#marius x akasha

[queerquaintrelle]

Marius de Romanus appreciation week 2024: Time, the devourer of all things

@deromanuscoven

Time is the devourer of all things on ao3.

[chicalepidoptera]

Day 15 of @vampirefest 's vfkinktober2024: Master/Slave

Akasha inspired by The Statue of Lady Sennuwy

[thebellekeys]

so who is you guys' realistic akasha fancast?

[faerywhimsy]

Ask box VC game

I don’t think I’ve seen a version of this around, and I was bored and I wanted to make it, so please jump in my ask box and get to know me. Happy to see some keywords alongside the emoji asks 💕

(Feel free to rb and play on your dash.)

📖 : favourite VC book and why

📚 : least favourite (from these good options) and why

💡 : anecdote of coming into fandom

📕 : (if this series wasn’t read in order) first introduction to VC

❤️‍🔥 : Loustat early head canons (say prior to QotD)

❤️‍🩹 : Loustat after the concert and Night Island

💝 : Daniel, the Devil’s Minion and Armand, the, uh—

⚜️ : de Romanus men - Marius/Armand/Daniel (/Benji?!) head canons through the ages (together or separate)

🏘 : Trinity Gate OT3/OT4 - Armand/Louis/Lestat/Daniel (together or separate)

💅 : the unsung ladies of VC

‼️ : obscure but beloved head canon that doesn’t fit any of the above

🎨 : share a WIP snippet of fanart/fic

🪐 : fav fandoms outside of VC

We’re all friends here, let’s have some fun 🌟

[sizeofyoursoul]

Anne Rice's Personal Fancasts for The Vampire Chronicles

(Important Disclaimer: I gathered this together as a curiosity, not as a comment on any past, current, or future actors playing these characters, and if you feel the need to use any of this to make anything other than positive comments on any past, current, or future actors playing any of these characters, I don't agree with you and I don't endorse it, and I hope Lestat comes and yells at you about it in your dreams)

Looking for her thoughts on a few things from her novels, I stumbled upon the weird fact that Anne Rice has a huge digital footprint of which actors she at some point had as her own mental image or ideal casting of her characters. I've collected as much as I could, and so, for fun, here they are! Unless otherwise specified, these were all posted on Facebook between 2009 and 2018.

Lestat

General Comments:

He is a "man", not a "boy"

He's a "big guy, quite tall and strong" (she emphasized this a lot)

He should be a guy in his late 20's so the actor doesn't change too much and can play a 250 year old immortal

He could be played by an unknown

He should not have dark hair or a five o'clock shadow

He should be good looking, because "Lestat's beauty is part of him, part of his self-assurance, his arrogance, his confidence and his seductive power"

First actor she thought looked like Lestat: a young Rutgar Hauer

Actors She Specifically Suggested

Chris Hemsworth (Mentioned at least x 3, said when she watched movies with him she could only see him as Lestat)

Richard Armitage (Mentioned at least x 3)

Anson Mount (Mentioned at least x 2)

Stephen Amell (Mentioned at least x 2)

Charlie Hunnam

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Leonardo Dicaprio (late 90's, mentioned at least x 2)

Actors She Responded Positively to Being Suggested

Travis Fimmel

Harry Lloyd

Wes Bently (2000, was apparently considered for Queen of the Damned)

Louis

General Comments

Mentioned the idea of Louis and Nicholas being played by the same actor

Originally inspired by actor Alain Delon

Actors She Specifically Suggested

Matt Bomer (Mentioned at least x 7, mentioned a lot outside of fancasting, she was really in love with Matt Bomer)

Richard Armitage

Hugh Dancy

Marius

General Comments

"At least 40"

She did not care if he wasn't blonde (see her suggestions below for why)

Actors She Specifically Suggested

Matthew MacFayden (Mentioned a least x 7 but I eventually stopped counting)

Gary Oldman (late 90's)

Actors She Responded Positively to Being Suggested

Paul Bettany

Armand

General Comments

Has to be someone in his 20's (also specified 25 or 30), a "baby faced man, a boyish man"

Actors She Specifically Suggested

Simon Woods (Mentioned at least x 2)

Johnny Depp (Late 90's)

Gabrielle

General Comments

Past 40, closer to 50

Actors She Specifically Suggested

Cher (Mentioned at least x 2, was a suggestion for Louis in the 80's when the idea of gender swapping the character was in the mix for IWTV)

Judy Davis (late 90's)

Eva Green

Actors She Responded Positively to Being Suggested

Claire Danes

Evan Rachel Wood

Kirsten Dunst

Akasha

General Comments

Should be played by a black actress in tribute to Aaliyah's performance in Queen of the Damned being such an entry point for black fans of the series

Actors She Specifically Suggested

Lupita Nyong'o

Tiana Benjamin

Memnoch

Actors She Specifically Suggested

Russell Crowe

Pandora

Actors She Specifically Suggested

Eva Green

David Talbot

General Comments

Should be British

Actors She Specifically Suggested

Jeremy Irons

Anthony Hopkins

[ghouldump]

Your fics are amazing! Enjoy all of them! Keep writing, and especially about iwtv 💖 and don’t delete it, it’s really great works :)

And can i request something about soulmates? Anything, really. It can be lestat x f!reader or lestat x f!reader x loius, i like everything! thank you 🥹

The Night Is Ours | Rockstar!Lestat x Reader

ෆ being awakened, naturally you go to your old love, only to find that he is now a rockstar, perhaps now you can have the happily ever after you both once wanted.

Walking through the sanctuary, Lestat’s eyes roamed, the walls were filled with portraits and elaborate paints, all relating to the Great Mother. Marius explained the significance for a few but kept moving when the painting caught his eye. It was one of its own, none like it.

“Oh, I see you've spotted Y/n,” Marius said, backing up to stare at the art.

“Who is she?”

“Akasha’s sister, they had different mothers, I believe, they were extremely close, she ended up turning Y/n after Enkil. Y/n wasn't as cold-hearted as her sister, although, she had her moments. She loved her sister, so she followed her lead, she is also a statue,” he said, as Lestat stood frozen, analyzing your face. Next to Akasha, you sat, looking off to the far side, away from the painter. An unreadable expression on your face, you were a mystery, forced into your sister’s shadow.

“Why does she look like that?”

“Y/n is full of secrets, she has never confided in anyone other than Akasha, didn't even have a companion. She was always a third in their lives, I imagine she was lonely,” he sighed. Part of him felt pity for you, unable to have a life for yourself because of your love for your sister. He only hoped that one day, you would find a lover stronger than the relationship.

“She likes music?” Lestat grinned, noticing the small stringed instrument at your feet.

“Yes, she always has had an ear for good music-excuse me, someone is trespassing, stay here, please,” Marius said, leaving to go to the entrance.

As soon as he was out of sight, Lestat was headed straight down the narrow walkway. The guard had been going on and on about how no one was allowed near the great mother, but Lestat was more interested in you now. Seeing the statues, he slowly approached the two. He couldn’t deny, Akasha was beautiful, and could easily be mistaken for a goddess.

Moving closer to them, he noticed the room, on the right side of the great mother. Frozen in time sitting upright in the chair, he was sure he stopped breathing, seeing your condition. A small instrument in your lap, your head turned.

“Mademoiselle, it is a pleasure to grace your presence,” he said, taking his violin case from his back, and carefully placing it in front of you.

“I hear you like music, and so I’d like to share a piece with you,” he said, taking the instrument and setting it in place. He was never one to be nervous, but something about you made him feel as if he was human again.

Shutting his eyes, he dragged the bow across the strings, allowing the melodic music to flow. The piece, he'd written himself, expressing his yearning desire to escape the lonely void that seemed to be consuming him. Lestat was too immersed in the harmony to even notice, that you began to move, your head turning to face him, slowly, you were going back to your old self.

“You too have beautiful taste in music,” you spoke, making his eyes open, widening as he stared at you. You sat with excellent posture, carrying yourself as royalty.

“I-

“Who are you?” you tilted your head, standing up, beginning to circle him.

“I am Lestat de Lioncourt,” he said, keeping his eyes set on your own.

“Lestat, why are you here? Where is Marius?” you questioned.

“He was tending to trespassers, I was learning about the great mother, when I saw a painting of you and decided to see you for myself”

“Why?” you bared your vangs at him, defensively, but he stood unfazed.

“You and I, we aren't much different, lonely, tossed to the side, someone’s second option - and this feeling, since the moment I have laid my eyes on you, I’ve experienced the strangest pull to you, you can not tell me the force isn't mutual,” he said, staring at you as you lunged forward, tugging his hair back. Using your freehand, your fingers you touched his cheek, dragging them down to his neck, before his chest.

He was right, the sensation was deeper than attraction. The mystic tug was like no other craving you'd ever encountered. Flinching back, you were speechless, unable to attack, when Lestat brushed his hands across your cheek.

“Who are you?”

“I believe we already covered that subject,” he chuckled.

“What did you do? Why do I feel this way?” you questioned.

“I don't know, but it is okay to give in, ma chérie, I won't tell,” he whispered, as you finally let go of his hair.

Lightly shoving him backward, you peered at him, trying to hide your confusion. His blonde waves disheveled, a look of amusement on his face, he was enjoying this.

“Get out of here” you spat.

“And leave you to go continue living, or should I say frozen in time? A devout follower of Akasha, your own sister, who didn't even love you enough to have seated amongst them,” he said.

“You know nothing”

“Centuries, you have been thrust into loneliness and eternal rest, when you deserve more. You won't live in anyone’s shadow, together, we will take the night as ours,” he said, slowly approaching you.

Unexpectedly, he smashed his lips into your own, kissing you softly, the air thickening as the kiss grew hungrier. Kissing down his neck, you pulled away, looking him in the eyes, as he leaned back, giving you consent.

Quickly, your fangs were in his neck, draining his blood. Sinking to the floor, you hadn't realized how thirsty you'd been, until this moment. Lestat chuckled, his throat vibrated against your mouth.

Pulling away, as his head lay in your arm, you used your nail to cut your skin, allowing him to drink from you. Inhaling, you couldn't wrap your mind around the euphoria. Sharing your blood, despite being strangers, you felt unnaturally close to one another.

“Y/n? Lestat, what have you done?” Marius said, making the two look at him, as Lestat pulled away from your arm.

“Marius, leave us,” you dismissed, not even looking his way. He seemed hesitant, but turned around, grumbling as he stormed away.

“You are like no other, I’ve ever met,” Lestat told you, smashing his lips against your own. Rolling around, you kissed each other, before you heard it.

“Y/n,” her voice was as soft as a whisper but caught both of your attention.

“Sister?” you furrowed your eyebrows in confusion.

“Surely she can wait, you have much to see, the world has changed since you were awake,” he said, helping you stand. Taking your hand, he led you further from the statues, and closer to the entrance. Feeling the cool air blow against your skin, you gasped.

“Come, the night is ours,” he smiled, guiding you down to the beach shore. Humans surrounded a fire, singing songs and dancing. Stopping for a moment, they stared at the two of you.

“Hello, would you like to join us?” one of them asked. Lestat turned to face you, seeing the mischievous smirk on your lips.

In an instant, you were in front of the man, grabbing him by his neck, and plunging your vangs into him. Lestat quickly joined you, as you both viciously devoured each person.

Laying in the sand with each other, you laughed like you hadn't laughed in centuries. Lestat was interesting, funny, with a touch of fierceness. You both continued in this manner, for the next three weeks. Taking the night as your own is what he called it, exploring, finding your next meals. Then, either on the beach near your home or in front of the hundreds of portraits, you held each other.

“I’ve always been told relations were futile, we have no need of such pleasures,” you mumbled, your head against his chest.

“We don't, but it is fun, is it not?” he asked, grinning.

“What is this that you make me feel? I have never met anyone like you,” you told him, as he leaned to peck your lips. Being around him, it felt like you had known him for centuries as if you had been together for an eternity.

“Become my companion, let us leave this place, and we shall see the entire world and what it has to offer,” he told you, his hand placed on your cheek.

Opening your mouth to speak, you stopped, feeling a wave of goosebumps, the quiet groaning beginning to increase in your ears. Abruptly, Marius walked in, halting in his steps as you stood, only wearing Lestat’s shirt.

“Akasha calls for you, she is becoming impatient and sore at your decision to ignore her,” he explained. Gulping, you looked towards the walkway leading to her throne.

“Y/n, I understand she is your sister, but you mustn’t wake her, you, of all people, know what she will do to humanity,” he said.

Turning away from them, you walked down the narrow hall, to their thrones. Getting on your knees, you bowed your head.

“I am here, sister, at your side,” you called out.

“You were going to choose him over us,” you heard, making you cry out.

“No, I am at your side sister, we will be together forever,” you reassured her, wiping your tears.

“I will stay,” you said, hearing the footsteps coming down.

“You can't-

“I must, I can not leave my sister frozen in sleep forever, I have to join her”

“Y/n”

“Don't fight her on this,” Marius said, following behind you, as you went to your room.

Patiently, he stood with his back against the wall, waiting for you to finish changing back into your ancient attire. Walking from the room, you held Lestat’s shirt, carefully placing it into his hands.

“You don't have to do this”

“I do, perhaps we will meet again, and then we could take the night as ours,” you whispered to him. Leaning forward, you slowly pecked his lips, before turning away. He walked as you moved to your seat, your linen kilt, dragging on the floor before you finally sat.

“Thank you for the night, mon chér,” you told him, remembering the term from his native language before you turned back to stone. The blood tears poured down his face, as he fell to his knees, placing his head on your lap.

“My god, her face,” Marius said, in fascination. Your previous form, as a statue, you sat, your head turned, a stoic expression, had been replaced. Facing forward, your head held high, a small smile graced your lips.

“Don’t forget about me,” Lestat told you, holding your cold cheek, before standing up to leave.

“Will she wake up again?” He asked Marius.

“Only time will tell,” he said, leading Lestat out of the villa. Looking back once, he vowed to never forget you, and the feelings that you brought onto him.

“Ahhhh, there he goes, Lestat, I love you,” the young girl screamed, as the loud music blasted through the loudspeakers.

Why the long face, my pretty baby

I got long fangs, come appraise me

Bring your long stakes, that doesn’t phase me

I’m an actor, in my makeup

I’ll get fatter, when we break up

Why does it matter, who I take up

Thousands of miles away, you could hear his voice, stirring in your slumber, before you were awakened.

“Y/n, wake up,” you heard, your eyes opening instantly. In front of you, in all of his glory stood Amel, Akasha’s maker.

“Amel,” you moved to your knees, bowing.

“You are not supposed to be here,” he told you.

“What do you mean?”

“Akasha is selfish, she would destroy the human race along with other vampires, she is meant to be stone, you child, are not like her, despite how much you try to be. Why did you not leave the first time I woke you?” He questioned.

“You woke me-

“For your other half, Lestat, vampires are not meant to be alone, you crave companionship, and so I woke up, to be with him, but I can see that you chose Akasha again”

“I couldn’t leave her”

“You must, I’ve watched you, since the beginning, you aren’t meant to be a part of their fate, take this chance, go to him,” he told you, cutting himself to give you his blood. After, your feet seemed to move on their own, as they ran, stopping for a moment, hearing the groaning.

“I am sorry sister, Amel is right, I need to choose me for once,” you apologized, bowing, before you ran out of the villa, flying into the sky.

His blood was calling out to you, begging to be united again. You were grateful for this moment, Amel and your sister’s blood in your veins, allowing you speed, unlike any vampire, had seen before. Soon you found yourself in a place called Los Angeles, people by the thousands were outside, leaving a weirdly shaped building, cheering and screaming…for Lestat.

You could see the large images of him, how different he looked, how he dressed, and his expression. Your vangs came out, staring down at the people, all of the heartbeats. You were close to going down there, attacking them, killing as many as possible. However, as they began to leave, his scent hit you, he was close.

Flying down, you went into the building, behind the stage, walking to his scent. A few staff tried stopping you, but you hissed, making them back up. Security quickly made their way over, blocking the way, but with a flick of your fingers, they were consumed by flames. Closing your eyes, you smelled his unique scent, inching closer and closer.

“Woah, nice outfit,” you heard, as you began walking toward the line of people. Looking at the man dressed in all black, the smeared makeup on his face, you were unimpressed.

“Right, are you a cosplayer or something?” the woman next to him asked.

“I am here for Lestat,” you said, unsure what she was talking about.

“Same, this is the line, it is very-

“Hey, you have to get in line like the rest of us,” somebody yelled. Tilting your head, you hissed, smirking as fear began to fill their hearts.

“She’s a vampire too,” they murmured amongst themselves.

“Lestat…” you called out to him, as you made your way to the front of the line.

The people watched in amazement and dread, beautifully dangerous, they worried you wouldn't be as restricted as the rockstar, Lestat.

“Excuse me, I’m going to have to ask you to go to the back of the line,” another man, security written on his shirt said.

“Are you now?” you asked, the fire lighting on the tip of your fingers. Suddenly, the door opened, Lestat staring at you, unable to believe his eyes. In his heart and mind, he heard you, your blood, calling to him, but he'd waited for this moment for over two hundred years, he couldn't trust his judgment.

“She is with me,” he said, reaching for your hand, pulling you into the room, shutting the door. You went to speak but were cut off by his lips pressing against your own.

“All of those humans, they come to see you, how do you not drain them all dry?”

“I endure, but I usually end up with a treat for the night, how is this possible?” he asked.

“Amel, he was the one to wake me up, when I heard your music, he woke me again, to come to you, for companionship. For thousands of years, I’ve put my sister above myself, her desires over my own, until I met you, and so here I am, if you'd still have me,” you confessed the bloody tears dripping down your face.

“You don't even have to ask, my heart was yours the moment I looked upon your portrait, you had my blood, my kiss,” he told you, pulling you into a long kiss.

“Will we take the night?” you asked him.

“Lestat, you have a long line of fans waiting on you,” someone impatiently knocked on the door.

“The night is ours,” he told you, intertwining his fingers with your own, as his vangs came out, exiting the room, to obliterate the humans outside of the room, for old time's sake.

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IWTV S2 Ep8 Musings - Lestat & Gender: "I am she, she is me."

Scrolling the tags and sighing, cuz I just KNEW people were gonna take this line out of context, as proof that Lestat's the woman/wife/mother/femme-fatale (which @dwreader had to explain cuz folks just don't get it X X), blahblahblah. I've already said my whole bit on Lestat as the patriarchal father/husband, and the dandified matador/killer (a la Bruce). But I just wanna remind y'all that THE SAINT IS NOT A CITY.

Either the fandom's got a bunch of new Lestans posting who missed the discourse from S1 about the meaning behind Les's monologues from the books; or y'all just have frightfully short memories.

He's NOT talking about stupid effing New Orleans; and he's NOT calling himself a woman. He's talking about LOUIS. Louis' motherland! Louis' culture! Louis' ancestor's bones! Louis' grave soil! Louis's HOME--Louis' back at home, and Louis IS his home.

But here y'all go, always centering everything on Lestat's yaasification, and ignoring the Louis-shaped elephant in the room.

Lestat's been talking about Louis to his nameless Millennial Fledgling this whole time. Everyone knows who Louis is--and what he means to Lestat. This is CRUCIAL for Loustat going forward in TVC, when Lou's held as collateral against Lest by Akasha and Rhoshamandes.

But for some reason Lestans are hella quick to separate Lestat's identity from Louis every chance y'all get, then wanna whine & complain about the QotD movie pairing Lestat with Jesse, or AR tryna pair Les with Tom, Dick & Harry.

And YES, I will die on the hill that this whole anti-feminine discourse about AMC!Louis is couched in racial prejudice and biases--a trap that even Black fans who are pro-Louis fall into, while ignoring the struggles of effeminate/feminized gay Black men in their own effing community (X X X X).

But this is BY FAR more endemic in spaces predominately occupied by straight white women, who utterly fail to relate to their direct antithesis: gay Black men (X X). So of course they'll leap on every chance they get to glom onto long-haired blonde white drama queen Lestat as their spirit animal, even when he's LITERALLY TELLING Y'ALL that he himself identifies himself with LOUIS.

(Lestat's toxic color blindness is a whole 'nother conversation, omg. X X X)

Lestat says "she" because it's conventional speech to refer to places--especially continents, countries, and cities--as female, denoting motherhood and wives--places as people that take care of their own, as a mother would her children and/or spouse; a la the Statue of Liberty, personified virtues, and most abstract concepts we've inherited from Greco-Roman gender inequality about women as home-makers (HOUSEWIVES) being barefoot & pregnant in the kitchen. It's not even an exclusively English phenomenon. NOLA, like any city, is referred to as a "she."

So yes, to an extent, Lestat is channeling LOUIS; waiting at home for his spouse to come back and TAKE CARE OF HIM again. But Lestat is NOT a home-maker. He's living in a nasty AF shack, with only his music for company (and we know his tour's all about TVL & Akasha & Marius & Claudia & Louis). He treats his own Millennial Fledgling (his BLOOD CHILD) like trash; setting him on fire "IN LOUIS' HONOR" and not even knowing his name--he's NOT tryna be no one's MOTHER. He couldn't even bring himself to be Claudia's effing FATHER when she was literally burning alive two feet away from him, FFS.

But it's not about the brick & mortar or the PLACE itself--it's about the PERSON it's attached to--cuz Lestat always knew that Louis would eventually come back to NOLA--come back HOME--and FIND LESTAT WAITING FOR HIM THERE.

EVERYTHING & ANYTHING FOR LOUIS.

But AMC leaves it deliberately open-ended and ambiguous what Louis says to Lestat during their hug, and we don't see Lestat in Dubai, or any implication that Loustat is remarried/a couple again. Louis' putting down the torch, to stop accepting everyone's effing dregs; "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...the wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Cuz Lou's decided to finally start learning how to live on his own for the first time in his entire life; for himself, not other people--AND realize that he doesn't need to rely on his husbands to fight his battles for him. "I own the night!"

[murfeelee]

IWTV 2022 INSP - QotD Pt1b: Wake Up

I unlocked the violin case.... Of course I didn't know how to play it, but we are powerful mimics. As Marius said, we have superior concentration and superior skills.... I looked down at the violin and tried to remember my idea, and I ran my fingers along the wood and wondered what this thing looked like to them. In a hushed voice I explained what it was, that I wanted them to hear it, that I didn't really know how to play it but that I was going to try. I wasn't speaking loud enough to hear myself, but surely they could hear it if they chose to listen. And I lifted the violin to my shoulder, braced it under my chin, and lifted the bow. I closed my eyes and I remembered music.... I plunged into it, the music suddenly wailing upwards and rippling down again as my fingers danced. It was a song, all right, I could make a song.... I went madly on with it, rocking back and forth...louder and louder as I bore down upon it with the frantic sawing of the bow. I was singing with it, I was humming and then singing loudly.... And suddenly it seemed my own voice became louder, inexplicably louder, with a pure high note which I knew that I myself could not possibly sing.... I knew suddenly that I was not the one making this strange high note!... I looked forward and I saw Akasha...! ....I was stammering, unable to hear myself except in the pure abstraction of intention in my mind.... I did not hesitate.... I felt my fangs break through the skin as if through a glacial crust, and the blood came steaming into my mouth. Oh, yes, yes...oh, yes! ....I was clinging to her, my living statue, and it didn't matter that she was harder than marble, that was the way it was supposed to be, it was perfect, my Mother, my lover, my powerful one, and the blood was penetrating every pulsing particle of me with the threads of its burning web. "Lestat, what did I say last night?" Marius asked. "You are the damnedest creature!"

-- The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice

MY THOUGHTS & CC CREDITS

MY THOUGHTS

I wish AMC showed Lestat playing the violin; all they had was him playing the piano. But it was his violin that first woke Akasha up. :(

CC CREDITS (no links cuz laziness)

-- Violin from The EA Store (x)

-- Vampire bite/drinking poses by @studiok2sims, thank you so so much~! <3

-- Lestat's ATS3 headphones, top & bottom by EA; long hair at TSR, TSM outfit/boots | short hair in gamma by me

-- Enkil & Akasha are sims that I used Nraas' Debug Enabler to Sculpturify, btw.

-- Enkil hair, outfit/bling

-- Akasha hair | outfit & crown in beta by me

[queerquaintrelle]

Vamptember 2024: honey

"I like my girls just like I like my honey, sweet a little selfish…" - Honey (Kehlani)

Sweet a little selfish on ao3.

@vamptember

[monstersinthecosmos]

i'm curious to know why you're not a big fan of modern day armand x marius!

In some ways I can't really explain this because it's like, why do any of us ship anything? It just doesn't really click for me in the way that any other random ship doesn't click for me.

I think there's a version of them that I could buy if someone wrote it out and sold it to me, where they put in a lot of work to heal themselves & each other to a point where they make sense as a couple, but where canon leaves off I just do not see it at all. And that's the beauty of fanworks, like our job as fic writers is to convince the reader that this is plausible.

But when I think of each of them in the modern day, and how strained their relationship is, I just cannot really connect with what they could possibly see in each other or how it could possibly work.

Armand is SUCH a different person than he was in Venice and I feel so strongly about his need for respect and his need for boundaries so that he can be the person he's meant to be. And I'm not sure Marius will EVER see him as an equal, even at their best. Armand needs to be treated like a grown up, you know? I want him with people who respect his feelings fully and who take him seriously and see him as a complete person. (This is him and Louis lol.)

I also think Armand seriously & deeply needs time with people who don't need him to be a caretaker. I think it's natural for him to want to play that role and make a home for everybody and take charge, but I think there's a balance in here somewhere in that he can do things that make him feel good and centered without feeling like he has to. And Marius in the modern day is SO deeply traumatized I don't like Armand being burdened with it. I think it's outside of the scope of what he can deal with, and this was somewhat like their dynamic in Venice, that Marius at times relied on him emotionally in a way that was too much.

I just think everyone needs to put their own oxygen masks on before helping others!

And for Marius, I just think he's like so broken. Like within his lifespan I still think that the Akasha wound is WAY too fresh; UNFORTUNATELY I WILL BE SAYING THIS FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE BECAUSE I'M A MERE MORTAL but it's only been 30 years, right? Vs. the 2000 years he'd cared for her.

Part of Marius healing (to me) is also him dealing with some of his ego issues, because I think he's created this shell for himself as his own way to cope with immortality and the burden of The Parents and all the existential bullshit that entailed. And that kinda means like, being able to treat Armand as an equal (or anyone else) and the practice to get there and the work it takes might need to be done with a peer like Pandora or Mael. And those two particularly I think have seen him at his messiest and ugliest and imo are the only people in the world who actually know him.

He's also harmed Armand SO MUCH that I don't think Armand can be that person, or least I don't think it's fair for Armand to be that person. It kinda reminds me of the Ring Theory with grief/support except there's this like layer of parentification that I'm not sure how to plop into an infographic but

Basically, I imagine Armand being the very center, and Marius directly outside of him because he's the parent, and because he owes Armand the space lol. Marius should be traumadumping OUTWARD away from Armand while he works through his problems. LEAVE ARMAND OUT OF THIS LOL.

I think Marius is like, deeply hurt by things that have happened in the Coven since QOTD (even actually since TVL when Akasha drank from Lestat) and like, I don't get the feeling that he's really dealt with it meaningfully because he tries so hard to be stoic and like logic&reason his way out of feeling his feelings. I don't think he ever really had that reckoning in canon. And like I think him being hurt by Armand is completely genuine, even if he has to be accountable for his own part in it, and that's something they absolutely should talk about. Maybe it's even the conversation that Blood Communion alluded to.

But to me, canon ends at Blood Communion, and I don't see like a single conversation as enough to heal this tremendous schism between them.

I just think they're both so deeply disappointed in each other and it's gonna be like centuries before they can even begin repairing it.

I CAN'T EVEN CONCEPTUALIZE HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE FOR THEM TO GET TO A PLACE WHERE IT'S OKAY. I believe they'll get there, but. I just don't see it and I haven't yet cracked the seal on writing post-canon sci fi taking place 200 years from now.

So anyway people ship things for a million reasons and like sometimes it's as simple as "hot" and sometimes it's "i want them to destroy each other" and sometimes it's domestic fluff and sometimes it's even all these exact points I've made--breaking them to pieces so that they can heal each other--but for me personally it just doesn't really do it for me. All the reasons I listed could be THE reason why someone else ships them in present day!! 😂 I just feel like so emotional and opinionated about what I want Marius to get up to in the modern day and I don't think Armand can help him. At least not in the Kacyverse!!!!! 😂😂

[pynkhues]

I mentioned this a while ago, but given TVL and QotD function as such a duology within the broader series, it could actually work to do both books across three seasons, as opposed to one or two each. It could actually give them more room to breathe and allow them to rearrange certain plot points in a way that could feel pretty organic (i.e. bringing Devil's Minion forwards from QotD to TVL or pushing Marius back a little to have Lestat drink from Akasha and Akasha's modern awakening overlap the books to close out s3 and recommence in s4).

I love this so much, and it makes so much sense!

(x)

Ah! Thanks! I think it makes a lot of sense too, especially given QotD is a bit of a mosaic novel.

[bubblegum-blackwood]

Persefoni's Vamptember Contributions Masterlist

Vamptember 2022

Day 1: Devil's in the Details (Armand moodboard)

Day 5: Fire (Louis moodboard)

Day 6: Motel room (Armand/Daniel moodboard)

Day 7: Free day (collage/phone wallpaper made from @vamp4rebatscave art)

Day 14: Free day (Petronia moodboard)

Day 18: Garden (Mona Mayfair moodboard)

Day 19: Music (Nicki moodboard)

Day 21: Free day (Louis wallpaper)

Day 23: Group chat

Day 28: Free day (Maharet and Mekare moodboard)

Day 30: AU (pitch for a VC Heathers AU)

VC Kink Week 2023

Day 1: Impact Play (Surrender the Night - Marius/Armand/Daniel)

Day 2: Bondage (Trust Fall - Marius/Armand)

Day 3: Edging (False Promises - Armand/Daniel)

Day 4: Pet Play (The Zoo - Armand/Daniel)

Day 5: Play Party (Three's Company - Marius/Armand/Daniel)

Day 6: Edge Play (Bus Stop - cnc Loustat)

Day 7: Aftercare (Bath Bombs - Daniel/Marius)

Vamptember 2023 (list of just fics)

Day 1: Leather (Lestat mooodboard)

Day 4: Folk horror (Mael moodboard)

Day 5: Fix-it (Bring Me to Life - Loustat)

Day 7: Reverse AU (Little Vices - Daniel/Louis)

Day 9: First time (Blow Out the Candles - Marius/Daniel)

Day 10: Flowers (Seeing Red - Maharet/Mael/Jesse)

Day 14: "You Knew?" (Foundations of Decay - Marius/Armand)

Day 15: Dress-up (Dress-Up - Armand&Riccardo)

Day 16: Coffee shop AU (Espresso Macchiato - Louis&Daniel)

Day 17: Free day (Louis moodboard)

Day 18: Fairy tail (Wolf Song - Marius/Armand)

Day 19: Genderswap (Armand/Daniel moodboard)

Day 20: Pearls (Bianca moodboard)

Day 21: 1990s (Silent Lamentations - Marius/Louis)

Day 22: Strip (Strip - Lestat/Daniel)

Day 23: Egypt (Akasha moodboard)

Day 24: Free day (Quinn Blackwood moodboard)

Day 25: Heartbeat (Killing Loneliness - Loustat)

Day 27: Glasses (Daniel moodboard)

Day 28: News (VC as The Onion headlines pt I)

Day 29: Sunlight (Home Videos - Daniel&Louis)

Day 30: Sonoma Compound (Jesse/Mael moodboard)

Queens of the Damned 2024

Day 1: BDSM (Trust Me - Jesse/Pandora)

Day 1: Butch/femme (Armand/Daniel moodboard)

Day 1: Butch/femme (Dani art)

Day 1: Butch/femme (goth Lestat/dark academia Louis art)

Day 1: All dolled up (Loustat art from Post-Mortem Depression)

Day 2: Mommy kink (My Fair Lady - omegaverse Marius/Lestat)

Day 2: Siren (Pretty Little Hunter - Daniel/monster!Armand)

Day 3: Pegging (The Sacrament - Maharet/Mael/Jesse)

Day 3: Bodily autonomy (Kiss That Ring - Armand/Lestat)

Day 3: Femme fatale (art of Eudoxia and Zenobia)

Day 3: Bloodbath (art of Petronia inspired by Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders)

Mermay 2024

Week 1: Fishing net (Dirty Little Secret - Lestat/Armand)

Final week: Tentacles/shipwreck (Sucker for You - Lestat/Armand)

KinkFest 2024

Week 2: lingerie (Marius, Daniel, Lestat drawing)

Week 3: watersports (All Grown Up chapter 3 - Armand/Daniel)

Week 4: "good boy" (Ignominia - Marius/Pandora)

Week 5: bondage (All Grown Up chapter 4 - Armand/Daniel)

Vamptember 2024

Day 2: sick (Marius/Daniel doodles)

Day 5: Romeo and Juliet (Quinn/Mona moodboard)

Day 6: genderswap (Marius/Daniel art)

Day 7: free day (Petronia art)

Day 9: flights of devils (Flights of Devils - Louis/Lestat)

Day 12: beautiful boy (Daniel art)

Day 14: free day (Bianca collage)

Day 17: kittens (bunnyboy Daniel x catboy Lestat and Armand)

Day 19: metamorphosis (Derek and Dertu comic)

Day 21: free day (80s Armand and Daniel sketches)

Day 26: dress-up (r63 Dani in outfits I actually own)

Twelve Nights of Christmas 2024

Day 1: jingle bells (parody + Lestat art)

Day 2: baby, it's cold outside (Maharet/Mael/Jesse art)

Day 5: northern lights (Raindrops as They're Falling chapter one - Marius/mermaid Daniel)

Day 7: Christmas in New York (Trinity Gate Christmas card)

Day 9: Christmas sweater (M/A/D/L/L family photo)

Day 10: free day (Bunnydan and Kittymand Christmas!)

Day 11: mass (first two chapters of Dear Claudia)

Day 12: wrapped with a bow (Lestat in lingerie)

[faerywhimsy]

Taking a page from the book of fic advice from @the-apostates-martyr: I feel I need to write a one shot for each 'next long fic' idea that's currently taking up rental space in my head at the moment (and giving me time to finish one project before starting another). I *might* finally be branching out from pretty exclusively writing Trinity Gate fics.

My thought to give myself time is to reblog both one shots under this post, then include a poll to help decide which one to go with if the one shots don't work either of them from my system.

Lest anyone blame me, I'm pointing the finger squarely across half of VC tumblr (ilu all seriously, it's been so long since I wrote this much).

(Photo by Ijon Tichy on Unsplash)

Idea #1: Marius and Armand interrupt their travelling their world to rescue Lestat from himself after he finds out about the death of his human family. More or less based off this idea from 2014, but @uncivilcivilservice's fault for bringing it to my attention in 2023.

Stand out moments include: Marius coming in with a flaming baton to pull Armand out from his Children of Darkness initiation, then helping him grieve Riccardo. Armand suddenly having an annoying little/big brother figure he never asked for. The three of them living in Marius' Greek island hideaway.

(Photo by Bobak Emamian on Unsplash)

Idea #2: Armand is the antagonist in Queen of the Damned, until he decides he isn't anymore. Based loosely off some moments from this post by @desertfangs and these other posts by @eosphoroz.

Stand out moments include: Armand forgetting about a human pet long enough that it expires between visits. An actual reunion scene between Armand and Marius. Armand dealing with feelings of bitterness and isolation without needing to fall in love with another person.

[desertfangs]

people are so caught up with like holding book fans "accountable" and running to us about the show... when we sure as hell don't write it and some blame the expectations of oh they will adapt x or y on us like... I've read the books and I can tell someone what happens in them but I'm not the writer's room or an actor on the show, they have proven time and time again that they have a creative vision that can be quite derivative of the material and that's... something you can agree or disagree with! But it sure isn't like hello fan of the books why did you tell me they will be like that and they're not in the show... do I look like I write the show?

Anywho I really like your blog and it's a comfort space for vc things hope these feelings aren't too negative 💗

I think it's probably my fault, as in my post I said it didn't seem Devil's Minion is happening, and I wasn't intending to like... insist that was true. As I said, I haven't seen season 2, so I honestly don't know! I have heard a lot of people talk about it and a lot of people I know seem disappointed and convinced that is the case.

I got really into The Walking Dead this year, and as I watched through it and its many (many) spinoffs one thing I kept coming across in posts or podcasts was this thing where comic readers would be excited for an arc or a plot and then.... stuff happened differently. Some of them preferred the show, some were disappointed, but another thing happened, too: non-comic readers would hear about a plot and then expect things because they'd been told Oh Negan is super fun! You'll love him. And then seasons 7-8 dragged on forever and Negan was not fun(*), or whatever it was!

So it's interesting to me now to see the IwtV Show fandom kind of experiencing the same thing where some people are aware of what happens in the books, or look to book readers to see what might come next, or have seen people talk about what an Epic Ship Devil's Minion is, and then... the show veers left instead.

They're just different things. AMC's IwtV is inspired by the VC books and is pulling things from them, but they aren't really true to the books. So book readers can predict some stuff but who knows when the writers will throw a curve ball. There are some plots and relationships the show doesn't seem that interested in tackling. I don't know if Armand/Daniel is among them, but I do know the choice to make Daniel older and have this be a second interview already started them at a place that fundamentally changed their story. Just like The Walking Dead killing Sophia and letting Carol live to become a bad ass.

So you're right that as book fans, we can only speak to what we know about what happens in the books. We have no idea when the show will do something totally different! Because they are not the same. They weren't the same from the jump. In the book, Daniel is not stoned during the interview. And there's only one. Louis finishes his story. So from the beginning, the show took a different tack, and that's fine! It just means we have no clue what the show will do with, say, Marius, or Akasha, or Gabrielle, because we only know what the books do.

Anyhow, sorry, this rambly and I'm pretty braindead from work so I don't even know if this makes sense. If you like the idea of Armand/Daniel and haven't read Devil's Minion, do yourself a favor! That's all I was saying.

Thank you for the ask and I'm glad you enjoy my blog! 💖 *Please do not send me asks about how fun Negan actually is, he did get kind of fun later, but I realize this too is subjective.

[hiidkwhatimdoing7525]

Another useless poll

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IWTV Musings - Can Amel LEARN new Dark Gifts?

#what a lovely lovely post omg #thank you op this is so well-done !!! much to think about #also marius/avicus/mael/tesk/eudoxia/b&g mention <3 #akashas blood is vamp steroids !!! with sll this tho i do wonder where amel comes into play if he does at all #prev —>#justice for claudia #<— yup lol

@stylosha thanks for liking my post! VERY good question about Amel. Same answer:

YES. And NO.

Amel learns & progresses, too, absolutely. But it's different from vamps, and in some ways the development of their Dark Gifts are surprisingly independent of Amel.

Amel's Connection to Vampires

🪄 The Dark Gifts & Magic

The Dark Gifts are a happy BYPRODUCT of the alchemical magic that accidentally created vamps. They can do "magic" (telekinesis/pyrokinesis/telepathy/etc), cuz AR's vamps are technically corporeal spirits/ghosts--they're undead. They can do anything spirits/ghosts can do, within certain earthbound/corporeal limits--they're not shapeshfters like Lasher & Gremt, and don't need summonings. But peak vamps can fly, bespell/bewitch, start winds & fires, kill--the Dark Gifts. And so can the strongest ghosts/spirits & their strongest witches (a la QotD & Mayfair Witches).

AR's vamps are upgraded versions of her witches, cuz the source of their power literally stems from communion with the dead, getting spirits/ghosts to control the elements for them. But whereas witches have to ask the spirit for help & wait for results, vamps can autonomously do anything witches can do, but better, cuz vamp magic's internal (Akasha's Amel), not external (The Twins' Amel). The fusion causes vamp corpses to irrevocably change, which is why when Dr Fareed finally cut their link to Amel (The Great Disconnection), the Elder vamps were relieved to realize that they still had ALL of their Dark Gifts.

It was because of Amel that they had the Gifts to begin with--his magic is what made them vampires--but Amel did not CONTROL vamp access to the Dark Gifts. And as long as they were all connected to him (via Akasha), they needed his Sacred Core to survive. But the ELDERS had outgrown him--in QotD when Mekare ate Akasha's brain, that window of time nearly knocked out Daniel & Louis (younger/weaker vamps), but the older vamps were fine. And after the Great Disconnection, being connected to Amel or not didn't affect the Gifts of them at all.

🧠 The Silver Cord

I've actually started using Ymir Fritz from Attack on Titan to help me understand how the vampires' link to Amel works (x). (Louis' "simple explanation" of etheric bodies in PLatRoA confuses TF outta me.)

Long story short: Ymir, the Founding Titan, is the source of ALL Titans. Every time a Titan heals from an injury, Ymir's in the Paths resculpting their bodies from sand & water. The Paths are removed from our space-time, so even though it takes her FOREVER to build each Titan in the Paths, it only takes mere MOMENTS for Titans to heal out in the real/corporeal world. Ymir painstakingly creates everything the Titans can use/make/do (inc Titan Shifter powers), with her own two hands. She's GOD, but she's also just a little girl, the Paths are endless, her bucket of water is HEAVY, and there's millions of Titans, so she STRUGGLES; it's HARD for her to make/support the Titans as the Founder. But the Titans Shifters don't know/realize this, cuz in their world their abilities manifest thru (what they assume is) pure instinct/thoughts. Titan Shifters know their power resides in their spinal fluid, but they don't know why. The Paths are just a manifestation of Ymir's body/corpse--cuz Aot's Ymir Fritz was directly inspired by the primordial giant Ymir from Norse Mythology, whose body created the world, the giants, gods, dwarves, etc.

Amel works a vaguely similar way to Ymir--but instead of AoT's sand & water, it's AR's Silver Cord and Blood (a la TotBT & PLatRoA). The Silver Cord is a spiritual/neural link between material & immaterial bodies. It allows humans & vampires to use Astral Projection to connect/remove one's etheric spirit/soul in the Astral Plane to a corporeal body in the real world. Hence: possession (Raglan James & Amel).

As the Sacred Core, Amel's the source of ALL vampires. Every time a vamp heals from an injury, Amel's silver cord connecting vamps to Akasha rebuilds their bodies from blood. The Astral Plane is removed from our space-time, so even though time stretches FOREVER for spirits/ghosts as they lose their connection to reality, it only takes mere MOMENTS for vampires to heal out in the real/corporeal world. Amel painstakingly attaches every vampire to his etheric body, and they all tap into his magic to produce the Dark Gifts. He's the SACRED Core, but he's also just the ghost of a dead alien, the Silver Cord is a spiderweb of tentacles that stretches outwards from him PAINFULLY, and there's thousands of vampires, so he STRUGGLES; it's HARD for him to make/support the vamps as the Core. But the vampires don't know/realize this, cuz in their world their abilities manifest thru (what they assume is) pure instinct/thoughts. Vamps know their power resides in their brain, but they don't know why (x x). The Silver Cord is a manifestation of Amel's link to Akasha, spreading like an infection to each of their children: all vampires.

In AoT, Ymir controlled Titan access to their powers. Which is why once the Founding Titan was killed, all Titans were exterminated for good--Titan Shifters couldn't become Titans anymore or use their powers, and the Curse of Ymir ended.

But in TVC, Amel never controlled vamp access to their powers. The Great Disconnection didn't exterminate the vamps or cut them off from the Dark Gifts or the ability to keep making new vampires. The Dark Trick still worked--they were all still Damned, just no one was connected to Amel anymore. Every vamp became their own independent Sacred Core instead; and Amel was given his own synthetic body to latch onto, completely detached & blocked off from all vamps. 🎉

👻 Possession

According to Raglan James, the body can only host ONE active spirit at a time--he tried to force/push Lestat's spirit out and failed; he had to get Lestat to AGREE to be possessed. Otherwise, he used comatose drugged up vegetables who couldn't fight back, cuz their brain AND spirit was already damaged & vulnerable to be overridden.

Same with Amel--Akasha was dying when he went into her body & took over. BUT! Once Amel bonded with her body, HE was the one who went to sleep. Cuz she was alive again, her spirit was revitalized. He got STUCK, like a loser. 😅

It became a battle of wills--and Akasha's naturally won out, so Amel was "no more"--he went dormant, he couldn't speak/move through her (the way Lasher briefly could control corpses). In PL Lestat even mentioned how in the 1980s he'd noticed Amel try to wake up & take over Akasha's body, but he couldn't, still too weak back then.

So Amel's ghostly possession doesn't work the same way as typical ghosts--he can't puppet the body he resides in, or anyone else's. With The Voice, he could psychologically pester/torment people, driving vamps mad to get them to do things FOR him, but he can't take control of the wheel & drive the body himself. While he was just The Voice he could never physically compel/force anyone to do anything. When Les became his host in PL/PLatRoA, Les had to agree before he let Amel do anything with his body (write in Atlantis' language), and apparently the puppetry/possession caused Les intense pain--either that, or Amel was just making it hurt to be spiteful. (It never hurt Julien Mayfair to be possessed by Lasher--but Julien always blacked out & never remembered wtf happened afterwards, anyway, so who knows. Lestat even said: "Yes, he’d tried to move my limbs more than once, and I’d felt a tingling and cramping in the limb. But that had not been pain.")

Amel endured, but couldn't LIVE or GROW in his hosts, which is why he HATED being stuck in Akasha & Mekare--their spirits are vulnerable enough for him to reside in them (non-communicative/asleep/mentally ill), but unfortunately for him their spirits are also still active in their bodies, with an active will that naturally rejects anything his foreign presence tries to compel. He couldn't get them to agree to back down & let him take over, the way he could with Les--which is why Les saw Akasha seize up, forcing Amel back down.

🧛 Amel's Stunted Growth

Inside Akasha, Amel was held back from growing/developing, cuz there were TOO many vamps--hence Akasha's purges in the 1980s & the PL Trilogy's Great Burnings in the 20teens to cull the herd. His vampiric network grew at the detriment to Amel's development--the vampiric species was DRAINING him--vampires are parasites TO Amel, ironically.

Amel is ephemeral but still material, and all matter has limits. He's not infinite; he can't infinitely support all the vamps; he's stretched too thin. He gets older & the blood gets stronger, but HE can't handle it. He's the vampiric scaffold, but he's tired.

So, because Amel's STUCK in his hosts, he cannot FULLY reach his potential in any of them, not even Lestat. It literally bleeds out, down into his vampires, instead of staying in Amel and making him powerful, cuz he can't contain it all. As the Voice, he lashes out, throwing tantrums, tryna break lose & find a host dumb enough to let him in so he can exert more autonomy over THEIR body. Which is why Dr Fareed finally snapped the Silver Cord & Kapetria gave Amel a body of his own, so he could be free--but still corporeal.

However, we can see much more concrete examples of how ghosts in TVC really can grow/evolve to reach their full potential:

TVC Ghosts/Spirits

Amel & Goblin

This is AR's scientific definition of ghosts (a la Dr Fareed):

Goblin from Blackwood Farm is the perfect comparison for Amel. Amel, pre-Akasha, was a poltergeist just like Goblin eventually became.

As Quinn Blackwood learned & developed (human AND vampire), so did Goblin. Of all the ghosts in TVC, Goblin's the oddest one--he doesn't reside WITHIN Quinn the way Amel does with Akasha; he's a ghostly poltergeist (external), NOT a ghostly possession (internal).

As Quinn grew up & aged, so did Goblin. Quinn learned to talk, and so did Goblin. Quinn reached puberty/maturity & wanted to have sex, and chiiiiile.... 🤦 So did Goblin--don't ask. 🫣😅 And when Quinn became a vampire & started drinking blood, so did Goblin.

Goblin's increasing taste for blood in BwF almost EXACTLY matches Amel's in QotD.

Amel's thirst for blood was the prime mobile that pushed vampiric bloodlust forward--a vampire in & of itself doesn't crave blood, it's AMEL. He never needed it to survive, but it made him feel better--"slow" & heavy--more real/alive. (x) Goblin doesn't NEED food/blood, but he's a mimic and parasitically codependent on Quinn; so if vamp!Quinn drinks blood, so will Goblin; feeding off of Quinn to get stronger as Quinn gets stronger.

Goblin was far more codependent on Quinn than Amel ever was to The Twins, cuz they never let him get too close. But Quinn & Goblin were attached from the womb--literally. There was never a Quinn without his Goblin. Codependency turned into entitlement/parasitism, where Goblin refused to exist without Quinn, come hell or high water. But because this wasn't possession, just a haunting, there was no way for Quinn to beat back Goblin the way Akasha & Mekare inherently could--the confines of the body only allowing 1 active spirit didn't apply. Thus: exorcism.

But if Goblin had survived longer & Merrick Mayfair had never exorcised him, I'm 100% convinced he would've become the next Amel, and Quinn would've become his Akasha, creating a whole new Sacred Core and a whole new line of vamps. I'm DEAD serious. But whether their symbiotic relationship would've worked the same way--cuz Akasha was HUMAN when she was possessed, while Quinn was already a vampire already attached to Amel--who's to say? 🤷

TL;DR: Like Lasher, Gremt & AR's other powerful ghosts, Amel grows & learns & develops & gets stronger, YES. But at what cost?! 😩

As for Magnus, I have a post dedicated to him & his evolution from mortal-human to vamp to ghost to immortal-human. I haven't done one for Gremt yet, but I might later on, depending on what the AMC's Talamasca does.