#merrick mayfair

[miraculan-draws]

hear me out bailey bass as merrick mayfair

[adamnablelittledevil]

Does anyone know accounts that make fanart of other characters like Pandora, Merrick, Bianca, Jesse, Maharet, Mekare, Petronia, Zenobia, Sybelle, Benji, Flavius, Avicus etc? Including other dynamics like Armand and his children, Maharet and her sister and/or niece, Pandora and Flavius, Armand and Riccardo etc. Preferably if they do some race-swapping and make things not as white as the books. Thank you! 💗

[virginiaisforvampires]

Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking. Do you think that since the show already used a huge plot from the book Merrick, do they still plan to introduce Merrick as a character? On the one hand, since Louis is the main character in the show and she's the only other fledgling that he ever had it feels like she's way too important for Louis to not include her? Plus, she's one of the few black female vampires and the show loves diversity. On the other hand, they're doing ghost!Claudia way earlier than in the books and it seems like they're skipping the crossover books anyway so I'm not sure what role would she play?

Maybe unpopular opinion, but I never cared about her relationship with Louis and since she didn't live very long as a vampire, introducing her only to just kill her off soon after would only serve to further traumatize Louis? Unless they completely changed her storyline or combine her with some other character. Thougths?

Hi there!

I mean, Louis didn’t truly care about Merrick, imo. She cast a spell to literally bewitch him into turning her and once that spell wore off, Louis held the same attitude towards her as he did Madeleine, which I like to call his “eh sure whatever” attitude.

I would actually go so far as to say Lestat became more of a mentor/protector to Merrick than Louis. Lestat gave Merrick some of his blood for strength, and Lestat was the one who went into the fire to try and save her, but he was too late.

So no, I don’t think Merrick will be introduced in the show and especially since Anne said she regretted those books and told fans to disregard them from canon, because Rolin is taking everything Anne said — her Facebook posts, her diaries, her rough drafts — and using it all as the framework for the show.

[hasmoneanbulbasaur]

Can anybody who's read Merrick by Anne Rice tell me what they thought about it? It's one of the Vampire Chronicles books.

[colourfulshadows]

Okay question: It's kinda hard to move freely without spoilers in vampire chronicles book spaces when one has read some books but not all yet. I've read up to and including The Vampire Armand (+started Pandora but paused) and I read a few pages of Merrick and really want to continue with the VC- then I heard it's best to read the Mayfair chronicles first. I read about 100 pages of The Witching Hour and sorry but for me it's boring af. Is it worth it, for better enjoyment of the later VC books, to sit through reading the Mayfair chronicles? Honest opinion?

[iloustat]

⚠️ VAMPIRE CHRONICLES SPOILERS ⚠️

I’ve always had a soft spot for Merrick Mayfair. One of my favorite characters. Whenever she’s mentioned after her death, my heart can’t take it. 😭

“Merrick had left us early of her own will. She'd been one of those powerful souls utterly convinced of an afterlife more interesting than this world. Maybe she was thriving in that afterlife, or lost in the upper air with the other spirits and ghosts…”

“This was Merrick Mayfair, only three years among the Undead or less…

The spirit was gone, and so was Merrick Mayfair…

Immortals who think they want the Dark Blood perish infinitely more easily than those of us who never asked for it. Perhaps the anger of the rape carries us through for centuries.”

[irisbleufic]

It’s neat to me that you described Maharet’s skin as olive/darker in tone during the Paris arrival scene a couple stories ago. It makes much more sense for that to be the case given where she originated than to be pale/white like Jesse (who is many generations removed, obvs). Red hair is documented in almost every population on earth so it’s not even dissonant for her to still be a redhead. It makes me trust you with whatever decisions you’ll make around a couple of other characters <3

I mean, let’s face it, Anne Rice had the deeply unfortunate habit of always making sure that many/most of her characters of color were described as having the lightest shade of skin possible. I’m not about that, nope. Coming from the ancient Levant, chances just aren’t high that Maharet (and someone else) would be the way they’re described in the book when it comes to their skin. I mean, Merrick was also whitewashed, which is why I’ve course corrected on her, too. I’m hope, hope, hoping the show will make sound casting decisions around Maharet, Akasha, and any other of the ancient vampires from the Levant, Egypt, and the broader Middle East. Guess we’ll see.

[shilsvampsinger]

I finished reading Merrick and Merrick Mayfair has done nothing wrong in her entire life I'll stand by that and if she shows up somewhere in the Talamasca show or IWTV I'll be happy forever.

[bubblegum-blackwood]

VC ladies! (some of them, at least)

We got Sybelle, Rose, Eudoxia, Zenobia, Bianca, Mona, Petronia, Rowan, Jesse, Gabrielle, Sevraine, Baby Jenks, Allesandra, Akasha, Merrick, Pandora, Maharet, Mekare, Aunt Queen, and Claudia

[vampiricinsanity]

“To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.” Anne Rice.

Book version fanfic. Set in the time of Prince Lestat. Mentions of the show and movie are made.

A woman named Quinn travels to New Orleans to fulfill her dreams of seeing the sights where the famous Lestat walked in the stories. And even paying a visit to a loved ones grave as thanks for turning her life around.

However things turn strange. She meets a man who speaks of the Mayfair's, wakes up one day to find everyone is behaving oddly, acting as though the books are not a work of fiction and are reality. She finds her hotel reservations are gone. She cannot go home as her plane ticket doesn't seem to be real as they tell here theres no one registered under that name or code. She gets strange looks for her chosen last name. The town seemed more retro then she remembered it.

She is nearly driven to madness when she meets the woman of the hour herself, Rowan Mayfair, who has got some loaded questions for poor Quinn. Who is she? And why does she share a name with Tarquin Blackwood, and carry the last name, Mayfair?

[miraculan-draws]

Louis settling back down in New Orleans because not only is it home, but it's HIS CITY!!

But then he notices that NOLA is absolutely fucking CRAWLING. With TALAMASCA!! how long had they been there?? Why had he never noticed?? They had someone assigned to his case within a month of him being back, but nothing ever really came of it.

UNTIL!! his "agent" (Merrick I hope IWTV gets you before Mayfair can ruin you) comes up and gives him a business card for her boss. Like we have some questions for you. But we PROMISE. it's not even about the book. It's not even about vampires, really. Your vampirism, in this instance, is simply the convenience for us that now inconveniences you.

Cautiously curious, he agrees. He's sitting down across from Ciprian Grieve—who wins some points with Louis for being both gentlemanly and handsome, but also he better watch out because Louis du Lac would also eat him alive for looking tasty.

And what does the Talamasca want to ask??

"What do you remember about a Storyville regular named Julien Mayfair?"

And he LAUGHS

[adamnablelittledevil]

A spin-off about Maharet and her descendants or Merrick's family would've been so awesome. Specially the latter, since Merrick is black and practices vodoo and when do you get to see that on screen? I hope we can still get something like this, since AMC seems eager to expand this universe. Even if there isn't much on the books, with the right creative mind, I'm sure they can use the source as a foundation to come up with great original content and elevate the story. I even have a writer in mind that I could see developing the show, that has created another series I love and had a bunch of women and/or people of color in front of and behind the cameras in her previous work... Somebody please start this campaign.

[virginiaisforvampires]

All those extracts from books Anne was planning to write at some point are making me sad

I feel like I'm grieving an alternative universe in which she decided to ahead and write those instead of what we got

Does that make sense?

The whole war against humanity and the Talamasca sounds so cool, and if she had kept the pool of characters smaller as apparently she originally planned maybe we could have had them actually interacting with each other and having conversations and opinions about each other which is something I always wished he could get in canon

It makes perfect sense. I’m still delaying reading the final revised version of Chapter 7 from the recent Lestat And King Louis XIV draft, because I don’t want it to end. 😩😢

But yeah, I think the Talamasca/humanity war was something Anne toyed with for years. The ending of Merrick was seemingly leading into a Lestat vs. the Talamasca showdown due to what had transpired with Louis and David and Merrick. So yeah, I kinda wish she would’ve went in that direction too. Instead we got Blackwood Farm with Louis and Lestat estranged and Lestat still being an enemy of the Talamasca even though they fear him.

[mothpdf]

I don't talk about her bc I don't have anything smart to say about her but merrick is so precious to me

[bodythieves]

idc I’m just reading any Anne rice novel that becomes available at my library so I’m reading merrick rn and honestly Anne what the fuck lol

[v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e]

It’s only now that i’m well into my Merrick reread that I realized that there’s a book character that almost made it into the Interview With The Vampire show, even appeared in the script, but it was ultimately cut out; that would be Oncle Vervain.

The script describes him as a young Voodo Priest, and it’s not far from he is in the books. This is how Merrick first describes him:

In the books, Oncle Vervain is a member of the Mayfair family. He is Irene Flaurent Mayfair‘s brother; Irene Mayfair is better known by the name of Great Nananne. She was Merrick Mayfair’s godmother and also her great-great-grandmother.