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The Dead Leman

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The Dead Leman	comment	"The Dead Leman" ("La Morte Amoureuse"), also known in English as "Clarimonde", was written by Théophile Gautier and published in 1836 in La Chronique de Paris. It is a Short Story sitting comfortably on the border of Gothic Horror and Dark Fantasy. It is one of the earliest pieces of Vampire Fiction, which makes the titular vampire different from what would become the definition of a vampire half a century later."The Dead Leman" has been adapted twice, once as an episode of The Hunger in 1998, in which Clarimonde is reimagined as a succubus-witch hybrid, and once as an opera. Aside from what the "The Dead Leman" gave to the vampire genre, the story is also generally assumed to be one of two major sources of inspiration to "The Spider", which features a vampiric spider also named Clarimonde.
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The Dead Leman / int_125a7a4e	type	Dream Weaver
The Dead Leman / int_125a7a4e	comment	Dream Weaver: Clarimonde may be especially powerful one.
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The Dead Leman / int_170cf4b6	type	Heroes Love Dogs
The Dead Leman / int_170cf4b6	comment	Heroes Love Dogs: Romuald replaces a priest that had recently died of old age. Upon arriving at the presbytery, he's greeted by his predecessor's aged dog. Romuald pets it and it accepts him as his new master on the spot.
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The Dead Leman / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Dead Leman / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Is Clarimonde a diabolically-evil vampire delighting in the corruption of an innocent priest? Or is she a very hedonistic Friendly Neighborhood Vampire who falls in love for real with Romuald? Romuald himself is tormented for the rest of his life by this question; if the latter, he's horribly betrayed her love.
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The Dead Leman / int_27636a1	type	Hellish Horse
The Dead Leman / int_27636a1	comment	Hellish Horse:
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The Dead Leman / int_28b08686	type	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy
The Dead Leman / int_28b08686	comment	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Clarimonde wouldn't have it any other way.
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The Dead Leman / int_37c95f05	type	Asleep for Days
The Dead Leman / int_37c95f05	comment	Asleep for Days: Romuald is asleep for three days after his first visit to Clarimonde. Barbara, his housekeeper, took care of him in the meantime.
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The Dead Leman / int_3a234e46	type	Runaway Bride
The Dead Leman / int_3a234e46	comment	Runaway Bride: Invoked and played with. Romuald meets Clarimonde during his ordination and in that moment a ceremony he'd been looking forward to for years becomes a trap of which the end result will be that he can never be with her. As he continues with his vows still, he compares his situation to an unwilling bride (as well as an unwilling female novice), who despite not wanting her ceremony goes through with it because of the insurmountable social pressure. He'd prefer to run too, but even with Clarimonde's encouragement he can't pull himself out of the happenings.
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The Dead Leman / int_4dc13d51	type	Grand Romantic Gesture
The Dead Leman / int_4dc13d51	comment	Grand Romantic Gesture: The Concini Palace was a gift from Prince Concini to the courtesan Clarimonde.
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The Dead Leman / int_50727f8d	type	Death Is a Slap on the Wrist
The Dead Leman / int_50727f8d	comment	Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Clarimonde has died several times already, but that's not going to stop her.
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The Dead Leman / int_52c77876	type	Mark of the Supernatural
The Dead Leman / int_52c77876	comment	Mark of the Supernatural: Clarimonde's appearance is framed as being so. She is described as having bluish-white skin, soft blonde hair yet near-black eyebrows, and "sea-green eyes of unsustainable vivacity and brilliancy.
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The Dead Leman / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
The Dead Leman / int_68424916	comment	Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde, and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel.
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The Dead Leman / int_6a25c388	type	Mummies at the Dinner Table
The Dead Leman / int_6a25c388	comment	Mummies at the Dinner Table:
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The Dead Leman / int_6d89ad1a	type	The Ophelia
The Dead Leman / int_6d89ad1a	comment	The Ophelia: Romuald's description of the dead/dying Clarimonde ticks all the boxes. Death is just a quirk to her beauty. Her stillness lends "her an unspeakably seductive aspect of melancholy, chastity, and mental suffering." And in her Regal Ringlets spread out like a pillow are little blue flowers intertwined.
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The Dead Leman / int_8c4bafff	type	Holy Burns Evil
The Dead Leman / int_8c4bafff	comment	Holy Burns Evil:
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The Dead Leman / int_8cc2a6cf	type	Kissed Keepsake
The Dead Leman / int_8cc2a6cf	comment	Kissed Keepsake: For a short, hidden moment, Clarimonde catches Romuald's hand after he is ordained. When Romuald is back in his room, he kisses the spot that she touched. This is followed by a Madness Mantra of repeating "Clarimonde" for several hours.
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The Dead Leman / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Dead Leman / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Or The Vamp; there's arguments for either. She never actually harms anyone.
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The Dead Leman / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
The Dead Leman / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Romuald's predecessor had an elderly housekeeper, Barbara, he bequeathed all his possessions to. She'd been taking care of the presbytery until Romuald's arrival and he decides to keep her as his housekeeper so she doesn't have to move out.
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The Dead Leman / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
The Dead Leman / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: What with "The Dead Leman" preceding so many establishing works of Vampire Fiction, of course she's not going to match what a vampire has become imagined to be. Her most curious trait is that her immortality is Resurrective Immortality rather than being The Ageless. She says that every so often, she is made to leave for a world where nothing is, but that she — and she alone — can will her soul back to her body. On the other hand, Clarimonde's physical form is destroyed by holy water (for now). "The Dead Leman" may very well be the first instance of holy water being used against a vampire.
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The Dead Leman / int_a00fb5fd	type	First Love
The Dead Leman / int_a00fb5fd	comment	First Love: Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde, and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel. Though Clarimonde is very sexually experienced (through multiple lifetimes!), she claims to have never truly loved before meeting Romuald, and she certainly treats him well.
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The Dead Leman / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Dead Leman / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Overlaps with Chaste Hero before Romuald meets Clarimonde. From his youngest memories, all he ever wanted to do was serve God and therefore he'd gone off to the cloister early. As such, the only woman he'd ever had interaction with was his mother, who visited him twice a year. As he puts it himself: "I knew in a vague sort of a way that there was something called Woman, but I never permitted my thoughts to dwell on such a subject, and I lived in a state of perfect innocence." Then, of course, Clarimonde shows up and Romuald stops being either kind of no-time-for-sex-hero. It takes Sérapion banishing her with holy water for Romuald to return to the state of a Celibate Hero, if one who will never know peace again.
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The Dead Leman / int_a698ad42	type	City with No Name
The Dead Leman / int_a698ad42	comment	City with No Name: The French place names are only given by their first letter, so it's impossible to know where in France the story is supposed to take place. Venice is named in full, because it's only a place visited.
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The Dead Leman / int_acedc6c4	type	Butterfly of Death and Rebirth
The Dead Leman / int_acedc6c4	comment	Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Symbolically. In Clarimonde's chamber at the Concini Palace, there's a white rose that at her time of death only has one leaf left. When she fully passes on, the last leaf falls. Romuald compares it to a butterfly's wing and imagines that it takes along Clarimonde's soul when it floats out of the window. What with how many deaths there are between the vampire Clarimonde and her original human self, of course she'd be back.
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The Dead Leman / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
The Dead Leman / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy:
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The Dead Leman / int_c77ad743	type	Mentor Archetype
The Dead Leman / int_c77ad743	comment	Mentor Archetype: Abbé Sérapion.
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The Dead Leman / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
The Dead Leman / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: "Clarimonde" is obvious, but "La Morte Amoureuse" and "The Dead Leman" also refer to her. "La Morte Amoureuse" translates as "The Dead (Female) Lover" or "The Dead (Woman) In Love". English doesn't have a good way to translate the title with the gender-specificity intact, but it's still Clarimonde the title refers to.
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The Dead Leman / int_d1c8f2b3	type	Vampires Are Sex Gods
The Dead Leman / int_d1c8f2b3	comment	Vampires Are Sex Gods: The first time Clarimonde dies during Romuald's lifetime, it is supposedly at the end of an orgy that lasted for eight days and eight nights.
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The Dead Leman / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
The Dead Leman / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: Clarimonde is the exception, but everyone in her service whose skin color is given is dark-skinned. This is part of a pattern where other things are dark or specifically black too, such as Clarimonde's black horses or her majordomo being dressed in black, and all hinted to be demonical.
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The Dead Leman / int_e8bb3043	type	Kill It with Water
The Dead Leman / int_e8bb3043	comment	Kill It with Water:
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The Dead Leman / int_f858204b	type	Vampire Fiction
The Dead Leman / int_f858204b	comment	What with "The Dead Leman" preceding so many establishing works of Vampire Fiction, of course she's not going to match what a vampire has become imagined to be. Her most curious trait is that her immortality is Resurrective Immortality rather than being The Ageless. She says that every so often, she is made to leave for a world where nothing is, but that she — and she alone — can will her soul back to her body.
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The Dead Leman / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
The Dead Leman / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Clarimonde is described as extremely white, yet all her servants (slaves, according to Abbé Sérapion) are played up as being dark skinned.
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