*Lestat after being set on fire by Louis*Â Iâm terribly injured and vulnerable, I need the help of a powerful vampire. Letâs think, there are 3 people I could seek for help:
Marius: Who I can call just using my thoughts and specifically told me to call him if I ever need help and actually already came to rescue me once and would happily do it again.
Gabrielle: Who loves me unconditionally and would help me no matter what Iâve done or what is happenning.
Armand: Who hates me and blames me for destroying his life and is sort of a psycho who chopped off the hands of my ex and also tried to kill me several times.
Well, this is easy, I will go to see Armand. Iâm so good at making decisions *high fives himself*
iwtv season 7: modern day louis and lestat get legally gay married and then divorce by the season finale
iwtv season 8: lestat finds out louis never officially filed the papers to finalize the divorce despite being the one to start the process. he finds this very sexy and they get back together. season finale lestat finalizes the divorce
it would be very funny to me if in season 2, midway through loudly judging Louis for being with Armand even though he's a sadistic freak, Daniel has a sudden, vivid flashback of Armand like leading him around his apartment by a dog collar or watching random guy #5 fuck him into the mattress from his cuck chair
everyone else: *paragraphs about armand's beauty that basically boil down to varying fetishizations of his youth*
daniel: he's a monster. he's like an insect. he looks and feels cold and dead. he laughs at gore in movies. he's microwaving a rat in my kitchen. god, it's hot.
#the contrast of calling yourself someone's minion but then saying he grants your every wish #the way they've constructed this relationship where they're both in servitude to one another #but 'grants' because it's still inequal. #armand still has the power he just chooses to surrender it so he can smother daniel with love #in an attempt to keep him
@nativehueofresolution tags
Yoinked from The Vampire Armand but the parallels are driving me crazy
yes lestat will drag himself rotting and decaying out of that dumpster yes he'll hunt down claudia and louis in paris yes they'll set him on fire by smacking him with a lamp and he'll scale his way towards the nearest exit shrieking and wailing yes he'll turn up at the thÊâtre des vampires drained and scarred and spitting angry yes he'll have that same violent temper that same entitled steel in his voice when he tells louis, "you come back to me," a deranged plea disguised as an order, and to be clear. to be absolutely clear. this will make him even hotter
i wrote an (incomplete) list of everything wrong with lestat de lioncourt. take this knowing it is a work in progress.
- mommy issues
- daddy issues
- 18th century aristocrat
- religion hops like trisha paytas (thank u anne. i will not become catholic u will not defeat me)
- french
- was a misogynist until the 20th century
- wanted to be a priest
- theatre kid
- cries to get attention
- wonât shut the fuck up about the fact he killed a whole pack of wolves when he was in his teens. that was 200 years ago please try to accomplish something else cool
- his accent is fake. he just puts on a parisian french accent. heâs from the fucking sticks he did not speak parisian french until he was 19 and then only lived in paris for like 2 years max. his accent is FAKE.
- doesnât stick to his own morals and then makes excuses abt it
- once ate an old lady and had a crisis so bad that he almost died
- canonically op bc anne wanted him to be her mary sue babygirl
- blond cis man
- SERIOUS self esteem issues that he has to get everyone involved with
- has an existential crisis that nearly kills him at least once a decade
- rock star outfits werenât slutty enough (thanks ANNE.)
- hasnât had a sense of identity since 1780!!
- too committed to the bit actually
- absolutely fucking delusional (so i can fuck whoever i want 𤨠of COURSE 𤥠of course. đ¤of course. đ¨as long as you come home to me đ of COURSE đĽ˛)
- got murdered by a five year old at one point
- sees any hot miserable guy and thinks thatâs his soulmate INSTANTLY
- had two glasses of wine on a date and then proceeded to scream cry about the inevitable heat death of the universe
- doesnât know what a fork is???
- canonically into public humiliation and degradation. u cannot bully lestat at all it will just turn him on
- drank the blood of christ
- went down on his girlfriend on her period (hysterically crying the whole time he did it) while his friends watched (she didnât orgasm. he was having too much of a crisis to actually give her a good time)
- ate a used pad.
- i JuSt LoVe BeiNg caLLeD A sLuT i DoNât KnOw whY i JuSt dO
- set louisâ house on fire (all these people do is burn each otherâs shit please just talk like adults)
- has no hobbies other than âget into dumb troubleâ
- dated the worldâs first terf
- is, according to the worldâs first terf, a culmination of everything that is wrong with men
- described his dick with âpriapus at a gateâ when he wanted to subtly brag abt how big his dick was. right after being told he was the culmination of everything wrong with men
- was confused when human dicks werenât always erect (are vampires ALWAYS hard?? if anne wasnât dead iâd ask her but alas)
people say it mustâve been an effort for Lestat to act normal to woo Louis but that man was having the time of his life reading Louisâ every thought he was nawt complaining
A complete chronology of the events of Devil's Minion aka Daniel's Mortal Life from 1952 to 1985. Shoutout to @desertfangs, @hekateinhell and @somevagrantchild and the rest of armandblr/danielblr girlies for all the helpful suggestions <3
If anyone ends up using this in your fics, I'd love to see it!
Bolded is 100% canon. âQuotation marksâ are book quotes. Everything else is clarifications, going more in depth or into head canon territory. See end for annotations.
The Life of Daniel from 1952 - 1985
1952
December 11: Daniel Molloy is born in Californiaš
1971
May: Daniel finishes high school
September: starts college or gets a gig at a radio station
1972
May: if in college, finishes freshman year
the Vietnam can effect him² along with all the young men of that generation, so he starts âroaming the bars of the world with his tape recorderâÂł
September: is supposed to start his sophomore year, but does not
1973
September 7â´: meets Louis at a bar called Pink Babyâľ. Daniel interviews him the entire night, at Louisâ house on 503âś Divisadero Street, San Francisco.
September 8 - 17 , for 10 days: Daniel drives from San Francisco to New Orleans, transcribing the tapes and sending them to a publisher in New Yorkâˇ
September 17, New Orleans: searches public records for Lestat
September 18, New Orleans: finds Lestatâs house in the Garden District, plays the tapes until early in the morning
September 18-21: Daniel is taken by Armand and locked in a dark basement for 3 nights, then Armand tells him to run âI want to see what you do, I want to know what you areâ
September 22, morning after: flies from New Orleans to Lisbon, lands roughly at midnight in Lisbon if direct flight
September 23, Lisbon: spends one night, flies to Madrid the day after
September 25, 2 nights after, Madrid: sees âArmand seated on a city bus beside him no more than inches awayâ
October 2, a week later, Vienna: in a cafe, sees Armand watching him from the street
November: Berlin: Armand slips into a taxi beside him, and sits there staring at him, until finally Daniel jumps out and runs away
1974*
âwithin monthsâ Armand starts talking to him âthese shattering silent confrontations had given way to more vigorous assaultsâ
April, Prague: while in a hotel room, âfinds Armand standing over him, crazed, violent. "Talk to me now! I demand it. Wake up. I want you to walk with me, show me things in this city. Why did you come to this particular place?"
November, Switzerland: on a train, Daniel looks up suddenly to see âArmand directly opposite watching him over the upturned cover of his fur-lined coatââ¸. Armand snatches the book out of his hand and insists that he explain what it was, why he read it, what did the picture on the cover mean?
1975**
âFinally, after a year and a half of this madness(from when they met in New Orleans), Daniel began to question Armand.âÂ
February, Paris: Armand pursues him nightly through streets and alleyways, questioning him on the places he went, the things he did. Daniel spends at least a week there, maybe more, tries to find the places Louis described. Armand is not being helpful. âArmand was remarkably unresponsive,â unless -âWhat was it like in Paris? Ask me if it rained on the night of Saturday, June 5, 1793. Perhaps I could tell you that."
February, Venice: Daniel looks out of his room at (hotel) Danieli, sees Armand staring from a window across the way. Daniel is coincidentally there for the Carnevale.âš âYet at other moments, he spoke in rapid bursts of the things around himâŚâ "But the Venice of your time, tell me. . . ." "What? That it was dirty? That it was beautiful?...â
weeksšⰠpass without a visitation, hence why I think A Line Was Crossed in Venice that made Armand pull away briefly.Â
around May: he finishes everything there is to do for the Interviewâs publication, and Advanced Reader Copies are sent outšš
this possibly gets the Talamascaâs attention already, before the book is outš²
1976
May: Daniel returns to the States in time for the Interview to be released.š³
May 5: Interview with the Vampire is published under a pseudonym šⴠâBook One: Interview with the Vampire, published in 1976, was a true story."
June 22: New York: Armand waits for him when he lands at JFK. Flies to Boston the next day
June 23, Boston, the night after: at the Copleyšâľ, Armand joins for a dinner where he orders him everything on the menu. Danielâs âoh shit heâs attractiveâ moment
âThe meetings grew longer and longer. Conversations, sparring matches, and downright fights became the ruleâ
September, New Orleans: Armand wakes him up, demands "That telephone, I want you to dial Paris.â
âMore and more they argued philosophy at these meetingsâ
October, Rome: Armand pulls Daniel, drunk and exhausted and who was sleeping, out of a theater to talk about death. Tells him what he fears is âThat it's chaos after you die, that it's a dream from which you can't wake.â
November, Port-Au-Prince: Armand wants to talk about war. âThe point was, Armand didn't know what men felt. He never had. Oh, of course he'd known the pleasures of the flesh, that was par for the course. But of true aggression he knew littleâ. Daniel does his best to answer
December, Frankfurt: Armand wants to talk about the nature of history
1977
April, England: in country inn, Armand warns him to get out before a fire startsÂ
May, New York: Armand bails him out of jail (drunkenness and vagrancy), takes him to the Carlyle, gives him a suitcase full of clothes and a wallet full of money. Danielâs money ran out by then, if he was arrested for vagrancy.
June - September: Pompeii: Daniel spends the summer alone, âduring which he had not seen his demon familiar even onceâšâś
September 12, 10pmšâˇ: Armand comes back, and he shared the Blood with Daniel for the first time after they break into the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii "I love you. If I hadn't grown to love you, I would have killed you before now, of course." and "You are mine, beautiful boy." and âYou'll sleep when the sun rises, if you wish, but the nights are mine."
September 12: overnight train to Rome
September 13, morning after: wakes up in the Excelsiorš⸠hotel in Rome, flies with Armand from Rome to London in the evening
1978
September - December,London: Daniel and Armand go to symphonies and operas, then the cinema, âto hundreds upon hundreds of films that Armand dragged him to seeâšâš
September - December, London: âThen there were the endless parties, the cluttered noisy gatherings from Chelsea to Mayfair where Armand argued politics and philosophy with students, or women of fashion, or anyone who would give him the slightest chance.â
September - December, London: Armand starts buying his own clothes, instead of taking them off victims.âClothes of all kinds fascinated himâ
September - December, London : âIt seemed that he and Daniel were always walking up four unlighted flights of stairs to visit some painter, sculptor, or photographer, or to see some special never-released yet revolutionary film.â
September - December, London: âThey spent hours in the cold-water flats of dark-eyed young women who played rock music and made herbal tea which Armand never drank.â
1979
January - June, London: Daniel starts sleeping with other people while Armand watches âif Armand could possibly arrange it, while he watches from a chair nearbyâ but even though he is âaroused by the dual purpose of every intimate gesture ⌠he lays empty afterwards, staring at Armand, resentful, cold.â
July²â°: move from London to New York
July: Armand finds that jazz band he likes that will come back the following year in the Village. They watch Baryshnikov.
August: Armand starts waiting for Daniel to wake up, coffee in tow. âOften Armand had been in the room some time before Daniel awakened. The coffee would be perking, the music going⌠ready for Daniel to get up.â
September, New York: âthey went tearing to museum openings, cafes, barsâ Ties in with Daniel sleeping with people, but this time he wouldnât be up for it anymore, and he and Armand were âsleepingâ together at this point without the need of a third.
1980
January - May, New York: âadopted a young dancer, paying all his bills through school.Ⲛ This gives them the idea to enroll in classes themselves later on.
New York: âThey sat on the stoops in SoHo and Greenwich Village whiling the hours away with anybody who would stop to join them.â
1981
January - December, New York: âThey went to night classes in literature, philosophy, art history, and politics. They studied biology, bought microscopes, collected specimens. They studied books on astronomy..â²²Â
September - December, New York: they moved around all the time, living âfor a few days or a month at mostâ in each new place
New York: âThey went to boxing matches, rock concerts, Broadway shows.â That jazz band in the Village again
New York: Armand begins to be obsessed with technological inventions, âone after the otherâ: first kitchen blenders, then microwaves, then garbage disposals, then the telephone.
1982
January - June, New York: âfinally television caught him up utterly, so that the flat was full of blaring speakers and flickering screens.â Armand is obsessed with films for 6 months, watching things like Blade Runner and Time Bandits on repeat.
June, New York: Armand becomes obsessed with âvideo cameras and must make his own filmsâ He drags Daniela all over New York to interview people on the street. Records himself reciting poetry in Italian and Latin, or standing still. Makes a tape of himself in the coffin during the day. âDaniel found this impossible to look atâ
New York: Armand becomes obsessed with computers, word processors and video game machines. Rents extra apartments in Manhattan to house them
New York: âfinally he turned to planesâ, âa concentrated explorationâ, âthey must spend the entire night in the airâ
New York: fly to Boston, then Washington, then Chicago, then back to New York
New York: they try longer flights to: Port-Au-Price, San Francisco, Rome, Lisbon, Madrid
September, New York: âDaniel had not seen high noon in 5 yearsâ
Armand is ready to âenter this century in earnestâ. Daniel is skeptical about that
Jamaica: Armand finds sunken Spanish galleon with treasure
Gulf of Mexico: Armand finds two more sunken ships
Mexico: Armand finds priceless Olmec figurines
South America: Armand finds a long forgotten emerald mine
1983
Florida: they purchase a mansion, yachts, speedboats, a jet plane. Armand starts choosing what clothes Daniel wears.
Monte Carlo
Florida: Armand works on acquiring more wealth, Daniel starts to âfeel his mortality more keenly than ever before⌠he was desperate to possess all of this forever. With hatred and love he watched ArmandâŚ.Would Armand really let him die?â
Florida: Armand recovers stolen paintings, jewelry, precious stones, takes everything from drug dealers off the Miami coast - he and Daniel then sells them at auctions.
Florida: Armand orders Daniel to âmake purchases without counsel or hesitationâ. Daniel buys a fleet of cruise ships, a chain of restaurants and hotels. They have 4 private planes. Armand has 8 phones.
Florida: Armand personally creates Night Island âHe drew the pictures for the architects he'd chosen. He gave them endless lists of the materials he wanted, the fabrics, the sculptures for the fountains, even the flowers, the potted trees.â
Miami, Florida: Night Island opens. It is legally all Danielâs and itâs open only during the night. There is a 5 story mall, with theaters, restaurants, cinemas and shops. Connected and adjacent to it, there is Armand and Danielâs private house, the Villa, named after the Villa of the Mysteries, a 3 story mansion. â"This is your home, Daniel." And so it had been and Daniel had loved it, he had to admit that, and what he had loved even more was the freedom, the power, and the luxury that attended him everywhere that he went.â
1984
early in the year, New Orleans: Lestat wakes up
Central America: Armand and Daniel see the Mayan ruins
Annapurna: gone up the flank to glimpse the distant summit under the light of the moon
Tokyo: wander the crowded streets together
Bangkok: travel together
Cairo: travel together
Damascus: travel together
Lima: travel together
Rio: travel together
Kathmandu: travel together
May: at some point, Armand gives Daniel the blood amulet, in order to be protected from other vampires in case he runs into them
Night Island, Miami: âmore bitternessâ, ugly fights. Daniels wants to be turned, Armand canât do it.
later in the year, Night Island, Miami: Daniel stars wandering and running away, Armand only gets him back at the last moment possible
1985
New Orleans: Lestat is in New Orleans writing his autobiography/recording his album
April: Daniel leaves Night Island for the last time in his desperate wanderings
New York: Daniel runs away
Chicago: Daniel runs away
New Orleans: Daniel runs away
September 5, New Orleans: Lestat gets threatening phone calls from vampires
September 5, San Francisco: Lestat moves the band to Carmel Valley in San Francisco. Drives through Monterey and San Francisco
September 12, a week after, New Orleans: The Vampire Lestat is published, Lestat releases the tapes²³
September, end of it, Vienna: Daniel is in Vienna, where a IWTV royalty check catches up with him
âa month agoâ(from when that graffiti was made) word went out on the Vampire Connection that Lestat is back
October: Daniel is somewhere else after Vienna and before Stockholm
October 9, âbefore thatâ: Daniel is in Stockholm
October 18: Daniel is in Edinburgh
October 21: Marius reads the graffiti about Lestat, plays the tapes in the shrine. Akasha wakes up. Marius is buried under ice.
October 28: Daniel is in Paris
October 30, 5pm-8pm, Michigan Avenue, Chicago: Daniel gets his copy of TVL stolen from a park bench, Armand finds Daniel later in the evening, they drive to the airport
October 31, early morning: Armand turns Daniel on a plane from Chicago to San FranciscoÂ
October 31, evening: The Vampire Lestat plays at the Cows Palace, San Francisco, audience 15000 ( âThe Vampire Lestatâ, âChildren of Darknessâ, âThose Who Must Be Keptâ, âViaticum for the Marquiseâ⌠âAge of Innocenceâ) (+ other 7 unnamed songs)²â´
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1. He was 32 in 1985, putting his birthday between November 1952 - September 1953. Iâm personally choosing December 11, 1952, which is the day Anne Rice died. I chose California because why not, he wouldnât have gone too far away for college (and it would have been cheaper), hence the desire to travel.
2. This bit of meta explains it better than I can, and it gives the explanation that he is expecting to be drafted, hence why heâs doing his journalistic side gig instead of his second year of college, explanation that I quite personally like, depending on what kind of fic Iâm writing, but your mileage may vary. In my headcanon the interview happens in September, not in February, giving him a bit more time going around interviewing people and somehow landing a publisher contact in New York. Again, feel free to ignore if thatâs not your thing. He might as well not have gone to college at all, or decided to drop out and just got his foot in the door already because hey, it was the 70s and you did not actually need a degree. Whatever works for you!
3. Also in the original short story, he works at a radio station in San Francisco
4. After some discussion with others, Iâm picking September as the Interview date, for two reasons: first, in IWTV, Louis says he parted with Armand âlate string this yearâ, implying some time has already passed. Second, the âwild rosesâ are everywhere when Daniel gets to Lestatâs house in New Orleans, meaning it could have been summer/end of summer. You can of course ignore both of these, first one because the following paragraphs are Louis describing a meeting with Lestat that never took place, and the second one because roses bloom all the way round in a Louisiana climate, so could have been anytime of year.
5. The bar Louis and Daniel meet at is named âPink Babyâ in the original IWTV short story, and is either on Chestnut or Union Street, meaning that was at least a 30 min walk to Louisâ place on Divisadero.
6. This house. Â
7. I like to think Daniel also got $12,000 advance for IWTV, which is how much Anne Rice received in real life (wiki), and plenty to have him travel around Europe for a few years.
8. Why I think this happens later in the year.
9. Purely fanfic territory, but Armand meets him at a masked ball party, maybe. Also Daniel did not have THAT much money, it strikes me as weird he would have checked in into one of the most expensive hotels in Venice, unless he got a cheap flight there not realizing it was Carnival season and most places were booked out. Disregard all of this if in your hc heâs there during another month though!
10. Armand might have wanted to return sooner, but Talamasca got in the way once they found out about the book, and Armand had to keep them away from Daniel. It could be this was the first time he had to deal with them personally, or the first time he finds out (and cares) what they collected about him over the years.
11. As a new author, Danielâs book would have needed to wait in a queue before it hit the shelves and after everything was finalized, and that took roughly a year. Thanks Elisa for that info.
11. "The book isn't fiction," David explained simply. "Yet the purpose of creating it is unclear. And the act of publishing it, even as a novel, has us rather alarmed." It would also make sense for Armand to be away for so long, if he was dealing with them. That conversation happens in the summer of 1981. At Lestatâs concert, Daniel has no idea what âTalamascaâ is, but Armand is annoyed at their presence.
13. As good as any reason why heâs suddenly back in the States. Maybe he did want to meet his editor.
14. May 5th, 1976, the actual release date of Interview.
15. Read more about that in this beautiful post by @apoptoses
16. âMaybe four years had passed since the game had begun.â Another reason why I picked beginning of fall 1973 for the Interview to take place, so it matches this.
17. September 12, the release date of Queen of the Damned, because why not. 10pm is canon, but Pompeii would have been closed by 5/6pm, so Daniel had already broken in himself, or just stayed after opening hours and managed not to get himself kicked out.Â
18. The Excelsior Hotel is like a 3 min drive from Roma Termini, the main train station.
19. UK film releases between September 1978 - July 1979 include: Grease, Foul Play, The Silent Partner, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Convoy, Midnight Express, The Wild Geese, The Legacy, Must Wear Tights, The Driver, Heaven Can Wait, Death On the Nile, The Cat from Outer Space, Power Play, Herzog Blaubarts Burg, The Man Who Loved Women, Force 10 From Navarone, Piranha, Superman (what Louis actually watches in the cinema at the end of the IWTV film), Watership Down, Jaws 2, Capricorn One, California Suite, Halloween, Damien: Omen II, Every Which Way But Loose, National Lampoons Animal House, The Deer Hunter, The Shape of Things to Come, Escape to Athena, Days of Heaven,The Wiz, Battlestar Galactica, The Kentucky Fried Movie, The Warriors, The Muppet Movie, The Lord of the Rings(Ralph Baksi), Moonraker, The Champ, The Spaceman and King Arthur, Queen of the Blues.
20. "Come, lover, we're going to the ballet tonight. I want to see Baryshnikov. And after that, down to the Village. You remember that jazz band I loved last summer, well, they've come back.â From wiki: âOn October 12, 1979, Baryshnikov danced the role of the Poet in Balanchine's ballet La Sonnambula with the City Ballet at the Kennedy Center. This was his last performance with New York City Ballet due to tendinitis and other injuries.â Baryshnikov danced in New York only from 1978 to 1979.
21. I assume this means dance school, so Armand would have sent him to Juilliard? Or a small private dance studio.
22. They went to Columbia, more precisely Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, only because this is the extent of how much Iâm willing to google (it lists all of those courses), and of course Armand would send them to a good school. That or NYU, since itâs bigger, or maybe a year/semester at each. I also think he would have wanted Daniel to finish school, since the Interview prevented him from doing so, or maybe that dancer was in his last year and that made Daniel think of his own education. Daniel would have found it super interesting to see Armand posing as a student though.
23. September 12, 1985, the actual release date of The Vampire Lestat.
24. There were 12 songs in total on the CHS Marius buys, but a VHS couldnât hold 3 hours of material, so he must have played other songs except for those 12, or talked in-between, lol.
*Between 1974-1977 you can spread the events out as you like, the only âcanonâ dates are Daniel starting to ask questions in return, 1 ½ after, the publication of the book (but even that is meta information) and Pompeii, 4 years after.There is also a lot of time to cover for other places Daniel might have visited!
** You can pick whatever time of the year this is happening, Paris and Venice could be months apart, Daniel could be there for a few days to a few weeks. Iâm picking February because Iâm basic and I want Daniel there in Venice during the craziest period of the year.
Armand: Look I know we've had our differences over the years. I sent my satanic vampire cult to hunt you down and we kidnapped your boyfriend which drove him insane and later I cut off his hands and eventually helped him end his existence. I also murdered your daughter and threw you off the top of a building when you came to me for help. Then I took off with love of your life and let him believe you were dead when I knew you weren't. And you, well you rejected my many advances. *shakes head* Anyway I think we can put all of that behind us if we finally fucked.
âInterview With the Vampireâ star Bailey Bass wonât be continuing in the role of Claudia in Season 2 of the AMC Networks show. Delainey Hayles will take over the role. Production âŚ
At first, I thought it was an early April Foolâs joke, but this is coming from Variety, which is an industry trade and doesnât do that.Â
So itâs true. Bailey is leaving. I am stunned and heartbroken. Bailey was so good as Claudia. Sad to see her go.
No hate for Delainey Hayles though. Wishing her the best in taking over.
Stick with it, IWTV fandom, because the use of surrealism in the flashbacks (especially moving into the second half of S1), the timeline issues, the introduction of a new perspective with Armand, different perspectives in flashback, the increasing emotional stakes, Louis' meltdown, etc.... it just seems very plausible to me that Louis would have trouble picturing Claudia sometimes. So instead of a recast it could be more of a collaboration almost?
