#once again a six person polycule with 200+ years of history together is a lot to juggle

[echoes-lighthouse]

F/O Introductions (#25): Messy Vampire Polycule

I figured I should probably make a single introduction post for this selfship, so I can put it on my pinned post! (source: Interview With The Vampire/The Vampire Chronicles, mixed tv/book universe)

Echo is a twenty-year-old University student in 1985, into the alternative music scene and often to be found at vampire clubs. One day, they're approached by a person who has questions about the band shirt they're wearing, which is for The Vampire Lestat, a popular band in their circles. They get to talking with the stranger, and they end up leaving together at around 3am.

That person is Gabrielle, a vampire from the 1700s, and she turns Echo into a vampire a few weeks later, with the two of them vowing to share immortality. Echo is Gabrielle's first fledgling and they share a close and intimate relationship, somewhere between mother-and-child and two lovers.

They find a rhythm that works for them: often together, but occasionally parting ways for a year or two at a time, as Gabrielle prefers the wilderness and Echo prefers the hum of the city.

In the 2020s, Echo is dropped off on the doorstep of two other vampires, who are supposed to take care of them in Dubai while Gabrielle is travelling the wilderness. Those vampires are Louis and Armand, another bonded pair who have travelled alone for over seventy years, and are wary to have a new vampire in their midst: it's slowly unraveled that all of them share connections to Lestat, the vampire from the band in the 80s (all recordings since lost to time).

From there, the tangle of relationships only grows more complicated as a retired reporter from America arrives to finish an interview from the seventies and scratches the scabs off injuries that haven't finished healing, which will draw Lestat back into the coven while stringing tensions much higher between everyone involved.