#khaymand

I play in all the fields babe I don’t care. Loumand, Loustat, Claudeleine, Claudia and Charlie, Lesmand, Devils minion, Danlou, Danstat, nickistat, nickimand, akashastat, khaymand, Armand and Riccardo, Armand and Bianca, Pandora and Gabrielle. Hell even Marimand and gabistat if that rocks your boat.

walk with me here. Armand retreats back to Night Island after he "lost" Daniel. To assuage his loneliness, he welcomes and sleeps with any visiting vampire who would have him (re: my past two posts on Armand's implied hypersexuality), but they always leave him eventually

Khayman visits Night Island during this time. (with Maharet? i can't remember what he's doing at this point in the story lol) Of course, Khayman and Armand sleep together. But Khayman is soooo soft for Armand, he stays for a while and tries to reassure Armand that he is not alone and that there are people who love him. It (maybe) helps a bit

Aaaand the second work for my collab with @marbleflan and @lesmandposting (first here)

Something even rarer and virtually non-existent! Khayman/Armand. I want to read fic for them. There is no fic. I have thoughts about it, I think it could be So Good.

If I want fic for them I’m going to have to write it myself, aren’t I?

It sounds like such a crack pairing but I have logic!

The first is that Khayman is immediate taken in by Armand. But not just because he’s pretty, which is a part of it. But also the amount of power Armand has, notable for someone young(er). There’s respect! I’m here for someone ending up with Armand who isn’t scared of him, but is still aware he’s not weak.

And then throughout the whole middle portion of the book from Khayman’s perspective, he’s constantly looking for Armand! He keeps thinking things along the line of “I have to go to Armand, I want to try and protect him” which considering Akasha is quite literally going around murdering a ton of vampires at that moment, isn’t exactly patronizing! Still sweet though.

Armand is a bit cold towards him, but also he’s having A Day, and I think he’s not at his best for some logical reasons!

Now I to what is infinitely more like… personal reasons. The one that made me write the post: I think it would make Marius so upset, for a couple of reasons. The first is just that Khayman is incredibly old, and incredibly powerful. Six thousand years, compared to two. Not only is his beloved fledgling moving on with someone else, but someone even more of an ancient than him!

The second is that Armand is consistently made a spectacle because of his beauty. And Khayman is… unsettling. He’s got some aspects of beauty to him, according to Marius, but, on the whole, so old and inhuman it’s cycled around to terrifying. And I love the idea of Armand saying “no, I like him”.

The last one that I can think of for the moment is the fact that Armand and Khayman are both odd. Odd in a distinctly vampire way. Like half of what Armand says in TVL and IWTV is telepathically, he doesn’t move in the way of a human, he is, of the core cast of vampires, probably the least human acting one. Khayman hits a lot of the same vibes. They also both have a fascination with the modern world and learning about that. Give me these two old vampires learning about the world, but also without judgement that comes from being unsettling, or expecting to blend in more.

Like I’m all for Armand learning to be human, but also I am SO HERE for my vampires being well, vampires, with the goose-bump raising, cat-scaring unsettling nature that comes with. I think it’s got some of the appeal of show Devils Minions, just in a way I think has intriguing potential I want to poke around in.

I started this event late so still posting buttt here's a bunch of what I wrote in may for the @vcmicroficmay event!

WEEK 1

Prompt: Reverie - She Doth Teach the Torches To Burn Bright - Armand/Sybelle - IWTV - WC: 553 Armand and Sybelle share a tender moment and talk about daydreaming a bit.

Prompt: Filthy -Immutable - Gustave/Armand - IWTV - WC: 1,411 The first and last time Gustave saw Armand.

Prompt: Parallel - The Trouble With Spies - Rashid/Sam Barclay - IWTV - WC: 816 Sam and Rashid reunite after Rashid's Dubai assignment. Rashid has some burning questions.

WEEK 2

Prompt: Unrelenting - Unrelenting - Marius/Armand - IWTV/TVC - WC: 556 "The one thing that Amadeo knew about his master was that Marius was steadfast and unrelenting in all things – his generosity, his kindness, his discipline, his pleasure and his passion for his angel muse."

Prompt: Bite Mark - Communion - Armand/Khayman - IWTV - WC: 439 The first time Armand and Khayman share blood.

WEEK 3

Prompt: Abandoned - Abandoned - Mael/Avicus/Zenobia/Marius - TVC - WC: 350 "Mael was not surprised when he came home to an empty house one pre-dawn morning."

Prompt: Cabin Fever - As the World Ends - Marius/Avicus - TVC - 574 Marius and Avicus try to take some comfort in each other while waiting out the sack of Rome in the shrine to Those Who Must Be Kept.

WEEK 4