"Amadeo, you play the devil."
"Don't you want me to, Master? Didn't you like it? You took my blood and it made you my slave!"
anne rice - the vampire armand / caravaggio - saint john the baptist with a lamb / baglione - saint john the baptist wreathing a lamb / opeth - to rid the disease / mary shelley - frankenstein / zurbaran - lamb of god / emma ruth rundle - protection / devildriver - the fury of our maker's hand / steffy argelich - elle 2015 / botticelli - primavera / donna tartt - the goldfinch / dvořák - serenade for strings in e major, op 22 b 52 - 2 tempo di valse / botticelli - la derelitta / rembrandt - het offer van isaac / anne rice - the vampire armand
do you think santino ever listened to lestat’s song about the children of darkness on repeat when he was missing armand?
like imagine him hearing it for the first time while passing an electronics store, the lyrics stopping him dead in his tracks, turning to watch the music video play on one of the display TVs through the window with an aching in his chest. he goes inside and purchases his first walkman so he can listen to the song while he lays down alone in his coffin, missing the little body that used to share it with him.
if we’re talking armand breeding & armand/santino today i propose a combo. armand getting bred by santino. thoughts 🎤
hehe okay there’s so many possible routes to take with this one. are we talking canonverse CoD era? bc that’s like, maximum angst potential. or are we talking some other kind of au? either way, what a fun sandbox! i have thoughts on both and love to yap!
(TW for mentions of fictional child-loss)
let’s start in canonverse: i think this is so deliciously angsty. armand loses marius and already feels guilty for letting santino fuck him (i’m imagining their relationship started out very dubcon and now armand hates himself bc he’s come to crave santino’s touch) but now he’s pregnant by him? he’d feel HORRIBLE about it. but i’m sticking to my guns and asserting that armand will always see a baby as a blessing no matter where it comes from. it’s a light in the darkness for him, especially in the children of darkness era. obviously santino is getting off on the idea that he impregnated marius’ boy. marius wants to replace ivan and santino wants to replace marius and so on and so forth.
i’m not as confident in my santino characterization so i’m phoning a friend on this one, @aunteat how do you think canonverse santino would react to knocking up armand? i think it’d certainly shake his faith, since they’re supposed to be damned and evil creatures. how would he handle knowing he helped create an innocent life? i think it’d be a huge contributing factor to his eventual defecting from the CoD.
to keep in line with the tragedy of it all the baby would either have to be miscarried or stillborn. and eventually when armand is sent to paris he’ll think it’s bc santino is mad at him for losing their baby. sadtoad.jpeg
okay now that we’ve made ourselves sad let’s discuss an au that’s a bit more sexy! (but still kind of sad. sorry, i think tragedy goes hand in hand with santimand unfortunately)
little known fact about me is that i love medieval fantasy au’s. this one is close to my heart and my friends will certainly recognize it.
but imagine armand is the son of a king, maybe not the firstborn son so he’s allowed to go study with the church under santino, but he has to come home when it’s revealed someone got him pregnant. nobody knows it was santino. and to protect prince armand’s reputation he has to live in isolation until the baby is born.
the original idea for this au was for it be marius vs santino. marius is brought in to be armand’s private tutor bc they trust marius to be discreet about the situation. marius catches santino trying to come see armand under the guise of being a concerned citizen and that’s how he figures out santino is the baby daddy bc armand won’t rat (ha) him out.
santino has to lie and say he can’t believe someone in his church would do such a thing, and to the prince, no less! but secretly santino can’t bear the idea that armand is going to have his baby while he has no way of being involved. devastating lol. and marius is obviously getting his hooks (positive) into armand and is already vying for stepdad title. and since ivan is mad at santino for letting armand get pregnant under his watch santino isn’t allowed anywhere near armand so armand feels like santino rejected him and their baby :( it’s a deliciously fucked up self indulgent au for me personally but lmk what you think!! should i write it?
