#Arun

[lucinfernos]

amadeo's offering

[fishfingersandscarves]

AMADEO

[agathah]

Arun/ Amadeo

PRINTS available in INPRNT (user: agathah)

The original painting was bothering me so much, it looked nothing like Armand. I hope this one looks a little bit more accurate<33

[obiwhat]

lonely is the muse.

[farbenfrei]

"𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩." Armand the Vampire and his backstory make my heart ache and as soon as I saw the painting of 'Amadeon' in the museum I knew what I had to do ...

x Drawing Video

[vampire-chronicles]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR FAVORITE GREMLIN

(Armand's FANON birth date is today, November 11)

[treacherous-dreams]

This gremlin has been infesting my brain each week on end since this season of iwtv began. Making a playlist was imminent and I'm quite proud of how it turned out, so I thought I'd share <3

Photo credits go to @shuploc for this breathtaking painting I cannot stop looking at.

[nalyra-dreaming]

The Talamasca files!

What I wouldn't give to get my hands on all of these...

But even as folders there are some extremely interesting information in there. For example the coven member names, victims, extinct members, associates, Roget's and...

Armand:

"Arun". "Origins (Delhi)". "Paramours". "Maker Marius de Romanus".

AND

"Forced prostitution in Venice".

So yes. They're going full in, and though I (kinda) mourn "Andrei" I think "Arun" fits very well, and... well. That backstory apparently stays intact.

Which speaks volumes for the "rent boy" comment as said before, and actually Louis' profession in NOLA... that has to play into it all as well (not sure yet how, but... it's too connected to not matter, not in this show).

Also: Roget's apparently still works for them. AND there are "members with knowledge of".

[freneticfangirl]

“I don’t think you’re going to be able to manipulate, mansplain, or male wife your way out of this one, Armand.”

“Manslaughter it is.”

“Fucking asshole.” 🧛🏼

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

it is funny how Anne Rice constantly refers back to TVL via the text of TVA because she seems to have like. forgotten that she described Armand's recollection of his and Marius's first TVL meeting like this

as opposed to how she had him to describe it in TVA, like this

like I guess plot-wise it's not that big a difference because Armand ends up loving and trusting Marius regardless, but it feels pretty jarring to flip back from Andrei/Amadeo trusting Marius as a divine figure on sight to the older version of the story where he freaks out and begs not to be sold, begs to stay in the brothel, only to be more or less drained into submission.

like the most cynical version of what happened here is what I've seen described as Anne's push to make Marius a more palatable character, at least by her standards of palatable (kind of funny considering amc's full-steam-ahead push in the opposite direction twenty years later). there's also the significantly increased Christian element, which makes sense since Memnoch the Devil also deals a lot with her journey back to that faith and how she works it out in her writing. in-universe I guess you could just use the catch-all of "unreliable narrator," even theorize that TVL is less accurate because it's being conveyed by Lestat--but then again, all of TVA is being conveyed by David via transcription, so. the TVL version has the advantage of being more stream-of-consciousness, something that Armand's communicating in a mess of telepathic images instead of deliberately chosen words. Marius's return could be a factor here; Armand thought he was dead in TVL and has figured out he's alive by TVA, so his memories shift to a more positive light in response, perhaps out of fear (although he does talk shit about Marius plenty in this book) or his desire to reconnect, to present their relationship as fated and holy from the beginning. and he's committed enough to this reality that he doesn't even acknowledge the alternate version, if only to criticize it like he does with other parts of TVL elsewhere.

ntm that even if this is just because Anne forgot/retconned here, it's still an inadvertent foreshadow to the way show!Armand seems to have been deliberately written with difficulties in consistently remembering his backstory (the being sold/run down thing, as I've mentioned before). it'll be interesting (in a fucked up way) to see whether that instability extends to his memories of Marius and their relationship, especially in regards to the inevitable revelation that Marius is still alive.

[konaizumi]

i’m obsessed with arun’s little hat

[yinwaryuri]

Arun being down to fight even when he was knocked down multiple times is the twink rep I need

[khathastrophe]

I am going to read too much into something right now so get ready!

but Aran's dad has a high school photo of him in his office

Aran is a model, he owns a fashion company, he must have countless pictures of himself

but his dad has the most ehm conforming photo of him put up

the picture where he is in mans uniform, hair buzzed, no makeup

I might be reading too much and this just happens to be the picture he has but like I had thoughts when I saw it

[memoryisthemonster]

Armand: Say it, Lestat. Say you love me and I'll give you the world, poems and flowers.

Lestat: Just kill me already and end my misery.

[grams-digs-bones]

You can always tell when someone really understood the reading. Assad really embodies the character's soul. Everytime he's on the screen all attention goes to him. He has a great connection with the audience. That's rare. Armand in the flesh.

In short, big fan. 🖤

[xxhellonursexx]

"My Earliest Memory"

Poor Arun being chased down by slavers in Dehli. 🥺