#deliverance du lac

[littlemiss101]

been playing tale of two wastelands... their nonbinary daddy issue swag is off the charts

[theinfinitedivides]

wait. wait a fucking second i just realized this but Armand ripping the newspaper off the window and going 'it's morning!!!!!!!!' has the same energy as that one Vine with the pots and pans and auditory bludgeoning of fellow roommates. yk the one. Tanisha Thomas icon i didn't get no fucking sleep 'cause of y'all y'all not gon get no sleep 'cause of me type energy same to same

[lady-phasma]

The depth of these characters is entirely Anne Rice’s responsibility. However, I don’t know that I have ever watched an adaptation quite as compelling as this series. The show runners have changed huge elements, but kept the soul of the Chronicles. Every time I see Armand on screen I think about this passage from The Vampire Armand. Assad plays him so well, so disarmingly, and with a complexity that is remarkably true to the books.

Massive spoilers below the cut…

But I did not bring about [Claudia's] execution. She died more horribly than anyone has ever imagined, and I have not the strength now to tell the tale. Let me say only that before she was shoved out into a brick-lined air well to await the death sentence of the god Phoebus, I tried to grant her fondest wish, that she should have the body of a woman, a fit shape for the tragic dimension of her soul. Well, in my clumsy alchemy, slicing heads from bodies and stumbling to transplant one to another, I failed. Some night when I am drunk on the blood of many victims, and more accustomed than I am now to confession, I will recount it, my crude and sinister operations, conducted with a sorcerer's willfulness and a boy's blundering, and describe in grim and grotesque detail the writhing jerking catastrophe that rose from beneath my scalpel and my surgical needle and thread. 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. For many a year, she haunted me. I could not strike from my mind the faltering image of her girlish head and tumbling curls fixed awkwardly with gross black stitching to the failing, faltering and falling body of a female vampire whose discarded head I'd thrown into the fire. Ah, what a grand disaster was that, the child-headed monster woman unable to speak, dancing in a frenetic circle, the blood gurgling from her shuddering mouth, her eyes rolling, arms flapping like the broken bones of invisible wings. It was a truth I vowed to conceal forever from Louis de Pointe du Lac and all whoever questioned me. Better let them think that I had condemned her without trying to effect her escape, both from the vampires of the theatre and from the wretched dilemma of her small, enticing, flat-chested and silken-skinned angelic form. She was not fit for deliverance after the failure of my butchery; she was as a prisoner subjected to the cruelty of the rack who can only smile bitterly and dreamily as she is led, torn and miserable, to the final horror of the stake. She was as a hopeless patient, in the reeking antiseptic death cubicle of a modern hospital, freed at last from the hands of youthful and overzealous doctors, to give up the ghost on a white pillow alone. Enough. I won't relive it. I will not. I never loved her. I didn't know how.

The Vampire Armand, pp. 271-272 (hardcover 1998)

[nalyra-dreaming]

Are we ever told in the books if Armand actually regrets what he did to Claudia? Does he have genuine remorse?

.... I think it is implied.

It... does read as if he does? At least a bit. But... it's "only" implied:

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. For many a year, she haunted me. I could not strike from my mind the faltering image of her girlish head and tumbling curls fixed awkwardly with gross black stitching to the flailing, faltering and falling body of a female vampire whose discarded head I'd thrown into the fire. Ah, what a grand disaster was that, the child-headed monster woman unable to speak, dancing in a frenetic circle, the blood gurgling from her shuddering mouth, her eyes rolling, arms flapping like the broken bones of invisible wings. It was a truth I vowed to conceal forever from Louis de Pointe du Lac and all whoever questioned me. Better let them think that I had condemned her without trying to effect her escape, both from the vampires of the theatre and from the wretched dilemma of her small, enticing, flat-chested and silken-skinned angelic form. She was not fit for deliverance after the failure of my butchery; she was as a prisoner subjected to the cruelty of the rack who can only smile bitterly and dreamily as she is led, torn and miserable, to the final horror of the stake. She was as a hopeless patient, in the reeking antiseptic death cubicle of a modern hospital, freed at last from the hands of youthful and overzealous doctors, to give up the ghost on a white pillow alone. Enough. I won't relive it. I will not. 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. And so the secret remained with me, with Armand, who had witnessed centuries of unspeakable and refined cruelties, a story unfit for the tender ears of a desperate Louis, who could never have borne such descriptions of her degradation or suffering, and who did not truly, in his soul, survive her death, cruel as it was.

... I think, in his own way, he does. He says she haunted him, as that "failed experiment".

But he says it there, in the end, he has "witnessed centuries of unspeakable and refined cruelties"... and I think it desensitized him.

And so I think he knows he regrets it, and probably feels it, deep within, but cannot quite articulate it, if that makes sense.

[cosmicjoke]

“... I tried to grant her fondest wish, that she should have the body of a woman, a fit shape for the tragic dimension of her soul.

Well, in my clumsy alchemy, slicing heads from bodies and stumbling to transplant one to another, I failed...

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.

For many a year, she haunted me.  I could not strike from my mind the faltering image of her girlish head and tumbling curls fixed awkwardly with gross black stitching to the flailing, faltering and falling body of a female vampire whose discarded head I’d thrown into the fire.

Ah, what a grand disaster was that, the child-headed monster woman unable to speak, dancing in a frenetic circle, the blood gurgling from her shuddering mouth, her eyes rolling, arms flapping like the broken bones of invisible wings. 

It was a truth I vowed to conceal forever from Louis de Pointe du Lac and all whoever questioned me.  Better let them think that I had condemned her without trying to effect her escape, both from the vampires of the theater and from the wretched dilemma of her small, enticing, flat-chested and silken-skinned angelic form.

She was not fit for deliverance after the failure of my butchery; she was as a prisoner subjected to the cruelty of the rack who can only smile bitterly and dreamily as she is led, torn and miserable, to the final horror of the stake.  She was as a hopeless patient, in the reeking antiseptic death cubicle of a modern hospital, freed at last from the hands of youthful and overzealous doctors, to give up the ghost on a white pillow alone.

Enough.  I won’t relive it.

I will not.

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.  And so the secret remained with me, with Armand, who had witnessed centuries of unspeakable and refined cruelties, a story unfit for the tender ears of a desperate Louis, who could never have borne such descriptions of her degradation or suffering, and who did not truly, in his soul, survive her death, cruel as it was.”

God damn, Armand.  I know Lestat’s done some fucked up shit, but this takes the cake for worst thing, lol.  Holy shit.  If you ever needed evidence that Armand wasn’t in a good place mentally when Lestat came to see him, welllll...

Like, dude, you could’ve just given her a bunch of cash and told her to get outta’ dodge, lol.  I feel so much for Armand, I truly do.  He’s far and away had the most difficult life of any of the vampires in this series, but even he’s calling out his reasoning here for why he did this to Claudia, that he was trying to rescue her from her fate as a child vampire, admitting that no, truly, he just wanted to fuck her up, and the fact she was condemned to death was the perfect excuse for him to do it. 

Now you know why the other vampires are scared of this mofo, lol.  This makes it infinitely funnier with the people trying to claim Armand as some wilting innocent sweetheart who’s better for Louis than Lestat.  Like, no, lol, Armand is not well. 

God though, poor Claudia.  Louis should’ve listened to her man.  But nope, he didn’t, and this is the result. 

[gwen-cheers-me-up]

Fandom: Merlin (TV)

Deliverance I Lack (4k)

Rating: Explicit

Relationships: Lancelot/Morgana

Characters: Morgana, Lancelot, Merlin, Agravaine

Additional Tags: Canon Era, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Merlin Season 4, Past Merlin/Morgana, referenced Lancelot/Merlin, Episode: s04e09 Lancelot du Lac, Shade Lancelot, Unhealthy Relationships, Sexual Content, Extremely Dubious Consent, stepping so far out of my comfort zone that i end up in someone else's, POV Morgana, Morgana Knows about Merlin's Magic, and it changes nothing because they still have drastically different values, Canonical Character Death, Emotional Vulnerability, Guilt, Regret, Unhappy Ending

Summary:

Morgana hadn’t meant to use him this way when she first made her plan. She had wanted to keep Gwen from the throne and break Arthur’s heart. That was all.

But then Lancelot was there—in the flesh, merely a shell of his former self, but oh-so-willing—and she wanted nothing more than to claim him completely.

The real Lancelot was perfect, untouchable, and Merlin’s, but this one could be hers.

@camelove Day 3: “Non-Ship Day”

[mistresstrevelyan]

Filling the video game asks

Borrowed this from @simone-boccanegra

VIDEOGAMES

First videogame ever played - Probably Tetris on the original GameBoy?

Two favorite videogames genres - Point & Click Adventure and RPG

Three favorite videogames’ soundtracks - Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age: Inquisition (Esp. Trespasser) and Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

Four favorite fantasy rpgs classes - Mage (DPS/Healer), Dual Wielding Rogue and Monk/Cleric Healer types

Five favorite gaming companies: BioWare, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Game of Choice, Ascaron. Bonus: Sunflowers

Six (or less) videogames played in 2019: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Seven (or less) videogames DA4, the next Mass Effect, Vampire: The Masquerade 2, Pathfinder: Kingmaker,  Red Embrace: Hollywood, Vampire the Masquerade: Coteries of New York, Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey

Eight favorite videogames’ locations: Skyhold (DAI), The Normandy (ME1-3), The Tempest (MEA), Toussaint (The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine), Lokken (White Wolf of Lokken Mountain Mod for TES: Morrowind), Ul’Dah (FFXIV), The farm in Stardew Valley and my main Stronghold in SWTOR

Nine underrated/unknown videogames: Arthur’s Knights I&II, Gloriana (The English translation of Ascaron’s “Elisabeth I.”), Gabriel Knight I-III, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Versailles 1685 and Versailles II, Egypt I-III, Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood, Cinders, Petz Horsez 2 (Only great horse game ever tbh)

Ten videogame/videogames series: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Gabriel Knight, TES, Fallout, Assassin’s Creed, KOTOR, The Witcher, Baldur’s Gate, Final Fantasy

CHARACTERS (any game)

One character creation screen you love: I really love ESO’s character creation screen. Gorgeous, easy to navigate, very immersive.

Two of your player characters (share your protagonists!): Rhiannon Cousland and Katja Shepard, the two OCs I’m most proud of.

Three characters you wished you could romance: Loghain Mac Tir, Vivienne de Fer, Admiral Steven Hackett

Four family members (characters who are your protagonist’s family): Bryce and Eleanor Cousland, Calliope and Aurelia Trevelyan (Drusilla’s older sisters)

Five best outfits (for any character): Oh gosh, most of my faves are from mods. The Underworld Armour mod for Rhia, Dreams of Antiva for Desideria, the black/red dress for Katja, The embroidered jammies mod for Drusilla (I never hated the vanilla beige, it was just...bland?) and the Witcher school armor sets in TW3 (They’re gooooooooorgeous and almost make up for the hideous vanilla gear)

Six pre-made protagonists you love: Gabriel Knight, Geralt of Rivia, Kassandra, Bayek, Guybrush Threepwood, Cinders

Seven villains/antagonists: Loghain Mac Tir, Solas, Baron Friedrich von Glower, Letho of Gulet, Malia Gedde, Alexios (MY EMOTIONS!!!), Saren Arterius

Eight secondary characters (non companions): Regis, Anora Mac Tir, Ciri, Captain Anderson, Myrrine, Wolfgang Ritter, Anna Henrietta, Grace Nakimura

Nine favorite companions: Thane Krios, Loghain Mac Tir, Solas, Morrigan, Viconia, Garrus Vakarian, Nakmor Drack, Vivienne de Fer, The Iron Bull

Ten favorite characters: Loghain Mac Tir, Anora Mac Tir, Yennefer of Vengerberg, Thane Krios, Baron Friedrich von Glower, Cinders, Anna Henrietta, Ciri, Solas, Mordin Solus

EXTRA/RANDOM

One frustrating plot hole: Let’s NOT

Two moments that made you cry: Mordin and Thane dying in Mass Effect 3. Bonus: Romanced Solas encounter in Trespasser

Three games where you would like to play/played as evil: Fable 3, SWTOR (My Sith Inquisitor OH MY), KOTOR (Yeeeeeeeah)

Four plot twists: The villain reveal in Jade Empire, The big reveal in KOTOR, Malia Gedde’s fate, the ending of Might & Magic VI (I still don’t get it tbh)

Five rpg choices you could never make: Give Fenris to Danarius, kill Loghain, not broker peace between Geth and Quarians, not positively reunite Syanna and Anna Henrietta, betray Wrex in Mass Effect 3

Six pets/animals: Gorion the mabari, Ser Pounce A Lot, Urz the varren, Roach (The Witcher 3), the dogs in Fable 2&3, Shadowmere

Seven spells: Storm of the Century, ALL THE SPELLS IN DAI, the signs in The Witcher 1-3, the biotic skills in Mass Effect 1-3 (Esp. Vanguard with FLARE).....sorry I’m not much of a mage lore expert.....

Eight (your choice)

Nine (your choice)

Ten (your choice)

[equipefilteau]

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