#pandora/daniel

[monstersinthecosmos]

Vamptember Day 24 - Divorce

{black light burns - drowning together, dying alone}

Daniel’s headphones are on, but he still hears the muffled rhythm of their voices from the other room. Noise canceling only goes so far for the preternatural, it seems. He turns the volume up, and stares down at his book, and tries not to hear what they’re saying. 

Awkward, overhearing it. Reminds him of his parents fighting when he was a kid.

He hears Marius slam the balcony door, the way it rattles the windows. He lays his book down atop his chest and stares at the ceiling, heart racing from the noise. 

It’s not that he doesn’t know Marius has a secret temper. He can taste it when they drink from each other. Feels it like a charge crackling through the room when Marius is trying to hold it back, senses his suffocating shame when it burns up to the surface. But he’s never truly seen it, has he?

And not now, either. In the other room, away from him. Just the shouting, and the rattling windows. 

Daniel doesn’t feel him out there on the balcony—he must have taken off. Too pissed off to take the stairs, or even wait for the elevator. No, straight up to the sky, and he could be anywhere by now.

His fingers tap idly against the book cover. No noise over the headphones anymore, but he can feel her in the next room. So strange, being near someone Marius’s same age. How heavy their energy feels, even though hers is wholly different. He wonders how long she’ll stay.

The song in his headphones ends, and he tears them from his head, tosses them to the other side of the bed. Digs into his pocket to click the iPod off. Sets his book aside.

Despite the shouting match, Pandora seems relaxed when Daniel pops his head into the living room. Stretched across the green velvet couch like nothing is wrong, leisurely turning the pages of the Gisele Bündchen book. Her shoeless feet plant against the couch cushions, knees bent so that the book can lay open across her thighs.

Daniel leans in the door frame, watching her. Waiting to see if she’ll say anything. Her toes tap gently to the beat of the radio, and her eyes narrow at one of the photographs.

“Marius went out?” Daniel finally asks. 

“For a tantrum, I’m sure.”

“He only acts like this when you’re around, you know.”

Her mouth twists into a half smile, eyes alight as she glances up at him. She taps the couch cushion with one of her feet. “Come sit. Are you defending him?”

Daniel scans outwards again, checking that Marius really left. How good is his hearing, anyway? He scratches the back of his head, chuckling out of nervousness as he obeys her. She lifts her feet so that he has room to sit, then crosses her ankles over his lap.

He’s not sure where to put his hands, if he should tuck them beside himself or fold them over her cold legs. She’s wearing an ankle bracelet and her nails are painted dark purple.

“I think you’re mistaken, baby boy,” she says, and Daniel can’t help laughing a little louder. “He only behaves when you’re around.”

“Baby boy,” Daniel scoffs. If there were fresh blood in his body, his cheeks might get warm. 

She slowly closes the book. Folds her hands on top of it. Stares at Daniel’s face. He can’t hear what she’s thinking.

“You look just like him, you know,” she says, after a pause. “Have any of them told you that?”

“Any of who?”

“Any of them.”

Daniel laughs nervously. “Apparently not.”

“If you’d been turned a bit younger, you and Lestat could pass for his sons. You know that, yes?” When he doesn’t answer, she flexes her foot, rolls her heel back and forth against the top of his thigh. “You must have been a vision when Louis found you.”

“Come on, that’s…” Daniel looks away from her. Chokes on the forced laughter, stares down at the shapely bones of her ankles, unable to watch her face. And, what? That’s what? He crosses his arms over his chest, whole body tense as he tries to keep his hands to himself. “That’s ridiculous.”

“I’m being unfair,” she says, after a pause, and Daniel glances towards her in time to see the way she tilts her head in thought. “You look young. You could still pass as his son. We didn’t age so well when were alive, you know.”

His son. Daniel’s stomach flutters, and Pandora’s eyes glint in mirth.

“You knew that, then.” 

He tries to keep his thoughts hidden, but the memories cascade inside too fast. How many times Marius has been mistaken for his father out in public, the way neither of them ever correct it. The amount of times Daniel has called him daddy.

“It’s a rite of passage, I suppose,” Pandora says. There’s a useless, warm ache where she presses her foot to his groin. 

“What is?”

“That whole father business. He was like that when he was young, too. Perhaps he grew out of it, in his old age. Now it’s his turn to be the father,” she sets the book aside, and Daniel looks towards the noise as it thuds against the coffee table. She folds her arms behind her head as she stretches. “You can touch me, you know.”

Daniel can see it, sort of, in his head. Something foggy that he’s caught in the Blood before, something he stored away deep down in his head from years ago. It surfaces as he laughs a little bit, and lets the tension down from his shoulders, uncrossing his arms and resting his hands against her.

The hair on her legs is so soft, with all this time. Short enough that he can tell she shaved when she alive, but she was turned in such a hurry. Not like Daniel, with every detail obsessed over. Not like Marius.

His fingers curl around her ankle, then over her arch. Marius touches him like this sometimes. He tries to repeat it, massaging her the way he imagines that Marius would.

“You weren’t much older than me when you were turned,” he says, thinking about it. He studies her face, trying to find a clue, but she’s too inhuman to tell.

Her eyebrow quirks as she hears the thought slip out. Daniel chuckles and drops his head, watches the work in his lap as he rubs her feet.

“Sorry. It’s not a bad thing,” he breathes through the awkwardness, feeling the strange hardness of her body. Marius is the same, it’s not that it’s unfamiliar to him. Just… 

“I understand,” she says. “It was that way with the Parents. Or with the twins. It’s hard to see, once we become like this.”

“Marius… feels old,” Daniel mumbles. “You both feel, I don’t know. Ancient. I can feel you in the room, I can tell that you’re something… but Marius. I don’t know. Maybe it’s his paterfamilias bullshit or something.”

Pandora’s laughter is sharp and sudden. She offers a little kick to his hip bone.

“He looks old, maybe. In his face. He just wears it in his face, I think.”

“Well, there aren’t many of us who lived to see thirty. Maybe we just spend too much time around perpetual children.”

“Yeah…” 

Daniel’s motions slow as he stares across the room at nothing. Sore spot, that Pandora couldn’t have known she was pressing on. Not sure his life counts as living to thirty. It had ended that night in San Francisco, really.

“Not that Marius is the paradigm of maturity,” she adds a moment later. She’s grinning when Daniel sneaks a glance at her, like they’re sharing a secret. 

“Has he always been like this?”

“Oh, I don’t know. It’s different for us. He’s my maker.”

The words curl around his middle spine. He stares at her again, studying her face, realizing for the first time that there’s no photos of her in their apartment. The size of it swells in his chest, too suffocating to imagine. Marius as your maker. Marius as your maker.

“Most of us just have that one person, you know. One person who knew us when we were alive. Marius is lucky in that way, he has a few of us. So do you.”

Daniel shudders. 

“Did you have a big family when you were alive?” she asks, continuing along as if she can’t feel his discomfort.

“No… I was an only child. My mom had a sister that lived nearby, and I had a cousin. That’s it. No one else had come to the US.”

“You’re special, you know.” And her voice is soft, not teasing for once. So sincere. She leans forward to touch him on the chin, to hold him where she wants him, to stare into his eyes. “You met all of us, right away. It’s like having a whole house full of aunties and uncles that want to see you do well.”

Ridiculous. Daniel wants to laugh, but he can’t find it. 

“Most of the time you guys feel like my divorced parents.”

Her fingers pinch him harder. “Were you parents divorced?”

“No, it’s…” he tries to shake his head, but there’s no give. His voice falls flat, too distracted by the shape of her eyes. “It’s a joke.”

“You should call me Mommy some time.” For a moment, Daniel isn’t sure if she’s telling him what to do or it’s another joke. Isn’t sure if he’s supposed to laugh. 

“Oh.”

Her eyes glance towards the open windows, and the curtain swaying in the breeze, out to the city noise and night sky. She and Marius have the barrier between them, but he wonders if she can hear his heartbeat out there somewhere, the only one that’s been there the whole time. 

“Do it in front of him. I want to see what he does.”

[funtheysaid]

iwtv ships be like 🧶🕸️🌪️

[meerawrites]

*correct buzzer noise* everyone say thank you and/or apologies to Anne Rice right now.

[vamptember]

𝖁𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖒𝖇𝖊𝖗 𝕻𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖘…

In honor of International Women’s Day, we will be hosting a week-long event taking place March 3 - March 9 to shine a spotlight on Anne Rice’s beloved female characters and/or the genderswapped versions of your favorite male characters! 💖

Create fic, art, playlists, moodboards, headcanons, meta, and anything else you can think of that centers the beautiful, brilliant, dynamic ladies of TVC! Base it on the books, the movie, the show, the musical, or even that other movie! Canon or AU!

𝕽𝖚𝖑𝖊𝖘 & 𝕲𝖚𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘

Each day has THREE prompts in case one doesn’t speak to you! Pick one or combine them or rearrange them, it’s up to you! Make it SFW or NSFW!

Genderswapped and trans versions of canonically male characters are welcome! There are so many dynamics and possibilities to explore!

The event isn’t femslash exclusive with regards to NSFW content but it is highly encouraged!

AO3 collection here!

Tag your posts #vamptember so that we can reblog! If your post isn’t showing up in the tag, please don’t hesitate to send us an ask with a link!

𝕿𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖋𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉! 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖙𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖚𝖙!

Day 1: Darling Daughter | Bejeweled | Rosary

Day 2: Sleeping Beauty | Cradle | Starring Role

Day 3: My Sister's Keeper | Puppy/Kitten | Hairbrush

Day 4: Mistress | Garden of Earthly Delights | Venus

Day 5: Hell Hath No Fury | Butch/femme | Devour

Day 6: Cowgirl | Looks That Kill | Mother's Milk

Day 7: Queen of Hearts | Lingerie | Betrothed

[graphic by @mariusderomanus 💕]

[comfortablynumb]

An incomplete list of characters that are trans because I said so:

Luke Skywalker from Star Wars

Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls

The Creature from Lisa Frankenstein

Gomez and Morticia from the Addams Family

Claudia de Lioncourt from Interview with the Vampire

Daniel Molloy from Interview with the Vampire

Pandora and Regulus from Harry Potter: The Marauders Era

Will Solace from the Percy Jackson/Rick Riordan Universe

Steve Harrington from Stranger Things

Travis Martinez from Yellowjackets

[mademoisellebianx]

This one took a while to finish! 🫠😆

Redraw of my old 2009 art of the Coven of the Articulate from The Queen of the Damned - Book III of The Vampire Chronicles!

from top left to bottom right: Khayman, Maharet, Mekare, Mael, Jesse, Eric, Santino, Gabrielle, Pandora, Marius, Armand, Daniel, Louis, Lestat

(see comparison below)

[vampire-chronicles]

A Vampire Chronicles fan guide for all you vampire geek freaks! - Part 2

Part 1 here

A vampire chronicles family tree

Full version here

Official TVC guides

Graphic novel adaptations

Screen & Theatre adaptations

A short biography of Anne Rice

PDF file + HD images of this guide: HERE.

A drive link with Anne Rice's books, including The Vampire Chronicles, Lives of the Mayfair Witches, extra materials, and more: HERE.

The Vampire Chronicles logo is by 'frans_hattingh'.

The Rue Royale font is by @squirrellypoo.

Thank you, @iloustat for fact checking everything!

[ldrloversblog]

Man do I LOVE being a multishipper and not a miserable person that shits on other ships.

I play in all the fields babe I don’t care. Loumand, Loustat, Claudeleine, Claudia and Charlie, Lesmand, Devils minion, Danlou, Danstat, nickistat, nickimand, akashastat, khaymand, Armand and Riccardo, Armand and Bianca, Pandora and Gabrielle. Hell even Marimand and gabistat if that rocks your boat.

I love having so many dolls to play with.

[summeronvenus]

There's no better way to spend my birthday than to read gay fanfiction

[monstersinthecosmos]

uuummmm go ahead and tag that entry as pandora/daniel cuz........!??????!!!!????that made me crazy thanks 👍

I have a video of me and anon discussing if this was ship content 🥸

[botticellibabyy]

can we actually get david talbot out of here. can daniel take his job. need the whole of pandora’s book to be adapted except it’s daniel who runs into his freak ass bloodline’s baddie matriarchgrandma and he interviews her

[hekateinhell]

loustat

early devil's minion

pandora/marius

bianca

[vamptember]

Welcome back to MerMay - Vampire Chronicles edition! 🫧

Create fanfic, fanart, playlists, moodboards, photo manipulations, and anything else you can think of! Base it on the characters from the books, the movie, the show, the musical, or even that other movie! Genderswapped and trans versions of the characters are welcome! Whatever ships, pairings, genres, tropes, and ratings you feel like doing! 🐙

𝕽𝖚𝖑𝖊𝖘 & 𝕲𝖚𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘

1. MerMay VC will run for four weeks with each week featuring FIVE THEME PROMPTS! The other days of each week are left free for where anything in the spirit of MerMay goes! Prompts can be interpreted as SFW or NSFW — go nuts! Pick one or combine them or rearrange them, it's up to you! 2. Tag your posts #vamptember so that we can reblog! We'll be staggering out our reblogs throughout the month so that we can make the mermaid magic last longer! ✨ If your post isn't showing in the tag please don't hesitate to send us the link directly in our ask box! 3. Post your fics to our AO3 collection HERE! 4. Follow @vamptember to see everyone's incredible creations and keep up with our latest fandom events!

𝕿𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖋𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉! 𝖂𝖊𝖊𝖐𝖑𝖞 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖙𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖚𝖙! 🪼

WEEK 1

cleanse / nest / scales / wound / locket

WEEK 2

lost at sea / selkie / teeth / historical / soul mate

WEEK 3

captured / buried treasure / slime / royalty / drowning

WEEK 4

uncharted waters / bubbles / lure / venom / memory

[jeanie-in-a-bottle]

tvc characters and their favorite vampire movies

lestat : queen of the dammed (2002), the movie was about him and for him, yk he has a big ass ego but also only lovers left alive (2013)

book/film louis : 1979’s version of Nosferatu

Full of sad tragic prose about the reality of living forever, the ending of a vampire dying due to sun exposure would land differently depending on if this is after Claudia’s death or not

series louis : sinners (2025), it’s parallels to series iwtv goes crazy

^ “the addiction” as a choice for louis in general

Claudia - Abigail, a girl walks home alone at night, nadja, and twins of evil

I think she would be one of the most into vampire movies, and ofc she would appreciate lesbianism and young girls in her vampire movies

Madeleine - the brides of Dracula and dark shadows

I think she’d enjoy the focus on the commonly overlooked female characters of the bride of Dracula, and I think dark shadows reflects her wanting of her own vampire family, (regardless if hers was just her and claudia)

Armand : thirst (2009) this movie has toe sucking and still barely reaches his level of freak

{+let the right one in}

Daniel Molloy : Martin & the lost boys

For Martin it’s ofc a 70’s movie, and I think it would really hold his attention

and like cmon it’s the fucking lost boys

akasha : innocent blood (1992)

you knowww she loves a femme fatale haha

Marius : bram stroker’s dracula

Artistic and dark, but keeps a similar aspect of optimism

Pandora : lust for a vampire

Mysterious and dreamy, but will give you a laugh at the camp aspects; which i think she’d enjoy

[bubblegum-blackwood]

Someone please come play in the sandbox with me 😭😭😭

[vampire-chronicles]

A Vampire Chronicles fan guide for all you vampire geek freaks! - Part 1

Part 2 here

Here you'll find the reading order of the books, insight about the characters and elements inside this vampire universe, as well as info regarding adaptations and the author!

The reading order of the vampire chronicles

Key characters from the books

art by 'vamp4rebat' & 'papatacornioo'

Vocabulary used in the vampire chronicles

The abilities that come with the dark gift

PDF file + HD images of this guide: HERE.

A drive link with Anne Rice's books, including The Vampire Chronicles, Lives of the Mayfair Witches, extra materials, and more: HERE.

The Vampire Chronicles logo is by 'frans_hattingh'.

The Rue Royale font is by @squirrellypoo.

Thank you, @iloustat for fact checking everything!