#archinoct

[viaticumforthemarquise]

🌟 What’s something small they did as a child that hinted at who they’d become?

Everything. As a child, I ran wild and free through the marketplaces of Naples. I've made no secret of this.

Childhood freed me. Womanhood hobbled me. Motherhood broke me. Death liberated me once again.

[lioncoeurts]

❝  tell  me  your  secrets.  i  won’t  betray  you.  ❞

𝒕𝒉𝒆  𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅𝒚  𝒐𝒇  𝒋𝒖𝒍𝒊𝒖𝒔  𝒄𝒂𝒆𝒔𝒂𝒓     (     𝟏𝟓𝟗𝟗     )     sentence  starters .

"Oh, I know. But I must retain a little mystery somehow," he smiles, full of a certain serenity as he always is on quiet untroubled evenings like this, when the entire village beyond the Chateau window sleeps, few sills marked by faint daubs of light, much like the distant speckling of stars that peer through the echelons. Lestat's face is the picture of boyish geniality, flushed from feeding in the streets of Avignon, his eyes some alluring undefinable shade in the dark.

He bites down a little on the soft swell of his bottom lip, as though he might give in for a moment. It's terribly tempting.

"Some night, my dear Alain, I'll tell it all to you, and the others. They still want to know what happened to me after my exploits with that deceitful Memnoch, when I lay dormant on the chapel floor. Thirty years and I haven't gotten it all straight in my mind. You'd like to know about that, wouldn't you? Yes, some night..."

[drcasimir]

🤥 LYING - are they good liars? do they have tells to show they're lying?

𝐎𝐂 𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐉𝐈 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐒!

Exceptionally, or so he’s been told.

And yes, he has tells. They are really hard to spot unless you know him well.

[drcasimir]

🧁 cupcake- what's their cutest habit?

₊˚⊹♡ tiny bakery ask game ♡⊹˚₊

Casimir hums when he is happy and comfortable. Usually what he hums are little mindless tunes, songs he loves, and very rarely, they are songs from his distant mortal past.

[drcasimir]

🍫 chocolate roll- what's their guilty pleasure?

˚⊹♡ tiny bakery ask game ♡⊹˚₊

Smoking. He doesn’t do it around other Immortals unless they’ve stated that they’re okay with it, as he knows it can be rather annoying due to the enhanced sense of smell.

He got into them in early 1900’s. He is in no way addicted to them. They can’t harm or affect him in the same way it does humans, but he does find them to be relaxing and a momentary distraction. It’s also a good conversation starter at bars when he is hunting, or it used to be before vaping became more popular.

[drcasimir]

💞 + Does he consider his new vampire friends as family? why or why not?

Casimir could perhaps one day see some of them as family, but the friendships are still rather new.

[nodominion]

A bit of an awkward hug, but a hug and an honest smile, "Joyeux anniversaire, younger big sister."

It's easy for Rose to return the hug warmly, without hesitation. "Hey, you have eternity for me to gloat about being older than you, at least in terms of years in the blood. Better get used to it. Thank you, Alain."

[lioncoeurts]

@archinoct | cont'd.

Ensconced in the shadow of the village church's furthermost alcove, a little too like one of the many carved icons that looked out with their painted sightless eyes, Lestat smiles warmly. In Alain he sees a man perfectly preserved in his prime ---much like Marius in that way, yet the antithesis in many others---, somehow brimming with a distinct youth that touches him to the core. In the dim candlelight he reflects on the lovely vision of him; the faint receded lines of mortal age that still adorn the outer corners of his hazel eyes, and the lusciously thick clipped hair that felt good between Lestat's fingers.

Barely a decade in the Blood, this young one had; still being ever refined and perfected by the working of the Gift, night after night. Lestat's hands settle gently upon his shoulders, a thumb stroking over the soft fabric of his shirt. He kisses him tenderly on the lips, overcome with a powerful fondness that could have brought tears to his eyes.

Yes, his beloved Alain had read between all the lines of the books the blood drinkers throughout the world had dubbed the Chronicles; Kept safe the old trinkets from Lestat's brief stint on the rock music stage, from the MTV music videos, to the sole album record that had once sold copies by the millions.

How painfully endearing, to think of it.

"Because it was impossible not to. From the moment you returned home from university, grown and ripe for it, it was inevitable that I would bring you over and keep you. Selfish, I know. But vanity and impulse had no part in any of it. For once, I knew If I was to give it to you, I had to hold off. Would you have wanted it any other way, if you could change it?"