#claudia :(((

[itstweeds]

Coven.

[magnificenttragedysandwich]

I see that, and I raise you this:

THE FACE RUNS IN THE FAMILY!!!!!!!!!

"Do I look like him?"

[schrutexbucks]

babe, wake up, a new interview with the vampire tweet round up is here

20/xx

[rdepicas]

IWTV cómic: Parenthood 🧑🏽‍🍼

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[raayllum]

Can you explain why Claudia is so upset with Terry when they reunite after he leaves? And why Terry, of all people, looks so guilty with her that he can't even look her in the eye? It's one of those things where you know this should all be reversed, but isn't. Why? Why is the betrayer so hostile to the betrayed?

God I loved the messy as fuck whatever they had going on Claudia and Terry dynamic in S7, and I think there's a few reasons why

One of the cruxes of Claudia's character is that she is attached to seeing herself as a good person, and others as not-good by comparison. This means that she can engage in the exact same behaviour and justify it while assuming that others' reasonings couldn't possibly measure up.

This cognitive dissonance is not exclusive to Claudia (Callum and Rayla in particular have a tendency to justify each other's choices in ways they don't with other characters, i.e. Rayla viewing dark magic use being 'evil' except when Callum is using it and he's the 'goodest' person she knows) but the focus on 'my view of myself' largely is. Most other characters in TDP are focused on "I still view this other person as a good person," not being focused on "I view myself as a good person". But Claudia is, and it's this core desire being increasingly pitted against "I will do vile, awful things to keep my family together" that are constantly duking it out.

When Claudia finds Soren and Terry waiting for her, it's clear that not only has Terry joined her brother, but has turned against her (as he could've left and then just fucked off somewhere else). This association with Soren, I think, is one of the things that gets her haunches raised, since Soren made it very clear what he thinks the last time they saw one another in 4x07:

SOREN: You have to stop trying to release the greatest evil this world has ever known. CLAUDIA: I knew you wouldn't understand.

All Claudia hears is "there's something wrong with you." That she's the bad guy and on the Wrong side (which, to be fair, Soren also calls her and Viren bad humans when trying to wake Rex Igneous in 4x09). And, by extension, that Soren is better than her. More correct, more moral, more Right.

And Claudia cannot stand feeling judged. She cannot stand being treated like 'the bad guy' (because of course from her perspective, everything she does is right) and she struggles to hold a conception of "I did something genuinely wrong and can still be a good person" (see: "We're not going to the dungeons Soren, we didn't do anything wrong") usually leaning into one or the other, and normally the latter.

So Terry being with Soren is also "you think I'm wrong, you think I'm bad, and you think you're Better than me" (vs Aaravos' "believed we could be better, so he gave us magic"). She thinks the pair are there to stop her, and she's not wrong, on a certain level.

So when Soren makes a gesture of good will, openly contingent on Terry wanting to spare her ("You're here to save me? How generous [...] I can change, and you will help me. Did I get everything?" Karim vibes), it's just seen as "you're showing off how/why you think you're Better than me" and was, quite frankly, never going to work.

Soren setting down his sword came closer, as it's more reciprocal, and it also symbolizes Soren setting down his mantle/duty (the same sword that killed Viren the first time, presumably). But Soren makes another mistake; the same mistake he made in 4x07:

Dad is dead, Claudia. You don't have to do what he wants anymore.

Set down your staff, Claudia. Dad's staff.

But while Claudia has been doing stuff for Viren, she hasn't done what he wanted in a long time. She's been doing what she wants ("You are not letting go, Dad!") for a hot second, and now alongside Aaravos. (I need to write a scene on her and Aaravos' talk in 7x06, but that's for another day.) And that has included taking down elves and dragons as a whole (and any elf that doesn't help her) for a while.

The dragons and the elves, all the arrogant fools blinded by the searing light of their own self-righteousness.

They are wrong, and she and Aaravos are right ("So much we can make right"). This is a very black-and-white viewpoint in many ways, one that some characters are faster as dismantling than others, but I have no doubt that Arc 3 will push it to its breaking point for all of them. Soren and Terry have thrown in their loyalties with the elves and dragons, since Terry was previously a "good elf Exception" alongside Aaravos because they were both helping her and, as previously discussed, Terry has now turned against her, and all the baggage Claudia carries about such a thing is now dumped onto him by proxy (which Terry doesn't necessarily know or understand).

So what does he look so guilty over?

Honestly? The illusion plan. I'm sure he's worried that Claudia might get hurt, and that things might escalate / go south, but he is ultimately there with a plan that is not what he wanted. What Terry wanted was to find the real Lissa and give Claudia a real chance to connect with her mother and maybe change her ways. But it's not real. It's deception, and he knows it.

TERRY: You lied to me! AARAVOS: I never lie. I simply said we needed a big feather and a very small feather. That is all. TERRY: No. You say you never lie, what you do is worse. You tell people half-truths and let people fill in the rest. You make people lie to themselves. It's deception. It's manipulation, and it's wrong.

She betrayed him, and now in his own way he's betraying her.

So what makes him decide to turn around and do something... similar, shall we say? There's a few things. The first is that they're on a time limit and have no way to reach Lissa. The second is that it's plausible the others were going to do it anyway, and Terry accompanied them because 1) he couldn't stop them, 2) he felt responsible, and 3) hoped that his presence would make a positive difference to Claudia.

The second is the other half of what Aaravos says to Terry, I think.

TERRY: I'll tell Claudia. AARAVOS: Oh, it will change nothing. She loves me. [...] And what of Claudia, then? She knows so much more than she tells you, and she keeps it that way to protect you.

Now, Terry rightfully understands that Claudia wasn't keep things from him to protect him; she did it to use him and to keep him from leaving ("I knew he'd leave once he found out"). However, Terry being willing to live in a half-truth and employ one on Claudia because he genuinely believes it will help her, because he thinks it's a truth he needs to withhold to protect her ("You have to promise me that no harm will come to Claudia" is most easily kept if she backs down)... that I can believe, especially since it lets him believe that she's capable of change/quitting. He wants to Save her, not use her.

That doesn't mean he thinks it won't Hurt.

[tbborg]

so fucking cute

twinning

[thedailydescent]

There are plenty of good discussions surrounding how Claudia was mistreated, used, and abused by others, but you guys only want to talk about it when it comes to propping up your ships or hating on other moc (usually Louis) for getting in the way of the otp fantasy you've envisioned in your head.

It's never been about her.

[stinkysweatysnails]

my #1 girls

[can-we-focus]

Yesterday I realised that Aaravos asking Terry to go get the feathers, so he could find the bird, is a parallel to Claudia asking Ezran where to find that fruit(I don't remember what it was) so she could find the deer

[junossay]

I have no time to draw so gase at my masterpiece in the meantime

Reminder that this artwork still exists as l will not shut up abt it!!

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It was also made for Delainey Hayles fanbook!

[leslutdepointedulac]

Louis and Lestat having a rare moment of peace while coming home from a night out with Claudia. She fell asleep on the carriage ride home, curled up on Louis' lap with her head nestled into his chest. Lestat touches his foot to Louis' from opposite him to get his attention and whispers something about her having had a long night, to which Louis smiles down at her and agrees, then looks up at Lestat and softens his gaze slightly. Lestat just gives him a little smile back before Louis turns his attention to the window and they spend the rest of the journey in silence.

When they get home, Louis takes Claudia up to his coffin and watches her for a bit because she looks so peaceful when she sleeps and it almost makes him forget what she is. Then he realises Lestat's lingering in the doorway and gestures for him to come over. Lestat sits beside him on the floor by the coffin and wraps one of her curls around his finger, his other hand resting on the floor beside Louis' with their little fingers touching. He holds his breath for a moment when he feels Louis curl his finger around his own, glancing at him from the corner of his eye before darting his gaze back to Claudia.

They don't really speak, just sit quietly for a short while until Louis whispers something about the sun coming up soon. Lestat pulls his hand back from Louis' and stands up, ignoring the way he gives him a mildly confused look at his sudden reaction. Then he mumbles something to Louis about having had a good night and he'll see him tomorrow and leaves for his own coffin in his own room.

[stardustamaryllis78]

Father and daughter squishing insects~

[10piece-chicken-mcnug]

If Louis and Lestat were in my lifetime and neighborhood, I’m calling CPS IMMEDIATELY !! They don’t deserve Claudia. When they say “every kid deserves a parent but not every parent deserves a kid” Loustat is what I think of first😭

[virtualvanille]

A repost from my tiktok bc I started the iwtv book recently 🤭

What’s your opinion on the book? Personally, I’m having trouble connecting with the book versions of the characters…I’ve been stuck on page 50 for two weeks. 😓

[inkgoblinz]

trying to figure out how i wanna draw everyone