And thoughts about how someone reacts when strangers who don’t know them, who never will know them, build them up to be someone they aren’t, someone they’ll never be.
About what being known of but never truly known does to a person.
About whether or not someone can ever truly know themself if all they’re ever given to see themself through is a shattered mirror and a million people chanting “this is you”.
Cantripped Episode Two First Listen Thoughts: Me too, Neph, me too. D'Hakth'rael is the smoothest bastard in all four kingdoms and Connor playing him is too fucking powerful /lh
I've only ever heard this man play awkward dorks, I was not prepared.
bounces up and down i love these weird little fuckers so much
seriously though, i am so unbelievably stoked every time i learn more about the cool ass backstories everyone's invented for their blorbos. i wanna know more about why dan is called flame walker so bad. i wanna know what's up with neph being able to name drop people in the forsindicated. i know kieran's a lil prince guy whose parents don't like him and i gotta know more. my friends are cool as fuck and great at making equally cool and compelling little dudes that i am opening up and dissecting /affectionate
Some notes here is that I added Maria and Luke bc they're the latino and hispanic kids so I feel a kinship here, I also gave Damien the same skin tone as them bc some pictures I saw of him he had a slightly darker skin tone and I would like to use it with more characters.
Also a little bonus:
It's really easy to make bases for these! Might make more!
LONDON, ENGLAND: Bradley James & Rupert Young attend the "David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived" UK Premiere at 8 Northumberland Avenue on November 16, 2023 in London, England. (Footage by Mark Case/Getty Images)
- what to say of the whole ‘disregard’ debacle, well. Why do you have such an antagonistic relationship to the former house servant Daniel? What is it about him that makes you even more uncomfortable than Louis, the vampire you actually remember attacking you and almost killing you, does? Arguing as foreplay, as you say. Also clearly the memory wipe doesn’t totally erase feelings: he is angry at him even if he doesn’t remember the psychological torture, but at the same time there’s no fear. Only a need to rile Armand up. (Also Armand are you trying to look extra slutty for Daniel sitting like that? What are you doing with the unbuttoned shirts, really.)
- Mr. Molloy count: 3
- Armand is so sick and twisted btw for that little smirk when Daniel says he’s ‘a bright young reporter with a point of view’. No remorse in sight none. He’s like ‘yes you are. Do you remember who said that to you? Because I do’. My favourite sicko
- When Armand says that journalism is Daniel’s drug, wow he did really clock him. Have you seen that post about Daniel chasing an high from the adrenaline of interviewing dangerous people? Yeah. Armand really does understand him on an intimate level, like the comment in the season 2 finale also reveals. Probably too good an understanding for a superficial-I tortured you once-acquaintance. On the other hand torture sure is an intimate experience to share with someo[gunshot]
- the little wistful smile he has when he talks about ‘the boy we met in sf’.
- the way Armand can’t help but smile at Daniel’s sassy comments directed against him. Like he should want to kill him for the disrespect alone why does he seem almost fond of this insufferable human?
- I am so impressed with this episode by the way. Before seeing this season I was like ‘one hour of ww II Europe? Grim.’ I though I wouldn’t like this one and in the end it ended up being one of my favourite episodes. It’s really a character study and I loved that. Also great job at woveing in European politics (the soldiers saying ‘speak Russian’ and Emilia refusing and speaking romanian, the complex intermixing of cultures in Eastern Europe with the whole urss situation is a big thing we still see the effects of today). Usually I don’t trust at all US shows to talk about eu politics and history without making it usa centric in some way but they proved me wrong here. 9/10 episode all in all
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I'd totally forgotten that Armand and Pandora were present when Thorne kills Santino (for his bestie Marius 🥰). I feel that has such huge implications.
What does Armand think about being a witness to Santino's death? Does he even want him dead? He stands by Marius' side and doesn't speak so presumably he's there to support his decision, but how does he take the death of someone who played such a pivotal role in his life? As far as I recall, we never get anything from him on this again.
He must know Daniel is with Marius at this point, right? This means they're having more contact that I maybe imagined during this time which means Armand must know something about the situation. Marius tells us he's isolating himself but surely if nothing else this must be when Armand learns (assuming he didn't already know)?
I don't know, I'd completely erased their presence in this scene from my mind so it feels sort of revelatory, as if I'd been imagining these timelines and intersections of characters all wrong.
Anyway I finished my re-read of Blood and Gold. Would love to hear your thoughts!