#lestat + marius

[pynkhues]

I forget if I've said this, but I think Rory Kinnear would be an incredible Marius. I gather that Marius is really handsome in the books and Rory Kinnear isn't conventionally that handsome, but he is a MAGNETIC actor, just so riveting and brilliant onstage or on film, and incredible with language. Idk if you've seen the film version of Richard II with him and Ben Whishaw, but he makes Bolingbroke an incredibly fascinating character. And you can watch his production of Othello with Adrian Lester (another great potential Marius, I think I've said that before) on NT at Home.

I don't think you have, anon! I haven't seen him in too much, but I loved him in Penny Dreadful and Black Mirror, he'd be a pretty fascinating choice, and definitely against type in a way that the show's already leant into in terms of casting most of the roles (well, with the exception of Lestat, haha).

(Heads up for book spoilers below)

Marius is supposed to be beautiful in the books, but mostly because he's supposed to look a bit like Lestat in a way that I don't think actually matters plot-wise all that much (although please correct me if I'm wrong on that! I've only read through Memnoch, and aside from my recent slow re-read of TVL, it's been a minute since I read that or QOTD). I tend to view Anne writing Marius as looking like Lestat as a way to draw them together as a type of father and son? TVL has a pretty distinct throughline of abusive father-figures in Lestat's life between the Marquis as his biological father and Magnus as his maker - both who she really distinctly writes as not looking like Lestat at all. Lestat's emphasised as looking pretty much exactly like his mother, only with slightly larger, harder features, and Magnus is quite literally depicted as monstrous looking (face like a mask! Just like Bluebeard in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber!).

Marius looking like Lestat - in my reading of the book at least - is mostly just about closing out that arc with these three men in positions of paternalistic authority over Lestat, and presenting Marius (at least temporarily) as the 'right/good one', so to speak. The book ending with Marius not only educating Lestat, but then being the one to let Lestat go by sending him to America (and ultimately to Louis) contrasts both the Marquis and Magnus exerting paternalistic control by a) keeping him ignorant/uneducated/naïve and b) never letting him go, the Marquis by keeping him in the Auvergne, and Magnus by hunting, imprisoning then turning him.

This is way more than you were asking, anon, sorry, haha, but my point is more I don't think it's important that they look alike at all really. I think there are a lot of ways to depict Marius' role and his and Lestat's connection over just physical appearance, and I think it's a lot more important that it be an actor who can bring real gravitas and charisma to the role, especially given the show's already threading in stuff about Marius from the later books in terms of him and Armand's relationship.

[pacipinka]

*taps mic* is this thing on? Yeah okay so every vampire in the vampire chronicles is turned at critical a moment in their lives and beyond just the body they are in when they are turned, their mentality stays at that standstill for their entire immortality, Lestat was turned against his will, he was clinging onto Magnus begging him to be freed, so he’s constantly seeking freedom and only finding loneliness and thus turning back to people again and again, however he can’t STAND being told what to do, since he desires agency in his life so desperately, Armand was turned after years and years of abuse and lack of control but such a desire for genuine love, by a man he ‘loved’ so wholly who he felt was barring his love from him, he needs control in his life, he needs a ‘master’ but he does not desire it, it does not fulfill him, he is trapped in a room but the door is unlocked! Louis was mourning his brother, he felt like an utter failure and so he’s always seeking family, seeking people he can care for, he can coddle, he can prove he is good too, but he loves people who either cannot stand coddeling and need a sense of looseness to live (Lestat) or people who grow out of coddling who prove to Louis he will always fail the people he loves (Claudia), Claudias turning, in many MANY ways mirrors lestats in that it was against her will, she was stolen from her home, and in her immortality she desires freedom but unlike Lestat does not have the agency/ form to get it, she will always be small, she will always be looked down on, even by Lestat who cannot deny how much she is just like him *taps mic* ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!! NONE OF THEM CAN BREAK THE CYCLE!!! TO BREAK IT WOULD BE TO UNDO THE VERY FIBER OF THEIR IMMORTAL SELVES!! THE CYCLE IS THE BLOOD THEY DRINK IT IS THE HEART IN THEIR CHEST AND IT ROLLS AND ROLLS DOWN THE MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS OF THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER AND IT CAN NEVER BE STOPPED BECAUSE THEY WILL NEVER STOP LOVING EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[suddenly-frankenstein]

uhmhmhmmm just occasional thoughts about Daniel's interaction with Marius

[funtheysaid]

iwtv ships be like 🧶🕸️🌪️

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

drives me glass-eating batshit how Claudia and Amadeo were both teenagers rescued (or "rescued") from violently traumatic situations and taken in by paternal gentlemen vampires who taught them about the world and kept them safe and spoiled them rotten and loved them so so so much in profoundly unhealthy and dehumanizing ways. Claudia and Arun both entering the vampiric world as blank slates (like Claudia remembers her pre-turning past but we only get the barest details, it's hardly ever mentioned) and a wash of divinity, angel imagery and merciful gods. then as Claudia and Amadeo grew they started to pick up on the things that were off in their world and display aggressive behavior (Claudia's killing spree and Amadeo's The Shining moment, etc.) only to be physically punished for it. and then they experience the brutalities of life outside their maker's protection (Claudia under the floorboards and Armand under Rome) except she's able to come back home hardened and confront the realities of what's been done to her while Armand never gets that chance, he's stuck with the Children of Darkness, he's stuck deifying Marius, he's stuck clinging to ritual and tradition and all the things Claudia defies like breathing.

and then they finally cross paths and they're inverted mirrors of each other, Claudia the grown woman desperate to escape her teenager's body and Armand the grown man who wants to be loved and precocious and fascinating like he was as a teenager. Claudia being able to effortlessly pull off the veneer of innocence that Armand has to work so hard to maintain and she's not even grateful for it. she's got the youth he wants, she's got Louis's love, she's more free than Armand has ever been, she fought back against her Maker and got away with it, it's not Fair, it isn't right. so Armand punishes her with it, subjects her to the same cycle of objectification and dehumanization and violence that Amadeo went through (because it could be Worse right, he could be Donating her right). and when that's not enough to make up for everything he's missing he fucking kills her in an elaborate show just like she killed Lestat with the elaborate show that was Mardi Gras, only his writings recording the process damn him just like her writings damn her, their need to leave some mark of themselves above all else consuming everything.

and after killing her Armand spends years dragging around with a Louis who hates him just like Louis dragged around with a Claudia who hated him. he's the good nurse for Louis the way Claudia was and he competes with Lestat's ghost the way she did and he watches a fragile life with flowers growing from dead things all come crashing down in ash and dust like she did, all because of what he did to her. and at the end of the day they're both fucked-up kids whose most commonly used last names stem from the fathers who fucked them up and they could have lived each other's lives and in some ways they almost did.

[armandofnowhere]

Men and women fell in love with Armand, of course, “so innocent, so passionate, so brilliant!” You don’t say. In fact, Armand’s power to seduce was almost beyond his control.

ARMAND + paramours throughout the ages

[userarmand]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE "I Want You More Than Anything in the World"

[darnmand]

Y’all ever think about how Marius flopped at every job he ever tried. Trying to write a history of the Roman Empire? No one cares. Becoming an Old God of the Druid grove? Nah. Medieval/renaissance painting? Your paintings are mediocre and will never be remembered. Those Who Must Be Kept? All it took was one disaster fledgling to show up with a violin to derail thousands of years of effort.

The incompetence is astounding. Homeboy is unemployable.

[souryam]

" I believe that I said some mad thing, voiced some frantic thought, that I knew now the secret of eternity.

'Then tell it to me,' he whispered, and he smiled. The purest image of human love "

[90sgreggaraki]

the vampire armand / interview with the vampire/ blood communion

[asraeas]

Interview with the Vampire 2.04 'I Want You More Than Anything in the World'

[prisonhannibal]

Armand asking Marius not to leave, after Marius whipped him until he bled in The Vampire Armand + Armand begging Lestat to love him so everything would be alright after Lestat ruined his coven, beat him and rejected him in The Vampire Lestat

he makes me sad can someone make him go to trauma therapy and kill Marius

[missfreija]

[vamptember]

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[graphic by @mariusderomanus 💕]

[nightcolorz]

very funny underrated vampire chronicles moment is how one of the first things Marius says to lestat after telling him his entire life story and the deeply important secret origins of their kind is “btw if u tell anyone about this I will fucking find you and kill you and all ur fucking family you little piece of dog shit” and lestat is like hehe oki <3 yay <3 and then when he does inevitably tell literally everyone in the most egregious and publicly dramatic way possible lestat is like “oh gosh i did just deeply betray and fuck over the extraordinarily powerful god that told me he’d kill my family if I ever did this one specific thing. Oops!” And then finally when we get to see where Marius is at with all this he’s just like “oh well. What can u do. I guess there’s no real point in killing his whole family over this. The damage has been done. Ugh eye roll. What a mischievous little scamp, kids these days. Sigh. I guess boys will be boys.”

[confirmeddead]

When we get a similar scene next season but it’s Armand begging to be the perfect follower to Lestat and Lestat’s incredibly disturbed at this (original here)