kiss lestat or perish?
long pause plays out and armand considers every possible reaction to such loaded question. mind conjures visions in vibrant red, before finally, he sighs. "i would hardly submit to my own death."
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kiss lestat or perish?
long pause plays out and armand considers every possible reaction to such loaded question. mind conjures visions in vibrant red, before finally, he sighs. "i would hardly submit to my own death."
𝐈𝐓'𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐄'𝐃 𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐌, 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐀𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐀 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐇𝐈𝐌. his scent, the way his presence felt right before he entered a room. lestat was distinctive, unlike many of those who shes encountered in her thousands of years. in truth, they tend to blur together after such a long amount of time. names, faces, events, human or vampire ... it hadn't really mattered. most, if not nearly all, were forgotten the moment they left her presence if they were of now importance. akasha had no time for them, not energy for it either ... she was the mother to the damned, the original, yes but she was also her own woman. not just a deity, of sorts. ( her god complex unmatched. akasha genuinely felt no one was like her, no one ever would be. if it weren't for her then none of them would exist as they now & that, in itself, was worth worship for. ) ❛ lestat, ❜ calls the woman with a growing smile on her lips. one leg crossed about the other, hands with done nails folded about her lap. ❛ i didn't expect to see you here tonight. ❜
[ * @indiscrminately liked for a starter ! > ft queen akasha. ]
several bouquets of her favorite flora are left in eliza’s dressing room. xoxo lestat
her daytime shows are few and far between - for all that eliza waxes poetic and longs for the sun, her lifestyle doesn't give her much time to absorb it; today's performance is an exception. acoustic and settled beneath the mid-morning sunrise. she feels like she's floating by the time she reenters her dressing room to a newfound delivery.
when it comes to flowers, she really isn't picky. when it comes to lestat ... he listens. really listens. the bouquets of the blossoms all along her dressing room are reminiscent of a past life - one filled with healing, sunrises, sunsets, and paths overflowing with familiar flowers such as these: bursting wild orchids of various colors and builds, poppies, hyacinth, carnations, common crocus, milkthistle ... little do they know of the life soon fated to find her. (sicily and a spurned childhood feel so far away from what she now knows.)
as always, the gesture holds deeper volumes than the flowers themselves - this, however, melts every last resolve held in her chest. there's a certain vulnerability poised in eliza’s limbs after her gigs - immediately, she wants lestat here with her. implicitly, he is here. intrinsically ... she ponders his offer.
eternity - shared. everlasting love, promised and assured by someone who reveres her more than humanly possible - eliza has never outright dismissed the possibility. mortality continually flashes before her eyes in the shapes of her loved ones, and still ... the flowers. she can smell the flowers. a tame, pollen-drunk bee peeks out from the cuspids of a crocus - there is good in this life. there is destiny, there is life, there is death, and there is choice - she chooses him. she thinks that she'll tell him that when she sees him tonight.
* / @indiscrminately 🤍
my muse wiping/licking blood from your muses lips. / lestat might wipe blood from the corner of astarion’s mouth with his thumb, very demure very restrained, but he also might just kiss and guess the kill. 🙂↕️
send me ‘ 🔴 ’ to generate a bloody scenario between our muses. one. your muse wiping/licking blood from my muses lips.
he wasn't often asked the question: who did you kill? or better yet, who did you devour? upon returning from his hunts. most everyone had the decency to pretend he was simply away, enjoying a brisk stroll through the woods. nobody was none the wiser. however, this time the evidence sits plainly by his lips, a thin stream of blood oozing down his chin. the flavour was still piquant on his tongue, fresh and pleasing to taste― he was in no rush to cleanse his palette. of who: some human, a brigand actually, who they had a particularly violent run-in with hours ago. one lulled into a false sense of security that they had escaped, a show of mercy.
he wasn't about to confess to the others that he had sought them out and snuffed out that flicker of hope. another boar, that's all it was.
of course, there was no fooling another vampire.
with a satisfied stretch, astarion shrugs lestat off, purposefully blasé. “ oh, a vampire never reveals his secrets. why, jealous are w―? ” his tease is abruptly cut short, as a thumb runs over the corner of his mouth, swiping the blood away in a singular motion. the space between them halved, intimate, and what's more, he's left to watch as the vampire brings said thumb to his own mouth, sampling astarion's dinner for himself. the air between them feels charged with some desire or other, as his eyes fixate on the small flash of tongue. something unaddressed.
when @indiscrminately gestures a guess as to astarion's kill, he's almost right on the money. a smirk twists the bloodied corners of his mouth.
“ not quite. why not have another taste? second time's the charm, or third for that matter. ”
night island has become his refuge. it was the one place that didn't have louis haunting the rooms — he could hide away in his villa, tend to his wounded heart ( and pride ), without a physical reminder of all that had happened. his memories, his thoughts, the desperate anger and grief brewing in him was more than enough. he didn't need it written on the walls too.
now, it's also a haven away from the book's popularity, from the rise of lestat's voice on the airwaves ( although, the night island shops have sold both book and album ). he's dissected as much media as he can. he's watched lestat's singing career from a distance, wants to dig his fingers into his brain to see what makes him do what he does.
it's not wholly new — that feeling. but what he hadn't prepared for was lestat's arrival on the island. he feels his presence first and while curious , he wears a passive mask for the other vampire. he wants to see him, but the admittance would never slip. he greets him in the parlor, where he assumes he's been led ( if he'd followed any of his helpful staff ). for a moment, he takes in the sight of him silently, before taking a step forward.
❝ i hope you don't expect celebrity treatment. i'm all out of red carpet. ❞ and patience. ❝ why are you here, lestat? ❞
@indiscrminately liked for a starter !!
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u would think so, and yet. this is actually alex antithesis because.
1. he wouldn't want to fix him, he wants to Conquer him, whomever this "him" is
2. he doesn't think he could top him, he knows he can top him. he will top him. as inevitable as time, death, and the irs
i want a lestat / eliza setlist pls (:
i actually think that their intersection in creation/performance is something huge for the music industry of the 1970’s – 80’s (especially as they grow and adapt through the decades past that). lestat definitely leans more glam rock/post-punk, and by choice eliza is more folk-rock (dependent on how angsty she’s feeling). it’s important to remember that she had a grossly successful/rushed + exploitive career even before meeting him - her team was a mess and she didn’t always have creative say in what she put out, but regained her independence over time - especially after becoming a vamp. this is all the more reflected in their music together.
putting glam rock/post-punk/new wave + folk rock together comes pretty easily. those genres compare and contrast in ways that are so beautifully similar, but lestat + eliza work together because of the devotion and love that they both have for the art / craft itself. i like to think of all these songs are an amalgamation of an eternity of time to create together (^: diff eras, vibes, genres, etc.
i can see you enjoy having the upper hand for once. // @indiscrminately //
there's a slow kind of grin that comes to armand's lips at lestat's words. he knows that tone, he knows the teasing edge to it. lestat was a hurricane, a wild fire at times. a complex beast, but one that armand, in truth, when it was all stripped away, enjoyed being in the presence of. it was impossible to look away. to not be drawn in and caught up.
"for once, yes." so much weight to that one word, a world of implications-- the idea that so rarely, maybe even never had there been a time when armand had gained that control, that upper hand. it was a knife to the skin, but one he relished. the wickedness of it was addictive. a sour taste, that eventually settled to sweetness.
his hand is gentle for a moment longer before it tightens in blonde locks. pulls to yank lestat's head back. "i never imagined you'd look so good submitting to that."