#vc headcanons

[leslutdepointedulac]

Lestat being tired and stressed after a long night of Prince-ing so he crawls into bed with Louis, resting his head on his chest and allowing himself to be soothed by his heartbeat while Louis strokes his hair and reads to him

[desertfangs]

Daniel jogging down the Thanksgiving Parade route with a camera in 1978, trying to snap as many photos of the floats and balloons as possible to show Armand this wild tradition, only to learn he was actually there in NYC for the first parade in 1924.

[apoptoses]

It is #Molloy Monday and I am here to remind you that Daniel is featured most from 1975-1985 aka the Sluttiest Era of Modern Male Fashion.

Coming in HOT we have the cut off short shorts and cropped t-shirt or mostly unbuttoned button down combo. Daniel visited some warm climates during the chase years so I invite you to picture him in the tiniest ripped jean shorts sweating over whether or not that auburn haired lady down the street is actually Armand!!

Or going into the 80s sometimes the tops were REALLY cropped and exposed midrift and back!! Like just picture Daniel fucking around on Night Island in this, wow wow!!

But even when the pants were long the t-shirts were TIGHT, maximum pec definition through the shirt was a must.

If he didn't wanna show that much skin? That was fine because turtlenecks where IN baby!! These are basically vampire lingerie imo, covering up the most succulent part of the neck but still leaving a hint exposed below the jaw?? Armand had to have been dying of thirst!!!

(Also when it says Armand came to pick Daniel up from jail in a lawyer's tweed suit? He wasn't wearing no modern cut, he'd have been rocking the big lapels because this was the 70s tyvm)

Also important to note was that the 70s were the era of glam rock and androgyny, so picking a silky button down that looks like a women's blouse? Totally okay for men, very in style so long as you leave the top buttons undone to expose maximum chest.

Btw velour? Was IN. This is the 1979 equivalent of a juicy couture tracksuit which Armand could have snuggled right into while they were living in London.

And while the 80s sees the rise of a looser fit, that doesn't mean the crop top died or that people weren't still rocking a more form fitted jean when they were feeling casual.

This photo is from NYC in 1983 and shows that tight t-shirts and short shorts were still very much alive, just styled a bit differently! A tight top and looser straight leg jeans, or short bottom and a flowy open top took the place of all fitted looks.

Or that the mostly unbuttoned button down went away- if anything in the 80s the buttons went even LOWER and more revealing. Paired with a boxy linen suit this is essential 80s Miami aka Night Island looks.

and yeah that's spader, leave me alone, he's peak 80s here

This sweater is loose but it's got the deep V neck and a sheer knit, perfect for the beach!!

And yeah this is Sapder AGAIN but note the half open shirt, leather jacket, and jeans that get tighter near the ankle!! Classic 80s, baggy but still sexy, A+.

I SWEAR this is the last time I'm gonna use and abuse him but peep the muscle tank with the DIY cut edges on the arm holes! V neck! 80s!!!

Basically the takeaway here is that if you're putting them in the 80s and having them rock something baggy and double denim, the look still featured a tight waistline and rolled sleeves or rolled ankles to tighten the jeans. It wasn't just baggy all over!!

Here's some random images from the entire era to finish off:

So next time you're working on fic or art instead of just tossing Daniel into a regular old t-shirt and jeans consider doing some slutty 70s and 80s looks instead 😌

[nanathebunny]

sometimes i like to give marius/daniel/armand a “father meets son’s boyfriend and decides to tell him every embarrassing childhood and teenage years anecdote possible” dynamic

in armand’s case it’s marius talking abt what amadeo was up to when human, daniel going “no way :000” and armand going “DAD STOOOOOP YOU’RE EMBARRASSING ME” or the ancient vampire equivalent to that or just pouting really hard

it’s bonding for them, they r going straight to bed afterwards, not to worry

[uncivilcivilservice]

do u enjoy (book) danlou*? its such an underrated ship and i love it so i wanna hear ur thoughts

daniel molloy/ louis de pointe du lac

Absolutely I do! I don't think of them as like, each others true soul mate or anything lol, but I think there are a lot of interesting possibilities with their dynamic and relationship as established in canon that I would have loved to see explored more in the later books, but thankfully we have fic for that (and @covenofthearticulate has kept me well fed in this ship for a while now!).

From Daniel's perspective, I think Louis's impact on his life and his psyche is pretty hard to overstate. When he's dying and being turned, it's Louis he sees welcoming him to the dark gift. Louis changed the entire trajectory of his life and rewired his little freak brain.

From Louis's perspective, Daniel might not live rent free in his head the way he does in Daniel's, but Louis still has to reckon with the fact that he confided his life story in a guy that he definitely didn't expect to still have to talk to 50 years later lol. But also by taking Louis's story and sharing it, Daniel did have a significant impact on Louis's life by leading Lestat back to him and kickstarting the events of the chronicles.

All of this yapping to say that yes, I love thinking about any possible relationship they might have post canon (whether romantically or platonically charged). They are two surprisingly distinct flavours of weird, bookish Catholic (and my personal headcanon is that Daniel, like Louis, moved to modern day America as a child, just because I like giving them parallels) and I like to see what happens when you mix them together

[vamptember]

It's Week 1 of #VCKinkFest and this week's prompts are:

• Pet Play • Overstimulation • Somnophilia • Collars • Voyeurism/Exhibitionism

So post your fics, your fanart, your headcanons, your meta- anything goes! And feel free to promote older works that fit the themes.

For those who post on AO3 we have a collection here that you're welcome to add your works to.

Don't forget to tag your posts with #VCKinkFest so that we can reblog your works throughout the week!

(PS: have a prompt related to one of the themes that you want to see another author or artist fill? Head on over to @priapus-at-the-gate and drop your prompt in the ask box ♥)

[queerquaintrelle]

Vamptember 2024: Colosseum

Marius de Romanus & Gladiators headcanons by moi.

Photos from: Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec taken by me.

@vamptember

Preface: Prefacing this by saying whilst, yes, I am a Marius de Romanus enjoyer I enjoy him critically, the way one enjoys Dracula (1897) whilst not condoning Bram Stoker's very obvious racism and sexism. (I approach most media this way and it works for me), that said, if you loathe Marius? valid, don't take it out on real people though, and if you love him? great, I am not stopping you. Just play nice in the sandbox everyone alright? Anything I say came about from my own observation and is not a condemnation of anyone else enjoying a fictional character.

Writer's note: this is going to be marginally ahistorical and I've taken liberties, gladiatorial games as we understand them now weren't a massive thing, they became one in the time of the Nerva-Antoinine dynasty and the Colosseum finished building under Commadus (he is the villain the film Gladiator). But I have been sitting on this meta since I got back from Quebec so here y'all go.

Marius de Romanus as a human doesn't approve of gladiatorial games, he thinks they are obnoxious and a meaningless sacrifice of life.

Marius as a vampire sees the theoretical value in them as a manner of brutal keeping of social order, he still doesn't attend as games take place during the day.

It is one of the many squabbles he and Pandora have, she thinks they are morbidly fascinating.

Marius didn't understand 'why the Romans were like this' (derogatory) until he became a vampire.

He finds them to be 'strange' 'morbid' and 'fetishistic' (a bit of a hypocritical statement but what are TVC vampires if not compelling hypocrites?)

Commadus's reign is one of the few things that made Marius de Romanus sympathetic to Christians and Christianity (book! spoilers) <- until Constantine the wife and son murderer (historical fact) ruined everything.

[ch3ri-ch3ri-lady]

reading tvl is so upsetting because you just know lestat was the sweetest friendliest kid ever which got me thinking about how weird louis must’ve been. he fs would’ve like collected dead bugs and been really into warrior cats or something

[simplemanmp3]

Not-so-controversial opinion: viktor really is like 6'3 or whatever. Lestat is NOT 6ft tho. He's 5'9 at MOST. He looks taller because he wears heels + his hair's a bit tall. But standing shoes off next to viktor you start to wonder where the hell viktor got the height gene from

[leslutdepointedulac]

But what if Lestat's always singing or humming a little tune. When Claudia's struggling to get to settle down for a nap so he walks around with her in his arms and softly sings her some lullaby he remembers from his own childhood. Or he hums a random tune to himself while deep in though about something. Or he and Louis are having some down time and he sings to him while they lounge around, maybe even pulling Louis into a dance. Or whenever he's in the middle of doing some mundane task, he makes up a little song to make it less boring. Or when he knows Louis is nearby, he starts humming a song Louis likes and brings the lyrics in when he thinks he's listening, only to pretend he hadn't noticed Louis' presence when he comes into the room. Sometimes Lestat will make up songs for him, either to make Louis smile and laugh, or something cute that gets his heart skipping while he hides behind his hair bc he's Being Perceived

[desertfangs]

One of the hottest vampire things is them staring at each other's throats. Armand watching Daniel's artery pulse with fresh blood after a kill. Daniel staring at the curve of Armand's neck where it meets his shoulder and wondering how long it's been since he's fed, how warm or cold he'll be if Daniel presses his lips to his skin. The way tilting their head back or to the side is one of the most sensual movements and how arousing it can be to see them adjust a collar or for a sweater to slip to the side over a shoulder, revealing more of their collarbone.

[apoptoses]

what are the odds that daniel stayed at a hotel that folds towels into swans and leaves them on your bed, and armand saw them and got obsessed

and so for weeks after daniel would wake up in their apartment with every towel in the place staring at him like

[nanathebunny]

discussing abo loumandstat with my friend, lestat is the only alpha and louis gets pregnant first but louis is the kind of guy to be fussier over the actual baby, not the pregnancy, so he’s pretty chill all the time despiste being nauseated and all that physical discomfort

armand on the other hand goes haywire, he’s running that pregnancy like the navy, he has read every book in the world on pregnancies, he measures louis’s belly everyday, he yells at lestat when lestat says he’s just gonna be a week away visiting someone (even though louis was perfectly fine with it) because WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS!!!

the baby is born healthy and strong and Gigantic and armand, being relaxed for once in his life, gets pregnant like . two months later

[uncivilcivilservice]

Do you think Armand misses the days of public surgeries and autopsies?

Look, I'm not saying modern day Armand is crawling and peering through the vents, or disguising himself as an observing doctor, in order to watch surgeries in hospitals, but I'm also not saying he's not

[desertfangs]

This is just my read on it, but I personally think this was Armand stepping back to evaluate his feelings and figure out where to go from there. This after almost four years of chasing Daniel around and them getting to know each other, and I feel like this point was very much his "Oh shit, I actually love this foolish boy and want to keep him," and then trying to figure out if he could do that and if so, how. How would he handle having a mortal companion, especially because at this point he was determined to never turn another? How would they coexist? Is that something Armand was capable of doing? Did he really want to do it? Or was he better off leaving Daniel alone and to whatever fate awaited him as a mortal who knew of their existence?

I think Daniel getting sober and finding some clarity during that time was just happenstance because he had the opportunity to stay in one place and, since Armand did not appear, forced himself to focus on what he could control. Would it have lasted? I don't know. I think eventually he'd have gotten restless and tried to seek Armand out or find Lestat or something.

Also, this echoes the six months in 1985 where Daniel leaves Night Island and doesn't call or go home, and Armand doesn't chase him. It's my feeling that this is them both playing a weird game of chicken with themselves, trying to figure out if they can live without the other. And they can't.

i've always wondered why armand doesn't show himself to daniel for that entire italian summer. daniels says that armand "stayed away" but i don't believe it. he was there, watching daniel. i just don't know why. was armand trying to stay away from daniel because he knew he was bad for him, but he couldn't bear to walk away? or was it more calculating than that? was armand just curious to know whether daniel would recover? and when armand saw daniel recovering in his armand-free rehab, did he decide then that he wanted to make it so daniel couldn't live without him? and so he got daniel hooked on his blood

[ch3ri-ch3ri-lady]

guys pleaaaase ask me things about the vampire chronicles I’m bored