#jesse talbot

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No Rowena because she was still alive at that point

PS I'd hope this doesn't come up but please don't answer with a man who's your babygirl. This is about women. Also be civil in the tags lol.

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Just for fun

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Requested by @fofoqueirah! Jesse, David and Lestat swapping contact details on their phones (i.e. Lestat VS his iPhone)

(From Prince Lestat)

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Superman/Clark Kent vs Lex Luthor in live action.

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I need that iwtv texting AU with all the members of the Eternal Coven plus Claudia stat.

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The Vampire Lestat/Queen Of The Damned fancast

The Vampire Lestat aka IWTV season 3-5 or 6 fancast

Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt

Monica Bellucci as Gabrielle de Lioncourt

Charles Dance as Magnus

Joseph Potter as Nicolas de Lenfent

My actual fancasts for Nicolas de Lenfent:

Alexander Vlahos

Fabien Frankel

Lee Pace as Marius de Romanus

Cody Fern as a younger Marius de Romanus

May Calamawy as Akasha

Sammy Sheik as Enkill

Delainey Hayles as Ghost Claudia

Assad Zaman as Armand

Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du lac

Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy

Justin Kirk as Raglan James

Potential QOTD fancasting

Paul McGann as David Talbot(I am aware he played him before in the movie, however McGann is in dilf territory, so I see no reason why he can't play him again)

Erin Mae Kellyman as Jesse Reeves

Yasmine Al Massri as Maharet and Mekare

Eva Green as Pandora

Amr Waked as Khayman

Freddie Fox as Mael

Max Minghella as Santino

Michael Ward as Eric

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Azim

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Hello Nalyra:) thank you for always taking your time and mental energy to answer everybody’s questions!

I was surprised at the casting news of Talamasca! I was expecting Jess as the lead—but I’ve only read books in VC. So whats Talamasca’s role in Mayfair witch’s story, do they have enough materials across Anne Rice’s universe to build a X-file like show?

And based on the IMDb intro on Talamasca—werewolves are real as well! Will there be room for crossovers?

Thank you so much and all the best!

Hey dear! Well, I do think there is more than enough to build something quite cool - if they do it properly.^^

The Talamasca exist in all branches of the supernatural novels I believe - the Vampire Chronicles, the werewolf books (though I don't think it's explicitly mentioned?), the Mayfair Witches. There's also more supernatural beings within these books, "true" immortals, gods, angels, spirits, aliens... you name it.

If AMC plays their cards right they can set up something quite captivating, especially given the roots of the Talamasca 😈

As per their role in Mayfair Witches... here is an article by Collider explaining that a bit, and here the Wikipedia article on them generally. I... am unsure how to narrow it down with what we are given at this point. They could do a lot with them?! Generally the Talamasca supposedly watch and do not interfere... only the "not interfering" doesn't really work out like that, lol.

There should be a lot of room for crossovers, actually... again, if done right. Mayfair Witches and IWTV share a hometown (NOLA) and the universe is the same. It would be stupid not to link them in some manner, imho.

If Jesse Reeves and David Talbot really get cast right now it will be really interesting to see for what... and in what capacity. Because as speculated before it seems as if Daniel might take over some of the "chronicling"... so maybe David will stay "just" the superior general of the Talamasca? Or will he become one of Lestat's fledglings after all?

And Jesse... so connected to the twins, and a powerful vampire, too. There is a lot they could do with the Talamasca agent Jesse Reeves... a lot with Claudia's ghost, too.

And the upcoming concerts 😈

So yeah. There is a lot they could do.

I hope they do indeed do so :)))))

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Rice should have explored more how David went from an adult creeping on young Jesse, to someone forever in the body of a person younger than Jesse, where also Jesse was made by Maharet (the first since Thorne??) and now has access to archives that dwarf the Talamasca's, whereas David has gone virtually no-contact with the Talamasca and--no matter what Lestat says--can't possibly have the same kind of punch even having been made after QotD. It's a complete inversion. And where now Jesse can decide if ancient Mael has to use the dog door, David is seemingly nothing more than Lestat's spare boyfriend for when Louis is pissed at him for misplacing one of his Laserdiscs.

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@ / immortal_amc — we are getting a talamasca series !!

what would you all like to see in something like this ?

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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.