Like if the Coven is doing things together, he's either going to be tacked onto Lestat's party (Lestat's Awesome Birthday Bash at Court - Oh and it's also Armand's birthday soon I guess let's give him five minutes).

Or it's going to be one of those things where the group Just Did a Thing at Court for Lestat's birthday and now you want us all to come to Trinity Gate for another party? (I like to imagine Daniel and Marius going around and basically threatening people to be there.)

On the other hand, surprise parties are probably much easier. They can throw a big birthday bash on Night Island for Lestat and then everyone's already there, they don't have to make excuses to get Armand there or sneak anyone else to the Villa. They can just put up new decorations and voila. Surprise!

Since you didn't specify and I'm doing this now, you're getting VampChron headcanons 😤

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Marius has a dad bod. You guys can think he's stacked or slim or whatever, but the man is 40, he has a little soft tummy at the very least.

9. worst part of canon

Am I allowed to say all of it? 😭 The characters and the actual stories are great and compelling, but literally anyone else besides Anne Rice should have been writing it.

19. you’re mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like…

Marius/Armand and Armand/Denis. It's creepy and definitely abusive but the heart wants what the heart wants, and my heart wants to see a D/s dynamic with both parties hopelessly devoted to each other, complete with the Dom using the sub as food. (Obligatory FICTION ONLY)

20. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores (At least I assume you meant 20 from where this was in the list 😭)

Honestly? I absolutely love the voice she uses to write Lestat with, eve in the later books. Everyone else is aware they're in a gothic horror/time travel/period piece/supernatural romance/weird sci-fi books... except Lestat. As far as he's concerned, he the main character of a shounen anime and everyone else just needs to get with the program 😭

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Marius is not allowed to give candy to children, next question 😭 In an AU where he's not a massive creep, he makes his own candy and hands it out. He's even got custom wrappers for it, and spends the week before Halloween prepping everything. It's different every year--sometimes it's fruit, sometimes it's chocolate, one year it was marshmallows. He's got a reputation as the neighborhood weirdo, but the kids still love him anyway.

Armand... doesn't know what Halloween is. Once Daniel explains it though? He. Goes. Apeshit. He loves everything about the holiday, and does a full on Clark Griswold-but-it's-Halloween decorating the house. (Daniel wouldn't mind so much if he wasn't the one constantly being sent out for creepy crepe paper. He's also the one that picks out the candy, of course.)

Lestat and Louis don't just hand out candy, no no no. They run a fucking haunted house out of their home. Or maybe (probably) he rents a building. He's Lestat, he has infinite income, no sense of chill, a superb sense of aesthetics, and is the most extra bitch that has ever lived and died on this earth. 😭 Louis couldn't protest if he wanted to. There's a guy taking tickets out front, flyers around town, it's advertised on the radio and television. It's a fucking event. As people leave, they get very classy goody bags full of fancy candy. While he's doing this, Louis stays at home and hands out full bars of regular candy to all the kids who come by. (And he throws in extra for the grownups.)

Two words: Vampire. Periscope.

How does this work? Vampire stays inside, away from a window, and uses a periscope or something similar to look outside.

I've provided a helpful illustration, with a top and front view.