#marius/armand

[monstersinthecosmos]

don't leave this in the tags i'm on the ceiling

they're always helpful...

[kaelio]

your usual heartbeat (none at all)

follow-up to this one

[vamptember]

WELCOME BACK TO THE VAMPIRE PARTY! 🦇

Welcome to our third annual Vamptember event celebrating Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and all its adaptations! 🖤

For the month of September please join us in making vampire stuff! Fic, art, headcanons, playlists, meta, anything you can think of! Base it on the books, the 1994 movie, the AMC show, the musical, whatever you want! Canon or AU, get creative!

RULES

1. There are no rules. Please have fun!

2. Each day has THREE PROMPTS in case one doesn’t speak to you! Pick one or combine them or rearrange them, it’s up to you!

3. Tag your posts #vamptember so that we can reblog! If your post isn’t showing in the tag please don’t hesitate to DM it to us!

4. We finally have an AO3 collection this year, find it here!

Tell your friends and share to spread the word! Daily prompts (3/day) under the cut!

1. 1920s / Experiment / Eros & Psyche

2. Pomegranates / Sick / Dating App

3. Eucharist / Slice of Life / Gentleman Death

4. Private Jet / Tape Recorder / Missing Scene 

5. Romeo & Juliet / Meet Cute / “The easy cleft of my mortality”  

6. Library / Genderswap / Shrine

7. FREE DAY

8. Medieval AU / Honey / “Evil is always possible” 

9. Colosseum / Flights of Devils / Slow Burn 

10. Phantom of The Opera / Rat / Ceremony

11. Nomad / “He ate my heart” / Aphrodisiac 

12. Beautiful Boy / Grocery Store / Magic

13. Night Club / Tiara / Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

14. FREE DAY 

15. Ghosts / Breakfast In Bed / Three Is Company

16. Roleplay / Office / Forest

17. Kittens / Reverse AU / “You made a mess”

18. Lost In Translation / Eras / Marriage

19. High School AU / Metamorphosis / Dream Daddy

20. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes / 1497 / Blind Date

21. FREE DAY

22. Music Video / Pupil / Egg

23. 5 + 1 / Cigarette / Guardian Angel

24. “Half in love with easeful death” / Divorce / Mercury

25. Hospital / Celestial Bodies / Garden

26. Funeral Pyre / Tea Time / Dress Up

27. Drag / Reptile / Hair Washing

28. FREE DAY

29. Hunger / A Mother’s Love / Insects

30. Your Age / Tattoo / Epilogue

[ladisgarde]

loose retelling of that one scene in The Vampire Armand

[haldora]

More indulgent TVA inspired doodles. Amadeo's not feelin' like a good Ganymede today :') Full version of what he's supposed to be doing with his face below the cut.

[wretcheddoll]

So this might be a hot take, probably not to any fellow Marius/Armand shippers but for people who dislike them I know this scene is quite controversial...

But, I love the bath scene and yes I do think in the context of the story that was a "good" thing for Marius to do.

"But Armand was a sexually traumatized minor with amnesia and the first thing Marius thought to do was to have sex with him?!"

-Yes, something that would be an extremely bad and a morally corrupt thing to do in real life can be a good thing within the context of the story you are reading.

"But Armand didn't want it! He was practically mute; he couldn't say no!"

-But he did want it, he literally thinks in his mind that he wants it before Marius does it, and Marius can literally read his mind.

Any hesitation Armand has is more to do with religious shame then not wanting it, which feels like a classic erotic scene, shame giving way to pleasure when your older more experienced partner guides you through it. And yes, a real minor cannot consent to a 1,500 year old vampire but again he’s not real and the key is to pay attention to the actual sentiments Armand is expressing in this scene, that of repressed desire and pleasure. He's filled with "warm thrilling sensations" he doesn't claim to feel bad in any way.

I also want to disagree with this notion that Armand instantly clings to any "abuser" that shows him an inch of kindness. Armand did not cling to his slavers, not the man who was "nice" to him and didn't make him do sexual things and stopped him from being beaten.

On the contrary, Armand is endlessly defiant towards his abusers and only surrenders in Marius's arms because he feels safe and loved with him, partially because he sees Marius as some sort of ethereal being and not a normal man. And also, because he finds Marius attractive of course😏.

The boys in the brothel being “soft” with him, he’s not into it at all.

The old man who never touched him, and showed him “kindness,” Armand saying he didn’t love him.

Armand finding Marius hot lol

Armand feeling like an active participant in his sexual experience with Marius, “We began the kisses again,” not Marius did this to me.

I know a lot of people say that Armand is an unreliable narrator in this scene, which I find silly because even if he is, this is still his emotional truth about this experience, and he doesn't feel bad or exploited or like he was raped by Marius 500 years later. I think you're supposed to take the "victim's" feelings about an event into account, no?

But for the sake of argument let's look at Marius's perspective of this scene from Blood & Gold.

So Marius is pretty lost in the daddy sauce from the moment he scoops Amadeo up, his caregiver instincts take hold lol

He's truly in his element.

Marius confirms that Amadeo is quite accepting and willing with his intimacy unlike how he was with his abusers.

I see this quote thrown around a lot without context, but all you need to do is keep reading and, oh wait that's not so sinister... He literally stops wanting to die because of Marius's kisses.

I also see this line used a lot to show how "bad" this scene is.

But again, I'd argue based on everything we're shown in TVA this has more to do with religious trauma/shock then being traumatized by what Marius is doing. We know Armand does not reflect on this experience in a negative way and remembers it being pleasurable.

The immediate after math of the bath.

"He was breathing as though he were safe." and "Yet in his mute expression now I saw pure trust." And Amadeo immediately calling him "Master." To me this shows that the bath was in fact a healing experience for Amadeo, he feels incredibly safe in Marius's bed, he's not having nightmares, and he's looking to Marius as his Master already without being told or influenced to think that way. And well, yes this doesn't heal his religious trauma or bring back his memories, (I don't think even the greatest head in the world could do that) it does relax him in the moment and make him feel good, which is exactly what Marius wanted to do. I certainly don't think there's evidence to support that it traumatized him or was a negative experience for him in any way.

All this to say, I don't think you're wrong if this scene makes you uncomfortable or grosses you out. I think it's perfectly valid to have big problems with the way AR wrote about teen sexuality and age gap relationships, but what I'm sick of is people acting like I'm stupid or a pervert for not "getting it" and finding this scene appealing. I get that a situation like this involving a real minor and a real adult would be inherently traumatizing for that minor, but Marius and Amadeo are not real, Marius is an ancient vampire without a human sexuality, not an adult man using Amadeo for his own pleasure.

Just because I find their relationship kinky and appealing does not mean I lack media literacy, but if you think Armand's story is supposed to be about his trauma from being "sexually abused" by Marius, I am going to question if you are actually reading the text as it is written, or if you are projecting your own feelings of discomfort onto Armand's character and their relationship as a whole. For me the crossing of taboos is a feature of Rice's vampire relationships not a bug, I like the father/son/lover dynamic that they have.

[fenicenera83]

-In the archives of Talamasca, a love story creates an indestructible echo, the one between the millennial vampire called Marius and the black-winged angel vampire Armand.

De Romanus Coven Halloween Event:

DAY 4

Theme -> Talamasca

1-Prompt-> X-FILES

[joinmeindeathh]

Careful, he bites

I guess i'm feeling inspired today

[cardamomboy]

anne rice’s interview with the vampire, season 2 episode 4

“your father sunbathing” from ovid at fifteen by christopher bursk

the vampire armand, by anne rice

[teethingpains]

For day one of @valenfangs ! Bouquet

***

It had been Lestat's idea, the flowers, standing here now Marius wasn't sure it was the best idea. Yet here he was and he could hardly walk away now.

"He'll appreciate them, trust me."

Lestat had said.

Marius had no doubt Armand would like the flowers for their looks. The meanings however where what changed his usually calm expression into one of concern. He'd picked the blooms with the help of the florist: Red roses for love and passion, forget me not for devotion and memory, heliotrope for eternal love, and white tulips, for an apology.

It was a letter written in a gathering of flowers. Words he found hard to say otherwise, or didn't know how to say. The bouquet felt heavy in his arm though the flowers weighed nothing to him. The white flowers so simple yet the whole thing pivoted around them. He couldn't remember if he had ever voiced those words. The thought of retribution too much. He hoped that if Armand didn't want to hear it that he would simply ignore the deeper meaning of the flowers and spare him the sting of rejection.

[kaelio]

"Master, I've shut all the windows..."

With how often Marius also sleeps during the night, it's hard to imagine he never overslept into the day. I wonder what Armand would have thought, free to poke around...? ... Would he be a good custodian?

[vamptember]

Hello, vampire friends! Have you been naughty or nice this year? 🦇

We’ve decided to throw together a last minute 12 Days Nights of Christmas to bring some festive cheer to our fandom! ❄️ The prompts are meant to be fun and flirty or sweet and fluffy, chose your favorite flavor of holiday spirit! 🎁

From December 13 to Christmas Day share please your holiday fic, art, graphics, gif sets, headcanons, crafts, whatever you want, anything goes! As always, you’re welcome to base it on the books, the movies, the show, or the musical! Canon or AU, be creative! ☃️

Each day has three prompts, mix and match if you like, do whatever you want with them! Tag your creations with #vamptemberxmas so we can see and rb! 🎄 AO3 collection here!

𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖙𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖚𝖙! 𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖊 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖋𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖘!

1. Stocking Stuffer / Winter Wonderland / Jingle Bells

2. Fireplace / Baby, It's Cold Outside / Feast

3. Underneath the Mistletoe / Baking / Deck The Halls

4. Naughty or Nice / Holiday Traditions / Snowstorm

5. Northern Lights / Vacation / Ornaments

6. Santa Baby / Warm Drinks / Bookstore

7. The Nutcracker / Angels / Christmas In New York

8. Holiday Party / Toy Store / Stolen Kiss

9. Ugly Christmas Sweater / Candy Canes / Winter Solstice

10. FREE DAY

11. Carriage Ride / Mass / Santa's Little Helper

12. Ice Skating / Merry & Bright / Wrapped with a Bow

[eniokai]

I need a scene in s3 with Daniel, Louis, Lestat, Marius and someone random like Rashid/Sam playing "Never Have I Ever"

Someone says: "I never f*cked Armand"

And everyone in the room drinks.

[romanticizingmurder]

The Vampire Armand:

Blood & Gold:

(like father like lover like son)

[wretcheddoll]

Remember during the banquet when one of the men told Marius that he could father Amadeo better than him and Marius immediately killed him?

Cause I do 👀

[fenicenera83]

That's a proud Master ♡