#i'm sorry i just suddenly had the urge to open tva to a random page late last night and i've been obessing about this quote ever since

[hekateinhell]

Remembering when Armand was dying in TVA and Marius spoke about how beautiful his corpse would be... 🫢🥹

"It's not my time," I said. "I know it. And such a statement cannot be undone by a mere handful of hours. Smash the ticking clock. They meant, by a soul's incarnate life, it wasn't time. Some destiny carved in my infant hand will not be so soon fulfilled or easily defeated."

"I can tip the odds, my child," he said. This time his lips moved. The pale sweet coral brightened in his face, and his eyes grew wide and unguarded, the old self I knew and cherished. "I can so easily take the last strength left in you." He leant over me. I saw the tiny variegations in the pupils of his eyes, the bright deep-pointed stars behind the darkening irises. His lips, so wondrously decorated with all the tiny lines of human lips, were rosy as if a human kiss resided there. "I can so easily take one last fatal drink of your child's blood, one last quaff of all the freshness I so love, and in my arms I'll hold a corpse so rich in beauty that all who see it will weep, and that corpse will tell me nothing."

I think a lot of the time it gets lost in the sauce how much TVA was explicitly intended to be a monsterfucking story, and I really, really love when those uncanny valley moments creep through. And to Armand — it's incredibly erotic! And for me the eerie, other factor is amplified by the fact that it is not eerie to Armand. He doesn't have the prey response that he should in reaction to something that his consciousness clearly recognizes is an imitation of a human.

Lips rosy as if a human's kiss still resided there! Child's blood! A corpse rich in beauty! Marius can tip the odds in death's favor!

There's so many peak Gothic Horror elements in TVA that I think get overlooked when in actuality it's such an evocative tale that leans into a lot of the classic vampire tropes — amongst others.