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The first mention on Tumblr of Cliff Marleau being a vampire was a reply by cephalopodie on this post on February 20, 2026. Since then, the fandom has come up with a lot of variations on the concept. If you know if any major variations or any notable posts that you think should be included here, please let me know so I can add them! This list is kinda biased towards my posts/my friends posts because that's what I'm most familiar with but I'd like to expand it if you have suggestions.

Rather than laying out a timeline, I'm grouping this list by major concepts.

"Cliff Marlow was turned in 2006"

I made a few posts with lore for a version of The Vampire Cliff Marlow who was turned in 2006.

Feb 22: "The Vampire Cliff Marlow, b. 1973, was turned at age 33 in 2006."

Feb 23: "When Cliff Marlow was turned in 2006, the first Twilight book had been published...The Vampire Marleau would eventually watch the Twilight movies in secret..."

Feb 25: "...Marley can never truly be ensouled because he was turned into a vampire in 2006."

Ancient Marleau

Once the idea of Marleau as a very ancient warrior vampire was introduced, this became the prevailing headcanon.

Feb 25, from clytemnestraaa: the introduction of The Vampire Marleau as an ancient warrior

Feb 25, from clytemnestraaa: introduces Scott Hunter as a vampire slayer

Montreal: The Vampire Lestat crossover

Feb 24, an oddly prescient post from cuppydogshane: "and thats without considering the vampire marleau"

Feb 25, a teaser clip for the new season of Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat was released, revealing that Lestat is living in Montreal

Post from me and cuppydogshane: Marleau's reaction to Lestat living in Montreal

March 6-7, 2026

TVM posting kind of exploded in the evening of March 6/morning of march 7. There are genuinely too many posts to link them all here, so I'm trying to stick to the most load-bearing ones that are needed to understand other posts. All of the following posts are from March 6-7 except where otherwise noted.

Marly's Scary Mirror

The concept of Marleau having a cursed mirror is most strongly associated with more ancient variations of The Vampire Marleau, but the original idea came from a tag on a 2006!TVM post linked above.

Tag from iwrotemrtambourineman: "#his soul is trapped in the cursed mirror he does coke off of"

Post from iwrotemrtambourineman: "ilya: marly, i told you to put the scary mirror away! it freaks out the hoes!"

Mine, with tag from clytemnestraaa: "Marly making the rookies stare into the Scary Mirror" / "#everyone on the raiders knows exactly where and when they are going to die"

The Immortal Warrior

As far as I can tell, the first usage of the term The Immortal Warrior was in this poll from gayhockeyshow. While The Immortal Warrior exists primarily as an offshoot of The Vampire Marleau, it's worth noting that some people prefer to imagine him as a non-vampiric immortal. March 8th, post from cuppydogshane and urlocalhotmess

Post from clytemnestraaa: "marleau is always calling his hockey stick his sword"

Post from clytemnestraaa: "marleau nearly slew the beloved of his brethren in battle"

Post from cuppydogshane: "his idea. I don't mind it."

My post: crossover with Serial Killer Scott Hunter/The Borgias

Other notable memes

Hrœrekr/Hrœker

Post from clytemnestraaa: "ilya who looks identical to his original best warrior brother from another mother hrœrekr who died of a sheep disease"

Twilight crossover

Post from clytemnestraaa, tags from cuppydogshane: "just realized the reason shane almost died when marleau hit him was the vampire strength…"

March 8, post from nonlynear: where the hell you been, loca?

"What Is It You Desire"

This post from cuppydogshane is a reference to this tumblr post and this tweet.

A Month in the Atlantic

Post from marbertyphoon: "marleau was on a galleon that went down in a storm in the sixteenth century so he spent about a month swimming out of the atlantic ocean"

The Vampire Cult

Post from cuppydogshane and catalpa-waltz

Arthuriana/Jackie Le Fay

My post, with tag from clytemnestraaa: I believe this was the first TVM post referencing Arthuriana. Tags from cly introduce Morgan Le Fay ("a MILF") into the mix

As far as I can tell, Jackie as Morgan Le Fay started with this post from cuppydogshane.

Post from clytemnestraaa: "the witch is HERE…. as the prophecy foretold…."

Post from graceebooks: "jackie le fay when she sees marleau: hey i heard you once spent a month swimming out of the atlantic ocean"

Crossover with Shane's Mysterious Powers

March 7 saw quite a lot of posts that referenced both The Vampire Marleau and Shane's Mysterious Powers. I think this one is the most notable.

Fandom Meta

March 7, from bedlund: XKCD 2501 with The Vampire Marleau, Serial Killer Scott hunter, and The Rick Owens