#damn nik

[sparkledcrowns]

☆ﾟ*·ﾟWITH A BAG slung over his shoulder, nik had already filled it to the brim with pastries that he'd taste and deconstruct later, spices, fruits, and food that he'd never heard of. he was completely fascinated by the food of the dusk court and had to learn more about it. there was so much to choose from and so much more to learn from all of the delicious food. with his bag nearly packed to the brim, with only a little room for a few more items, nik thought he should explore the rest of the market.

he stopped by one of the jewelers, simply because it was shiny. it was very much in his nature to be distracted by such things. but where would he wear anything like that? he spent his time either in the kitchen or out in the world causing mayhem. a piece like this would just sit in his drawer. that didn't stop him from admiring it though. as the woman next to him spoke, he smiled softly at her and looked down at the stones then back up to her. "that depends on what you'd like it to say. do you want people to look at you or at the jewelry? what do you want them to see first?"

location: dusk court. market. time: late afternoon. status: open to all.

SELINA was bored being cooped up inside the palace quarters all the time. Aside from the occasional trek to the sparring ring, she hasn't had much exercise. Venturing to the gardens or the woods for a walk was tedious & done by, quite franky, all the fae in court - & she was not in the mood to mingle with so many immortals all at once. Even one on one comapnionship was questionable - though it solely depended on the companion.

she wasn't about to hang out with just anyone.

If they were a quality acquaintance then yes, sure, she would always spare the time for them. Right now, though, with the boredom bubbling like an overheated pot in her veins, she would accept just about anyone for companionship.

Unfortunately - or fortunately - Selina was wandering about the marketplace, visting stalls after stalls of cloth, spices, jewellery, medicine, perfumes & everything else known to faekind beneath the Mother's darkening sky. At the moment, she was standing by one of the jewelled stalls, eyes fixed upon a pretty silver dagged, crowned with petite onyx & snow obsidian stones.

Tilting her head to the side, she spoke to the person coming to stand beside her, without turning.

"I quite fancy this. I might keep it for myself or as a gift. Though, I think it's rather blunt. Do you know if there's a smithy somewhere around here?"

[cod-dump]

Nik: It appears that you have father issues. May I take advantage of that?

Graves: What- You want to- hold on-

Nik: Take your time. I’m very patient

Graves, stuttering: Wait a minute-

Price: Nik be nice. You’re sharing, remember?

Graves, red faced: WAIT A MINUTE-

[shyravenns]

Hi, can I ask you to please elaborate on the coup against Nik that ended rather violently? I love your idea of how Chimera works and am so here for your lovely brain. 👀

THANK YOU 🥺 I always imagine that when you gave a large operation filled with people who have rather,,,,,unscrupulous pasts, you're kinda guaranteed to have an issue or two in the future haha

I think Nik typically keeps these at bay mainly because 1) People actually do love him and 2) if you somehow manage to kill him then you're already dead on your feet considering you'll have the rest of Chimera AND 141 AND every other ally targeting you 💀

The ONE coup that he ended was probably told to be more dramatic than it was. Some older new recruit thinking that know more about the "what's right" for the organization's future and challenging Nik. Add in a few more gullible soldiers, and wayy too much ego. While it was quick and easy to put a stop to it, I DO think that Nik is the type to make an example out of people.

Overall, even if you did want to challenge him,,,you're better off keeping him alive and keeping your mouth shut.

[crmsndragonwngss]

SOON

[panchulien]

apparently nikolais VA had a comic con panel recently where he mentioned nik so now im dying to know what he thinks of the character

[moltage]

who's with me on the sugar daddy nikolai agenda

[bytedykes]

[ID: Endless Summer from Choices fanart. The first is a headshot of Diego in his Book 2-3 look, bearded with long hair and his shirt unbuttoned. He smiles awkwardly and is labeled "he looks like a beatle..." The second image is a drawing of Diego and Varyyn kissing with tongue, with a doodle of a person grinning manically with explosions around them looking at them labeled "fujo (me)". There's also a tiny drawing of Diego doing a thumbs up.

In the third image a simple drawing of Book 1 Diego grins and says "Wow I can't wait to have a normal vacation!" an arrow points to a drawing of Book 2 Diego doing the Roblox smirk, he says "I'm gay now". There's also a chest up drawing of Varyyn with sparkles around his bare chest. /end ID]

does anyone remember endless summer. holy shit the last time i posted es fanart was like 2 years ago

[rainyrambles-overcod]

oh shit I gotta find a new pfp

[prjctdiva]

me explaining hatsune miku to the employee of my local mall's small video game shop

[ilynpilled]

LMFAOOOOO #deserve

[faerywhimsy]

TD;DR

No one: …

Me: So I know Lestat's the main character of Prince Lestat, but did any of the other beloved characters see the warning signs of the Voice/Amel in the world before it started going around compelling the old ones into killing younglings.

Sorry, killing young ones. And what might those warning signs have looked like?

Prince Lestat is meant to be read as a sequel to Queen of the Damned and, structurally, its many view points succeeds in that goal. However, thematically, there was so much a missed opportunity in actually seeing many of our favourite characters still existing in the aftermath of maybe as little as a decade still scrambling with the grief and loss and so many abruptly silenced minds...

None of them were... doing well... post-Akasha. But then the tension begins to build again.

Slowly, at first. Disconnected fragments across the continents of the world.

Because it's not like these immortals have ever been the best at communicating directly:—

The Coven and the Courtiers - A Guide (QotD 1.5)

Khayman is with Maharet, never straying too far from the jungles of the Amazon, when he picks up the first murmurings of malcontent from the spirit they moved from Akasha into Mekare. It is not happy within its new host. But perhaps it wasn't happy in its previous host either. Akasha sat as a statue under Marius for centuries before ever waking up. Khayman wonders if they're going to have that long again.

Marius is in Brazil with Daniel. He cannot help himself from scanning nearby minds, even as he claims a hope to remain on the sidelines of their world after the disastrous end of his two millennia caring for the Mother and Father. Marius is therefore one of the first who hears word of a very early and isolated Burning that doesn't seem to have any connection back to Akasha. But it would be foolish to ignore them completely, especially when the last Burnings are still so recent.

Pandora's returned to Arjun in India, but he has begun to act strangely. Because of the veil between their minds, she can only ever understand it through the words he offers for explanation. He wishes for the sanctuary of the earth. Inwardly, Pandora wonders if it was her urge to rush to Marius' aid when he was encased in the ice. She doesn't think it was her alliance with Santino, who is now of course dead to them all. She watches Arjun—before he goes into the ground—because he is the love of her life. She watches him because something deep within tells her something's not right.

Mael was filled with a profound sense of purpose during the first Burning. He would look after Maharet and Jesse. Yet, he had failed in that. Since the Burning, Khayman has taken over as Maharet's consort and companion and that's left Mael with... nothing. His maker Avicus has a new coven in Geneva now, with immortals as old as Gregory and as young as Davis. If Avicus thinks of Mael at all, he has no cause to think it. He's had a very long life but, without any sense of purpose calling him, there is no long any care in him. Not for himself, not for any his kind.

Bianca's in Paris with her new fledgling. They never imagine anything could hurt them. Why would they? The first Burning passed them over without so much as coming near them. There's a rumour passed around Europe lately that bringing one into the blood no longer seems to be happening the way it used to. Tales of mute zombies with hearts that won't beat—truly dead things in the place of fledglings—abound. But even that's easy to ignore when Bianca and her own fledgling feel so young, and in love, and immortal.

David is one of three who were mortal during the last interaction with a Queen of Vampires. He and Jesse talk about it sometimes. Jesse has kept up contact with the Great Family in South America, just as David kept some of his contacts within the Talamasca in Britain, younger ones who didn't mind seem to mind when he became a vampire. The same ones Marius' maker Teskhamen has also given his life into the hands of. They're the ones to bring David's attention to Burnings-related incidents as they start making the news on human television stations. They're the ones to ask him if this is something they should be worried about.

Gabrielle alone is able to say that—when the Queen descended on them the last time—she was the one in risk of losing her only remaining son. She knows many think her cold, but they don't know the pain of burying a child born of their womb. Gabrielle has hardened herself because it's the only protection she's found for her heart and her time in Turkey with the ancient handmaid Sevraine has not her changed utterly. Oh, Gabrielle's not blind, she knows her son will not let this world come to an end. Nor is she—first fledgling of Lestat—unaware of the Voice that whispers to him now.

Killer is in Philadelphia and is only just a century in the blood and one of the youngest outside the "Coven of the Articulate" to have survived Akasha's massacre. Killer makes up part of the Fang Gang, the coven that lies closest to Armand in New York City, less than two hours away. He may only be notable for his proximity to Armand, and his prior connection to Davis, but even he senses the change in Armand as word begins to trickle back to Trinity Gate and the Fang Gang are forced to disband.

Armand knows already he will protect his chosen family at all costs, from any future threats or Burnings. Was there a moment he considered taking them all underground where none would find them should anything resurface? Yes, though he'll never admit it. There was always that concern that the Sacred Core residing in Mekare would corrupt her. Is that what they are starting to see now?

Louis can hear nothing for himself, of course. But Lestat's visits to Trinity Gate begin to grow more and more sporadic and Louis can see Armand grows steadily more tightly wound as the world around them changes again. But still Louis counsels his love and companion to pause. Wait. Be vigilant, but if Khayman and Marius have told them they are already watchful of possible threat, they are likely not the only old ones to do so.

Benji's too much like Armand; he will protect the ones he considers his tribe. He never really understood how the old ones isolate themselves, hasn't really had enough interaction with them to recognise it in any real way. For him, immortals live like they do in Trinity Gate. Benji's radio show begins slowly, like a modern analog of Armand's Théâtre des Vampires, in that no human hearing it will believe, but blood drinkers will find what they need.

I was going to suggest Lestat's probably one of the youngest immortal to actually hear Amel's voice. Then I remembered how strong in the blood Daniel's always been depicted for his age. So yeah he's mad, but that's not helped by the fact Amel started yammering at him from the same point as Lestat. "He rages," said Daniel. "When he's gotten into my head, he's raged."

Cause it's a psychic blast, people. Even Lestat acknowledges, "the Voice is working on a number of fronts".

In any case, all of this is more or less the outline of what I've been thinking of as the QotD 1.5 head canon, something that's being played out in How They Get to Trinity Gate as we get to the pointy end of the fic.

[ladylamrian-archive]

This conversation. Just love the tension and angst between them. Kazu, Mei is here for you. You deserve better. Oh my, he somehow (vibes?) reminds me of Nik Ryder from Nightbound ❤️

[justsigma-bsd]

Makes sense, my baby got disrespected :’(

"Yea... I feel bad for Nik..."

[dear-space-cadet]

reuploading all of skies tonight… be not afraid… I’m just doing some light editing. not worth a re-read but there will be some minor changes and additions so you can def go back and re-read if you’d like!

also new chapter soon. finally back on my adderall and feeling fantastic

[panchulien]

*shakes u for digging out my old nikprice stuff*

Thank you for the reblogs though 😭🫶🏻💕 I ought to draw them more with my current style

hehee i apologize if im too much on ur notifs, but i couldn't help myself. you have no idea how much i appreciate your price n nik. thank you so so much for drawing them, and i hope u keep doing so 🥺😭💖

[vullcanica]

𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐀 '𝟐𝟑

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