What, to you, is the most under appreciated Marius scene? I wanna hear from someone who shows so much real love for him
Thank you for this ask is so beautiful and interesting! Sorry it take me a long time to answer! But here we are.
- I think there are several scenes that are used against Marius, and actually they are often misinterpreted more because as Oscar Wilde said, "Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault." and I think this is one of the aspects that we have to consider, especially towards the real Marius, canon Marius, the one created by Anne Rice. Many interpretations can be made, and a character can seem so close to us or so far from us, but we should never make the mistake of superimposing him on ourselves. The character of Marius has taught me so much sometimes even to see those sides of my person that I do not accept. I can admit that I would like to be like him, but I am not, and I would never allow myself to superimpose my story or my feelings on his. As much as I love him as much as I feel close to him, I don't have the same feelings as him toward other characters in the chronicles, but I don't allow myself to disfigure or deny them because I personally don't like them.
Marius does not come from me or my story or my feelings, but from Anne Rice's, and like all of her characters, they have a life and a story and feelings, that she has given them and that belong to each of them. And without them their story or what the author wants to tell or teach, fades away and no longer makes sense. Having said that, to clarify that I am not calling anyone unintelligent or perverted or whatever! May I ask for forgiveness because I would like to talk about two scenes and not one.
The first is from TVA and is the scene where Marius shows Amadeo what it is like to be a vampire and what the dark gift entails, the dinner with the Florentines. There is talk of cruelty and wickedness when there is neither. It is a scene of teaching not cruelty. Leaving out the reason why Marius is there , namely, to protect Bianca, everything revolves around life even though it is a death scene. The reality of canon Marius is that there is hardly anyone else who has maintained as a vampire such high moral values as his. And this is also attested in Prince Lestat where it is clearly stated that Marius has always lived by the rule of doing as little harm as possible. Marius's is not a lesson in cruelty or suffering, it is actually a teaching to respect life in death.
Marius and Amadeo are there because these people are evil people, acting for evil and for personal gain, who have no problem killing or torturing, destroying other people's lives, often after using them to their own advantage. Amadeo suffers the charm, but shows no sign of fear as Marius proceeds to drink the blood of every person present.
"It is a penance to kill, Amadeo, that is the obstacle. It is a penance to kill for nothing,nothing, not honor or valor or decency."
It is against everything that Marius has always felt could somehow justify death or killing another living being, this killing of the dark gift, Marius, as an ancient Roman sees valor or honor as a reason to kill. It is a penance to kill, Marius says, because in fact it is, he who did not want to be an immortal, he who was torn from his mortal life and had to accept that he had become a vampire, a killer, who must kill to live. And in spite of that, he found in killing evil men a way to survive that pain, and in spite of that he considers it a penance because it is always depriving a human being of his own life. And that is already a lesson, but there is an even greater one. At the moment when Marius kills Martino, Amadeo rebels, gets angry, cries, accuses Marius " You wanted me to hate the thing, to cry for them..." and Marius responds to him:
"Weep at least for one of them...Is it too much to ask that one death be regretted among many? For a nameless beggar sleeping on a makeshift boat we have no tears do we? And we do not weep for any of them except for Martino, the most wicked and because he flatters us do we not?"
And if this is not a lesson, well .... Yes it is true, there is anger in Marius, yes it is true I can grant that there is even a little jealousy, but the fact remains that he is very clear about how Amadeo's behavior is wrong. Every life is important and every life deserves to be plant, it matters little whether you are a poor beggar or a banker, death comes, and in it there is no difference.
Amadeo cry Martino but because he flattered him, because he spoke of his beauty, of his desire for him, and that was enough to make Amadeo weak, to consider letting go of the reason why that man had to die, not only for Bianca, but because he was evil, and his evilness was the destruction of so many other lives. And that in itself is a lesson, for an immortal, and in addition Marius adds how it is a pain, a penance to deprive the world of a life, even if it is evil, and to take on a death in order to continue living. And beyond that, how it is wrong to give in to flattery, how it is wrong to have tears only for those who have flattered us and not for those who are simply poor like the beggar. Life is precious whether it is a poor man's life or a rich man's life and to be the reason why that life ceases is cause for sorrow. And Amadeo after that moment of anger understands Marius, understands his lesson:
"I saw you drinking from those who were wicked,condemned in your hearts for an abominable crime. I have seen you feast as is your nature, I have seen you sip the blood with which you must live...I see this is what you intended to show me and you have succeeded." Amadeo is not afraid, not shocked, not traumatized, not terrified, no none of this.
Amadeo saw and understood, reasoned and absorbed Marius' lesson, and came to the conclusion and to understand what Marius was showing him. Amadeo does not see cruelty or wickedness he sees the choice of a creature, who could indiscriminately feed on whatever he wants, but who chooses to feed on the wicked, and not only that, he mourns that death at the same time. It is a lesson, there is no cruelty or mistreatment, rather, there is a profound teaching which is to respect life, even the lives of the wicked, even the lives of those who do evil. And as Armand himself will admit in TVA, about how Marius was always a Master and a source of love and inspiration, he will say that he was not a Marius to Daniel.
I would also like to briefly add a little reference to the scene in the Queen of the Damned, where Marius exposes himself and tries to talk and reason with Akasha. As those who, like me, have read Blood and Gold know, Thorne clearly talks about seeing the scene while he was trapped in the ice, and explains how he sensed the burning hatred Marius felt for Akasha at that moment. I not only want to highlight this scene to emphasize how Marius has always been extremely brave, because some people have the nerve to call him a coward, but mostly to emphasize his strength both in thought and the strength of his love.
Marius comes forward to talk to Akasha, not because he is her follower, not because he is her devotee, but to protect the other vampires, all the vampires he loves. And this is actually what he has always done, protecting the parents, he has allowed all the other vampires to live freely and peacefully their immortality.His chains have been the wings of all the other vampires. He does not want to reason with Akasha because he loves her or because he recognizes her as a deity; he wants to try to reason with her because he wants to protect those he loves. And he swallows his pride, he swallows his anger, his sacrifice, his pain, and he chooses each and every word carefully and carefully, because he knows that they are all in danger. And he knows that he cannot protect them if it comes to a confrontation. His weapon is reason, his mind clear and rational, his words full of feeling and care, he is sacrificing every bit of himself to be able to somehow put an end to that madness. And I would also add his sacrifice in Blood communion because even there it is Marius who in order to protect the younger ones, though there were more powerful and older vampires, it is Marius who exposes himself, it is Marius who goes and tries to protect everybody.
That's what Marius is-a Master, a Protector, a bulwark of willpower, love and dedication.
Marius is an outstanding character.
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