events as the new antagonist.

And as for Marius... along similar lines of, "you have to show how something works before you break it / you have to show who a character is before you disguise them with a shapeshifter's abilities" IMO, when we see Marius, we're going to see Marius. We're going to see Armand's master in his original form. We're probably going to see him the way we first do in Queen of the Damned, busy tending the shrine of Those Who Must Be Kept.

I don't, for my money, think we're going to deviate so much that Marius is going to show up (except in flashbacks) just because the characters are talking about him.

The whole point of Lestat becoming a rock star, the whole justification for it in Queen of the Damned and the Vampire Lestat was to draw out all the vampires in his life, vampires he's missed like Louis and Armand and Marius. The whole point was to bring them to him.

Having Marius just randomly pick up that Louis and Armand are talking about him and then show up smacks of television coincidence. But the show's narrative is too carefully crafted for that.

So, in my opinion, Marius will be held in reserve. We will only see him in flashbacks at first, probably not until Season 3 so they can cast his actor for the whole season (nice thing about Raglan James, since he is a shapeshifter/body thief you can always recast him later once his plotline kicks off). Marius will emerge for the same reasons he did in the books, because that lends weight to Lestat's otherwise batshit insane plan to become a rockstar, because it might be crazy but it works.

Marius has no need to appear in the body of a human before that. It makes no sense from a television angle (where it only causes confusion) or from a story angle, because he'd have no reason to show up in Armand's life now when he hasn't done so before except that we've first learned about him in the show.

Obviously I could be completely wrong! It would be amusing to eat my words and it has admittedly been a very long time since I read all the books (though I read them over and over back when I did). But these are my lengthy two cents on the matter.

[high-in-the-tower]

The Raglan James reveal gagged me so bad and has me feeling so STUPID. Here I was being a Justin Kirk = Aaron Lightner truther, laughing from my high horse at all the David/Marius believers as they argued, thinking I was a genius for cracking the code, a true intellectual. This show humbled me so bad I don't think I'll ever recover......while also simultaneously throwing us a lore screwball. Fuck it, I'll believe any theories now since this is how the show is playing. Armand IS Alice, I'll buy it, the fuck do I know

[suikamelon6]

Klimt-Monet Savage Garden IWTV series - Who's the next face reveal?

David Talbot or Marius or Aaron Lightner... Welcome Justin Kirk to the IWTV family. Sorry to tag but I wonder if you have theories @nalyra-dreaming @virginiaisforvampires @squirrellypoo @riley-beautrelle @cuntylestat @cjbrown2002 @smokiedokie

That hair looks comfortable to sleep on, Louis.

[hellameyers]

Is Mayfair Witches even worth watching? I've read some bad reviews that give me pause. Like, did they really swap Aaron Lightner for some completely new person?

[ceolona]

What the fuck did I just watch? Part 3

I caaan’t. I can’t eeeven! 🤯

Mayfair Witches. Obviously, the showrunner never read the books, and is simply taking the characters and making her own story.

Carlotta would never do that. The Talamasca would never do that.

I have been poisoned by literature. No matter how “good” the series may be, I cannot stop screaming how wrong it is.

Regarding Ciprien… his TV character replaces two characters: Michael and Aaron. Michael is Rowan’s husband, an architect with psychometric powers. Aaron is a grandfatherish agent of the Talamasca. This is going to be significantly problematic in the future: Bea Mayfair, Stuart Gordon, Morrigan.

I had better upgrade from a box of wine with a straw to a martini-filled water bottle with a sippy cup lid. Wouldn’t want it to spill as I get more upset, you know.

[worstutcanonthingpoll]

We finally have our bracket !!

Rounds 1 & 2 will be under the cut, open for more !

There is a mention of abuse in one of the entries , beware.

Round One (1)

Glyde V.S Pyrope's Orange Attacks

Glyde: Impossible to spawn and even harder to fight,

Pyrope's Orange Attacks: Submitter , in their words , has a tiny ass laptop and rarely succeeds in moving when hitting them.

Genocide Grind V.S RUINs Encounter Rate

Genocide Grind: Takes days (exaggerating) to do.

RUINs Encounter Rate: You can't walk five steps without getting attacked.

Lesser Dog Slander V.S Sliding Ice Puzzle

Lesser Dog Slander: "The Red Bird NPC in Grillby's comments on the disappearance of the Dogs, even if Lesser Dog is still alive. Interestingly, Lesser Dog is never mentioned by the other guard dogs. Killing it provokes no reaction from the other dogs at Grillby's. In turn, if Lesser Dog is the only guard dog left, how it acts at Grillby's does not change."

Sliding Ice Puzzle: Tiny snow hat is rewarding, not worth the effort of doing that puzzle several times if you mess up.

Cap'n (SCC) V.S Your Choices Don't Matter

Cap'n (SCC): They thought he was creepy to the girls. I'm gonna be honest, do not vote Cap'n. I want him to lose this, he's a good character. My man was trying too hard to seem straight, let him be.

Your Choices Don't Matter: Vote this! It's very limiting in contrast to Undertale's "your every choice matters" bit.

Mean Chara V.S Cop Undyne

Mean Chara: The triggering topic I was talking about. This had second most submissions next to Cop Undyne, it's the theory that Chara was abusive towards Asriel when they were alive.

Cop Undyne: ACAB.

Not Enough Amalgamates V.S True Lab's Green Key Scene.

Not Enough Amalgamates: They're cool, someone wanted more of them.

True Lab's Green Key Scene: A nine year old somewhere was scarred by it, it is kinda creepy though.

No Running Ability V.S Ambiguous Skeleton Ages

No Running Ability: Frisk walks so slowly, why?

Ambiguous Skeleton Ages: Sans is older, Papyrus is younger, we know that. But how old? Is Papyrus 19, or is he 32?

Megalovania (UT Version) V.S Homestuck References

Megalovania (UT Version): Submitter thinks it's the worst version of Megalovania.

Homestuck References: The one in MTT Resort specifically, quoting the submission; "Get jade harley outta there !!! Not her natural habitat.........".

Round Two (2)

"I Already Befriended Your Mom Last Night." V.S "I Befriended Him Too."

"I Already Befriended Your Mom Last Night": Weird to make your mom jokes to kids you just met, submitter says (valid, honestly).

"I Befriended Him Too.": Sans fucked both Kris' parents, oh no. Was added by the group to even the numbers out.

Aaron Being Creepy To Frisk V.S Date Stuff

Aaron Being Creepy To Frisk: Submitter says that everyone else can recognise Frisk as a child, so why is Aaron flirting with them?

Date Stuff: Kinda weird to invite a kid to so many dates, sometimes just to threaten their life.

Lightners & Darkners Connotations V.S Frisk's Asian Stereotypes Connotations

Lightners & Darkners Connotations: "Darkners' purpose is to to serve Lightners" has some unfortunate connotations when you think about it.

Frisk's Asian Stereotypes Connotations: Frisk has yellow skin and narrow eyes, not the best design choices in hindsight.

Flowey's Characterization V.S Mew Mew's Fight Being Switch Exclusive

Flowey's Characterization: Submitter thinks he's heavily (presumably overly) villainized considering he's a child in a self-made genocidal loop.

Mew Mew's Fight Being Switch Exclusive: Give us our transfemme catgirl fight everywhere else >:( (Added by the group to even the numbers out).

Asgore 'Willingly' Murders Six Kids V.S Papyrus Death

Asgore 'Willingly' Murders Six Kids: Honestly they wrote a whole essay that I can't bother to paste here. In summary, what Toriel said in the stuff pre-Asriel's fight.

Papyrus Death: Why does he still believe in us? Why does he still have faith? Why does he think we can be a better person, if we just tried?

Alphys Enjoys Mew Mew 2 In Deltarune V.S Sans Emits Slime

Alphys Enjoys Mew Mew 2 In Deltarune: What the hell is this imposter.

Sans Emits Slime: "THESE SNAILS ARE JUST LIKE MY BROTHER. ROUND, SLOW... AND CONSTANTLY EMITTING SLIME???"

Lemon Bread (Shyra) Disguises As A Save Point V.S Asgore Dies In All Neutral Endings

Lemon Bread (Shyra) Disguises As A Save Point: Submitter was pissed off on their first playthrough.

Asgore Dies In All Neutral Endings: His whole speech about being a family, his actions in a repeat neutral. It's heartbreaking, hard to not mourn for what we could've had.

Kralsei's Weird Incest Undertones V.S Toby Never Explicitly States Nonbinary-ness Of Characters

Kralsei's Weird Incest Undertones: Obviously, kralsei isn't canon but it is implied that Ralsei has a crush on Kris or the player. He is very similar to Asriel, making it honestly weird.

Toby Never Explicitly States Nonbinary-ness Of Characters: He re-published his whole book because he accidentally misgendered his characters, goes out of his way to correct people, and to use the right pronouns. So why not just say it's canon when it so clearly is?

[nalyra-dreaming]

I do suspect the eye colour changing thing was literally nothing more than a stylistic decision for the big vampire reveal and nothing more than that. Theories are fun and all but sometimes fandom gives the writers greater intentions than were ever actually there. Like I honestly don’t think Rolin Jones cares less that book Daniel has violet eyes for a start. I don’t think it’s that important.

I do also think Eric’s throwaway comment about falling for Justin Kirk/Raglan James has also been given far more weight than it actually deserves. It wasn’t a spoiler, it was just an actor talking like an actor tbh.

And finally…the whole Daniel body swap thing is such a massive change from the source material that I truly can’t see them going down that route. Changing a characters eye colour is one thing, but to body swap a character such a thing never happens to is a massive rewrite and would be very out of character for the show. Idk, it just would be a huge disrespect to the source material and to a character people love. I get people just don’t want David Talbot in the show, but in all honesty I hope the show never even adapts that particular novel as it’s just not that good.

Raglan James was a character that needed to be introduced, Daniel needed a reason to have come into possession of the trial script. The Talamasca got to edit Daniel’s book and remove anything they didn’t like. I really think that’s all there is to it.

One thing I’ve learned over the years is that the fans will theorise all sorts of grand schemes, but the writers inevitably come up with the simplest, most obvious explanations.

Rolin Jones is on record saying he wants to do TtotBT, and Sam and Jacob have both commented on it.

As such I see it hardly as a far reach that they will go there. And it is a logical step after Akasha, too. I personally like the book a lot, it deals with body dysmorphia, suicide, crippling depression and guilt, so I get it's not for everyone, but it has some incredible Loustat scenes, among other things.

I don't think Raglan James makes much sense if you do NOT want to go there tbh. If they'd just wanted to open the Talamasca connection up, they could have used Aaron Lightner, or even Jesse Reeves.

So. *shrugs*

For now I'm taking it as a hint.

[actually-david-talbot]

"Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed."

-Petyr van Abel, translated by Aaron Lightner, published under the name Anne Rice.