#mariusderomanus

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From: @xxhellonursexx

C. 30 BCE - Marius is born (Pandora pg. 36 & 53)

5 BCE - Pandora & Marius meet for the first time (Pandora pg. 53)

0 - Pandora & Marius meet a second time (Lupercalia) (Pandora pg. 55) The Great Burning Spring,

5 CE - Marius is kidnapped from Roman Gaul, Summer

5 CE - Marius is made on the eve of Samhain December,

5 CE - Marius “rescues” Akasha from her keeper in Egypt. (Pandora pg. 294)

20 CE - Pandora is made in Antioch, Syria

c. 30 CE - Flavius is made a vampire in his 40th year

c. 250 CE - Marius leaves Pandora

c. 300 CE - Avicus and Mael come to Rome and become long companions of Marius

410 CE - With the burning of Rome by Alaric and the “fall of Rome” Marius sleeps (B&G pg. 127)

c. 500 CE - Marius wakes to move to Constantinople with Avicus and Mael (B&G pg. 129, 132, 133) Marius meets Eudoxia and Zenobia

1200 CE - Marius sleeps again, the second time, stating, “I was weary” (B&G pg. 209)

c. 1350 CE - Marius awakens in the time of the plague and goes back to sleep

1481 CE - Armand/Amadeo is born in Kiev Rus

1482 CE - Marius wakens from his third and last sleep (B&G pg. 212-213)

1482 CE - Marius meets Santino

1482/1486 CE - Marius meets Sandro Botticelli Marius opens up his palazzo and begins a school/home for boys

1495/1496 - Marius meets Bianca

1496 CE - Marius finds Armand in a Venetian Brothel

1498 CE- Armand is made a vampire

1499 CE - Attacked by the Children of Darkness, Armand is taken, Bianca is made a vampire

c. 1580-1590 CE - Marius and Bianca move to Dresden (bg)

1580 CE - Armand becomes coven Master in Paris

c. 1680 CE - Marius finds Pandora in Dresden during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King (pan. 94 c. 1680-1690)

c. 1680 CE - Bianca leaves Marius

1789 CE - Marius goes to Lestat and brings him to his island in the Aegean

1985 CE - Queen of the Damned, events of

1985 CE - Akasha is killed

1991 CE - Tale of the Body Thief, events of

1997 CE - Armand attempts suicide January,

1998 CE - Sybelle and Benji are made Marius takes Daniel into his home Moves to Norway

March 2000 - Meets Thorne and tells him his story to be published as Blood and Gold

2001 CE - Blood and Gold is published Moves to Stockholm, Sweden with Daniel c.

2013-2015 - Lives in Rio with Daniel

Reunites with his maker Teskhamen

Court is established– Marius begins working on laws

Marius destroys Arjun

I had this desire to put Marius and Armand in modern era, visiting Fori Imperiali together 🥹🥹

Armand completely enchanted and overwhelmed by the thought his Master walked those same streets when he was a human.

Yay! The Party is another fic I started for Vampride but alas, I haven't had much time to write so it's languishing as a half-conceived idea about Armand throwing Lestat a birthday party on Night Island because they're all sick of the snow at Court. It's basically and excuse to get them all back on the island for angst and drama and also, to rifle through the cabinets.

Which is why this fic started with the prompt "mac and cheese." It's silly and IDK if I'll ever manage to turn it into something worth finishing, much as I love the idea of getting them all back on Night Island.

“What’s this?” Marius pulled the box out of the cabinet. Small, blue, covered in dust, but unmistakably a box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Daniel laughed. He was sitting on the counter next to the cabinet Marius was now searching. “It’s pasta.” Marius shook the box and the noodles rattled inside. He frowned deeply. Daniel grabbed the box and tore open the cardboard and showed Marius the dried noodles. He pulled out the packet of cheese power, now a little yellowed with age. “This is cheese sauce.” “Whatever that is, boy, it’s not cheese and pasta.” “Wanna bet?” Daniel asked, his expression playfully defiant. Marius smiled and moved toward him, as if drawn by a magnet. He swept of a lock of Daniel’s sort blond hair behind his ear and leaned in to whisper, “I’m from Rome.” Daniel laughed lightly. “I’m from America, and this box is the epitome of fine cuisine.”

I mean they didn't exactly have what we think of as pasta in ancient Rome so IDK if this makes sense. But it made me laugh so there you go.

For the "Son of Rome" theme, I created a make-up that represents "Mother Rome." The Roman Empire was a glorious time, violent and without mercy for anyone, including the Romans themselves. And so I used the color of gold, blood and the black of death. This is the period in which our Marius was born.

Marius and Daniel,

Rio circa 2005

They both had the dream, even if they never talked about it.

It was an unspoken truth between them, the topic was not brought up either due to the discomfort it brought or merely because words were not necessarily. There was no vail of silence between them, they both knew the other dreamt the same.

One dreamt of red satin in a palazzo of long ago and the other or crimson cotton at the Plaza hotel. But the object of desire that captivated them both was the same. Same supple skin, same plush lips, same inviting shapely thighs, same auburn curls sprawled across the sheets, same precious gems adorning slender fingers.

It was the same dream they both had, day after day. The same vision, desire and longing - the same love they both let go of a long time ago, but never stopped dreaming about.

While planning our Christmas holidays in Italy the key-stone of it was to come to Venice and make this photoset. Alas, the photographer who promised to shoot us vanished to silence just before our arrival so we had to make it on our own, so be kind to amateurs)