#vagrant

[nalyra-dreaming]

Can you talk more about Lestat's vagrant years?

Well, the part Sam referred to here, is something that happens in "Prince Lestat", there are (in the books) a few things leading up to it (I am pasting my summary from there here):

In the books:

In Prince Lestat - Lestat is wandering, while Louis is with Armand at Trinity Gate. He is somewhat jaded, removed.

There’s a lot of reasons, but in order to understand the situation (especially in respect to the endgame settings), there’s just a few things more I have to point out:

In Memnoch the Devil Lestat goes heads to head with a spirit claiming to be the Devil. Including going to Heaven and Hell, losing an eye trying to get the Veil of Veronica, later getting that eye back from Maharet etc. He falls into a… coma, in a church. Likened to Christ in various comments (!). Louis (and a few others) tend to him. Armand is so shaken by it he commits (tries to commit, it’s retconned later) suicide. Lestat wakes (at the end of The Vampire Armand, after Armand has drunk from him and has seen the spirit), listens to some music, and then goes back to dozing, while listening to music. And THAT (second) coma, or better mental absence, is very hard on Louis. Enter… Merrick. Only Louis and David are left, caring for the dozing Lestat in the flat at Rue Royale (and in the church, he moves around a bit, back and forth). Louis becomes obsessed with reminiscing, with trying to make his own peace with their past, and Claudia. He wants to raise Claudia’s spirit. David decides to help him. Merrick tricks them into turning her. And they do raise a spirit. Using torn-out pages of Claudia’s diary, in which she makes it very clear that she hated them both and used Louis to kill Lestat. Raising a spirit that claims to be Claudia. It’s quite the harsh encounter. And it drives Louis to suicide.

He puts his coffin into the courtyard of Rue Royale (there, where he fell to in the show(!)), and lets the sun burn him during the day. Asking David to scatter his ashes.

Only… he’s not ashes. He’s a burned husk, still firm. Too old already to be burnt to cinders during one day. And David doesn’t know what to do. And then… Lestat wakes up, and returns. He wants to know if Louis wants to return… but neither Merrick nor David can tell him.

And so Lestat makes the decision and uses his blood, and theirs, to bring Louis back, knowing full well that if he does this - then simple "suicide“ will be out of the question for Louis in the future. Essentially making Louis -almost- as strong as him.

And then… the Talamasca make them leave Rue Royale.

And Lestat lets the flood of new vampires drive him from New Orleans. Wanders. Louis goes to New York, to Armand.

Now - in the show:

Sam said the vagrant years are in-between, so we are talking about the time between murder night and modern times - considering Lestat was likely hurt in Paris and still healing (which we'll see next season), and still sounding weak in the "call" in 2x05 I think it was more between Louis' suicide attempt and modern times.

Memnoch likely has not happened, but Louis' suicide attempt has, and Lestat likely thinks he is dead. Lestat is older, it might easily be that his own suicide attempt in the Gobi desert has happened (and failed), but the aftermath, namely the body thief plot has not happened.

BUT - it might be that this, this despair at not being able to kill himself, and the despair over losing his family and especially Louis is what ultimately drives him to wander in the show.

Now, there are a few important aspects to this:

In the books, "The Voice" is rising during that time frame, while Lestat wanders. A long time frame, yes, but "The Voice" will be Amel, rising to consciousness, an "awakening" which drives various vampires to kill others, and Amel will be seeking for a new host - and he will ultimately end up in Lestat (though that likely has not happened yet)

Lestat encounters Seth and Fareed - and fathers a child, Viktor. The show has already opened the parallels for Claudia and Rose, and I do not think that IF they go there, that they will miss out on Viktor

EDIT: Forgot Rose's rescue, which would fall into this time frame as well

Magnus and Raymond as well as others are introduced - the show might choose to skip them

RHOSHAMANDES is introduced during this "awakening" arc as well - I do not think they will skip HIM so it will make sense to introduce him in some kind of manner

And: Louis... comes to accept himself and his own story in that book

Details obviously excluded, but I do think that the "vagrant" years will maybe give us Lestat's suicide attempt, him mourning Louis, the Voice rising to consciousness, and Rose and Viktor, as well as Rhoshamandes.

It will depend on how they spin it, but that way they could make all the later arcs click into place properly, while at the same time using the decades they added in through their shifting time frames.

It's clever, and I personally am mightily excited that they seem to do it like that :) (even if I wished they had not (imho) connected to Amel to 1x05, as said before)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Cop fining a man (for vagrancy?), 1957.

Photo: Brassaï via dxi magazine

[liimonadas]

the most incredible little creatures you have ever seen........ the character design ever........ the crabs......

in other news i have become thoroughly obsessed with vagrants. my beloved little crabs..... they chose me.....

i have recently been playing through dark souls 1 (and having a very fun time btw!) and i keep seeing these strange little creatures. anyways if the various violent threats i have received from my wonderful souls player friends are anything to go by it is NOT normal to meet FIVE vagrants in your very first playthrough. however i am simply built different 👍

UPDATE: found a sixth one

[graphic-ginger]

Excuse me, I have a question. Can we give you characters? I have some that are no longer necessary for my story.

In appearance, how old is Grimm? I guess he is 35-40 years old, but sometimes he looks younger or older.

Sorry but I only accept characters from my friends or people I know personally! People I know I can 100% trust and validate that all characters are purely original.

As for your question about Grimm.....in appearance he is (about) 30! Literally however he is actually about 400 years old. Primeval Grimm (which is literally just Scarlet Swarm Grimm when he was younger) does look much more youthful. Generally however his appearance varies depending on his mood and level of stress and unrest.

Primeval vs Scarlet Swarm

Just for fun here are the perceived ages of other characters!

Ardentia -- 25~ || Vestige -- 8~ || Vagrant -- 24~

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[huariqueje]

Clochard - Bruno Vekemans , 1992.

Belgian, 1952-2019

Lithograph , 57 x 44 cm. Ed. 414/500

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Black coat version

[xordxord]

im gonna move to chongqing with naught but a sword and wander i think

[thomasthorstensson]

Passageway

[knightscanfeeltoo]

Oscar of Astora and Solaire doing Documentary about Wildlife and Rare Creatures Together...

(If Television even Exist in the Dark Souls Universe and I Still like the Idea of Oscar's Voice Actor being a Narrator for Nature Documentaries...)

[jakeshack99]

Sometimes messages are eerily specific and accurate

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[graphic-ginger]

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[artwithextremeprejuice]

[anxiety-crab]

Just a-wandering around

[thetravellingvagrant]

*another* taxidermy of wildly differing quality dump