#I headcanon him as bisexual but also I've read the story; no person stands a chance against shj and/or stw so

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dating Han Yoojin headcanons (Han Yoojin x fem reader)

He leaves you got a man

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Jason Todd/Red Hood

you've activated my fucknig trap card you can't leave this blog ever now you're doomed to sit and listen to me talk about jason

Sexuality Headcanon: Bisexual. the meanest bisexual you can possibly imagine

Gender Headcanon: cis

A ship I have with said character: Roy Harper/Jason Todd. once again I'm such a fucking sucker for the Big/Small ship. they're both pissed off and in love

A BROTP I have with said character: Jason and Dick. I know they've had their differences but I really like the soft moments they've had Jason needs those even if he thinks he doesn't.

A NOTP I have with said character: that's a tough one. Jason has been immensely personal to me for years so the ships I dislike are mainly canon ones. They aren't necessarily wrong or bad they're just...not aligned with my version of him I guess. I don't think I have a NOTP mainly because I know how specific my version of him is so I'm gonna pass

A random headcanon: as usual please have many babydoll

-Jason's eyes turned vividly green whenever he's experiencing intense emotion. If he's excited or happy, them seem to spark. if he's angry however they burn

-Jason is the largest of the robins but also the stealthiest. He can sneak up on anyone and they won't hear him coming until he's right behind them

-Jason has memory issues due to, y'know- literally dying. He's come up with a series of patterns and tricks to help him remember things. Because of this, his home is pretty weird. Things seem messy and out of place but everything is arranged in a way that Jason can remember.

-Jason is intensely protective of those he loves, almost to a fault. He's almost as invasive as Bruce when it comes to knowing where everyone is, what they're doing, and who they're with. He doesn't always accept boundaries when they're laid out. He often decides he knows better and people will thank him for this if they're ever in a situation where they need him

-Roy is one of the only people capable of telling Jason off without immediately getting punched. it's the equivalent of watching an angry cat swat at an annoyed dog though

-Jason is claustrophobic.

-Jason's entire pallet changed after his resurrection. It annoys him because he can't stand some foods he knew he used to like.

-Jason is latino.

-Jason sometimes has roy lie on his back if he's doing pushups. he says he needs the extra weight to up his workout, but really he just likes being close to roy. he also gets bored easily and needs the entertainment.

General Opinion over said character: He's very important to me as a character. I first learned about him back when I was like 15 when watching Under the Red Hood. His story was equal parts fascinating and heartbreaking. The more I read about him the more I loved him. I've always loved angry characters who toe the line of morality and with Jason, it's always so good.

Deep down I think Jason has always been trying to erase himself, rebuild himself into someone who can't be hurt ever again. He does this by violently destroying anything that was a part of who he was before he died. He doesn't care about who he hurts or how his actions affect his family or his friends, because for him it was always about never allowing the notion of vulnerability come close to him ever again.

I think the only thing I dislike is when he's characterized as a soft sad boy who just wants to be loved and guards himself out of low fear of rejection an not being worthy of normal relationships. (I've seen canon and fanon like this and I kind of hate it) Jason isn't always a good person, in fact a large majority of his development is based on him not being a good person at all. Prior to his death there were even several moments where it's heavily implied he's killed before and has no problem with it. I think over the years writers and fans take the concept of anger and turn it into a very sad thing, a lonely thing; instead of what Jason's anger was: a direct result of the failures of Bruce, Gotham, and the violence of the world he once thought was worth protecting. Jason's anger may not be palatable to some but it's an important part of his character, and a major motivator to protect his family and his loved ones. Softening that takes away from his growth.

In general, as character he's very solid, but I also think what his arc did to comic books was deeply fascinating. His death gave fans more control of story lines in my opinion. For better or worse I don't really know but it's interesting to think about. I also think he was integral to the process of learning how to replace popular sidekicks at the time. His story started out as an almost exact replica of Dick's and underwent a lot of changed to separate him from the first Robin. A lot of who Jason is was decided out of concern that this new sidekick was just a copy of his successor and I find the process of his creation and established role very cool

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I've been trying to read the whole vc series, but school and work just keep preventing me from getting really far! Is it ok to ask you to write a little summary for each book so I can catch up with the fandom until I have the time to read them all thoroughly?

Yeah, I understand, time is limited :P 

I don’t know that summarizing VC will allow you to “catch up” with the fandom, you really only need to read the first 3 books and the Vampire Armand to get most of the jokes on tumblr, bc most of the jokes seem to center around:

Louis being a pyromaniac,

Lestat being an obnoxious but somehow lovable glittery murder machine,

Lestat and Louis being awesome and shitty murder dads,

Claudia being an ungrateful spoiled brat,

Armand being a little brat, or a slut, or an evul coven master, or all of the above,

Daniel Molloy just wanting to vampire plz!!!11!,

Marius being a pedo, or too bossy, or both,

Gabrielle is a bad mom and an ice queen,

Nicolas is spelled NICOLAS and he is NOT DEAD!,

Secondary characters not getting enough love from anyone!!

There are often spoilers in summaries tho, do you really want to be spoiled? I LOVE being spoiled.

We have these unreliable narrators, there is a lot of disagreement as to what canon really is, and some fans choose to ignore parts of (or entire books) in the series. We bring our own experiences to the reading, and we choose what to connect with, so I think we can agree on some things about each book, but you will probably get a different summary from any given reader. Even AR has told us to disregard the hybrid Mayfair/VC books (Blood Canticle, possibly Merrick and Blackwood Farm) when moving onto the more recent VC additions (PL and PLROA). So, for example, I have a friend who has only read the first 3 books. She doesn’t even know what happens after that bc she prefers to think it ended after QOTD. So any new vampires made after QOTD do not exist to her. #Your headcanon may vary.

Anyway, you want summaries.

http://vampirechronicles.wikia.com has a pretty good write-up for each of the books (they don’t have PL and PLROA currently, maybe they will eventually). It contains spoilers.

@vraik​ has thorough VC analysis in their series called The Consulting Analyst over on vraikaiser.com. Spoilers there, too.

@hyperbeeb‘s capsule reviews are pretty gr9 [X]:

Lestat’s Adventures with a Progressive Family

Lestat’s Bisexual Adventures in 18th Century France

Lestat’s Adventures with the Queen of the Vampires

Lestat’s Adventures as a Human

Lestat’s Adventures with Satan

Lestat’s Adventures in a Coma

Lestat’s Adventures with Polyamory 

Lestat’s Adventures in the Deep South

Lestat’s Adventures with Not Being There At All

Lestat’s Adventures with Witches and Other Weird Shit

Lestat’s adventures with Being the Vampire Head of State

Lestat’s Adventures with Literal Fucking Aliens

(Note, Pandora and Vittorio are technically stand-alone “New Tales of the Vampires” books, but Pandora would be No. 6 of the 13 book series).

You can check my #VC Synopsis tag, which has more capsule humorous summaries.

Gonna try to do a little summary for each VC under the cut as a personal challenge. 

Spoilers ahead! I’ll try to do this with as few spoilers as possible, as factually as possible.

1. Interview with the Vampire - Louis tells the story of his life and unlife to Daniel Molloy. Louis starts at the point in his mortal life just before he meets Lestat, and how his life up until that meeting influenced the unlife that followed after he became a vampire. Lestat’s reasons for choosing Louis are unclear to Louis, but he wants Louis to choose to be a vampire. Louis is under so much duress (failing health, still in emotional distress over his guilt re: a close family member’s death) that the choice is not 100% legit, Lestat can’t wait for a more opportune time and proceeds to turn Louis anyway. 

The whole story could be seen as Anne Rice’s exploration of the role of religion and the reasons why terrible things happen to innocent people, the concept of punishment. 

For me, it was also eye-opening bc I was 11 when I read it and it introduced the possibility of love between a same-sex couple, even if that was in more of a read-between-the-lines way. 

It also has a child vampire and I hadn’t seen any media even attempt to tell a story with a child vampire before. Few media that attempt it seem to have captured the beauty and tragedy of such a creature as in this story, and she reappears in a few of the other VC. Unreliable Narrator thing that continues throughout the series.

^ok that was too long, I’m going for shorter.

2. The Vampire Lestat - Lestat seeks to “correct the record” that Louis laid out in IWTV by giving us his own backstory, starting at his mortal youth and how that influenced the unlife that followed when he became a vampire, against his will (hence the “I’m going to give you the choice I never had,” line from movie!IWTV). There is more exploration in the role of religion and reasons why bad things happen to basically innocent people, and whether you really can make the best of a shitty situation or just give up. More about punishment. A very unique take on the origin of the vampires as a species is revealed. And the reasons why Lestat behaved the way he did (basically all secretive) in IWTV. Unreliable Narrator thing that continues throughout the series, who are we to believe? Lestat or Louis? And the author’s retconning which is perceived as “making excuses later in canon for behavior that’s already happened.” Some readers really despise this. Personally, I like having the options and trusting one version of events, or none of them.

3. The Queen of the Damned - Lestat’s modern-era rock career wakes the Queen of the Vampires and she has this awesome Radical Feminist idea for world peace. She’s already gotten started on it! She upgrades Lestat physically so that he can help her accomplish her goals, but he’s not really on board. They meet with the vampires she has allowed to survive her purge and it doesn’t go very well. Also in this book, we have different narrators, more about the vampire origin story, and the Armand/Daniel ship is sailing at its best here.

4. The Tale of the Body Thief - Having suffered so much through the past 3 books, Lestat is a suicidal hamburger-brained moron and makes some very bad choices. Despite everyone advising him NOT to, Lestat makes a terrible trade with a body thief and learns quickly that he had idealized being human. He does some horrendous stuff, and wants off the Being Human ride. He has one friend who helps him set things back to the way they should be, and then he betrays that friend in a spectacularly cruel way. More importantly, Lestat also gets a wonderful cuddly doggo. 

5. Memnoch the Devil - Lestat Goes to Heaven and Hell, meets Jesus Christ, meets God, meets Satan (who prefers to go by “Memnoch”) it’s all a huge interview process to decide if Lestat might work for God or Satan and it’s basically fanfic of the Bible. Some people hated it for those reasons. I found it really intriguing, bc it presents a reason why God created the earth, and why there’s suffering, why God allows suffering to go on, and where religion comes from. Like Lestat, Memnoch says he’s not the antagonist, but really the good guy in all this. When Dorothy gets back to Kansas Lestat returns to earth, there is disagreement about whether he went on a real trip or he was just fooled by a really talented spirit. Lestat is so confused that he throws a huge tantrum and then gets solitary confinement, then slips into a coma.

6. The Vampire Armand - Armand gets his spotlight and gets to really tell his story, do we believe everything he tells us? Lots of good Italy times stuff. Armand visits Lestat in his coma-state, and talks about that, too. 

7. Merrick - Merrick is a Mayfair witch in NOLA who bewitches Louis in pursuit of his request for closure with Claudia, and hilarity ensues. Louis gets the most screentime he’s had since IWTV, but the whole book is told from a 3rd wheel’s POV, it would have been so much better from Louis’ or Merrick’s POV. Major fatal thing happens but fortunately Lestat wakes up from his coma in time to save the day.

8. Blood and Gold - Marius tells his story, as does the vampire Thorne tell his own story. Marius talks about his artistic influences and his experience with the early Talamasca and Santino and the Children of Satan. We see Daniel (now living with Marius) under a kind of spell, which Marius says is temporary. 

9. Blackwood Farm - Lestat goes to the Deep South and hears the story of vampire Quinn (his story defies summary) and, with Merrick’s help, saves the day.

10. Blood Canticle - More vampire and Mayfair mixing. And Taltos. It’s a very big WTF book. But it has some very funny scenes and lines in it. It ends with Lestat promising the Dark Gift to someone. 

11. Prince Lestat - Vampire scientists. A clone. Someone gets kidnapped. Ultimate Vampire Coven Gathering. Lestat is cranky, saves the day anyway. Ghosts apparently can linger on earth after death and make bodies for themselves. Characters from past books reappear. New characters are introduced. Louis writes a chapter about how OK fine, he does love Lestat. FINE.

12. Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis - I haven’t finished this but basically… the REAL vampire origin story, and it involves bird-like aliens, who were sent to earth bc the aliens feed on the suffering of mortals. The bird-like aliens didnt want to create Atlantis. in fact they were pissed because this one creature of theirs, Amel, made Atlantis with the Luracastria (i dunno i think thats how it’s spelled) and their viewing tech couldn’t see through the material. Amel made Atlantis to spite the bird-like aliens omg i cant believe im typing this. Louis and Lestat finally have some legit canon cuddletimes.

- Pandora - the story of the vampire Pandora, and why Marius is bad at relationships. Lots of good Roman times stuff.

- Vittorio - is not a VC vampire, and wants nothing to do with that dysfunctional pile of fanged crazies. @monstersinthecosmos and @vittoriathevampire could give you a better summary of that one, since I didn’t absorb it too well :P