#the vampire pandora

[xxhellonursexx]

What?? Marius and Pandora actually enjoying each other's company? Yes! According to Pandora in her own memoir, it's a thing that really happened!

[I think I might be back on my Marius/Pandora bullshit.]

[ladisgarde]

From Pandora– I choose to interpret that proposal like her father said:

[wizardpink]

Is Pandora / Bianca a TVC ship because I just think it would be funny for every one of Marius' fledgling exes to be like "you know what would REALLY piss him off?"

[fangsinclay]

In the spirit of the season, I made this picture of The Vampire Pandora for a friend not on tumblr. <3 I really wanted to be extremely indulgent and draw a pretty roman lady with a sunset, so this Pandora when she is still mortal, pre-Dark Gift.

[queerquaintrelle]

Vamptember 2024: Colosseum

Marius de Romanus & Gladiators headcanons by moi.

Photos from: Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec taken by me.

@vamptember

Preface: Prefacing this by saying whilst, yes, I am a Marius de Romanus enjoyer I enjoy him critically, the way one enjoys Dracula (1897) whilst not condoning Bram Stoker's very obvious racism and sexism. (I approach most media this way and it works for me), that said, if you loathe Marius? valid, don't take it out on real people though, and if you love him? great, I am not stopping you. Just play nice in the sandbox everyone alright? Anything I say came about from my own observation and is not a condemnation of anyone else enjoying a fictional character.

Writer's note: this is going to be marginally ahistorical and I've taken liberties, gladiatorial games as we understand them now weren't a massive thing, they became one in the time of the Nerva-Antoinine dynasty and the Colosseum finished building under Commadus (he is the villain the film Gladiator). But I have been sitting on this meta since I got back from Quebec so here y'all go.

Marius de Romanus as a human doesn't approve of gladiatorial games, he thinks they are obnoxious and a meaningless sacrifice of life.

Marius as a vampire sees the theoretical value in them as a manner of brutal keeping of social order, he still doesn't attend as games take place during the day.

It is one of the many squabbles he and Pandora have, she thinks they are morbidly fascinating.

Marius didn't understand 'why the Romans were like this' (derogatory) until he became a vampire.

He finds them to be 'strange' 'morbid' and 'fetishistic' (a bit of a hypocritical statement but what are TVC vampires if not compelling hypocrites?)

Commadus's reign is one of the few things that made Marius de Romanus sympathetic to Christians and Christianity (book! spoilers) <- until Constantine the wife and son murderer (historical fact) ruined everything.

[enbylestat]

Marius de Romanus appreciation week 2024 (enbylestat's version)

@deromanuscoven

Starry Night

Guernica

Spring

Ignorance is the root of all evil

Experience is the teacher of all things

Forgive the mistake but do not forget it

Time is the devourer of all things

Dominus

[toscrollperchancetomeme]

Can you describe Pandora to me, as I haven‘t read the books? (I only read the first two)

She is Marius‘ first fledgling and first ex-wife and she put up with his bullshit longer than anyone should. (I say this lovingly, I’m one of those weirdos who like him.)

She’s 2000 years old, but somewhat annoyingly tends to put herself in the power of other men - there’s a fledgling she does not dare to break up with until she gets Marius to destroy him for her in the Prince Lestat era.

She also wants to start a religion around Akasha when Marius introduces her to the parents, which is one of the reasons for one of her many many fights with Marius.

Also she inspires the foundation of the Talamasca by telling a ghost to get his shit together and make himself a body.

I’m afraid I only have some random facts about her because I never found her that interesting as a character and honestly Anne Rice was just always better at writing men. But I’m confident the show writers would flesh her out into an interesting character.

Her book is not that long and works well as a stand alone novel though, and I enjoyed it, though not enough to recall many details.

[0junemeatcleaver0]

𝖁𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖒𝖇𝖊𝖗 𝕯𝖆𝖞 𝕺𝖓𝖊

Prompt: Pantheist Characters: Pandora, Marius Rating: T Word Count: 860 Is it only 12:32 AM where I'm at? Yes. But I told y'all I was antsy for Vamptember to get here so here, have this.

The resin hisses as it catches, bubbling on the hot coal. Cinnamon, frankincense, myrrh, rosemary. The smoke is thick and fragrant, hanging heavy in the air. Two hundred years later and the protocol remains the same; clean hands, clean clothes, palms up in supplication. 

Over my shoulder I feel him glaring and consider it better than the pacing he had done while I made my preparations. Pulling my focus back to my task–cinnamon, frankincense, myrrh, rosemary–I take a deep breath and begin my prayer. Aloud. 

To annoy him. 

“Noble Akasha, Mother of our kind, I pray to you, I do you reverence. I ask your grace and favor that you might allow us to continue to care for you. May you know the sincerity of my request by this offering–” I hear him turn on his heel, start up the stone steps into our house, going to get the offering, “--that we give; may it find favor with you.”

I bend forward and kiss Her foot, the skin hard and cold beneath my lips. Footfalls above, footfalls on the stairs behind me, slow and stumbling. I continue.

“Divine Akasha, may you be well, may you look kindly upon us. I ask that you might continue to favor us. May you know the sincerity of my request by this offering that we give; may it find favor with you.”

“What’s the meaning of thi–” The drunk man is cut off, shoved roughly–too roughly, Marius still upset with my display of pomp and circumstance–to the floor. I feel him land beside me, struggling to shuffle into a seated position.

I kiss Her foot again, reverent. 

Breath held, I wait a moment to see if she’ll move. Marius’s grip on my elbow is tight, pulling me off the floor. But I resist him–his blood and Her blood strong in me, making me able to resist him for just a moment before I give in and allow myself to be moved. Pulled back towards the stairs, back through the smoke where it’s thickest–cinnamon, frankincense, myrrh, rosemary. 

The offering rises, stumbling towards us. He makes it three steps before Marius and I are suddenly halfway up the staircase, past where it bends. He thinks we’ve disappeared into the smoke, figments of his imagination or perhaps ghosts. He is uncertain, too confounded by panic for rational thought. 

Marius tugs at my arm again and again I resist him, listening to the noises coming from the temple below with baited breath. She does refuse them, from time to time. I never know why. 

She doesn’t speak to me anymore. 

If this were the temple of Isis, I could wait for another Priestess to draw Sortes to see if we have won Her favor, if we have pleased Her.

“She is not a Goddess.” Marius hisses into my ear as if reading my mind. I’ve not bothered to make my devotion secret–the thrill of having something to pour so much of myself into that actually reacts to my worship in tangible ways. I had craved this with Isis, had thrown my whole being into my time at the temple when I was there and had gotten very little–aside from a sense of community with the other women, which I cherished–in return. 

Nor is she yours, I think, about to air my grievances when a scraping sound rings out below us. My heart leaps and with Marius now distracted by the noise, I wrench my arm from his grasp to descend a few steps–just enough to peek around the corner at the now screaming offering. 

The wind goes out of me. It is Enkil who has risen from his throne, his stone-like face blank and unknowable, his hand rising to crush the back of the man’s skill in his fist ending the annoyance his presence has become. I watch our somnambulant Father move slowly back to his throne and take a seat and wonder not for the first time just how present he truly is. We rarely notice he’s moved. He has never spoken to either of us. Is he aware enough to have grown sick of the drunkard presence? Or had Akasha told him to end her irritation? 

I hear Marius sigh over my shoulder, knowing in my heart that he too is disappointed that our offering has been rejected. My anger flares as he takes my elbow in hand again and I whirl on him. 

I’m momentarily taken aback by just how wary he looks and nearly give up my anger until I remember I am the source of his discomfort. 

“Hypocrite,” I hiss, “You act as though I don’t watch you cut flowers for her. Dress her lovingly. You think because I cannot use the Mind Gift on you that I don’t know you speak to her silently? I see you rub perfumed oil into her arms. You are just as devoted as I, and yet you have the gall to despise me for it?” 

He gives me a withering look before releasing me. I hold myself back from stomping up the stairs and instead ascend as calmly as possible, above him and above his duplicity. 

[eventideintrigue]

WHY ARE THEY SO SILVER SPRINGS CODED AAAAAAAAA

[xxhellonursexx]

Illustration from "Queen of the Damned."

You really gotta admire Marius and his "never give up" spirit. He just knows that the 259th gift he's given Pandora is what will really do the trick, and NOT cause her to throw him in the ocean!

[kaelio]

[funtheysaid]

iwtv ships be like 🧶🕸️🌪️

[yellowsyro]

meet my new character , Pandora, my excuse to draw women in suit

She is a Vampire Hunter, Diana’s pain in Ass and stubborn grumpy kid(28yo)

[queerquaintrelle]

Marius de Romanus appreciation week 2024: Experience is the teacher of all things

@deromanuscoven

Experience is the teacher of all things on ao3.

[enbylestat]

Queens of the Damned 2024: masterlist ~ reines des damnés by enbylestat

Full collection here.

1 - all dolled up: this I learned by watching you.

2 - sapphicism: no place for grief.

3 - m.ommy k.ink: yes maman.

4 - siren: Found a Pearl.

5 - femme fatale: Loveliness we share.

6 - p.egging/f.emdom - Escapade with The Vampire.

@vamptember

[0junemeatcleaver0]

𝖁𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖒𝖇𝖊𝖗 𝕯𝖆𝖞 𝕿𝖍𝖗𝖊𝖊

Prompt: Bathed Characters: Pandora Rating: Mature Words: 2049 He's following his next victim. He doesn't know he's met his match.

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(Text on this graphic pulled from the lyrics of the song "Bleeding Baroness by Candlemass)