#vampire primo fun facts

[kissingghouls]

Busting down your door to ask about suck club Primo (and his cottage) 💙

Well, my dear Oakie, what would you like to know about Primo and his pretty cottage?

Have way, way, way, too much information:

(Full disclosure, I’ve had the flu all week so my brain is a little…wobble wobble…) here we go!

Primo had the cottage built around the turn of the century, roughly around 1901. This was around the same time that Terzo and Secondo were having Meliora House built. It’s just what gentlemen were supposed to do at the time..

The house itself is heavily influenced by Art Nouveau and Tudor revival style with a dash of Victorian (arsenic green never bothered him too much xD). Lots of woodwork, stained glass, and organic shapes, with sweeping roof lines and natural stone covered in 100 years worth of vines.

There was additional construction on the house through the 1920s and the conservatory was added even later.

As a gift, Secondo tried to have the kitchen remodeled within the last 10 or so years. Primo kept as much of the original kitchen as he could, and replaced what he had to with the most high end reproductions he could find (both done intentionally to irritate Secondo).

The house is full of things. Not in a compulsive collector/hoarding type way, the man’s just lived (mostly) in one house for the last 100 years. Are you picturing Howl’s bedroom? Yeah, kinda like that. He’s not keeping anything he doesn’t particularly need or like, but he’s not living Secondo’s minimalist dream either. In the late 70’s /early 80’s he posed as an antique dealer for a little while, but ultimately found he didn’t care much for the selling part. He can still be reached by the right collectors about the right things.

Primo tends to be associated with red and this is very much reflected in Vampire Primo’s wardrobe, but the interior of his cottage has a lot of earthy greens.

The guy loves to garden, however he did have a falling out with the hobby for a few decades. After Terzo and Secondo invited him to design the gardens at Meliora House, he became passionate about it again and returned to the cottage to turn it into his own little utopia.

Terzo has his “own room” in the cottage. The events of The Prince are not the first time he’s had to hide out there for a while (probably won’t be the last).

Did i make a moodboard about it? Yep.

As far as Suck Club goes, the plan (so far) is for Vampire Primo’s story to offer a little more history about the brothers and how they came to be. I’m hesitant to say too too much because I’m still writing (or trying to) the end of The Prince (Oakie knows this, but just in case anyone else reads this..) so things keep shifting and changing. But the intention is to pack that story so full of lore (and romance. It’s Suck Club!)

[ghostbc-headcanons]

A friend got me into ghost and the lore and I'm currently mapping up a book I'm gonna write, and I'm considering adding references to them in it.

And I was wondering, if humans weren't a thing, and only fantasy beings existed, what species would everyone in the band be?

first of all i think it'd be fantastic if you added references to ghost in your book! the world needs more of this goofy band in their life, tbh

second of all i am so excited to write about this!! i really enjoy fantasy so when this came in my inbox i was like yessss i'll probably be using D&D races (and some other creatures) for this i hope that works :)

PAPA NIHIL: i feel like he's a tiefling! i fucking love tieflings and he definitely gives off the mischievous vibes, especially when he was younger. there's also the fact that tieflings are connected to asmodeus (which is kind of like the emeritus line being connected to satan even though asmodeus isn't... satan...) i like to think that when he was born someone put a glamour on him to hide his tiefling descent, until he met imperator who revealed his true form to him, à la the dance macabre MV!!

SISTER IMPERATOR: i literally can't imagine her anything other than a naga, ESPECIALLY with her outfit in the mary on a cross MV. i also love nagas i am totally not biased with any of these choices at all am i she would be a very pretty snake lady ok

PAPA I: definitely half tiefling half vampire. listen vampire primo is something i need in my life and YOU NEED IT TOO READER. he's my blood drinking sweet skrunkly satanic old man

PAPA II: half tiefling half gargoyle! i don't really have an explanation for this one it just feels right. and gargoyles are fucking badass and cool just like secondo (and also stony)

PAPA III: you CAN'T TELL ME THIS FUCKER wouldn't be half tiefling half SATYR. YOU CAN'T!!! i will REFUSE to believe it. he's flirty he's fun and he's silly and as resident terzo enthusiast, i am right.

PAPA IV/COPIA: due to ... genetics, he'd be half tiefling half naga which i think would be a unique combination? but i think it would be really interesting if he was a hexblood. i think maybe sister imperator went to a witch and begged for a child and the witch was like "yeah yeah okay fine, you'll get a child with your beloved weirdo" (nihil) and bam copia existed like the witch promised but he was neither tiefling nor naga-blooded and sister was like "shitttt fuccckkk damn itt.... she bamboozled me" and that's how copia was convinced he wasn't related to sister or nihil for years

also as a bonus, the ghouls!: AETHER: aetherborn (i know this one is uncreative but i just think it is a neat idea) DEWDROP: kobold SWISS: viashino RAIN: triton (again an obvious choice but i do what i want) MOUNTAIN: firbolg CUMULUS: owlin CIRRUS: thri-kreen SUNSHINE: fairy SPECIAL: changling (or satan himself if that's what you'd like to believe)

[vatican3]

Do You have any thoughts about Nihil's friend. Would love to hear if you do.

Prefacing all of this with the fact that you really need to buy into my Nihil-is-a-girl canon for almost any of this to interest you.

I feel like I need to split this up into sections but as I'm writing this I have no clue what those sections will be. But they're all. General concepts.

BESTIE:

Cishet. Sorry.

Except for when I sometimes hit him with the transbian beam because I can't help myself. But we'll get to that.

Despite looking like a massive douchebag this guy is so sweet and full of love. Assigned dogboy.

Best friends with Nihil for a long long time, Nihil is known and loved by his family.

They are roommates. They live in a shitty apartment together. They're in a shitty band together. They go to shitty parties together. They're having the time of their lives.

But he's like, hm, I do sort of want Nihil carnally but as far as I know I am not into men. They get drunk and make out constantly.

Nihil eventually comes around to telling him she's a girl and he's like OHHH THAT MAKES WAY MORE SENSE FOR ME, PERSONALLY.

Upon learning he is avoiding a sexuality crisis (for now. We'll get out the transbian beam in a minute) he's like okay, obviously we should have sex. Nihil also thinks this because she is bored and horny and thinks hey he's pretty sexy that would be fun. This is a great solution to the nights when neither of them experiences success with women.

So they fuck raw every single day basically.

It does not take long for them to individually figure out they are in love with each other but it does take them forever to say fucking anything about it.

There is a weird relationship limbo where they are really not sure if they're dating and are too scared to ask. Bestie has stopped trying to hit on other women.

Their friends in their shitty rock band do not understand what their dynamic is and they are trying to piece it together from context clues and it just is not happening. They are also confused about Nihil's general gender situation but they are beyond asking questions.

BESTIE IS PRIMO'S DAD:

Despite the fucking raw every day they are somehow surprised when Nihil ends up pregnant (there is nary a brain cell between them).

Nihil is vomiting. They think it must be a stomach bug. And then she just keeps vomiting and now certain smells are making her nauseous that didn't before and her period is not making an appearance when it should be. And then they're like, don't think this one's a stomach bug, man.

Bestie is terrified for fatherhood.

But very excited!

Nihil has to speedrun going girlmode because pregnancy is not going to wait for that to get figured out.

Nihil, because of how she is, has about 50 books about pregnancy in her room. Bestie makes the mistake of reading one of them and is now gripped with anxieties about everything that could possibly go wrong.

Bestie tries to gather band friends without Nihil to tell them she's pregnant. They do not understand. He can see the gears trying to turn in their heads. It's not clicking. They are excited for this mystery baby regardless.

Bestie calls his family to explain that hey you know Nihil? Yeah you do. We're having a kid and also she's kind of my girlfriend not clear on that one yet. Try not to ask questions I do not have answers.

He wins some shitty arcade jewelry for them to wear as wedding rings to doctor appointments because they are already not stoked about this greasy freak having a kid with some nice girl but an unmarried greasy freak is worse.

They go to see Bestie's family for Christmas with baby Primo in hand. There are clearly questions. Nobody is going to ask. Bestie's siblings try to talk to Nihil like she's a new person and she's like, I have known you forever what are you fucking doing.

They can pawn off baby Primo on Bestie's extended family and cuddle and fall asleep by the fireplace together. They are so tired. Did you know having a baby is so hard.

BESTIE IS A VAMPIRE:

You don't need me to explain this.

You've seen the Dance Macabre video.

NIHIL IS BESTIE'S GIRLFRIEND FOR REAL THIS TIME:

They are so into each other it's either adorable or disgusting depending on what kind of person you are.

Bestie is at work exclusively talking about his girlfriend and how she is and how excited he is to go home and see her.

I don't have time or room to fit all of my nurse Nihil thoughts prompted by that other person in here. But please understand how much I thought about this concept.

Bestie is so into her and constantly brings home presents for her. Candy. Clothes.

They just fucking love watching horror movies and cuddling and eating Chinese leftovers together.

TRANSBIAN BEAM:

Someone tell this girl she can be butch.

Imp/Nihil/Bestie Femme4Femme4Butch throuple.

Nihil has two hands for two hot vampire gfs.

[gayregis]

vampire headcanons 2020, pt. 2

part two: “society” and culture

this post is more based upon canon than the previous one. the next will be almost purely conjecture/headcanon.

(previous post)

> how vampires view the conjunction of the spheres, population of vampires on the continent

“I’m the descendant of survivors, unfortunate beings imprisoned here after the cataclysm you call the Conjunction of Spheres.” 

Baptism of Fire, pg. 219

regis says “survivors,” but avallac’h also uses this term to refer to humans who arrived on the continent from the conjunction of spheres (The Tower of the Swallow, pg. 243) and when he speaks later about the conjunction, it is in purely logical terms, suggesting that there is not much regret and longing for the other world they came from.

“After the Conjunction of the Spheres there remained approximately one thousand two hundred (1,200) higher vampires in your world. (...) Since the Conjunction - once again calculating according to your reckoning - one thousand five hundred (1,500) years have passed.”

Baptism of Fire, pg. 297

for comparison, dandelion mentions that novigrad has around “thirty thousand (30,000) dwellers, not counting travellers” (Eternal Flame, pg. 134), and even though this is quite unique and remarkable for a city and dandelion tells this fact to geralt in context of describing novigrad as “the capital of the world,” this is a significantly larger number than the amount of higher vampires who arrived to the witcher world during the conjunction of the spheres. there are not that many vampires living on the continent, there were less vampires than the population of a large public high school. 

this population is likely spread across the entire continent (the northern realms, the empire of nilfgaard, islands and archipelagos like skellige, and distant places like the far north and zerrikania), so they’re incredibly widely dispersed. geralt calls vereena a “rare bird” (The Last Wish, pg. 62), and did not consider regis to be a vampire until he purposefully revealed himself, which further suggests that higher vampires are extremely rare.

i tend to headcanon that the vampires were more condensed as a group during the time when regis partied (approx. up to 300 years ago) as dandelion describes the world during that time period:

“You’re reading Roderick de Novembre? As far as I remember, there are mentions of witchers there, of the first ones who started work some three hundred (300) years ago. In the days when the peasants used to go to reap the harvest in armed bands, when villages were surrounded by a triple stockage, when merchant caravans looked like the march of regular troops, and loaded catapults stood on the ramparts of the few towns nights and day. Because it was us, human beings, who were the intruders here. This land was ruled by dragons, manticores, griffins and amphisboenas, vampires and werewolves, striga, kikimores, chimerae and flying drakes. And this land hand to be taken from them bit by bit, every valley, every mountain pass, every forest and every meadow. And we didn’t manage that without the invaluable help of witchers. But those times have gone, Geralt, irrevocably gone.”

The Last Wish, pg. 162

the vampires were present enough during this time, and we can corroborate this history with regis’ account:

“So I partied. Revelries and frolics, shindigs and booze-ups; every full moon we’d fly to a village and drink from anyone we found. The foulest, the worst class of ... er ... fluid. It made no difference to us whose it was, as long as there was ... er ... haemoglobin ... It can’t be a party without blood, after all!”

Baptism of Fire, pg. 293

there were enough vampires in the past 400 years to hold parties on the full moon, actual genuine parties. but we never hear of vampires raiding villages during this time period, and geralt who is a current witcher, when asked of dealing with vampires, doesn’t say anything about these revelries and instead describes when he has been asked to deal with vampires but the threat was in fact non-existent (Baptism of Fire, pg. 152). thus we can assume that the vampires just don’t hold such raucous parties anymore, perhaps for a couple of potential reasons: their numbers are more dispersed and there are less vampires who live together in groups nowadays, and they have also likely lost leading figures like regis who were absolute mad lads and led the parties on.

> society, tradition, and language

vampire “society” is loosely tied together, and there exists no rules or authority amongst them:

“With humans, however, there exists a system of rules and restrictions: parental authority, guardians, superiors and elders - morals, ultimately. We have nothing like that. Youngsters have complete freedom and exploit it. They create their own patterns of behavior. Stupid ones, you understand.”

Baptism of Fire, pg. 293

from this anarchy comes a culture defined by partying, i.e., drinking from human villages during the full moon:

“Generally, the statistically average vampire drinks during every full moon, for the full moon is a holy day for us, which we usually... er... celebrate with a drink. (...) The number of teetotallers - because there is a considerable number of them - balances the number who drink excessively, as I did in my day.”

Baptism of Fire, pg. 297

and also characterized by hanging out in crypts, apparently:

(...) It got rowdier and rowdier,” the vampire continued. “Occassionally I went on such benders that I didn’t return to the crypt for three or four nights in a row.”

Baptism of Fire, pg. 294

the full moon is a celebration to them because when it is full, they are granted their full powers: they can shift easily between forms and dematerialize / rematerialize at will. it could also be because the full moon was the thing that they saw when they first arrived on the continent and thus every full moon is now an anniversary of sorts.

i headcanon that their societies, when they manage to have one, are largely based upon these celebratory drinking festivities. whoever is the best at partying is admired and well-liked. it’s a popularity contest of sorts. think of your local annoying fraternity boys.

but if they have no authority in the form of parental or elder guardianship, how do they receieve their names? regis only says this on the topic of vampire naming conventions:

“(...) I’d insisted on adopting the name Geralt Roger Eric du Haute-Bellegarde. Vesemir thought it was ridiculous; pretentious and idiotic. I dare say he was right.”

Dandelion snorted loudly, looking meaningfully at the vampire and the Nilfgaardian.

“My full name,” Regis said, a little piqued by the look, “is authentic. And in keeping with vampire tradition.”

Baptism of Fire, pg. 316

which is incredibly vague and unhelpful. all we know canonically is that vampire names are traditionally long and comprised of many names, likely in the same structure that regis’s is constructed in.

my suggestion to all of this is that vampire names are given to them by their peers, and they likely have developed their own various traditions of giving individuals names, based upon their most apparent qualities. regis is a latin name meaning “king” (genitive singular form of rex), which could be based in how the other vampires viewed him and how fun he was at parties.

it doesn’t really make sense for vampires to be using latin, but latin does exist as a language in the witcher universe, and regis uses a bit of latin randomly in an otherwise useless exchange:

The Witcher stood. “ Go on. Run off and pack. And be quick.”

“It won’t take me very long. Omnia mea mecum porto.”

“What?”

“I have very little luggage.”

(Lady of the Lake, pg. 139)

this is a reference to bias of priene, one of the seven sages of greece, quoted by cicero in his stoic paradoxes (paradox i), as saying “i carry with me all my possessions” / “all that is mine i carry with me”. this is likely just a reference that was intended to compare regis with bias of priene, who is known for his integrity and defense of others, his philosophical and humanist nature.

thus latin being the language of the vampires likely does not hold any ground, because regis is not the only individual that uses latin in the books. season of storms is infamous for its overusage of latin (“primo, secundo, tertio,” anyone?). in addition, vereena is not a latin name. vampires do have their own language, but it is unidentifiable to geralt yet is still able to influence him with feelings of terror:

He heard singing. He didn’t understand the words, he couldn’t even identify the language. He didn’t need to - the witcher felt and understood the very nature, the essence, of this quiet, piercing song which flowed through the veins in a wave of nauseous, overpowering menace. (...)

He could still hear her song, even though her thin, pale lips were held tight and not the slightest sound emerged from them.

The Last Wish, pg. 62

from what we can glean, vampires do not typically speak aloud like humans do. regis is an outlier as noted by geralt in the quotes cited in the previous post. in the last wish, vereena speaks solely through telepathy to geralt:

You. You will be the first to grow weak, Sorcerer. I will kill you.

The bruxa’s lips didn’t move, but the witcher heard the words clearly; they resounded in his mind, echoing and reverberating as if underwater.

The Last Wish, pg. 65

the only aloud vocalizations vereena makes are the screams she does in combat and when she screams in pain, which can be considered common for vampires.

(next post)

[sneek-m]

Monthly Listening: August 2019

Some of the little things I remember getting into this month: Skrillex, TRF, French touch, screaming and noises. Here is the playlist of my listening this month and below is a list of albums and records and project I checked out in August.

2019 albums

9m88: Beyond Mediocrity

Ariana Grande: Thank U, Next

Baby Smoove: Mr. Perfect

Barker: FACT Mix 720

BiS: Brand-new Idol Society

Blanck Mass: Animated Violence Mild

The Boyz: Dreamlike

Burst Girl: Riot

Cassius: Dreems

Chanmina: Never Grow Up

Chelmico: Fishing

Choi Jungyoon: Embrace

Ciel: FACT Mix 724

Ciel B2B D. Tiffany & CCL: Rinse FM Podcast Aug. 19, 2019

Connie: Voices

Crispy Camera Club: Roma EP

CYNHN: Tablature

False: Portent

FANATICS: The Six

Field Mouse: Meaning

Fire-Toolz: Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace)

Friendly Fires: Inflorescent

Giriboy: GAB BOON GI

Hi’Spec: And Your Bird Can Sing OST

Jay Som: Anak Ko

JBJ95: Sparks

Jidenna: 85 to Africa

K15 & SMBD: Earth State

Kaela Kimura: Ichigo

Keina Suda: Porte EP

Kitri: Primo EP

Kitri: Secondo EP

LITE: Multiply

Mekakushe: Heavenly EP

Mndsgn: Snaxx

Monari Wakita: Right Here

Mukqs: SD Biomix

Ningen Isu: Shinseinen

Oli XL: Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer

Oso Oso: Basking in the Glow

Oyasumi Hologram: 5

PERC%NT: PVC

Pharmakon: Devour

Pop Smoke: Meet the Woo

Red Velvet: The ReVe Festival Day 2

Rocket Punch: Pink Punch

Russian Circles: Blood Year

Sayonara Ponytail: Kurubeki Sekai

The Shes Gone: Days

Shin Youme: Nights Without You

Shura: Forevher

Slowthai: Nothing Great About Britain

Soleil: Lollipop Sixteen

Sunwoojunga: Stand

Sunwoojunga: Stunning

Super Dragon: 3rd Identity

Taemin: Famous

Tamanaramen: Organ EP

Thom Yorke: Anima

Tohji: Angel

Tomb Mold: Planetary Clairvoance

Vampire Weekend: Father of the Bride

Various artists: Carole & Tuesday Vocal Collection, Vol. 1

Various artists: SPD GAR Vol. 2

WONK: Moon Dance EP

X1: Quantum Leap

Yorushika: Elma

Young Thug: So Much Fun

Non-2019 albums

2Pac: 2Pacalypse Now

Akina Nakamori: Stock

Anti-pop Consortium: Arrythmia

Backstreet Boys: Backstreet Boys

BiS: Brand-new Idol Society 2

The Blood Brothers: Crimes

The Blue Nile: A Walk Across the Rooftops

BUCK-TICK: Aku No Hana

Capsule: Flashback

The Chemical Brothers: Come with Us

Craig David: Born to Do It

Crydamoure/various artists: Waves

E-40: The Gift of Gab

Ellegarden: Don’t Trust Anyone But Us

Hachi: Official Orange

Hijokaidan x Jun Togawa: Togawakaidan

Green Velvet: The Nineties (1993 AD Through 1999 AD)

Justice: Woman Worldwide

Kelly Rowland: Talk a Good Game

Kesha: Cannibal

Kid606: Down with the Scene

Kinoko Teikoku: Neko To Allergy

Julee Cruise: The Voice of Love

Lyrical School: Guidebook

Mr. Bungle: California

Migma Shelter: Orbit

Miranda Lambert: Kerosene

N.O.R.E.: Melvyn Flynt Da Hustler

Pan Sonic: Kulma

Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino: In the Studio

The Pillows: Happy Bivuoac

Prurient: Pleasure Ground

Redman: Doc’s Da Name 2000

Rich Kidz: Everybody Eat Bread

Sean Paul: Dutty Rock

Seiko Oomori: Zettai Shojo

Sheryl Crow: Tuesday Night Music Club

Skrillex: Recess

Standing on the Corner: Standing on the Corner

Taylor Swift: Reputation

Thomas Bangalter: Trax on da Rocks

Thomas Bangalter: Trax on da Rocks, Vol. 2

Tofubeats: Lost Decade

TRF: This Is the Truth

TRF: EZ Do Dance

TRF: World Groove

Various artists: Spring Breakers: Music from the Motion Picture

Wiley: Playtime Is Over