viaticumforthemarquise:

No, this is a rumour, one that even I have perpetuated from time to time. 

I wish he was. I wish he did not have the blood of my husband running through his veins. 

But he does. And this is evident when he falls prey to his passions, his rages, his uncontrollable temper. All of the horrors my son is capable of come almost completely from the cruelties he learned and inherited at the feet of his father. 

This is not to say that I myself am not capable of great cruelty, merely that my cruelties do not live in the spotlight of Lestat’s memory in quite the same way that his father’s do.