#or kept for vampire spank bank material

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One of the many things Anne said over the years that has always haunted me is how Daniel deliberately left out a lof of things about Armand from IWTV. Specifically about his looks. He's described as being simple, beautiful and having dark eyes but not much else, and at first I thought that maybe Anne hadn't gone into detail because she hadn't fleshed out the character that much, but the fact that she rationalized it as Daniel very intentionally leaving that type of information about Armand out of the audience's reach is SO fascinating to me because... at that point they'd already begun their cat and mouse game and were beginning to fall for each other, so Daniel getting all possessive (and protective dare I say???) about Armand is just so sdjfhjsfjskhdsjk. In his mind, the world was ready for the goriest, most horrific aspects of Louis' tale, but it wasn't ready to know just how beautiful Armand was.

What a timely ask, anon. I've been having a lot of (literal and metaphorical) death of the author thoughts lately.

I think it's really hard to say what Anne intended to do at any given time. She was very open about the fact that she outlined little, just tended to sit down at the keyboard and see what happened, and so I think people can go around and around with these continuity issues until kingdom come. But the truth of it is like...she wrote about these vampires for nearly 50 years, she probably forgot some stuff and made up some other stuff to try to bridge those gaps.

I personally assume the Daniel keeping these details to himself thing was something she said to cover why this info was coming out in playboy vs an actual book but it is a really fun think to think about, isn't it?

(being completely honest, when I wrote that line in my fic about Daniel hoarding the details of Armand's appearance for himself I was just making shit up, I didn't even realize Anne had said anything like that until after lol So nice to know she and I shared a braincell for that one brief moment)

My personal head canon is that some he left out because his editors were like 'dude, this book is getting way too long and frankly this is gratuitous' (like that story that ended up in playboy? Daniel was desperate for some cash to travel on and so he dragged that sordid bit of smut out of his drafts and tossed it in the mail). The rest- god, he just really couldn't believe anyone could be that good looking. Maybe he assumed Louis had idealized him in his mind, maybe he decided no reader would find someone so beautiful palatable (especially in light of some of the things Armand let happen).

And then also a secret third thing, where Daniel has always kinda had a thing for redheads with big brown eyes and shit, did Louis know that about him and describe Armand like that just to mess with him or is there really some hot little blood sucking guy running around out there, being the smoke show of his dreams?

It's fun to wonder about, like it's fun to wonder about what all Lestat and Daniel left out of that chapter in queen of the damned. I hate that we don't have more content from them but I do love how many gaps we can fill in ourselves.

#like how many smut scenes were in devil's minion that lestat either mentally blocked out #or kept for vampire spank bank material #or had *his* editors be like lol we cannot print this human getting vampire fucked five times in ten pages #thoughts that haunt me at night #and keep me typing fic #apoptoses answers

[daughterofsmoak]

Kelena Drabble

Title: Chocolate

Author: Me :P

Words: 500ish

Fandom: The Vampire Diaries

Pairings: Kelena

Synopsis: A silly, goofy thing that came to me last night.  AKA “Elena wants pancakes, and Katherine is evil.”

“Oh my god,” Elena buried her face in her hands, muffling her giggles.  “You are the absolute worst, do you know that?  That poor waiter is going to go to the back now and have a heart attack.  There’s going to be paramedics in here, and I’m never going to get my chocolate pancakes.  It’s going to be a whole big thing.”

Katherine shrugged, the only evidence of humor in her face the way that her lip kept quirking at the corners of her mouth.  “You say that like you don’t know I’m evil.  Besides, it’s not my fault that he doesn’t know what a doppleganger is.”

“You’re so full of it,” Elena poked her side.  “You knew damn well that he’d walk up on what looked like twin sisters making out at his table and have no way to deal with that.”

“And?  We probably just gave the guy spank bank material for the next century.  If I’d have pulled your shirt up, he’d have ended up at the doctor for an erection that lasted longer than four hours.”  Elena reached over and smacked her arm, but that only made Katherine grin.  “And if I’d have pulled up that little skirt of yours-“

“Stop it!” Elena laughed so loudly that they drew attention from the other tables around them.  “You’re not going to pull my skirt up in the middle of an IHOP.  I know we can be a little trashy sometimes, but even we’re not that trashy.”

Katherine looked around the nearly empty restaurant and shrugged.  “Could be worse.  Could be a Waffle House.”  Elena leaned forward until her head rested on her arms, giggling madly.  Her face was turning the slightly purple color that a laughing fit produced in her, and Katherine sat back and watched with her arms crossed.  To anyone else she’d have looked disdainful, but if Elena had looked up she’d have seen the love in the vampire’s dark eyes.

“You are the absolute worst,” she finally repeated as she caught her breath.  “It’s a good thing I love you, or I’m pretty sure I’d leave you by the side of the road somewhere.”  The waiter returned with their meals, and kept his eyes fixed firmly on the floor as he handed them over.  Katherine opened her mouth to say something and Elena kicked her shin under the table to nip that in the bud.  As fun as it would be to see the teenage boy become even more flustered, she was much more interested in her pancakes.

They were a few bites in when Katherine leaned over to kiss her cheek.  “You are going to be on a monster sugar high in about twenty minutes, aren’t you?  It might be me that leaves you on the side of the road, because we’ve got a five hour drive ahead of us and I’m not sure that I can deal with five hours of chocolate pancake Elena.”

“I think you can,” Elena shot back.  “Sugar high Elena has a lot of extra energy.”

There was a beat, then another, and Katherine pushed Elena’s plate closer to her.  “Eat up, then.”

#drabble #kelena #au