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xxhellonursexx:

Now reading “The Vampire Armand,” Daniel longs for the good old days of Claudia’s diaries. 

eosphoroz:

The Case of Daniel Molloy… Malloy… Molloy: A Study in Confusion, by eosphoroz

In answer to this post by @rijinksiwtv.

We often joke about Anne Rice creating Daniel only to gradually (not so gradually) forget about him. This argument is reinforced when we look upon Anne’s treatment of Daniel’s last name.

We all came to know and love Daniel as the boy reporter and later as the Devil’s Minion. But the real issue is that… Anne never really learned his last name.

In the first US edition we get our “Daniel Molloy”.

(‘Queen of the Damned’, Alfred A. Knopf (US), 1988 first edition)

And for whatever reason in the first UK edition we get “Daniel Malloy”.

(‘Queen of the Damned’, Futura / MacDonald & Co. Publishers (UK), 1990 edition)

By the time the first edition of ‘The Vampire Companion’ by Katherine Ramsland hit the shelves, we are once again with “Daniel Molloy”.

(‘The Vampire Companion’, Ballantine Books (US), both 1993 & 1994 editions)

This could have ended here, the UK publishers taking the blame one day, IF things hadn’t escalated. When Neil Jordan released his IwtV film, Daniel was again named as “Daniel Malloy” on the credits.

(Screenshot from ‘Interview with the Vampire’ 1994)

Once again, this all could have stayed a joke if Anne Rice herself hadn’t raised her head in 2013, as she was writing ‘Prince Lestat’, and posted this on her facebook page.

(Screenshot from Anne Rice’s facebook page, 2013)

And only for this to be reiterated once the first US edition of ‘Prince Lestat’ came along… with “Daniel Malloy”.

(‘Prince Lestat’, Alfred A. Knopf (US), 2014 first edition)

And it was… never corrected. These are all the editions of ‘Prince Lestat’ I found with the name “Daniel Malloy”: Penguin Random House (UK) 2014 first edition, Trade Books (US) 2015 edition, Arrow Books (UK) 2015 edition, Ediciones B (Spain) 2015 edition, Éditions Michel Lafon (France) 2015 edition. 

All of this would have flown under the radar if Anne hadn’t opted to back down and, by the time ‘Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis’ was published, change back to “Daniel Molloy”.

(‘Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis’, Alfred A. Knopf (US), 2016 first edition)

And only two years later, in Anne’s last VC book ‘Blood Communion’ (2018) Daniel is forgotten by Marius, his literal ex-lover, and not added to the ceiling painting for Chateau de Lioncourt, where all vampires were added to preserve their history. But he is added to the Appendix as “Daniel Molloy” once again.

(‘Blood Communion’, Alfred A. Knopf (US), 2018 first edition)

BUT he is again changed for the second book released that year: ‘Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles An Alphabettery’ (2018) written by Becket (Anne’s right hand man at the time). In this “book” Becket mentions “Daniel Malloy” once again.

All of this culminates with AMC’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ (2022). In one promo video they mixed Daniel last name, first naming him as “Daniel Malloy” and then as “Daniel Molloy”.

Long story short… Daniel went from being “the Boy” (IwtV 1976) to “Daniel Molloy, the Devil’s Minion” (QotD 1988) to “Malloy - Christian Slater” (IwtV 1994) to “Daniel Malloy” (PL 2014) to “Daniel Molloy” (PLatRoA & BC, 2016 and 2018) to “Daniel Malloy” (Alphabettery 2018)… to somehow both (AMC’s IwtV 2022).

I guess I can only add this… We love you, Daniel. Even if you’re the walking meme of this fandom.

eosphoroz:

Was Daniel dying of AIDS before being turned?

(Thanks to anon for pushing me into this research whirlwind)

As we all know, Anne Rice began writing the Vampire Chronicles in a crucial moment of her life, and ‘Interview with the Vampire’ was published right at the pinnacle of the gay rights movement and before the terrible AIDS epidemic.

(Quote from ‘Prism of the night: A biography of Anne Rice’)

As Anne continued writing the Chronicles the themes morphed and, in her words, she accessed the subconscious to bring to life the characters and storylines we all love.

(Quote from ‘The Vampire Companion’)

It was only after trying different narratives and themes (‘The Sleeping Beauty Quartet’, ‘Cry to Heaven’, ‘Exit to Eden’, ‘Belinda’) that Anne got to a point in her life where loss and grief struck her again, both in her personal and professional life. In less than a year two of her editors and friends died, one of them out of complications of AIDS.

(Quote from ‘Prism of the night: A biography of Anne Rice’)

And it was then, in the midst of her grief, that she once again found the inspiration to write. She began her journey into crafting her most ambitious Vampire Chronicles book: ‘The Queen of the Damned’.

(Quote from ‘Prism of the night: A biography of Anne Rice’)

And even if the themes of this book might seem universal and wide, Anne was conscious that her own personal experiences shaped certain aspects of the narrative.

Anne never really tied the AIDS crisis with Daniel’s character arc in ‘QotD’. She wanted to explore the theme of addiction and obsession through Daniel and Armand, and she linked Daniel’s addiction to drinking blood to his addiction to drinking alcohol. Daniel ultimately wasted away through the bottle (an addiction Anne knew intimately), until Armand turned him into a vampire.

(Quote from ‘The Vampire Companion’)

But one has to wonder what Anne unconsciously worked into Daniel, especially when the grief and loss she had experienced prior to writing ‘Queen of the Damned’ started with the deaths of two of her editors, one of them dying of AIDS.

The violence present in 'QotD’ through Akasha’s male-directed massacres speak loudly of Anne’s own experiences.

(Quote from ‘Prism of the night: A biography of Anne Rice’)

Long story short, Anne never linked Daniel’s casual sexual encounters (through Armand) with his death, nor did she consciously work the AIDS crisis into Daniel’s story.

Funnily enough, the only time Anne linked her experience of AIDS with her work was while talking about ‘The Witching Hour’, which she began writing right after ‘Queen of the Damned’.

(Quote from the article ‘Remembering 'Vampire Chronicles’ author Anne Rice’)

And only this year (2023), Christopher Rice referenced his late mother’s “inspiration” for ‘Violin’, and the autobiographical tones in relation to her experience with AIDS. Anne wrote 'Violin’ almost a decade after writing 'Queen of the Damned’, after losing another friend, John Preston, to AIDS.

(Quote from Anne Rice’s facebook page)

The answer to the question remains in the negative. Consciously, Anne never put Daniel in the path of the AIDS crisis. Whether unconsciously she wove AIDS into Daniel’s obsession and downfall through the Blood will always remain a mystery (or at least, an unverified statement).

this-writer-needs-coffee:

Daniel in the den I guess. Or: my first real attempt at doing a digital portrait. At least leave him some water, Armand, you treat him like I accidentally treat my pot plants!🪴

elendruil-deactivated20230226:

le-cabinet-du-garei:

I had so much fun xD thank youuuu

rijinks:

[The Vampire Chronicles / Interview with the Vampire] Two versions of Armand/Daniel: book version (specifically The Queen of the Damned) & the current AMC television version.

BONUS 1994 film version under the cut:

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mademoisellebianx:

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loo-nuh-tik:

Never heard of him. 

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cloudsofbespin:

Girl, what kind of interview is this?
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