Sanguinem et Aurum-A Marius de Romanus Lover

-Marius de Romanus appreciation week -

𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟏 - 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭: 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁

🎨𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈🎨✨

When I first met Marius in TVA, he was an established, admired painter, and everything about him was connected to that role. A master of art and life. A man in love with the world around him and everything his hands could create on a blank canvas. Marius lives in art and for art; he paints out of love, out of venting, out of reflection, to connect to his emotions, to vent his passion and for his heart full of life and colors. Marius is connected to painting as all great artists are, not just a muse, but a mother, a connection that clarifies the worldview and conveys beauty and fullness of life and teaches us to love what is around us. Art as an absolute goddess, the one who shows you how beauty is never an end in itself, because you tie it to an emotion, you tie it to a certain color, you tie it to a story, tying it to a subject, you tie it to what you convey to others, because it it lays you bare, art strips you bare and leaves you alone with your emotions to give to others. Marius is an artist who goes in and out of the human world in which art lives. This marks him, because he would like to be able to give his vision of the world, but he cannot because he is immortal. His art is not for mortals. Yet Marius lives for that mortal art, craves and admires it, sometimes even feels hurt by it, because he would like to be a part of it, because he never feels equal to that grandeur that populates the lives of the great masters. Yet he paints and paints and still does, because he cannot turn away from that call, he cannot turn away from those colors from that miracle. Marius can never feel satisfied, no matter how incredibly good he is, he never feels equal to of the beauty that mere mortal lives can create. Yet when he first approached art for the first time, he knew nothing about it, was totally unaware. And here he is, instead, putting all of himself into those colors, night after night after night. In the sanctuary, he creates, full of passion, so engrossed, that he even falls! Enraptured completely, the awareness grows in him that he he can create, the sweetness and companionship offered by art to his lonely soul, is a blessing of which at first he does not feel worthy of. Yet he embraces it, cultivates it, loves it. Until he feels unable to do it justice, until he wants to see everything he creates destroyed. We see him in Prince Lestat struggle with the thought of painting in deserted places where slowly time would destroy everything.Because he does not want to be in competition with mortals, because he does not want to hurt them with that beauty that his hands create. Mortals who have only a small life to rejoice and appreciate that gift that for them is so fleeting and for him instead is eternal. Even in art Marius is connected to the passion for mortals and this gift, to be able to create and live a full life, and to be loved and admired for that gift they give to other human beings. This is forbidden to him. That mortal world full of beauty and emotions written with color and heart and soul work he can only admire. Art is intimate and deep for Marius. And he learned to cherish it and create away from that world where he was loved for that gift. He had to learn and accept, yet art is a part of him that never left him and cared for him when nothing else could. Marius is a great artist but not only because of his skill, but because of his continuous pouring of emotions into art, for his continuous appeal to it to be better.

𝔸𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕓𝕠𝕒𝕣𝕕---

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚞𝚜 𝚍𝚎 𝚁𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚜 - 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛

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"...I wanted to see what would happen, who would show up at that rock concert.I wanted to find everyone I had lost, Louis Gabrielle, and Armand and Marius, perhaps most of all Marius.That's why I did it."

My Marius 😌❤️‍🔥