#MALICIOUS

[faery-wizard]

Aha, heroes! While you were building your LAME and PATHETIC found family I was building a COOL and EVIL found family!! AND WE ALL WEAR EYESHADOW!!

[kurjat]

i wanted to draw him as humpty dumpty first, but then HAAD to draw some outfit swaps :3c

[forestdemon76]

[levcraftian]

How many of you guys fuck with cringe oc x canon

[cleopatragirlie]

𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐨 𝐢𝐧 '𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬' (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟑)

[void-longboi]

My mother took me with her to the mall and I had an amazing time. She took me on the carousel for the first time which I liked, but she made me sit with her. At least I can be like all the other kids now. I will now force her to let me go on it EVERY time.

[howifeltabouthim]

'Can't you see that she's completely malevolent, that she enjoys destroying things?'

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

[ooggie-boogie-man]

Whyyyyy is the end of the school year so hard???? Like let me live bro

[eiqgot]

レオナ！そんな-！！ By yu_ki_koo

[gale-gentlepenguin]

Not sure how anyone else would feel about this, but I kinda want to see "Anti-Kwamis." They can be gigantic, monstrous, and act solely on instinct. They can be based on things like resentment, disaster, chaos, etc.

Sounds like you would love the idea of the Malicious

[faery-wizard]

Wikihow - How to Develop the Perfect Evil Stare / How to Do an Evil Glare / How to Look Evil / How to Do an Evil Laugh

[acidhydraart]

DOOMKNIGHT TESTAMENT

releases OCT 31st 2024 COVER NOW FINISHED after months of work!

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

[downfalldestiny]

Require more time and energy 💀 !.

[nalyra-dreaming]

Hello! I have a book question 😊 Why does Armand decide on Claudia's... well, fate? Is he being malicious? Or what's the reason?

Hey nonny!

Hmmm.

Malicious... I'm not sure I would call it that.

Book spoilers ahead (and therefore likely show spoilers to an extent):

He is/was a vampire coven leader, and has followed certain rules in that capacity, for centuries. He tells of those rules in The Vampire Armand:

One, that we were formed in Covens throughout the world, and each Coven would have its leader, and I was destined to be such a one, like unto the Superior of a convent, and that all matters of authority would be in my hands. I and I alone should determine when a new vampire should be made to join us; I and I alone would see to it that the transformation was made in the proper way. Two, the Dark Gift, for that is what we called it,, must never be given to those who were not beautiful, for the enslaving of the beautiful with the Dark Blood was more pleasing to a Just God. Three, that never should an ancient vampire make the new fledgling, for our powers increase with time and the power of the old ones is too great for the young. Witness the tragedy of myself, made by the last of the known Children of the Millennia, the great and terrible Marius. I had the strength of a demon in the body of a child. Four, that no one among us can destroy another among us, save the coven leader, who must at any time be prepared to destroy the disobedient of his flock. That all vagabond vampires, belonging to no coven, must be destroyed by that leader on sight. Five, no vampire must ever reveal his identity or his magical strengths to a mortal and thereafter be let to live. No vampire must ever write any words that reveal these secrets. Indeed no vampire's name was ever to be known in the mortal world, and any evidence of our existence which ever escaped into that realm must at all costs be eradicated, along with those who allowed such a terrible violation of God's will.

Now, after Lestat comes along and more or less upends that last coven under Les Innocents (or wherever they'll be in the show since Les Innocents is already closed in the adapted timeline) by more or less merely being there Armand becomes... unmoored. Lestat gives the theater to him (and Nicolas, longer story), and Armand becomes the leader there, another coven, another existence.

He never quite loses that coven leader mentality again. He regularly "cleans up" the vagabonds, the young ones he doesn't attribute value to.

That is what Lestat was afraid of, too, why he tried to keep Louis and Claudia in the "New World", and why he went and tried to plead for Louis' and Claudia's life by going to Paris and Armand (and also he was asking for Armand's blood, since Armand had offered (or seem to have offered) to help him should he come back.)

Now Claudia... Claudia was simply a violation of rules, and "nothing" to Armand. She was in the way, too, since Louis wants to go with ther and Madeleine.

And so Armand does not "stand in the way" when the coven goes after her, but of course there is more to it:

Armand tells of how

For the record, she was slain by my Coven of mad demon actors and actresses, for, when she surfaced at the Theatre des Vampires with Louis as her mournful, guilt-ridden protector and lover, it became all too clear to too many that she had tried to murder her principal Maker, The Vampire Lestat. It was a crime punishable by death, the murdering of one's creator or the attempt at it, but she herself stood among the condemned the moment she became known to the Paris Coven, for she was a forbidden thing, a child immortal, too small, too fragile for all her charm and cunning to survive on her own.

... well, after he tried to "grant her fondest wish", namely give her an adult body, by chopping off her head, and sewing it onto another's body. The little experiment fails, and he destroys the evidence:

Let me say here, she was herself again, hideously wounded, a botched reassemblage of the angelic child she'd been before my attempts, when she was locked out in the brutal morning to meet her death with a clear mind. The fire of Heaven destroyed the awful unhealed evidence of my Satanic surgery as it turned her to a monument in ash. No evidence remained of her last hours within the torture chamber of my makeshift laboratory. No one need ever have known what I say now.

And then he goes on:

I never loved her. I didn't know how. I carried out my schemes in chilling detachment and with fiendish pragmatism. Being condemned and therefore being nothing and no one, she was a perfect specimen for my whim. That was the horror of it, the secret horror which eclipsed any faith I might have pleaded later in the high-blown courage of my experiments.

She was a "specimen for his whim".

Lestat is relieved when Armand falls for Louis, because it means that he wouldn't kill Louis. In the same way it is unfortunate that Armand did not find it within himself to love Claudia, because that would have kept her safe...

I did not love those decadent and cynical French mummers. Those I had loved, and those who I could love, were, save for Louis de Pointe duLac, utterly beyond my grasp. I must have Louis, that was my injunction. I knew no other. So I did not interfere when Louis incinerated the Coven and the infamous theatre, striking, at the risk of his own life, with flame and scythe at the very hour of dawn.

I think in the show, Louis will still decide to go with her and Madeleine, so she will still be "in the way". I think Claudia will still be able to see right through Armand, and know she is in danger, like in the book. I think Louis still won't listen.

And so the tragedy will unfold.

Armand did not kill Claudia because he was being malicious. He does not kill the vagabunds because he is malicious.

He kills them because they are against rules he follows, and because he cannot love them. They are "nothing" to him, nothing... but in the way.

And so they have to go.

It's more... pragmatism, than anything.

Does that make it malicious? Maybe, by our standards.

But these are vampires, and vampires rape, maim and kill. Later Lestat sometimes helps Armand "clean up", sometimes he lets the young ones be. Fareed uses other vampires and their bodies for his studies, uses body parts of them for others. And so on.

These vampires are monsters.

And Armand - and all the others - is/are monstrous.

[void-longboi]

The second day of our trip to Arkansas my mother took me to this photography place. She was going cause otherwise people wanted to, but refused to take pictures of herself and only took photos of me. Luckily, I got in for free, so I guess it doesn't matter.