#vampire santiago

[fanwarrior-suffering]

My mom’s garden is a magical place 🍅🍆🍅

[mileenaxyz]

🤭🤭🤭🤭

[owlsnotes]

I want to see Santiago as a modern local couturier. Always arrogant, always flawlessly dressed, almost always in black — because he knows that black suits him well. Santiago still has this irresistible charm, and people can listen for hours, when he talks about his new collection. Actually, he's not so good at creating new clothes. Actually, mostly this is not even his collection. It's Madeleine's. Santiago is just good at presenting it and making people pay.

(Unexpectedly, now I have a new headcanon. Thanks to @faerywhimsy and one of my favourite iwtv stories — i must here be confined by you — where I saw this trio, and it's the only fic I've seen with them)

It all started, when Parisian coven was destroyed. Santiago run away from Paris and found himself in complete loneliness. He has no maker and no fledgling. Now he has no theatre and no maître. He can't go back to Britain, because London coven will hunt him. Armand and Louis will kill him as soon as he appears in their sight. And he's definitely not going to deal with Lestat.

So Santiago made probably his craziest decision and found Claudia and Madeleine.

They were secretly banished and flew away from Paris, mad at Louis, Armand and Lestat for abandoning them (as they think). Of course, when Santiago appears, it's scandal. Claudia promises that she would rip his eyes out, if she sees him again.

Santiago waits for years, but he doesn't go far. There is not the best time for the ladies. Claudia misses Louis and Lestat, and she doesn't know how to deal with this feelings, and Madeleine doesn't know how to help her. And once, when she's desperate, Santiago is hear to listen. Suddenly he is a good listener, discerning and knowing.

And here their relationship begins. Absolutely toxic mess at the start, when Santiago tried to put himself in charge. But they have decades to deal with it. After all he agrees that Claudia is a leader of this strange trio, she dominates, and it's a relief for each of them. Madeleine is her rightful companion. And Santiago... More than a friend, less than a companion, something different than a lover. He is free to go whenever he wants and fuck whoever he wants, but he always comes back.

Santiago calls them Unholy Trinity, and Claudia laughs.

They move to Swiss. Than to Spain. Than to South America. And one day Santiago finds himself in Cali, wearing golden jacket that Madeleine has made for him. All three of them are wearing something matching golden, because it fits Claudia's skin, Madeleine's hair and Santiago's eyes. This night in some club Santiago is teaching Madeleine how to dance bachata, while Claudia is scanning people around, searching for a prey (she became incredibly good at it). When her voice in his head finally points at a man near the bar, Santiago puts Madeleine's hand into Claudia's and goes to the man, smiling.

They will leave the club together tonight. And the ladies will go outside couple of minutes later and follow them to the nearest dark alley.

[littlegirlinvisible]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.06: Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light IWTVTwT Version.

[pacipinka]

*taps mic* is this thing on? Yeah okay so every vampire in the vampire chronicles is turned at critical a moment in their lives and beyond just the body they are in when they are turned, their mentality stays at that standstill for their entire immortality, Lestat was turned against his will, he was clinging onto Magnus begging him to be freed, so he’s constantly seeking freedom and only finding loneliness and thus turning back to people again and again, however he can’t STAND being told what to do, since he desires agency in his life so desperately, Armand was turned after years and years of abuse and lack of control but such a desire for genuine love, by a man he ‘loved’ so wholly who he felt was barring his love from him, he needs control in his life, he needs a ‘master’ but he does not desire it, it does not fulfill him, he is trapped in a room but the door is unlocked! Louis was mourning his brother, he felt like an utter failure and so he’s always seeking family, seeking people he can care for, he can coddle, he can prove he is good too, but he loves people who either cannot stand coddeling and need a sense of looseness to live (Lestat) or people who grow out of coddling who prove to Louis he will always fail the people he loves (Claudia), Claudias turning, in many MANY ways mirrors lestats in that it was against her will, she was stolen from her home, and in her immortality she desires freedom but unlike Lestat does not have the agency/ form to get it, she will always be small, she will always be looked down on, even by Lestat who cannot deny how much she is just like him *taps mic* ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!! NONE OF THEM CAN BREAK THE CYCLE!!! TO BREAK IT WOULD BE TO UNDO THE VERY FIBER OF THEIR IMMORTAL SELVES!! THE CYCLE IS THE BLOOD THEY DRINK IT IS THE HEART IN THEIR CHEST AND IT ROLLS AND ROLLS DOWN THE MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS OF THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER AND IT CAN NEVER BE STOPPED BECAUSE THEY WILL NEVER STOP LOVING EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[schrutexbucks]

another tweet round up for interview with the vampire 8/xx

[frooogscream]

[duke-of-gloom]

The fact that Santiago was supposed to be straight, but Ben took one look at that script and said absolutely not 😡

[brotherconstant]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE BEN DANIELS: This was one of the first jobs I’ve ever done sight unseen, just because it meant working with Rolin. From the outset, Rolin called up and said, “Listen, are you OK if we don’t make Santiago queer?” I was like, “Yeah, I can sort of see it.” But as the script started to come in, I thought the only way this level of vitriol that he has works is if he’s in love with Armand. There is this extraordinary psychological term called reaction formation, which is what Iago has for Othello. It’s a defense mechanism whereby your impulses are so unacceptable to your ego that they’re replaced by this opposite, exaggerated behavior. Santiago finds Louis incredibly attractive. Because Armand killed Santiago’s maker — who I think he was in love with too — and also finds Louis attractive, the whole thing must be destroyed. It gave such a drive to his hatred. It was just something ruminating in myself that drove him forward in a very aggressive, mad, extreme way.

[mossycakes]

love iwtv because im on no-ones side and im also on everyones side. like yeah my girlfriend (in reference to all characters at once) did fucked up things but no she didnt. also she shouldve done more fucked up things. also like it wasnt even her fault so back off. also i hate her.

[alivedean]

that show is a comedy → 4/?

[emtropi]

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[owlsnotes]

My mind refuses to admit that this is the same person

Ben Daniels, you are amazing

[susandsnell]

RIP to the Théâtre des Vampires, you would have legitimately put on the greatest production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats ever put to the stage.

[littlegirlinvisible]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.07: I Could Not Prevent It IWTVTwT Version.

[twyllodrus]

lestat: *goes off script* santiago: bitch there is about to be a trial for your actual murder