#vampire scully

[scullyphile]

there's more vampire!scully au coming soon, don't worry!

[hauntingyourself]

Me with any piece of media where two characters have a codependent relationship

[ovenproofowl]

bad blood is one hell of an episode. it literally opens with mulder straight-up murdering a regular teenager via stake-through-the-heart and he and scully are like pretty sure the FBI is going to be sued and they're going to be doing some serious jail time. except both of them remember the story differently. scully's story is predictably logical and straight-forward. the killer was drugging his victims before bleeding them out, mimicking a vampire attack by wearing fake fangs (which are proven to be fake. this is crucial. this kid was wearing plastic fangs when mulder stabbed him. in the chest. with a wooden stake.) what is also crucial is that mulder was a victim of this murderer's attack and so he was tripping hard when scully intercepts the killer. mulder - whilst tripping balls - is convinced that the killer has glowing eyes and flew across the room before running out the door. and so - whilst tripping balls - he gives chase and ends up stabbing the kid through the heart with a wooden stake.

and of course this is the x files and so while scully and mulder are arguing over who gave who the hardest time in their percieved series of events, it turns out that mulder was right. the kid was a vampire and the stake didn't actually kill him. the fangs were fake because he was copying the sorts of vampires that you see in books and on tv. he was a real vampire.

and it's not just the kid. there are bunches of vampires, including the sheriff. the whole town are just. vampires. the lot of 'em. and the second they're found out, they just up and leave without a trace.

sometimes the extent to which mulder turns out to be right in this show is borderline ludicrous, it's amazing, I love it. but what was even better was that the biggest point of contention between scully and mulder's stories wasn't even the vampire thing, it was whether or not the sheriff was actually hot.

[movieslover05]

how do i tell people i wear a cross necklace only in a 90s buffy summers/dana scully way

[tomwambsgays]

i just can't decide who lights my fire…

[all-or-nothing-baby]

let's pour one out for the fallen blorbos.

those blorbos you still think of often, who can still make you smile fondly but have taken a background position in your fandom life; those blorbos you might have dusty ol'sideblogs for that you keep even tho you know may never post there again; those blorbos who have broken both legs when falling tragically into near-obscurity in the void dimension of your brain where temporary hyperfixation goes to die; those blorbos you onced loved and will always love, just in a softer, quieter kind of way...

this one's for you, old friend.

[judgmental-eyebrows]

which of these shows have you *not* seen?

these all have at least one main female character who has been described as an icon and has an established place in mainstream culture. They all premiered from the 1990s to the 2000s. for shows like Charmed that have had a remake, or The X Files with a sequel, we’re only counting the original series!

by “seen” it can be whatever you classify that as—watching the whole thing pilot to final episode, catching a rerun occasionally, or even seeing enough gifsets here that you know the general premise!

feel free to reblog for sample size!

[worstwolverinesbf]

x-files s5 e12 is actually the best episode because mulder and scully are so married and the vampires a real vamp whos just watched too many dracula movies and i don’t think ive ever laughed this much at an x-files episode

[sculderand-mully]

important buffy crossover moment

[sentientsky]

art vs. artist

(ft. the closest thing you’ll get to a face reveal from me)

[joe-spookyy]

who gaf. here’s all my character/media playlists. i'm not into all of these anymore but i still think they're neat and i love to share.

part 1 tv shows

buffy summers (btvs)

xander harris (btvs)

willow rosenberg (btvs

daniel “oz” osbourne (btvs)

spike (btvs)

dana scully (x-files)

fox mulder (x-files)

aziraphale and crowley (good omens)

[scullyphile]

Essentially Exactly the Way It Happened

Category: F/M | Fandom: X-Files | Ship: Mulder/Scully (MSR)

Rating: Mature | Words: 3,127 | Chapters: 1/? | Author: scullyphile

Scully is a Vampire AU for: @thescullyphile

Summary:

“He doesn’t suspect a thing, does he? Your partner.” Ronnie says. He looks around him, at his car, at the pizza, at something far in the distance, but not at her. At least he’s showing some deference. That gives her something to work with. Scully pulls the muscles of her face into a hard mask. She can’t show weakness. The pizza has led her to Ronnie, and Ronnie can’t be trusted. “And he can’t know. He will never know. Do you understand me? If you breathe a word of this to Agent Mulder, I’ll put a stake through your heart myself. I’ll chop you into multiple pieces and drop those pieces into separate seas.” Alternate universe where Scully has been a vampire the entire time, right under her partner's nose.

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(mentions under cut for those who expressed interest in the original post)

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[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s2 episode 7 thoughts

hmm. hmm. that is the sound if me pondering what i just watched.

(i understand that this episode was an analysis into mulder's self-destructive behaviors when faced with overwhelming grief, but. that does not mean i enjoyed vampire hookup time)

well. we shall start from the top!

i read that it was an episode about vampires which i thought was a weird narrative choice because. hello. scully still gone??? but then i remembered that i too ignored the main quest in skyrim to hunt some vampires and that i had no place to judge

(granted, my main quest wasn't finding scully though. might have given that a bit more priority than saving the whole world. because she IS my whole world)

we open with a guy that looks like joe biden meeting with an attractive young woman. they're making out in a hot tub and we just know someone is gonna get slurped upon. and woe, it be upon us! double vampire attack.

back in DC, mulder gets his old office back! it's covered in plastic. he takes some of it off. he adjusts his calendar from may to november, so we see how much time he and scully had been assigned to other tasks, which also has me wondering how she managed to get a new house that quick.

(also, this calendar is... scantily clad women posing next to tools such as hammers and saws. was this allowed? was this acceptable? was it normal? were the 90's a lawless wasteland and mulder an irreparable freak?)

well. scully is an x file now, and he puts her glasses and id into an evidence bag and closes the filing cabinet which was sooooo evil. but he can't bring himself to put her necklace away. oh man. oh he's gotta have it in case he finds her. he has to hold her close. i'm Fine this is Fine.

so. he goes out to california to deal with the joe biden looking fellow being murdered. and he is not wanted on the crime scene. we know this because someone greets him by saying "nobody called the bureau" and he says "well, they should have" and lifts up the tape to let himself in. because one thing about him is that he's gonna let himself into a place he isn't wanted.

he sees the writing of a bible verse in blood on the wall and says something about their grasp of biblical knowledge being "feeble and literal" and i was like okayyy need to have a theological discussion with him

he then scares the other guy who originally wanted to kick him out by reciting a LARGE amount of facts related to similar cases and it's very much giving photographic memory. got me thinking, have we ever seen this man forget something? (directions don't count. they're confusing. but everything else sticks in that man's brain)

he just needs one thing: a phone book. which he uses to call a blood bank and ask about a new guy. who must be the vampire who did this!

so he rolls up to the blood bank and i'm over here struggling because i do Not Do Blood, and i knew at this point this was gonna be a tough watch, but i didn't anticipate the non-blood related reasons why this would be true

anyway he's sniffing around the blood bank and he hears some slurping and wouldn't you know, this dude is tearing into a bag of the red stuff like it's a capri sun. somehow he gets him into custody, where the dude refuses to talk because the lights are on, and mulder comes in with a lamp he put a red filter over, because he was prepared for vampire interrogation.

the vampire is going on about how what he did isn't murder because it's not like animals hunting prey is murder which is. not the greatest approach in terms of legal defense. mulder tells the guard that the guy is delusional and it's best to play along, and he believed this to be true... until he, quite literally, burned to a crisp in the sunlight. and died.

he's talking to the coroner and rattling off a bunch of vampire facts and says he didn't believe in vampires which is so funny to me because like. why is that where you draw the line, my friend. not at bigfoot and definitely not at aliens. but man. vampires are just too out there for spooky mulder. until now!

the coroner has a very funny line: "you are really upsetting me... on several levels" which seems to be the general effect fox mulder has on people. and also because i felt the same way about his dumbass actions during this episode.

coroner finds a stamp on the dead body's hand, which seems to come from a nightclub. so naturally our fbi agent ends up there.

you often see posts saying that "(insert character here) should be at the club". i fear that this is not the case for fox mulder, but it's possible that it's his suit and tie that are throwing me off. he just doesn't seem like he belongs there. i ask myself, where should he be instead? perhaps some sort of star wars convention would suit him better. a book signing with some author he likes. idk, an interior decorating festival. not here.

i shall use my verbatim words to walk you through the next scene:

"pause. he's talking to a woman who was looking into a compact without a mirror. so. vampire suspect. and now why are they getting so close together. and getting a drink. okay now they're leaving to a new spot together? AFTER she admits to vampirism"

(here she did some stuff that required me to look away from my screen due to my Weak Constitution. but also it would have felt necessary to look away anyway because it was getting... charged)

she tries to get him to... suck on her finger... but he won't do it because aids. which is fair. i think that's a smart move, actually. it's just that getting flirty with a vampire he knows was involved with a ton of killings was such a stupid move, i don't know why it's now the braincells start to kick in.

that kills the vibe, though, so she gets another guy to take his place and things escalate.

mulder pulls in at a restaurant called ra. nice! the sun god! and he is... through a window, witnessing some more slurping action. he seems to want to intervene and save this poor soul being feasted upon...

but the poor soul is no poor soul at all! he comes out and decks mulder, and delivers this line with stunning conviction: "i don't know who you are, freak, but we're two consenting adults" and with this, he is forced to flee.

and yeah. it made me laugh. my expectations for the genre were subverted. he signed up for that shit! what he did not sign up for, however, was the next part, where he was killed by the other vampires.

cut to investigating the crime scene. mulder has brought along a forensic dentist, which is a job i had no idea you could go into. he needs to see about those bites, which are very human.

next they go to vampire woman's house. it's a very nice place. mulder... opens her oven. and sees a loaf of bread in there. and i'm thinking, man, i hope this doesn't go where i think it's going. baked goods... ovens... i never want a vampire pregnancy arc. but he cracks open the loaf and something red spills out and somehow, this to him means that she is gone and isn't coming back. he can read the signs of the bread. so add that to his resume. what did the bread tell you, my liege?

he seems to have stayed in her house, however, because he's there when she's back, and says he knows she was using the bread as a charm to ward off evil. because apparently that's an eastern european thing, blood bread to warn off evil. sound off if any eastern europeans in the chat wanna confirm or deny.

anyway. he's IN this woman he thinks is a vampire's HOUSE? what the hell. mulder seriously i need you to stop and think. like you should have stopped and done some thinking a while ago. honestly i'm not mad i'm just disappointed. and he's like "i want to save you come with me before they kill you" ohhh big tough man needs to save her huh. make him feel good inside. huh. certainly no ulterior motive here...

she's monologing about her horrible childhood and how sweet blood tastes. um girl. don't lie to him like that. i have busted my lip open before that stuff does NOT taste sweet and dangerous. it's like a penny with rust that you found in a parking lot.

it seems her vampiric origin story, if to be believed, is that things simply got too kinky. which is a new take on the genre.

(it's also about being caught in an abusive relationship and the damage that inflicts, but it seems abusive boyfriend came into vampirism at his kinky parties and things escalated from there. which. well. it blew the eyebrows clean off my head, to be fair)

at this point we see that he is WEARING SCULLY'S NECKLACE? he says something like "it's from someone i lost" and she says that she "hopes he finds her"

i did not like the undertones here and certainly not the overtones. because i knew where this was going. he was shaving in her bathroom. and let me tell you something: there is only ever a shaving scene in media because the writer needs a way to get some blood out of someone's body and into the real world. and man. i knew it was coming.

but what i didn't see coming was her SHAVING HIM??? girl. i am uncomfy. and she does, of course, cut him, and then they kiss. aggressively. terribly aggressively. can anyone answer what was going on in a satisfactory manner?

but the gag is: the original vampire- who burnt to a crisp in the jail cell, and was the abusive ex she spoke of- HE'S WATCHING THEM THROUGH THE WINDOW!

he breaks in and taunts the vampire woman about how he had to "wait for her to finish" and i was like cool. thank you SO much for that mental image i'm super happy with it. i definitely don't feel like i need a shower. but then he's going on about how he can't be killed.

here, at the tail end of the episode, we learn the rules of vampirism in this world: a vampire cannot be killed by a non-vampire. and a non-vampire BECOMES a vampire by consuming the blood of a believer and also taking a life. it is only here we realize that this woman is not an actual vampire yet, she just appropriates their culture by drinking blood unnecessarily.

mulder's still sleeping in her bed and she's like "you need to leave" and she stabs the wall to make her evil ex think she's killing him. but when they go to break out, mulder ties him up quite handily and he gets in the car to escape with vampire woman. until ANOTHER vampire woman jumps on the hood of their car. and main vampire woman knocks her out for a bit by running into her with said car, which is super effective.

mulder's leaving the place in shambles, his shirt still unbuttoned, wandering down the side of the hill. back at the house, now that we know the vampire rules, main vampire woman says she can finally kill the evil vampire ex. and he's like how!! you haven't had the blood of a believer or taken a life. so. she licks the blood off her hands (unclear if it's hers or mulders tbh) and says she'll take her own life. and drops a match after pouring gasoline.

so. that brings that to an end. and shabby looking mulder sits on a hill as he learns all four in the house died.

the episode ends with him playing with scully's necklace. which i don't even sort of feel like unpacking right now but maybe another time.

probably not, though, because i just didn't like this episode. and yeah, a lot of it comes down to me not wanting to see mulder hook up with people who aren't scully. can you blame me? is it so wrong to have preferences in this world?

but also, narrative wise- do you honestly see the guy fucking off to cali while scully's still missing to deal with an unrelated problem instead of devoting every hour of his life to finding her, like we saw him do in the last episode? you expect me to think he just puts it off for a lil while? the guy who, just last episode, pulled his gun on the ski lift operator to get to the top where she might be a little faster, and then choked his one and only suspect out of fury? you're thinking this is the guy that's gonna go soak up some west coast rays?

and yeah, he was obviously not himself through the episode- very cold and analytical- but c'mon. we all want to bang a vampire. he's not special. i just personally wouldn't do that if my friend were gone. like how is that gonna help the situation. be so for real. time and place!

and also the whole only learning the rules of being a vampire about 5 minutes before they need it to be plot relevant. that annoyed me too.

overall, mulder, like i said, i'm not mad, just disappointed.

let me know what you thought on this episode- i try to not be a hater, but i also understand that hating in small doses can be good for the soul. if it's a widely beloathed episode i'll feel better in my judgement as i join a long tradition of haters who have come before me.

[hippiegoth97]

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[limnsaber]

Sooo convinced that Scully is a woman who never dies kind of immortal & Mulder is a “bash him on the head tuck him into bed and he’ll pop right back up again” kind

[fimproda]

The X-Files x Interview With the Vampire (AMC)

It's 1996. It's a Monster of the Week episode. Agents Mulder and Scully have been working together for a couple of years at this point; one morning, Mulder barges into his basement office, as per usual, and slams a case file on his desk, right under Scully's nose.

Multiple victims in New Orleans, found murdered in various parts of the city with no blood left in their bodies and puncture wounds on their necks. Mulder already thinks it's a vampire. Scully complains and presents scientific proof to the non-existence of vampires. Mulder wins. They board a plane to Louisiana.

A younger version of the Crime Dawg from 2x08 brings the agents on a spooky tour of NOLA and tells them what happened at 1132 Royal Street:

"Home of the most infamous party ever thrown in New Orleans. This is where two dozen members of high society, they walked in them doors right there. Ain't nobody ever seen them again."

Mulder is intrigued. Scully scoffs and rolls her eyes.

The Crime Dawg goes on with his pitch: Tom Anderson, the Sebastian Melmoth/Lesander Lioncurt King of Raj thing, the Creole hustler and his little child bride, the voodoo cult they were running in the back rooms above the courtyard garden, the who's who of who dat who were brought inside the house on Mardi Gras, 1940 and that couldn't nobody find head or hairpiece of the next day.

"What did they find?" the Crime Dawg asks the agents. "Blood in between the floorboards of three different rooms, bits of indeterminate pieces of bone inside the factory-sized incinerator. Why did Tom Anderson, Mr. Melmoth, the hustler and the child bride lure these particular citizens to this house of lies and intrigue?"

"To murder them, apparently," Scully says, and then goes on a tirade about early 1900s crime scene investigation methods. Mulder follows with a compilation of his encyclopedic knowledge of vampires, which will come in handy in two years when the events of Bad Blood roll around. The Crime Dawg is already hearing wedding bells.

Later, while Scully examines the victims' bodies at the city morgue, Mulder returns to 1132 Royal Street, formerly 1132 Rue Royale. It's a museum now. Inside, there's a picture of the so-called Frenchman, the local Creole hustler and his little child bride. Mulder has a hunch, as one does, but alas, Scully doesn't find any forensic evidence and the case threatens to go cold.

Thankfully, the episode is written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotniz (and, why not, David Duchovny), so the magic of television eventually brings us to the dilapidated doorstep of one Lestat de Lioncurt, who looks exactly like the so-called Frenchman in the picture Mulder saw in the museum at 1132 Royal Street.

Something something, there's a kind of homoerotic tension between Mulder and Lestat that rivals the one between Mulder and Krycek, something something, Lestat reveals himself as a vampire when he bites Mulder and/or Scully, something something, Scully still doesn't believe in vampires. Between one thing and the other, Mulder puts his Oxford psychology degree to good use and psychoanalizes Lestat, who finds himself in the same place as mon cher Louis was 23 years earlier with a bright young reporter with a point of view (and will be again in another 30 years' time, with a bright old reporter with a point of view) and tells Mulder his entire life story.

At the end, it's one of those episodes: the monster is not actually a monster, or however that old X-Files adage goes. A classic Mulder monologue ties it all off nicely:

"Maybe, a vampire is but a man who rejects sociality, who embraces his feelings of alienation and loneliness and sets himself apart from humanity, but still needs to fill that pit with the essence of life and has to go find that in his former mortal fellows, therefore voiding the very premise of his existence.

"This has the vampire wondering what this not-life, not-death ultimately means, if it will ever amount to something.

"Am I something of God that is here because all things that are here are of God's intention? the vampire asks himself. Or am I damned? Am I from the devil? Is my very nature that of the devil?

"Or, perhaps, is my need of blood a mere biological imperative? Am I an obligate carnivore, guilty of nothing but my own survival instinct, just as the lion in his pursuit of the zebra is subjected only to the laws of nature and not those of humanity?"

I've spent the better part of the summer watching The X-Files (I'm currently at the start of season 9) and moved on to ITWV season 2 as soon as fall rolled around. Suffice to say that both these shows have become my current hyperfixations, and I just couldn't stand not making something out of it.

If someone wants to write this under a more serious light, please do; just let me know if and when you do decide to do it and where I might go read it. Because I need to read this.