#vampire brood

[lifewithaview]

Kelly Overton and Hilary Jardine in Van Helsing (2016) Fear Her

S1E5

Vanessa, now in the clutches of Julius and his vampire brood, is forced to demonstrate her powers against someone from her past. Afterwards, she escapes, jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Meanwhile, the refugees discover a serial killer among the other residents, and plot to wrestle control from Axel. In the aftermath, Mohamad is banished from the hospital.

*After Vanessa is brought to Julius' den, Julius is talking to Mama, and she replies "That's not true" in Romanian. However, the actual phrase she says, "To nieprawda," is Polish, not Romanian.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: science-fiction

[maculategiraffe]

reading interview with the vampire for the first time and it is not what I was expecting at all. pop cultural osmosis severely underrepresented the degree to which lestat is bonkers in the conkers. this shit is bananas

[mmelolabelle]

Louis de Pointe du “You know what? Extreme violence and gratuitous arson got me into this mess, and by god, extreme violence and gratuitous arson will get me out of it”

[highfunctioningfleshrule63]

they dolled these girls up all nice and pretty to go bite neck at the goth clubs

[respectthepetty]

I love that Yoh, who has consistently dressed colorfully, said this about Pun.

Pun, the vampire who has been consistently dressed darker, is the colorful one in Yoh's eyes.

This vampire, in his dark colors, is Yoh's color.

The dark vampire brings color to Yoh's life.

Which makes sense because Yoh sees Pun's light side.

Because he brings out Pun's light side.

All the time.

Makes perfect sense.

I love it.

[academic-vampire]

I want to be dark, brooding, and mysterious, but you can hear me laugh a continent away

[slam-and-bam]

Here’s a little compilation of Gangrel laughing + giggling to cure your depression <3

My beloved vamp man 😭❤️

[papastarion]

Papastarion Headcanons

Because I have been plagued by visions of Astarion with a dhampiric horde of children for the past few weeks, and now I must inflict it on others. (These are based in my own personal canon for the postgame, so Thea = Tav.)

He’s initially terrified of the idea of having a child, but he plays it cool, because of course he would. Dhampirs are uncommon, and he worries about losing the love of his life if something happens. Having someone else to lose now, too, doesn’t make it any easier to turn his mind back to rational thinking.

Once the idea settles, gods help everyone. He’s proud as a peacock, and cautiously optimistic about this new part of his future. It helps that he’s known how badly Thea has wanted a family for almost as long as he’s known her. He just never thought he would be able to give it to her, and he can’t quite put into words how grateful he is that she didn’t have to give it up for him, after all.

It also helps that they’ve been functional coparents to their adopted daughter (my friend’s Tav) since they met the girl post-nautiloid. As far as he and Thea are concerned, she’s just as much theirs as this one is.

She’s not their only adopted child, either. While Thea is pregnant with their first biological child, they also end up adopting a newborn Mephistopheles tiefling they name Mina. She’s the biological daughter of Thea’s ex-husband, in fact. When Thea finds out said ex plans on doing away with his newborn child to hide the fact that his family has made deals with devils, she and Astarion jump in to take the girl.

Dalyria is also a major help. Research on dhampirs is limited, so not only does she get to add to the woefully limited information with her own observations, but she also gets to be there for her brother and Thea, who she’s become good friends with. As a druid, Thea likes to discuss medical herbology with Dalyria while Dalyria likes to teach her more complex medical skills. Dalyria is also the one who delivers all of their children. Thea and Astarion don’t trust anyone else like they trust her when the time comes.

If Astarion thought Thea was the most beautiful person in the world before, then there’s no word for what he thinks of her over the course of her pregnancy, and after.

The first time he holds their firstborn, a boy they name Nero, he’s smitten. As far as Astarion is concerned, he’s perfect. He never wants to let him go. It takes him a while to reconcile the fact that he could have had any part in making someone so innocent.

He loves taking catnaps with his kids, especially while they’re still really small. They’re so warm and the feeling of them tucked against his chest, completely trusting of him, never gets old.

He was never one to give much thought to children before Thea. He never really considered having his own, especially not after Cazador. But he’s the type to think his kids are perfect and everyone one else’s should be like them. Very proud dad.

He’s very protective, too. Nothing could stand between him and protecting his family. He’d tear down Faerûn if it would keep them safe. However, he doesn’t keep them out of all trouble. He can be quite the partner in crime when it comes to pranks.

I refuse to believe they don’t find a way for him to walk in the sun again. He loves traveling as a family. They definitely have their place they call home, but there’s too much world to stay in one place, and he wants their children to see it all, too.

Dhampir teething is a nightmare. They’re already miserable about the whole ordeal, but it gets worse once their fangs start to come in, too. He tries to make sure if they’re going to bite, they’re biting him, not Thea or one of their siblings.

He tells the best bedtime stories, hands down. It’s because his voice is so animated.

He and Thea have a total of seven children to their name - their two adopted daughters and five biological children. He’s never less awestruck about how his life has turned out, not by Thea or by their children. The irony of the total coming out to seven is not lost on him.

[hekateinhell]

In my feelings and thinking a lot about how young Daniel actually was when he met Louis and Armand, 20 or 21 years at the oldest. There was a lot going on during that era in the US, but the 1970s was not that long ago and early 20s was still pretty young!

Reading through the beginning of IWTV underscores just how timid, gentle, and inquisitive Daniel's character is before we meet him again in Devil's Minion. Which is also interesting considering that Devil's Minion, even as we read it on the page, is being told retroactively by a dying Daniel at 32 (meanwhile in-universe Lestat's writing it all out post-Akasha).

When thinking about Daniel with Armand, I feel like most of us, from what I have seen, understandably tend to extrapolate a lot of his personality from QotD. He's witty, sarcastic, living it up in opulence and increasingly bitter about it—lots of good stuff.

But the Daniel that Armand first met would have in all probability been very similar to this one:

So I wonder, which is closest to the version of Daniel that Armand fell in love with? Because we never got to meet that guy as Armand knew him.

[vampirewrestlinglover]

*Another one for the wrestling girlies

[atthequillsmercy]

An Apology Treat!

Since there was no new chapter update for June, I decided to make the prologue for First Brood 4: Emma public on my Patreon!! I’m almost done with the next chapter. It just needs a little more polish and it’ll be ready to post. Enjoy!! Follow me on BlogLovin.

[atidingofmagpies]

Mitchell from Being Human is what Joss Whedon WISHES he could have done with Spike and Angel

[hierophantneon]

The brood inspired character thing for my tf2 au

[slam-and-bam]

BABE WAKE UP, NEW GANGREL PIC JUST DROPPED

[bloodiedrogue]

okay tonight i’m gonna try and post the zayis/astarion first meeting fic and the tomorrow i’ll post bloodweave and then hopefully by weds i’ll have the next lover’s folly chapter out and then i can breathe again