#tw marius

[prisonhannibal]

season 3 wishlist I hope we get 24/7 daniel molloy callouts of marius de romanus. I hope that man never gets to say anything without experiencing a category five molloy moment

[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?"

[wizardpink]

This is one of my favorite TVC details so I wrote a little something about it.

"It certainly is... extravagant," Louis said, standing beside Lestat with his head tipped to the ceiling of the echoing council room. All of the furniture was still pushed to the far wall and covered in drop sheets for protection. Marius had left the job of cleaning up his mess to the staff, to the surprise of no one.

Lestat stepped forward and spun around to examine the mural from another angle. Unearthly glossy eyes followed him from above. "Yes! A fitting tribute to our extended vampiric family." He motioned towards the center, where his crowned likeness was framed in radiating beams of light. Louis was at his right, a wreath of laurels in his hair. "You look particularly noble, mon cher."

Louis shoved his hands in his pockets and cocked his head. "Surprised he left me with all my melanin, considering what I've seen of his past work."

"A crime against art, to alter any shade of you, my love--"

"That why you wouldn't let me see it until it was done, love?"

Lestat face fell just slightly, remembering the argument with Marius. "Regardless, he was persuaded into correcting it." He slipped his arm into Louis', and leaned close to his ear. "I wouldn't have let him leave if your beautiful image weren't just as magnificent as the real thing."

"Hmm." Looking side to side, Louis counted off their vampire brethren. All of Lestat's fledglings were spread out on either side of him. Claudia was seated next to Louis, his hand on her shoulder, with Madeleine reclined between them. Along the ceiling to their left, above the tinted windows, were Maharet and Mekare, along with their ancient kin. Opposite them, Marius had painted himself and his own lineage. Pandora and Bianca stood to either side of him, and at his feet, worshipful, were Armand, Sybelle, and Benji.

"Even in a painting, he couldn't let them go." Louis had expected no less, however, than a petty attempt at spite from Marius. Armand and his family had gone no contact with their maker years ago, but to exclude them from the mural would look like a failing on Marius' part. They were his creations, after all, his lineage.

But Armand's creation, well...

"He refused to even speak to me of Daniel," Lestat said, a genuine hint of sadness in his voice. "I half expected to find his severed head painted in a far corner."

"It's just as well. Daniel would probably set the room on fire if Marius had painted him up there like that." Louis noted the way Daniel's three companions stared adoringly up at their maker, palms tipped up and open in reverence. "Honestly, he still might."

At that moment an attendant entered the room. "Monseigneur Lioncourt, your presence is requested in the throne room." Lestat rolled his eyes in open annoyance.

"You should work on your poker face, Monseigneur," Louis told him with a smile. "It's unbecoming of a prince."

Lestat melted as always when Louis smiled for him. "Mon cher, you know I am terrible at cards." A kiss goodbye, and Lestat left to attend his duties.

Louis took the opportunity to update Daniel.

"It's somehow better AND worse than we thought."

It took a moment, but Daniel responded through the ether with his trademark inability to regulate his internal voice. "Oh god, send me a picture, will you?" he boomed in Louis' head.

"You can't show Armand. It's bad." Louis snapped a photo and texted it to Daniel. He replied with a vomiting emoji.

"What a pathetic fucking creep! You guys should have let me kill him when I had the chance."

"Hey, I was on your side of that one, boy!" Louis grinned just imagining Daniel's face at being called 'boy.'

Daniel went quiet for a moment, and Louis thought for sure he was sharing the image with Armand, and waited for the latter to call him immediately. They stayed out of each other's heads these days without prior permission.

But when his phone buzzed, it was a text from an unsaved number.

hey its sybelle. danny asked me to send you this.

Louis opened the picture she sent next and laughed to himself. It was a selfie of Sybelle and Daniel making goofy faces for the camera in matching candy cane scarves. He wore a green pointed hat with fake elf ears, and she a headband with felt reindeer antlers. Louis had never noticed that they had the same lilac eyes. Behind them, near a brightly lit Christmas tree, Benji and Armand sat cross-legged in a sea of wrapping paper, unboxing what looked like a mammoth Lego set in their pajamas. Probably the Death Star Benji had shared in the group chat last January when they'd completed it.

"You should blow that up and hang it right over his smug face," Daniel said. "And we've got plenty more where that came from."

"I'm sure you do," Louis said quietly to himself. "And I just might."

this is so funny. so you’re mad? your little pet project left you to be with armand again and you’re mad?

[itsguysnightitsironic]

El Señor de los Secretos, Raúl

My not-so-great keep secret is that I fully believed Raum was called Raúl for about six episodes before Nikkie mentioned him again

In my defence Raúl means "powerful advisor", if that is not Virgil there's something in the water. And air. It's crows, it's crows.

[knownoshamc]

Do you want to hear my story?

[awholelotofsad]

Let’s fall and fall and fall into the vortex of this hole-dwelling life…

a bit different from how i usually draw things but i was listening to a lot of horror songs lately and got Inspired

happy barricade day, fellas

[wizardpink]

Imagine reading about a CANON PEDOPHILE who GROOMED MULTIPLE YOUNG BOYS "taking in" a man having a mental breakdown and seeing their relationship as "just snuggles and comfort and love." Not an ounce of reading comprehension.

If Marius shows up in s3, I need him to throw himself into the fire because he can't stop the constant telepathic shit-talking and hatred from Daniel.

[eli-am-confused]

Tim: Oh, officer it’s just awful! He just suddenly dropped dead! I think he had a heart attack or something!

Based on a post made by @gunpowderdtim because I just couldn’t help myself

Bonus:

Marius: Yup, totally dead. Heart attacks am I right? Welp nothing to do about it now, looks like our job here is done.

[genderfeel]

saw the musical again, had some notes

[endy-merimo]

eros is so good at his job guys

[wizardpink]

@monsterboyfriend

wait I have an even more unhinged alice theory to throw into the ring

what if alice is marius

daniel (apparently) had a relationship with marius after the devil's minion era in the books which would line up to the same time as the show (sans vampirism)

maybe he hoped another vampire would turn him but was rejected again

maybe thats why the marius painting drew his attention in s1

[prisonhannibal]

Armand asking Marius not to leave, after Marius whipped him until he bled in The Vampire Armand + Armand begging Lestat to love him so everything would be alright after Lestat ruined his coven, beat him and rejected him in The Vampire Lestat

he makes me sad can someone make him go to trauma therapy and kill Marius

[briennsa]

armand // my dark vanessa

[kafkaesquedyke]

I’m a little confused by some posts I’ve seen about armand breaking down the door in the book, because they frame armand as either ‘lol he’s so random’ or ‘that proves he’s abusive too’ when everything that happened before explains armand’s actions

break down with tva book quotes under the cut TW: discussions of csa

the initial event that triggers everything is Marius sending Armand to a brothel to have sex with other boys (which was preceded by Marius sexually abusing Armand for a couple of years atp (all of the following takes place while Armand is 17), including already having sent armand to another brothel to have sex with women)

this basically differs from his previous sexual encounters in that he 1) has sex with other guys, 2) they’re most likely around his age, and 3) he enjoys it (I consider basically every sexual encounter Armand has in tva non-consensual but this, and the following encounters, are the closest to “potentially consensual” within a fictional narrative, that this book has to offer and the closest we get to Armand’s real sexual preferences)

following that Marius grows incredibly cold towards Armand, which he clocks as him being jealous (Armand knows Marius is a supernatural being and that he can read his thoughts) though Marius is also potentially stressed because of his duties towards Akasha and Enkil

So, Armand leaves and has sex with Lord Harlech, some noble man he just met (again, I don’t consider this consensual, but mostly because of the age gap)

(not included in the screenshots, but they switch and Armand tops and doms Harlech and deliberately makes a point about enjoying it, which contrasts his relationship with Marius where he is not allowed to reciprocate intimacy (mostly due to Marius’s vampire nature) also Harlech behaving like a lunatic after lol)

then he goes to Bianca (a close friend throughout the novel) and they have sex as well

she calls him out on his relationship with Marius, as well as that he was hiding from him

once Armand returns, drunk after stirring over Marius’ treatment of him in a tavern, Marius is madly painting with vamp speed disturbing the other boys

he’s also painting Armand, further implying that his rage is about Armand sleeping with others, again, something Marius ordered him to do!

Marius ends up flinging paint in his rage, after Armand enters (presumably reading his thoughts?) and orders everyone out of the room

Marius does not respond to Armand’s pleas to once again talk with him, so they can resolve the situation. Armand begs him to simply admit that he’s angry with him and Marius continues to ignore him and then flees

he locks himself in his bedroom (which Armand shared with him so far) then he tells Armand to go sleep with the other boys in a way that implies an end to their relationship. tbc, at this point armand ties all his self worth back to Marius and how much he is desired by him, specifically because Marius is the only person who ever “cherished” him

so Marius rejecting him like that signals to Armand that he is no longer special to him and has therefore lost his unique worth, which Armand has built his entire self worth on (by Marius’s design)

so Marius acting jealous over Armand having sex with others (partially under Marius’s orders), Armand questioning him, not getting a response, leaving to further explore his sexual options, which makes Marius even more jealous, while the entire time refusing to talk about it, despite Armand begging him to, and then rejecting Armand completely is what ultimately leads to Armand breaking the door down. Marius was a 100% more immature here than Armand despite being a thousand-year-old beefing with a teenager (who he’s abusing)

[itsguysnightitsironic]

If you're gonna bite my fingers, better bite my hand off

(consumed by rage)

/That audio about pulling your skin off/

[purgatory-is-life]

Hey mechs fandom I have more art to share

Context for this exists in my brain. But its mostly just unhinged screaming