#*marius

[eatsbooks]

Which brother would be the sweetest to Elain?

carmine !! carmine is sweet to everyone. sweet enough that you don't realize it's covering up rot until you bite into him, and if you never bite into him, you won't see that unless he chooses to reveal it. so how much of him being sweet to elain is just because he's an instigator at heart and would love to see little lucien riled up when he leans in a little too close, or fixes a stray strand of her hair for her, or offers her his arm after inviting her on a walk through the gardens, i am not at liberty to say :•)

as a bonus: emile would take a lot of interest in her being a seer. that could be very valuable to him. but it could never be read as sweetness. i also think eris would put a stop to that immediately, even before lucien. marius would probably act like she doesn't exist. but that's just because he would see her as an extension of lucien, and he refuses to speak to lucien after silas. very just ... looking through them if he has to be in their company, excusing himself from conversations when they enter them, ignoring any direct questions, etc.

[belovedbydeath]

loumand fight but it's armandaniel. "Marius, Marius, Marius, Marius, Marius!" "I talked shit about him the whole time!". "Our problems aren't about him!" "And you threw Louis' name just for cover but it always circled back to him" "I loved him" "But he didn't love you. Not like I do"

[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!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cloudabserk]

what am i to you? am i your companion?

inspired by this awesome artwork, which in turn is based on this vocabulary question:

[ihateornithologists]

beautiful princess disorder moment 🎀

[platoapproved]

armand & louis playing out echoes of his relationship with marius

[vamplire]

age gap relationships but it’s with a vampire telling u their first hand account on the fall of the roman empire when all u want is for them to shut up & put their fangs in ur neck

[r3burials]

portrait painter

modeled after Sofonisba Anguissola, Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola, c. 1559

[bishonenvoicedbyadyke]

thinking about the armand painting again and how violent its very existence is. like there's layers to this.....this is a painting that was paid for with your body. in it, along with cattle and dogs, you're pictured worshipping your abuser, kneeling at his feet. your skin is whitened. your features barely recognizable...... and now this painting is in a public museum here for everyone to see. like anyone can come and see your bare, vulnerable throat.

[erebus0dora]

let's just say that's one of the things i would like to see one day, but so far i just had to get it out of my head

(i caught a cold, i can't do complex stuff)

[suddenly-frankenstein]

uhmhmhmmm just occasional thoughts about Daniel's interaction with Marius

[eatsbooks]

15, 16, 19 for the Vanserra brothers ask game <3

15. Who is the biggest mama’s boy?

not including lucien, ronan for sure. he was not as smart as his brothers, not as cunning or strategic, even when beron tried to force it out of him. soft for a vanserra boy is much harsher than it is for anyone else, but he managed as close as he could get. amalia stepped in for him more because of this, which made beron disdain ronan more, which drove ronan further and further towards amalia. she took his loss very hard. he was the one glimmer of hope that a child between her and beron could be different, better, good, but in the end, even he died trying to be what beron wanted of him.

16. Rank the brothers from Most Fucked Up to Least Fucked Up by Beron

oooo by beron specifically makes this interesting. from most to least, i think it goes: emile, eris, carmine, marius / silas, lucien, ronan. (lucien's placement i'm a little iffy about, but i think he got shielded from a lot of things by eris and amalia, definitely more than the other boys.)

19. Which brother is the most fashionable?

carmine !! i think he informs a lot of autumn court fashions over the years and even influences winter court fashions when he's on business there as emissary, especially when it comes to accessories and jewelry. he is a pretty boy, and he is a vanserra, and autumn court designers trip over themselves to get their clothes on his body, because that guarantees their business does well for decades to come. (did i just ... influencer him?) i think eris also dresses immaculately, but he's unwilling to intentionally start trends and often takes the longest to shift his wardrobe to reflect current fashions. he very much course corrects when he dislikes new trends, and soon after there's a revival of whatever it is he wears instead.

[jhonskii]

Edge of Witchlight

Discord be funky so I'm posting this here :3

⟨ « carrd ★ ko-fi » ⟩

[ldpdlthinkr]

so real kendrick!!

[orionporion]

Made a mechanisms poster for a class assignment, thought I'd share!

+without the paper texture

[ihateornithologists]

queen of the damned.....

and bonus armand:

he's so cringe he WOULD love doctor who i swear