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lunatic-fandom-space · 13 days ago
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Alright, Im gonna read Queen of the Damned (which I inexplicably keep calling Queen of Darkness??? whatever) this weekend which is definitely sooner than anticipated considering how much the ending of The Vampire Lestat made me not want to continue, but idk, Im in the mood for it now for some reason. But before I do that, I wanted to do a little bit of speculating based on site-statistics
Basically, immediately after finishing The Vampire Lestat I went on ao3 and looked up how many fanfics featured Akasha for reasons that are now unknown to me. I think I wanted to figure out roughly how popular of a character she was within the fandom, or maybe try to gauge how important she would be in the series going forward (which, fanfic statistics are pretty terrible for that, especially when it comes to female characters, but I was beyond thinking at that point), but idk. I saw that there were 66 fanfics tagged as Akasha in them (with the book fandom tag, if you just look up her tag on its own its a bit more) compared the over 3000 fanfics tagged as just Vampire Chronicles, and then I immediately went to bed without thinking about it at all, its like that information just passed through me, and I only ended up remembering it a few days later and I fully realized just how little that is which got me speculating. And obviously I realize that fandoms have a tendency to severely neglect female characters, but ~1.7% is a pretty miserable ratio if shes actually an important character, and its not looking much better on the other fanfic-site I use, Fanfiktion.de, where the ratio is ~2.2 with 2 fanfics out of 89 (although to be fair, their tagging system is less detailed so. there might be a third one that features her but isnt here rn i guess). I was gonna look it up on ff.net as well, but I couldnt find a category for it, theres not even an IWTV movie category, its weird. Anyway, thats enough backstory for my weird actions, lets gets into some Akasha Speculations
1. she DIES in this book, and also, this is admittedly more of a hope than a prediction, she doesnt have a major role in any other books, I just dont like her conceptually at all and I do not want to deal with her more than necessary right now. She could maybe win me over if she turns out to be interesting or just a fun character or a good antagonist, depending on what her role in the story is gonna be, which I dont know yet, my main thing is just that I really really hate that thing where the lives of every vampire are tied to hers and I really really need that to turn out to be irrefutably untrue, and her dying would accomplish that best.
Also obviously her cringefail husband (whose name I cant even remember rn lmao) but this actually leads really nicely into my second speculation-prediction point, which is
2. Akasha KILLED her cringefail husband before emerging from her hole in the ground at the end of the last book, specifically she drank all his blood before setting him on fire or sending him out into the sun so now shes the world's most powerful most psychic vampire and shes gonna be the most biggest threat.
I couldve sworn I had way more speculations, but now that Ive written them down Im realizing that I really just had those two. But to atleast make it an even three and also because it just occurred to me that, if Akasha is this big world-ending threat, its likely not gonna be a thing where Lestat and his trio of fucked up exes are gonna team up against her or whatever. Like, I already know that Lestat is gonna be the pov character for this book as well because I started reading it on the bus and I read the credits and the dedication and all that but then I got to the first sentence and decided that it would be better to read at home instead (i previously briefly suspected that Akasha might be our first person pov for this one and I was really dreading it, so thank god thats not gonna be the case), and he and Akasha have pretty positive feelings towards each other, so I assume that their relationship is gonna play a big part of Queen of the Damnned, so my prediction is
3. Lestat is gonna be Akasha's little boytoy, which is an idea that actually excites me quite a bit. I have a little drawer in my brain where most of my favorite male characters end up thats labeled 'guys that I need to be put in a submissive position' and lets just say, Lestat has earned himself a VIP spot in there. Granted, the 'submissive position' I'd like to see this particular guy in is more along the lines of 'someone ties him up and beats him with a stick sexual style' but him being the submissive little boytoy of an evil living goddess doesnt sound too bad to me
The only thing thats kinda making me doubt that is the fact that I feel like if that was the case then there would be more Akasha in them to bash her and hate on her because she would be seen as "getting in the way" of one of the popular gayguy ships, but idk, I guess most of the fandoms Ive been in previously were centered around kids media or YA media or media thats atleast popular with teens, which might not be the case for this book series since it is adult so maybe this fandom as a whole is a bit more mature ? I dont really know and I guess Im not gonna find out until Im done with the series and start immersing myself in the fandom, which is fine by me. As Ive said in my previous post, I am open to talk to people about these books if anyone else is in the mood for that but Im having a really fun time reading this books without knowing anything so I dont want anyone spoiling anything for me
Anyway, thats the post. Since Im not gonna hunker down in a place with no internet access for 8 hours to read this book, I definitely think Im gonna do a thing where I periodically post my thoughts on here as I read, not after every chapter because that would distract me way too much, but maybe after every section or something. so yeah, if youve enjoyed my thoughts so far be on the lookout for that I guess
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