#marius/pandora

[funtheysaid]

iwtv ships be like 🧶🕸️🌪️

[hekateinhell]

loustat

early devil's minion

pandora/marius

bianca

[nothing-but-paisley]

Top 12 romantic vc moments:

12. Pandora and Marius have sex mortal style while arguing the entire time

11. Devil's minion movie nights with Daniel agreeing to watch Blade Runner 500 times

10. Distraught Marius reunites with Armand after he survives going into the sun

9. Bianca tenderly caring for the dying Amadeo

8. Lestat calling Armand good to embrace and good to love

7. Amadeo hacks through Marius' door with a battle axe

6. Lestat & Louis' first flight

5. Nickistat drunken makeout at the inn

4. Armand tells Louis he wants him more than anything in the world

3. Daniel's turning in the imaginary garden

2. Pre-concert Loustat reunion

1. The Villa of the Mysteries

[desertfangs]

Daniel and Pandora arguing over what to watch while Marius pretends not to care but sighs very deeply when something he dislikes is finally agreed upon.

Which all becomes moot anyhow when Armand comes into the room, snatches the remote, and fires up YouTube because they absolutely must see this video of a goat walking along a fence in the middle of a forest fire.

[monstersinthecosmos]

What makes me laugh about all the accusations that Marius is such a rampant predator with a pattern of preying on SO MANY CHILDREN is that when people bring up Pandora I know that they got upset and threw the book and didn't even finish reading the exact same page because just a few paragraphs down:

"You are out of your mind!" My Father turned his back on Marius, who gave me a sad smile and disappeared. "What did he mean? What happened?" I asked my Father. "What's the matter?" "Listen, Lydia," said my Father. "Have you in all your readings come across the word 'betrothed'?" "Yes, Father, of course." "Well, that sort of wanderer and dreamer likes nothing better than to betroth himself to a young girl of ten because it means she is not old enough to marry and he has years of freedom, without the censure of the Emperor. They do it all the time." "No, no, Father," I said. "I shall never forget him." I think I forgot him the next day.

I know fandom has brought this up again and again and again but I guess we'll keep bringing up if people keep refusing to read just a little bit more of the page to learn that he DIDNT want to marry Pandora, that was the point lol. He didn't want to be married at all.

[wretcheddoll]

"He suddenly dosed his arms around me, surprising me, holding me firmly and rubbing his cheek gently against my hair, and kissing my head. Silken, polished, gentle beyond words. 'Pandora, Pandora, Pandora...'"

-Pandora

"He laughed softly as he answered me with more fragrant and harmless kisses. His warm breath came in a soft whistling flood against my groin. 'Amadeo, Amadeo, Amadeo,' he said."

-The Vampire Armand

"'Fill me, take me,' I said. I reached down between his legs

'It doesn't matter now.'

But it was hard, this organ forever lost to the god Osiris. I guided it, hard and cold as it was, into my body."

-Pandora

"'I'd give you anything,' I said imploringly. I put my hand between his legs. Oh, he was wonderfully hard. That was not uncommon, but he must let me take him further; he must trust me."

-The Vampire Armand

Marius and his horny lovers who won't leave him alone to read and paint in peace-poor guy 😔

[ladisgarde]

Marius calling Pandora "Pandörchen" when they met in Germany and no she didn't love it.

[romanticizingmurder]

Marius asking Armand to be his child forever and telling Pandora he could take care of every detail of her life like she was his daughter rewrote my brain in ways I can't adequately describe I love that man so much

[cinnamonclove]

Marius and Pandora for the ask game!

12. Do they have many heated arguments? How do they smooth things over?

56. What do they do to turn the other on/put them in the mood?

12. Yes they argue, probably too often. It’s about little insignificant things that feel extremely important in the moment, neither of them like to lose but Marius hates to admit defeat and will know he’s on the wrong side of the argument but keeps arguing his point anyways. They are both stubborn, but eventually the argument will fade. Maybe an hour or so later one will see the other engrossed in a book and ask what it’s about. I think the most important thing is how Marius tells Bianca that even though they argued it was still satisfying, and the conversations they would have were mentally stimulating.

They are quite physically affectionate to each other, in Pandora’s book she says that on nights they were not talking to each other they would still hold hands and embrace each other. Which is so bittersweet and sad 😭.

56. Honestly, these two don’t have to do that much to turn the other on. They are both very attracted to one another, Marius holds her as a standard of beauty, he also loves her wit and intelligence. So many times Pandora mentions how handsome she thinks Marius is, given the comment above about them always needing to embrace each other I think that simply being in each other’s presence is enough to put them in the mood.

[0junemeatcleaver0]

Pandora x Flavius | Marius NC17 19K Words

“I…thank you.” Had it not only been five minutes ago when he was contemplating taking Pandora over the very lecti this man was now sitting on? Had Flavius not started this night feeling better than he had in many months? He sighs, suddenly feeling very tired. “So what happens now?” “How do you mean?”  “You must be here for a reason? I don’t mean to be rude, of course not, but…my wife and I did not invite you here for dinner. And so you must have some business here with us.”  “Yes. Of course.” He pulls a sheath of paper from his toga and unrolls it. From where Flavius stands he can see it is the same paper the censualis cum censitor had filled out just three nights before. “Because the censualis had no right to take these figures himself, I have been tasked with checking his work.” “So we must take the census again?”  “I’m afraid so, yes.” The censor clears his throat and takes up the wine, pouring himself another healthy measure. “My apologies for the hassle.”  “Oh, of course not.” Flavius sighs again, pouring himself some wine. He holds the bottle up to Pandora, offering. Hastily, she thrusts her glass towards him. He notices a slight tremor in her hand.  “Now,” says the censor, “Do you promise to give an accurate account of yourself, your family and your property?” 

Flavius--a slave being sold in ancient Antioch--is bought by a mysterious woman named Pandora. Pulled into a life built of Pandora's lies and forced to pose as her husband, the two begin to be harassed by a Roman Censor who takes a special interest in the couple. But as this strange man further insinuates himself into their lives, secrets are revealed begging more questions than Flavius has answers to. But the real question is just how much danger are they in?

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[apoptoses]

#VCKinkWeek begins on Monday, 7/24!

Get ready to post your fic, art, headcanons or meta- anything goes! Repromoting older works that fit the prompts is totally fine too. And don't forget, kink doesn't just mean smut. Some kink play isn't sexual in nature, and since we're dealing with vampires there's a lot of room to play with these concepts (and how these characters might play with them themselves). Canon, post-canon, AU, all are welcome. So get creative as you can ♥

Just make sure to tag your post #VCKinkWeek and I'll be reblogging as much as possible. Hope to see you there!

[hekateinhell]

Marius talking about Lestat in B&G actually makes me very soft:

I will never forget how comely he appeared, with his fabled yellow hair and his fathomless blue eyes, how eternally young, how full of frenetic hope and marvelous dreams, and how wounded and stricken he was to be sent away. And how my heart ached that I must do it. I wanted only to keep him close - my pupil, my lover, my rebel.

I had so loved his rippling speech, his honest questions, his daring appeals for the Queen's heart and freedom. Could we not save her somehow from Enkil? Could we not somehow enliven her? But it was oh, so dangerous even to talk of such things, and Lestat could not grasp it. And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

And it’s fun to contrast it with this famous line he says to Armand in TVA:

"No, Amadeo, be my challenger, be my questioner, be my bold and ungrateful pupil."

And we can’t forget Pandora, who went head-to-head with him more than anyone, and he obsessed over her for thousands of years! I feel like part of his attraction to those who challenge him may be the fact that he never had the freedom, the option even, to rebel from his own duty to The Parents. 😦

[vamptember]

It’s Week 2 of #VCKinkFest and this week’s prompts are:

• Edging • Double Penetration • Lingerie • Breathplay • Figging

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[desertfangs]

Outside of the obvious (Lestat reading IwtV, then starting a rockband, writing his own autobiography, and waking Akasha in the process), which vampire's reaction to another's book do you think was most explosive/massive/life changing? Which caused a fight or long conversations or made people avoid each other?

Please feel free to explain your answers in the tags or comments or suggest other possibilities. These are the ones I think probably had the biggest character impact but I'm probably forgetting something major. And please reblog/share for better results.

[monstersinthecosmos]

Some Marius/Pandora content from the Pandora draft at Tulane:

He set me down in the middle of this library, amid its couches and racks of scrolls. He stared at me. Beautiful Marius. I realized he was looking right at my nipples, at how pink they were, and then shamelessly he let his eyes wander over my entire form. I didn't realize yet that all wrinkles of age had been smoothed away. I knew only that I intoxicated with my new vision and that he desired me so much his heart was quivering in him. I reached over and pulled at his tunic. I pulled at the buckle he wore on his shoulder. "What are you doing." "I want to see you as well," I said. "I want to see this marvelous Osirian phallus, that is now no more than an ornament." He rebuckled his tunic. "Why do you cause me pain like this? Why?" "Because you treat me badly," I said. He stepped forward and clasped my face. He meant to kiss me. I wouldn't have it. "Look, master magician. Conjure up a tunic for me. It's not my habit to launch into religious debates while stark naked." He was poisoned by my words. It broke my heart to see how I had hurt him. I did not want to see the blood film rise in his eyes. But I knew his pain as if it had tentacles and they could surround me and draw me deeper and deeper to the core.

I fucking can't get over the concept of Marius as a fledgling trying to make sense of desire and thirst and sexuality. Pandora is so much more open about wanting to poke at it and figure it out and yet he's so burdened and traumatized already, so unable to be vulnerable. I wish we got more canon about this time phase of vampirism from other characters aside from David in the beginning of Merrick, it's really so underexplored!

[romanticizingmurder]

By the way very important to me that anyone who hasn't read Pandora knows that this line is before Pandora has ever seen his dick, she's just desperately trying to get into his tunic (who can blame her).

Between this and demanding they consumate with penetration I really admire Pandora for her sheer Marius thirst.