i started keeping track of all the lore details ali louis bourzgui drops for david. i now release it unto the world for your reading pleasure:
obviously this is non-exhaustive and i will do my best to update it if/when more tidbits come out + feel free to comment/rb with anything i missed!
ali has said he has a very extensive backstory written down but probably will never release the bulk of it bc so much of david's appeal is his Mysterious Vibes </3
BUT ANYWAY. info organized to the best of my ability!
AESTHETICS:
HAIR: “I think David is hiding behind his hair. Deep inside, he's a hurt individual who is running from himself, so his extravagant costume and glam-rock look is actually him hiding his true nature, even from himself.” Broadway.com
NECKLACES: “I like to think that David keeps the keys from all the places he's lived during his many years on Earth. He likes to pretend he doesn't hold on to the past, like he's moving forward, but he's very sentimental and he just refuses to look at that. If he did then I think everything would be fixed.” Tony’s Instagram Takeover
CLOTHES: His top/end of show jacket has 2 gold chevrons on it reflecting the fact that Ali imagines David served about a year in the military during WW1 (1917-1918). + David used to have a black vest bedazzled/embroidered with stars (🥲) that he wore during Brother, but it was cut even before the previews began. Tony’s Instagram Takeover
MUSIC: His favorite type of music is classical from the 1910s because he was around for it (again, sentimental). + Cello music specifically is reflective of “the inner world of David's mind: stuck in the past, but deeply longing for a future that's fixed.” (Ali talks a little more about cello music helping get into the David mindset here) + His favorite Resident Lightweight (Ali’s band) song would be Nostalgia. Tony’s Instagram Takeover
RELATIONSHIPS:
SEXUALITY: “I think that even in his human life he was queer- personally- and then when he becomes a vampire, you reach a certain level of immortality where it doesn't even matter. You could call it pansexuality or, like, ‘yeah, everything's attractive to me now, I've lived for so long I don't even need labels’.”
“It’s not even always about sexuality… he finds Michael and Star both attractive, but he also sees them as siblings, and he also kinda wants to be their leader or their father figure. It's this crazy combination of him just wanting to be everything to them– it's multiple facets of attraction, so I think it's better to not pin down 100% his feelings as this thing, because I don't even think he's 100% sure”
“I also think he grew up in the 1920s, so I'm not sure he ever fully admitted anything to himself or discovered that about himself. Now that it's the 80s, he's starting to hear labels, but he's so far into this vampire realm that do labels even matter? I don't know. But he's definitely attracted to both Star and Michael from my point of view."
^ All from The Contending interview
MICHAEL: “David has gotten to the point where he's searching for anything he finds beautiful, and he sees himself in Michael, this wounded individual who instead of taking power into his hands is letting the world kick him around.” Broadway.com (+ “David spent a lot of his life that way, too, but he became a power-hungry individual who kicks the world back.”)
STAR: “Star is the only character that gets to see the human inside of David.” The Contending
From Maria: “She was in a bad way and David was there for her, so she feels like she owes a lot to him.” PIX News
Star is his “favorite of them* all” (*the people he's turned) Tony’s Instagram Takeover
THE BOYS: Marko was the first one turned, then Dwayne, the Paul (“we needed a drummer really bad and this guy was really cool and good at it”). Tony’s Instagram Takeover
PERSONALITY
“He's patient because he's immortal. Every moment is not that big of a deal to him, so there's this boredom about him that is kind of passive-suave. And when something excites him, it really excites him. So he'll go from this numbness to being really intense and not blinking and locked onto something, like a predator.” WWD.com
Everything beautiful and special in human life is made so by the context of it having to end- so to vampires nothing is special and everything is boring. Survival Jobs (paraphrased)
“There's a really hurt boy in there. He is the lost boy. There's something he's running from that he's making everyone else's problem. And I don't think he realizes what he really needs is to let go.” Survival Jobs
“It's been fun to find how [humanity] slips out of him and how much he chooses to let people see, and how much he's hiding from himself. A lot of it was leaning into the vulnerability, the hurt– David is the lost boy of them all, he's so lost in 90 years of running from himself.” The Contending
David was human “like 90 years ago”, has some major trauma from his human life that he thought turning into a vampire would fix, but years later he's still running from it and is convinced that by making other vampires he can fix them. He's so preoccupied with fixing others and he's never looking inward. Survival Jobs (paraphrased)
“He’s looking for this sense of family and he's gonna do anything he can to force this idea of family and surround himself with love in kinda a violent way.” PIX News
“I think he's been trapped in America his whole life, personally. That's why he is the way he is.” The Contending
"David thinks he's saving people from their mortal fate." The Roundtable
i'm sure he's phrasing everything in such a personal manner in order to be respectful to the actors that came before/will come after him but sometimes when he's talking about His Thoughts on david it reminds me of:
I have Billy ('cause his feathers on his head are spikey like Billy Idol!), Joan (after Joan Jett, she's cool), Princess (I named her Prince at first...then found out she's a girl), and her new baby pigeon who doesn't have a name yet.
still not sure how ali's doing that with his voice. i gotta see it again so i can have the same reaction of "what the actual fuck" when he starts speaking.
blocking and unmooting anyone who claims to be "endo neutral" btw!! u cant be "neutral" on ableism ^_^ ur either pro ableism, or against ableism, there's no inbetween !!
im not gonna be friends with people who think larping a disorder is a fun thing :p
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