#steve the vampaneze

[st3vethevampan3ze]

omg r u like a real vampire??? if I put a mirror in front of u would you not show???

wait do you drink blood and kill ppl cause that’d make u a villain id have to defeat 😟

Close! I'm vampaneze 😜

Vampires are total wimps. I haven't killed anyone yet but I have had my fair share of blood! I am pretty awesome so I doubt you would attack me but good luck if you want to try.

Steve out *drops mic* 😎

[st3vethevampan3ze]

Aw cmon Derek! You can match with me (⁠・⁠∀⁠・⁠)

are u gonna dress up as anything for halloween?😙

not.

[aubreve-art]

Some concepts for where Steve would hide his army before they built the caverns under the city - why not a grand, abandoned hotel? Lots of space for everyone plus Steve can make shit jokes like this:

Guess who’s sleeping in the bath.

[bootscootboogyin]

made more content of my favorite babysitter, mr. harst, with oc makers 💕

[joshhutchersonseggsalad]

Guys idccc bulls in the bronx by pierce the veil is literallyyy steve leonards SONG. Ever since I seen an edit of him with this jam I literally cant noT think of him when I hear it. He deserved better and I love him. Need to see him with darren again right nyowww😾🖤

[tetsunabouquet]

Kinktober Round 3

[flygonscales]

I’m rereading the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak) and oh my goddddddd

What do you put in your books Darren?? It is not often I read something so addictive. I saw someone describe them as being like crack. And yeah I can see that I don’t even read Animorphs books this voraciously

(Spoilers below)

And yet. Rereading the second half of the series. When you know who the vampaneze lord is and how it’s going to end. Just:

God. (Or should I say, Charna’s guts!) the planning that must have gone into the series. I can see the foreshadowing/just a prophesy that they don’t know how to follow properly because they don’t know how it ends. It’s like how a horror film protag doesn’t check why a cup fell down because they don’t know they’re in a horror film. Darren! You had Steve at your mercy! SEVERAL TIMES!!! Kill him! It’s unbearable!!! He’s lying!!!!!! This is like a fucking Greek tragedy mess of a plot!!!!!!!!

(Just try. Try reading Allies of the Night knowing full well what’s happening)

(The Greek tragedy comparison makes sense though, Darren is literally struggling against Des Tiny, even if he doesn’t know it)

And then, Mr Crepsley is dead, and Darren (post depression) and Harkat go on holiday to the nuclear dragon desert to gather panther teeth, gelatinous toad globes and Grotesque venom so they can go fishing for souls! It’s very reasonable that the war is drawing to a close so we need a break before the final battle but those toad spheres came of left field.

And then we hear the cirque du freak is returning to Darren’s hometown!! Love it when heroes return after most of their journey and discover they’ve changed too much to go back! But especially Darren, who cannot talk to anyone or even look around too much. He died. I LOVE IT I LOVE THESE BOOKS SO MUCH BUT I AM TEARING AND CRAWLING OUT OF MY SKIN THEY HURT SO BAD I JUST WANT MY BOYS TO BE HAPPY AND SAFE AGAIN)

(Boys includes: Darren, Harkat, Mr Crepsley. Vancha, Alice and Debbie. Not Steve Leopard. Fuck Steve Leopard. All my homies hate Steve Leopard)

And another thing: now I know about actual science - ‘vampire atoms are wobbly so they don’t show up on cameras’ - that is some of the most shallow pseudo scientific bullshit I’ve seen outside of JoJo’s. I love it. It’s so silly and makes no sense.

[virgil-is-a-cutie]

Snow, Glass, Apples has magic, smut, nudity and death. It tells the story from the evil queens perspective as a beautiful retelling.

Apple White getting the role of the evil queen in Snow, Glass, Apples. While Raven Queen gets to be a vampire Snow White who gets her happily ever after with her prince. The prince being Daring Charming. A random legacy year teenager as the good king who dies because Raven feeds off of him as food.

With how the story book of legends is it’s going to keep itself shut until legacy day to show their destiny, and then they have to go through with it. Why is this happening? It’s because of Ravens doormat vampire genes decided to make itself appear as a dominant trait for this generation and it’s been awhile since ‘Snow, Glass, Apples’ has been told.

This would go well with the bio dad Steve Leonard where she's a vampaneze, but I'd say Raven is a vampire from her mother, or perhaps Mira cheated on James Good/King with a vampire and rsince she has magic it lets Mira be pregnant an appropriate amount and Raven looks human, but her aging slows down at 21 years old.

I checked out the plot of the story and it's so interesting and unique. but it'll be odd to see how it plays.

It could be maybe Apple marries a distant cousin of Mira's from her father's side who was a Good King making them Raven's cousin and then in the tale Raven is in their kingdom as a Lady-in-Waiting for Apple and slowly thats when the tale begins idk tbh

[hapalopus]

AU where Steve re-blooded Darren as a vampaneze just for the hell of it. You can't tell me he isn't crazy enough to do it. He made Darren go to high school, he would do literally anything to torture Darren.

[st3vethevampan3ze]

!!꒰ᥕᥱᥣᥴ᥆꧑ᥱ t᥆ ꧑ᥡ bᥣ᥆g꒱!!

(post movie!!)

☆.｡.:* Hey! it's your favourite vampire/vampaneze enthusiast, Steve himself.

☆.｡.:* I heard Tumblr was gaining popularity and decided to join in on the fun when I'm not out with Mr Tiny (which is constantly 🙄)

☆.｡.:* I hope to join the community and maybe meet some other vampire chicks, who knows??

Likes:

• vampaneze

• bats

• the dark

• sour patch kids

• getting in trouble

• those fast rides at the fair 😋

Dislikes:

• insects (spiders mostly)

• history lessons

• my parents.

• super sunny days

• reading..

• freaks

• vampires (like Darren..)

• liars

Uh yeah, that's pretty much it!! Leave stuff in my inbox please 😎

(note: finally finished vampires assistant, but since Steve is kind of a second hand character I might still mischaracterise him and I'm so sorryy.. I'm not sure if any other Steve's are on this app but I know I haven't seen any but I'm just here for some fun! Owner of this account is not a minor!!!)

[dragontamer05]

Darren Shan does a good job at playing with your expectations- I hesitate to call it a plot twists exactly since often the outcome isn't too surprising but at the same time can write things in just away where it believably could go differently and makes you wish that it wasn't this way.

Two examples off the top of my head are Crepsley's death and just the whole reunion with Steve.

For Crepsley I mean as it is by that point in the story I'd hope most if not everyone reading even if he's not a favourite character I just find it hard to imagine anyone sitting and waiting and wanting him to die- and at the very least us readers know that Darren sure as hell doesn't want that to happen.

But as the scene plays out you know how it's happening but even so right at the start of the next chapter, he dangles that carrot in the readers face. A whole scene written and played out of what could happen, what Darren wished had happened but then reality hits because it doesn't happen (even having Darren the character make comments of how 'if it was a story X would happen but it's not it's reality and stuff like that doesn't happen' more or less anyway)

And honestly it makes it hurt all the more as you are straight up given an image of a dramatic play out of what could be but isn't, whether you actually allow yourself to believe for a moment that he did survive or now the whole time that what's being said isn't true and he won't be surviving this

The other is Darren's reunion with his best friend Steve, this story at it's core is a very much Friend's to Enemies but once again for a moment you get led to believe maybe just maybe they can be friends again.

Sure Steve was a twisted messed up kid, but that's the thing at the start of it he was a kid but now it's like 20 or so years later and is all grown up. So you want to believe Darren, you want Darren to be right that his friend has changed, that he's matured, gotten the help he clearly needed as a child and is really on his side. Or at least is willing to put aside differences to go after the common enemy of Vampaneze

Of course one can't rule out deception, and manipulation which even as a kid would easily be in this twisted man's wheel house, even the other characters being understandably cautious around him given their knowledge.

And for the keen eyed there are as always plenty of bread crumbs trailing to the truth / make one suspicious but once again he writes their interactions so well and just seeing Darren happy even when I read it, knowing full well what's to come oof it hurts and every time there's that part that just wishes it could go different- not in a I want to actually change the story and how it's written way but because this is something the Darren has always wanted.

Darren just wants his friend back and for a brief time it really seemed like he might get his wish, but alas that's not what was meant to be.

It wasn't Destiny as would likely be said in the book.

[mystery-of-arkham-asylum]

Am reading again. Continuing where I left off with The Saga of Darren Shan.

I have a feeling Steve Leonard may be the Vampaneze Lord by what Lerten says in the first book. He has just turned up again in the 8th book and I am not ruling the possibility out just yet.

[bootscootboogyin]

hey guess what - it’s me again, with more ai creations of a side character from an old ass ya book - GANNEN HARST

some of these are down right scary and im sorry for that 😬 which one is your favorite?

[mikaverleth]

Here’s the full spoiler summary of Bloodline and beyond for those who like the idea of the AU and want to read the spinoffs but don’t have the interest or capacity to consume 400k words of MikaKurda slowburn. Fair, honestly. I wanted to make this available on AO3 somewhere but the word count was too much for the series notes field. Imagine that.

My empire of brainrot under the cut:

Rewind 30 years. Mika and Kurda accidentally acquire an orphaned human baby whomst we know as Gracie. Her family was slaughtered by a vampaneze gone astray from his clan. Mika and Kurda fall in hopelessly love against their better judgement. First with the baby, then with each other. Gracie becomes a semi-permanent resident of Vampire Mountain but attends boarding school for much of her life. For timeline reference, Gracie and Darren are roughly the same age. The canon events leading up to the Vampire Mountain arc cause tension between Mika and Kurda. Enter Darren & co. Books 4-6 play out as we know them, except Kurda is exiled rather than executed due to Mika’s unwillingness to live with his daughter’s father’s blood on his hands.

Bloodline opens where the War of the Scars begins. Mika and Kurda nurse their gaping emotional wounds far away from each other. Kurda secures a small seaside cabin for himself and distracts himself with volunteer work in the community. After falling into what us humans would recognize as severe depression, Mika finds grim fulfillment fighting in the war and serving as a reluctant mentor figure for the young vampires travelling with him. Mika visits Gracie as much as he can during this period. Having grown from a bitter teenager to a young adult — a lawyer, no less — Gracie asks Mika to deliver a letter to Kurda from her as he once promised he would. The ensuing reuinion between Mika and Kurda is both cathartic and excruciating for both of them. They do not part ways on good terms, but each manages to gain a better understanding of the mutual damage they’ve inflicted upon each other.

With that shift in perspective, Mika begins to realize how futile the war is and ultimately accepts Kurda acted in the clan’s best interest. The catalyst is the death of a young vampire who fell taking a vampet’s bullet for Mika. The deceased vampire leaves behind a grieving prospective mate — Jakob Wiles. Remember that name. Shortly after, Mika’s group returns to the mountain and we return to canon. Des Tiny shows up as in book 7 and the conversation unfolds the same; except for the addendum where Tiny admits Kurda’s survival was a surprise but insists the prophecy remains valid because Kurda is still dead in the eyes of the clan. The Hunters leave the mountain the same as in canon.

Back in his old mountain routine, Mika grows restless and finds distraction by way of hooking up with a charismatic General named Renley Azerion. Renley ultimately falls for Mika. While Mika enjoys Renley’s company, he is crippled by trust issues and unable to reciprocate. Meanwhile Kurda continues to struggle with isolation from the clan and inability to fully bond with the humans that surround him; because that would mean lying to them. Des Tiny pays him a visit and cryptically congratulates him for throwing a wrench into the scheme.

Not long after, Paris Skyle’s funeral results in a reunion between Mika, Arrow, and Vancha. War-related tensions run high and a fight breaks out between the three of them. They patch things up but the fight is a wake up call for all three of them as they realize firsthand how the war is tearing the clans apart. Not even the Princes are safe.

We fully diverge from canon during the book 9 era. A calculated vampaneze attack on Gracie (we find out later it was on Steve’s orders) draws Mika out of Vampire Mountain and Kurda out of exile. They save her, but her boyfriend is slaughtered and her human life is over as she knows it. Mika takes Gracie back to the mountain for safety. Before Mika and Kurda part ways, Kurda tells Mika the location of a sealed letter back in Vampire Mountain and urges him to read it.

Back in the mountain, Gracie is unable to see a way back to a normal human life and decides she wants to become a vampire. Mika rejects the idea at first but relents after reading Kurda’s letter which reveals that Kurda never planned to kill Mika during his betrayal in book 6. He’d set aside a separate poison for Mika to induce a temporary coma thus giving him a chance to escape the mountain and keep Gracie safe while Kurda was presumably executed after merging the clans. Mika is stunned by the revelation after seven years of believing Kurda’s intention was to kill him along with Arrow and Paris.

Meanwhile Kurda winds up in Evanna’s cave where he learns she’s been using Gracie as a pawn to work against Des Tiny since the beginning. Truth is the entire prophecy was derailed when Kurda walked away with his life after betraying the clan in book 6. Tiny simply never accounted for a timeline where Kurda didn’t kill Mika or Mika didn’t kill Kurda. Evanna wants the war to end. His spark rekindled, Kurda intervenes in the Cavern of Retribution.

Things in the Cavern play out mostly the same as canon at first, before going off the rails once and for all. Larten is spared but gravely injured. The fake Lord is killed, but Steve (also gravely injured) manipulates Darren into sparing him by revealing he had a child with Annie. Gannen strikes a deal with Vancha, promising to join the peace movement in exchange for the Vampire Mountain medics saving Steve’s life. So Steve is brought back to the mountain along with Larten, Kurda, Harkat, and Darren. (In a police helicopter stolen by Alice. No, that’s not a reach. This is Alice Fucking Burgess). Meanwhile Vancha and Gannen get to work spreading the news that the war is over. Vancha also promises to check in on Darius to ease Darren’s concerns.

So we’ve arrived back at the mountain. Mika and Kurda cautiously reconnect. Gracie is blooded as a vampire. Larten recovers from his injuries. Steve is moved from the infirmary to the dungeons once medically stable. The rationality behind Gannen’s investment in Steve’s life remains suspicious to Darren & co, but all are eager to end the war. Steve begins to pull strings from within his cell via manipulating Jakob Wiles who’s been assigned to guard his cell. Jakob rejects the notion of peace and has begun to despise his former mentor, Mika. Jakob is not the only vampire to stand against the forthcoming peace treaty. He begins working with Steve behind the Princes’ backs.

Vancha returns to Vampire Mountain with Gannen and Darius, having determined that Darius (a fresh half-blooded vampaneze) was posing a danger to himself and the humans around him. Darius is angry and confused. Darren struggles to reason with him. Kurda stands trial once again, and is reinstated into the clan (not pardoned) by a 49/51 vote. While everyone is distracted with the trial, Jakob sneaks Darius to the dungeons at Steve’s bidding. Steve plans to break out and forcibly reblood Darius as a Vampire Prince so he may control the Stone & Hall via his son. Jakob also coordinates a handful of other anti-peace vampires to flit from the mountain to A) round up Steve’s loyalest followers, B) seize guns from the vampets and smuggle them back into the mountain for a hostile takeover, and C) blame all of it on Kurda. Jakob tries and fails to murder Renley Azerion after mistakenly thinking he can convince him to turn on the Princes. Ren survives, but is unable to remember who attacked him.

The takeover plan comes to fruition the very day the peace treaty is to be signed into law. It has been agreed upon by both clans that the vampaneze will introduce their equivalent of Princes, although without the same level of authority. They’ll call them Elders and their role will be to serve as guides rather than leaders. Four are appointed — Gannen Harst, Shane Astor, Evin Ochoa, and Lars Slater. Ochoa and Slater are killed by Jakob’s men upon arriving at the mountain. Chaos breaks out. The Princes are captured and held prisoner in their own Hall by gun-wielding guards who’ve turned on the clan.

The truths of Steve’s true identity and Jakob’s treachery come out, and the Hall of Princes becomes a battle ground. Evanna appears before Kurda as a quasi-hallucination and shows him what would’ve been Darren’s nightmare in Lord of the Shadows. As in canon, the role of Lord of the Shadows will fall to whichever of them survives; Steve or Darren. Unlike with canon, there’s a third option. If Kurda kills one of them, he will become the Lord — but will have the moral character to hold all that power without letting it destroy anything or anyone. Kurda kills Steve seconds before Darren would’ve, thus fulfilling the prophecy.

Both Mika and Kurda are almost killed in the battle — Mika by taking a bullet for Kurda, and Kurda by transferring his blood into Mika. Both survive, because otherwise what was the fucking point of all that? They acknowledge love that remains between them while accepting neither of them are ready to pick up where they left off. Meanwhile, Darren grapples with complicated grief after witnessing Steve’s death and rekindled resentment for Larten for blooding him all those years ago and starting the chain of events that caused his entire family so much pain. Nevertheless, peace between the clans can truly begin.

Vancha and Darren spearhead a five-year mission in which they travel the world and meet with vampires and vampaneze to spread the word and gain an understanding of what both sides will and won’t compromise on. With them goes Kurda, Gracie, Gannen, and Shane. Darius leaves the mountain with the group as well; Darren reunites him with Annie as soon as he can. After some deliberation Darren ends up reuniting with his parents as well. After a lot of tears and confusion, they are proud of him. Even better, they adore their newly-discovered grandson and couldn’t care less he’s the son of the late Vampaneze Lord.

Five years later, the group treks back to the mountain minus Darius and Darren. Having fulfilled the duties of Princehood (at least for now) Darren steps back to focus on being present in Darius’s life. Due to the coercive nature and the vulnerable age in which they were both blooded, Darren accepts that he’s the only person in the world equipped to fill the void in the young boy’s life. Back at the mountain, the Festival is about to start. Spirits are high. There’s even some vampaneze joining the party. They have invitations this time. Vancha & co return to great fanfare. A new Vampaneze Elder has been appointed thanks to Kurda’s negotiations; Tycho Otazu. The clan is far more accepting to Kurda now, and most are on board with the new era of peace. The Princes and Elders have reached a mutual decision: the Elders will begin a movement to phase out their clan’s ritual killing of humans and the Princes will no longer use the Stone of Blood.

Mika and Kurda have taken time to heal apart, both secretly hoping they can start over someday. It’s remained very apparent through all this that the love between them has endured. Sure enough they rekindle their romance almost immediately. After an honest and emotional discussion they enjoy the best sex of their lives and fall asleep together in Mika’s coffin.

The next day Mika reports to the Hall with every intention of disclosing his personal news to the other Princes, due to his and Kurda’s tangled history with each other and politics. Before he can get that far, Mika finds out Kurda has been re-nominated for investiture, by Darren. The matter is voted upon immediately, a unanimous yes. In a split-second decision, Mika chooses not to disclose his relationship after all, due to concerns that the others will change their mind about Kurda’s nomination. Instead Mika writes a resignation letter and leaves it for the others to find later. Kurda is called to the Hall where the Princes (minus Mika) tell him the good news. He is shocked but accepts. What Kurda doesn’t know is that Mika attempted to resign, and that the other Princes unanimously rejected it as they feel Mika and Kurda have earned their titles and their right to start over, and they trust them to not let their relationship interfere with their duties. Mika ultimately anticipated this, but was wholly prepared for them to accept his resignation. Kurda is both horrified and enamoured when he finds out how far Mika was willing to go to ensure Kurda finally got his throne.

The Festival of the Undead commences. The clan is overall supportive of Kurda’s re-nomination. Mika and Kurda are openly and officially together. Gracie is eager to befriend others her age and start properly training. Vancha and Gannen are thrilled to be back in each others lives. At glacial speed, Arrow continues exploring his long-standing feelings for a General named Kaden Hale. Renley Azerion has gotten over Mika by getting on top of Vampaneze Elder Shane Astor. Far away from Vampire Mountain, Darren and Darius (now a sullen teenager unsure of his place in the world) have arrived at the Cirque Du Freak to reunite with old friends and enjoy a change of pace.

Council ends with Kurda’s (successful and uneventful) investiture. There’s a final time jump to six months after that where we meet back up with Mika and Kurda who have retreated to the seaside cabin to take something of a vacation together. There’s one last order of business to attend to. Arrow, Vancha, and Darren rendezvous with Mika and Kurda at the cabin where they launch a small boat into the ocean. When they can no longer see the shoreline, Vancha opens the bag he brought to reveal the Stone of Blood. There’s a callback to Kurda’s iconic canon line from The Vampire Prince — “throw the damn thing down a volcano, or toss it in the deepest sea”.

Having unanimously learned the hard way that the Stone puts them in more danger than it prevents, all five current Princes watch it finally sink beneath the waves.

And you’re never gonna fucking believe this, they literally all lived happily ever after.

[submissive-dumbass]

talk to me abt ur love of cirque du freak cause same it’s so good and didn’t get the praise it deserved

I honestly need to reread it as a Real Adult bc last time I was 19 and didn’t fully grasp a lot of the themes and politics of Darren Shan’s writing. But after reading The Thin Executioner and remembering the way the vampaneze weren’t just written off as mindless killers, I desperately want to read the series again.

Also the relationship between the main character and Steve is my absolute favorite example of friends-to-enemies bc god even tho Steve fucks up wt every turn, you can’t help but feel so bad for him bc ultimately he’s just a deeply hurt child who could’ve been a great person if he ever had any support other than his one friend

[cre8tivereviews]

Cirque Du Freak Movie compared to the book

I love the Cirque Du Freak/ Darren Shan Saga. I've recently been rereading it. However I've been wanting to watch the movie, so I bought it. As a stand alone movie it's fine. If you go off the books, its horrible. It crams a bit of almost every book in to one. So here are the differences I saw. Let me know if you saw more, or what you think of the movie compared to the books.

*side note, I did read something about them making a series out of the books, and I really hope that it's real, I'd be so happy.*

Differences between The Vampires Assistant Cirque Du Freak the movie to the book/books

Darren is older.

Darren is popular.

Darren says he has cool friends.

Darren sneaks out of his own house to go to the Cirque.

Mr. Tall’s head and shoulders are at an angel.

The Wolfman bites off another performer’s limb, instead of an audience member.

Evra is more confident and wants to be a performer.

Turska can speak good English. She also can see the future.

Larten has 3 scars on his left cheek. He also isn’t as stern, or serious.

Steve tells Darren that Larten is a vampire.

Darren steals Madame Octa at the show.

What is the book of souls?

It says Larten had a human love named Missy when he was going by Vur Horsten.

Mr. Tiny picks up Darren after he steals Octa.

Murlough, who’s killed in book 3, is possibly a main character?

Darren takes Octa to school.

Octa bites Steve at school, for everyone to see.

After being blooded Darren can heal his fingers with his spit.

Darren tries to drink from Annie in her room, not the bathroom.

Larten sneaks in to Darrens room and finds Darren, not Darren going to find Larten.

Larten says he was 20 in 1803, but I believe he was born around that time.

Steve gives Darren a cell phone at the funeral.

Mr. Tiny is at Darrens funeral.

Darren plays video games while he’s buried.

Murlough attacks Larten while he’s filling in the dirt at the cemetery, and that he gave Larten the scars. (I thought it was odd that Larten has Vampeneze scars).

Murlough refers to Darren as being one of his kind and kidnaps him.

Larten runs to the Cirque Du Freak for safety.

Mr. Talls talks about being neutral in the Vampire, Vampeneze war.

Rebeka.

They know Harket’s name, yet he doesn’t talk.

Larten and Turska are a couple.

Steve tries to jump off the school roof, and Mr. Tiny stops him. Then talks Steve in to joining the Vampeneze.

Darren learns to flit.

Evra says he joined the Cirque at 2 days off, Mr. Tall found him in a dumpster.

Darren calls Steve on the cell phone.

Mr. Tiny comes to Cirque.

Steve attacks and kills a teacher.

Larten, Gavner, and Vincent (a vampire we don’t even know) were the ones to come up with the way of feeding that the Vampires use.

Larten says that if Darren drinks blood, he’d get the knockout gas vampires have.

A Cirque member lets the Wolfman out to fight the Vampeneze who show up looking for Darren.

The Freaks fight the Vampaneze until Mr. Tall tells them to stop, how dare they come to neutral area.

A Vampaneze takes Rebecka.

Steve tries to get Darrens family to adopt him,

Darren goes home (while Annie, his sister, is still young).

In the theater Murlough gives Darren an ultimatum. Rebeka for his family.

Mr. Tiny plays a huge part, out in the open.

Larten kills Murlough and as he’s dying tells Larten that the 100-year truth is over. War now begins.

Mr. Tiny calls Darren his prodigy son and says that he’s the blood thirsty one between him and Steve.

Mr. Tiny turns Murlough into a Little Person.

Larten hypnotizes Darrens family, so they’ll forget he’s alive.

Darren gets a coffin from Larten and actually sleeps in it.