#Daciana

[louisbxne]

Interview with the Vampire 2.01 (Exclusive Look)

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WHO ARE YOU, LOUIS?

AMC'S Interview with the Vampire — episodes 1, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

[jaggedjot]

Foreshadowing is opening the season with the tale of a child vampire whose physical otherness causes it to be rejected by its kin, before being killed when they deem it unable to live independently, and how their parent, who is as culpable for their fate as they are grief stricken by it, decides to follow them into death.

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[claudiaeparvier]

iwtv + lady vampires

[cannibalspicnic]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022- ) 2.01 | What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned

Diana Gheorghian as DACIANA

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IWTV S02E01, Unit Stills

[i-gwarth]

are you kidding me? Holy shit.

Haunting. Beautiful. Incredible fucking performance. I wept. It's not just that she speaks in my native language. It's not just the mournful, desolate context of her existence as this ragged, ancient thing in a devastated 1945 Romania. It's not even the idea that she is infected with the traditional Romanian dor, a longing and melancholy so severe and all-encompassing that it will slowly burn the life out of even an immortal.

No, it's actually her voice. Diana Gheorghian does an incredible job selling it. The sadness in it, the poetic resignation of her final words, like a dirge to the undying. The way she makes you think she has hope when she is moments away from self-annihilation, as if to mock the very concept of hope in her last few seconds.

I don't know how intentional this was, but they couldn't have picked a better nationality, a better way to introduce the vampire of the Old Continent, than through a sad old Romanian bunica. Here, now, is the final and logical consequence of living forever in a world so burdened with age upon age of senseless tragedy. It's not an exuberant, roaring feast of life and pleasure. It's an emaciated, decrepit woman with an extinct family, whose sadness saturates every fiber of her being. Things can can never start again. The years will just pile upon years, misery upon misery, until all the days of the world are exhausted.

This is what Dracula himself was talking about, what he was trying to escape in moving to London. All things become Daciana, in the fullness of time. There is no joy on the Devil's road.

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Daciana - 2x01 "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned?"

Lestat - 2x08 "And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else."

The children singing the song of "Ana" / the tour guide speaking of the former residents of 1132 Rue Royale...phantoms and shadows. Creatures lingering in the peripheral.

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Some photos of the making of Daciana’s costume from Carol Cutshall’s IG post!

[nalyra-dreaming]

Can I say how much I LOVE the way Daciana is written into the story. Like eventhough she is a OC it felt the most anne ricean thing that've seen so far. I think it has to do with the compassion with which she wrote monsters, specially vampires. It felt more like a tribute to her writing than just a remarkable and beautiful plot device. The way she foreshadows Madeline, Magnus, Nicolas, somehow even Gabrielle🖤

She just fit. So, so well. Old, disillusioned, broken.

And yes, the way she foreshadows so much?

And god the choice to make that revenant not only a simple mindless vampire but her beloved child. Someone she cherished, despite and maybe because of everything.

Not just a thing. Not just an abomination. Not just a… mistake.

[storkmuffin]

Daciana mothering Claudia by telling her exactly what she wants to hear as her final meaningful act alive is making me TEAR MY FUCKING HAIR OUT.

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YOU HAD A BODY ABOUT TO BLOOM, AND THE MIND OF A SOPHISTICATE.

— in response to 1, and in convo w/ 2, 3, 4 & 5: drawing from AMC’s Interview With the Vampire Episodes 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 & 14.

[malenamoonlight]

With Daciana, Claudia gets to know, for the first time, what it's the ‘mother figure’, and this implicates Louis, because this is his role in her life. The mother who refuses the offer of a new world and fresh blood in order to die with her child. The lost, the misery, the loneliness. The sense of care and resignation. A woman vampire. Daciana even prophesies a brighter future for all of them, but it doesn't matter, she lost her reason.

Maybe Daciana will impact Claudia’s future choice of a female companion.

Maybe Daciana's attitude towards her child, her ‘monster’, is what Claudia will expect from Louis, her mother, in the future, but she won't get it, and it will be really tragic, and I will cry 😢.

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Daciana's lullaby

Somn ușor, dormi ușor Sunt cu tine Noaptea vine Vorbe dulci, să te culci Să dormi fara griji, mama-i aici Puiul mamii călător, La cântul meu de dor* Te-nalță zburător Somn ușor

----------- Good night, sleep well I'm with you The night comes Sweet words, go to sleep Sleep without worries, mama is here My baby, wanderer, My song of love/longing* Lifts you, flying Sleep well A very shallow translation of Daciana's lullaby (that I've personally never heard, even though my great-grandmother had children around the time on the show, and she raised me) * It's hard to get all the nuances, hardest of all being the word "dor", which is something quintessential to the Romanian language and it encompasses a multitude of concepts, all rolled into one. It's more an emotion than something that can easily be translated into words. Dor is love, longing, melancholy, pathos, desire, a whole constellation of emotions, it rolls sadness and happiness alike in a small, but very powerful word. People say it doesn't have an equivalent in other languages, and I tend to agree. Dor is not one single thing, dor is a multitude. So "cântul meu de dor" is not a "love song", it's so much more; it's that feeling that a loving mother sends to her child through her embrace as she softly sings sweet words to carry their little one to sleep. Also interesting to note that mothers here routinely address their child using the word "mamă", for example, "mamă, fii atent" which is roughly, "kid/little one, be careful". Little gratuitous language nugget.

[vampiriamorati]

The show seamlessly inserting discussion of the in the concepts of ‘darkness go to the darkness’ and the ‘Devil’s road’ so to connect the lore and language used in later books actually can be something so emotional and powerful.

Daciana fits so well as an Ann Rice vampire. The way her dialogue flows feels like it could have been written on the page. This old and melancholic figure, the feeling of religious conviction she has about what it is to be a vampire.