#if you don't know who the marquis de sade is he's the guy sadism is named after. to give you an idea

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

okay i alluded to this in the tags of the last post i reblogged but do you ever look back at a period of your life and go like. how did i do that? and also, more importantly, why did i do that?

anyway the history department at the university where i did my undergrad is a bit... pedagogically old-fashioned, i guess i'd say? which in practice means that the profs were mostly older and their approach to teaching history, especially once you get to 3rd and 4th year courses, was to assign at minimum one book per week. so for a full year and a half, i woke up at 5:50 in the morning, set myself up in my cobbled-together home office because i started 3rd year in the fall of 2020, and just. read multiple books all the way through every week. and then i got to grad school and someone mentioned that when you're assigned a full book, you're just supposed to skim it and i was like. wait what

also my dad teaches a sexual ethics seminar and because he has exactly the amount of shame of someone who reads marquis de sade with a bunch of 20-somethings every year (which is to say, none), his home office was in the kitchen and we could all hear it

[kickingasssince98]

Ikèmen Vampire OC:

The Dark Temptor

Marquis de Sade

Birthday: June, 2nd

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Height: 1.90 cm

Past Occupation: Nobleman & Libertine Novelist

Vampire Type: Lesser Vampire

"Do tell me all your sins, little dove. I can't erase them for you, but I sure can make you become proud of them..."

Background:

Donatien Alphonse François, also known simply as the Marquis de Sade, is a French nobleman, ex-revolutionary politician and philosopher who had became (in)famous for his scandalous erotic writings, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, suffering, sodomy, crime, and blasphemy against religion.

De Sade spent almost half of his life in jail and later in an insane asylum as punishment for his freedom of thinking, but he was revived as a vampire by his old friend, le Comte de Saint-Germain, and brought to live in the 19th century together with him and his other well known historical residents.

Detached, indifferent and covered in mystery, De Sade seems like a very unapproachable man.

However, even the Devil himself was once a beautiful angel...

Appearence:

Messy neck-lenght, strawberry red hair with silver gray bangs

Tall and well-built

Eye color: Charcoal black

Has a long scar over his right eye

Black cross piercings in both his ears as a mocking simbolism to the fact that he's a vampire and that the cross had been used in the past by the romans as a torture device

Personality:

I will start this up mentioning that De Sade is not everyone's cup of tea most often than not. He's a very difficult person to be around to at first. He came back to life full of barely surpressed anger thanks to the trauma of his past, seeking out and picking fights just for the sake of it. So don't be too surprised to find out that he's not getting along with anyone in the mansion, not even with the sweetheart that is Vincent van Gogh and that is saying a lot...

Spiteful. He has a personal beef with Napoleon especially, due to the fact that our boy Leon, when he was the emperor, was the one who ordered the arrest of the anonymous author of the infamous novels "Justine" and "Juliette" and imprisoned him without a trial. De Sade is not the one to forgive and forget that easily...

But he's very intelligent and wise

Rafined and full of grace...

Listen... Thanks to him the term "sadism" was invented. He's yandere self is top notch and can make Shakespeare feel like a walk in the park any day, so choose your battles carefully around this guy

Sarcastic most of the time

And he's a man of a few words. Doesn't like to waste his breath and time explaining himself and is very anti-social

On the reverse of the coin, if you get to know him better, you gonna find out that he's a very sad and depressed person

Wanting nothing more than someone to accept him with all his flaws and traumas, someone who's willing to not judge him for the simple fact that he just wanted to explore the nature of the humanity with all its darkness and sins and speak freely about it...

Hobbies:

Writing, philosophy, politics, dancing waltz, taking long walks on the garden at midnight

Likes:

Fine clothes, luxury, comfortable and cosy beds

Dislikes:

The taste of champagne, birds, hypocrisy, being restrained to can't speak his mind directly

In Love:

Like I said above, Donatien is a very difficult person to approach at times due to his rough past. But this doesn't mean that, when a certain little human lady walks into the mansion through that mysterious door just Le Comte seems to use it, he's not as curious and interested like the rest of the vampires. Actually, he's the second character MC meets after Napoleon.

Picture it (Sicily, 1922... Lol, jk, but if you know, you know😉) after hiding behind a curtain, Napoleon's trying to find a way to help her out... Only to meet the owner of the footsteps that had made Leon going into hiding in the first place. A long arm coated in dark green velvet reach out, leaning its palm on the wall next to MC and Napoleon's heads, cutting their way of exit, a tall shadow looming over them

"My, my... And what do we have here? Why, Vôtre Majesté... the handsome man with bloody red hair who the arm belonged to couldn't help a sardonic grin to lift up a corner of his mouth. Sneaking mistresses into the house at night? I must say, I have expected this from that dim wit of a womanizer, but from you? I'm shocked really... Speechless"

From that encounter alone you're in for one hell of an emotional roller-coaster.

You can't help it but being attracted and fascinated by his darkness from the beginning...

Lots of angst? Sure. Lots of drama? You can bet. His dark eyes, black as the sins his at fault for, hides more than just harsh and mean, empty words to keep himself at distance.

If he falls in love, De Sade will give gladly and selfless everything that he is to you. He's a yandere so expect to be super possessive with you, to want you for himself.

He will tie and bond you to him (sometimes literally if you're into this, after all he's one of the pioneers of bdsm *wink*), keeping you safely into his arms, cuddling and opening his heart to you as time goes by and your relationship evolves into one of full intimacy

He'll respect and seek for you, adore you and protect you with all that he has, you're his world, his one and only true love that he ever known...

Trivia/Fun facts:

The long, ugly scar he have on the right side of his eye is the result of an old fight he got himself into in his "glory days" as a convict in Bastille. He might tell you the story if he trust you well enough

After all the years living in prison, sleeping on cold floors covered in rotten hay, smelling of igrasion and wearing a rag of a jail uniform, De Sade developed almost an obsession for fine stuff like clothes and smooth, cosy and so comfortable beds that he can feel himself sinking into them, things that offers him comfort, warmth and a sense of safety

He's one hell of a ballroom dancer, waltz being a personal favorite. If you're invited to a ball in the 19th century make sure to ask him for dancing lessons, you won't regret it. He'll make you a pro in a blink of an eye :)))

Even though he appears like a total jerk and some people will state that he is a real, scandalous monster, he can be a real charmer if (and when) he wants. He's a nobleman after all, he's a gentleman by default and can easily rival Le Comte smooth attitude if he cares to show his true colors to the right person

Being brought back to life as a vampire haven't made De Sade wanting to blend in with his new existence so he hadn't even bothered trying to find a new identity like his other house mates had for themselves. He prefer to go by his title of birth and if someone asks him out of pure curiosity he is his own "descendent". He's amused that even to this days some pleope whispers about him - his "ancestor" - with fear and contempt

He posess a ball python snake as a pet that goes by the name of Jaunir and De Sade has a real sadistic pleasure to let her roam around the house to scare the other residents. Sometimes you can see him wearing Jaunir roped around his neck like a scarf

[nadziejastar]

i'd love to hear more of your theories/speculations about larxene's character. her somebody, elrena, is part of KHUX, but so far we still don't know much about her yet

Larxene: Pfft, you'd be nothing without that Keyblade. ...Oh ho! I just got an idea.

Roxas: Uh-oh.

Larxene: You can do today's mission WITHOUT your Keyblade.

Well, my impression was that both Larxene and Marluxia were very wealthy upper class people, which is why they were both complaining about how bored they were in that one short story. All of Larxene’s weapons have French names, and Marluxia uses French-derived words (denouement). It’s a common trope to give a character an air of sophistication. I think Xemnas found those two particularly threatening since they seemed to know so much more about the Keyblade and everything than the others. They were eliminated practically as soon as they joined the organization. Larxene already knew what the Keyblade was, and so did Marluxia. She was actually displeased with Roxas for wielding the Keyblade.

[Marluxia]

A member of Organization XIII. Despite having joined late, he is sent to CastleOblivion and named its lord based on his profound abilities. He is intrigued bythe Keyblade wielder and harbors dark desires, but was disposed of by anunknown assailant.

Considering Scala ad Caelum was supposed to be the new hub world in KH3, I would guess that she and Marluxia were probably from there. They may have been blue bloods, like Eraqus. Neither of them seemed like “good guys” either. Marluxia had “dark desires” and Larxene was in on his plan. That’s not to say that they couldn’t have had any kind of redemption. I just don’t think they’d be the type of characters that would be friends with Sora and company. 

“We aren’t doing much, these days. This place is boring, isn’t it?” Larxene’s words brought an abrupt sense of affinity, for there was a Nobody who was thinking the same thing as him.

Lea and Isa were just innocent kids like the Twilight Town gang, so I can seem them being Sora’s actual friends (not Saïx though lol). They didn’t know anything about Keyblades or other worlds. They weren’t important people as humans. Marluxia and Larxene had a much different backstory in mind for their human selves. They came from power and influence. Marluxia took charge of Castle Oblivion as soon as he joined. He was a powerful fighter, too.

Larxene: Predictable response. Forget it. Men without hearts are so boring.

I was reading the manga again recently, and I laughed when I noticed what Larxene was reading. I always got that kind of vibe with Larxene. She is called “The Savage Nymph”, after all. But I wasn’t expecting such a blatant sexual reference in a KH product, lol. It was the Marquis de Sade. He was a French nobleman born in 1740 who inspired the word “sadism”. He was a prominent member of the nobility and also a convicted rapist and kidnapper. He was notorious during his time for his abuse of prostitutes. Sade was guilty of torture, poisoning, kidnapping women and children and keeping them as sex slaves in his chateau. When he was imprisoned he wrote books. Today he’s kind of a pop culture icon known for his erotic tales that glamorize cruelty and depravity.

Larxene: But I don’t really want or need a heart. It’s painful with a heart. Right now I’m pretty comfortable.  

It sounds like Larxene had a pretty unfortunate past, especially regarding her experiences with men. I would guess that being a member of the nobility was a major factor. She reminds me of Lady Farnese from Berserk. She was also a noblewoman who developed sadistic sexual fetishes. She was rich and spoiled, but totally emotionally neglected her entire life. She started burning things she didn’t like. When Farnese was forced into an arranged marriage by her father, she voiced her refusal by setting a fire to the family estate, which caused her to be sent to a convent. It wouldn’t surprise me if Larxene had a similar background to Lady Farnese, including some kind of arranged marriage that she bailed out of. She probably grew up lonely, bored, and miserable. Didn’t have much freedom. She probably developed a pretty warped personality as a result.