#marius de romanus/armand

[haldora]

"I ran to him. He lifted me in both hands, clutching my arms ever so gently, and tucked his face against my neck. From the soles of my feet up my back through my arms and my neck and scalp, I felt it. Where he flung me I didn't know. Was it our bed or some hasty cushions he found in another closer salon? "Give it to me," I said sleepily, and when it came into my mouth, I was gone."

[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!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cloudabserk]

what am i to you? am i your companion?

inspired by this awesome artwork, which in turn is based on this vocabulary question:

[ihateornithologists]

queen of the damned.....

and bonus armand:

he's so cringe he WOULD love doctor who i swear

[r3burials]

portrait painter

modeled after Sofonisba Anguissola, Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola, c. 1559

[bishonenvoicedbyadyke]

thinking about the armand painting again and how violent its very existence is. like there's layers to this.....this is a painting that was paid for with your body. in it, along with cattle and dogs, you're pictured worshipping your abuser, kneeling at his feet. your skin is whitened. your features barely recognizable...... and now this painting is in a public museum here for everyone to see. like anyone can come and see your bare, vulnerable throat.

[suddenly-frankenstein]

uhmhmhmmm just occasional thoughts about Daniel's interaction with Marius

[userarmand]

Didn’t everyone know he was the boy I kept? My minion, my lover, my secret treasure?

Marius; 'Blood and Gold' (2001)

[per11winkle]

It is such a precious thing to be loved

Such a precious, magnificent thing to be loved

Such a wondrous and painful thing to be loved

[fishfingersandscarves]

like father like son

[chunkiimilk]

Beloved of God

[metronomicmyarmand]

Nosferatu (2024) / Ptolemaea - Ethel Cain / Interview with the Vampire / The Vampire Armand / The Queen of the Damned

[chasiufan]

their reunion in qotd ;;

[cloudabserk]

potion master amadeo

[ihateornithologists]

beautiful princess disorder moment 🎀

[polina-kov]

kill your idols

Art Print!!