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To: @vampire-scripture

From: @manynarrators

Bloodlust - aeseaes if I have one Nickimand song and no others, it’s this one! It’s this one in a way that’s almost unsettlingly perfect. From the first verse’s appeal to the painted figure at the foot of the stage (because A: literal stage, and B: Lestat looms so large over both of them), to the final line being “cut off my hands and watch me try to undress”. How many ships can say there’s literal hand cutting off? I wouldn’t call it a happy song, but I would call it very them. All the Rowboats - Regina Spector This one, I feel like, is the fascinating combination of art and the violin references, which are a repeated motif, perhaps unsurprisingly given Nicki’s character, but also of the half-mortality. There’s the “living dead” line, the “forever, forever and a day”. That whole verse where it talks about museums feels like it works exceptionally well for the theatre, because in a lot of ways, they theatre is what became of the children of darkness, taken from a graveyard. It’s no less a tomb. Art and a subpar immortality: it sounds familiar. Valentine - Fiona Apple This one might, in truth, be making them a little too soft, but once again, I think it captures the sense of stagnation that characterizes a lot of the vampires. They’re talented, they’re beautiful, but they’re not alive anymore. And for these two in specific, the “fugitive too dull to flee” feels… fitting. Neither Armand or Nicki leave the theatre, even if they could. And it’s even canon that they did learn to care for each other, in some way,

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On Canvas As He Dips the Brush

To: @vampire-scripture From: @manynarrators/Poetiicdissonance (ao3)

Summary:

Armand and Nicki discuss art (and art theft), before Nicki paints Armand for the first time in centuries.

Notes:

Written for the VC secret gift exchange! I got vampire-scripture on tumblr, and their prompt “Armand and Nicki and art”. This was such a fun fic to write, thank you so much for the excuse to write more of these two!

The title is taken from the poem Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy.

The fic itself is set some time nebulously 4-5ish years into their decade running the theatre, and for anyone who wants the playlist that accompanies this fic, then that’s on youtube and spotify.

Thank you for submitting your gift, @manynarrators!

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