I looooove fandom-related questions (for me or for Lestat), it’s like getting room service! ♥u♥
How many? It varies, sometimes none, usually 2-5… a question or comment really does make my day night, it’s heartwarming to see this new wave of activity in the VC fandom at all, and I’m grateful to be part of it in my own little way ❤
Personal questions, tho, idk, I always feel like, do you really want to know about me? I’m always flattered! But it still feels odd.
♛Lestat laces his fingers together, stretches his arms out forward, and hunkers down with his laptop beside Louis on a small loveseat, purposely squeezing their bodies tightly together as he does so, in order to respond to paint-it-livid’s questions (thank u!)
“Louis my love, help me answer these questions, for I do so value your perspective.”
1 – What was the last song you listened to?
Lestat says: “Peter Gabriel – My Body is a Cage”
“This is a positively haunting cover of an Arcade Fire song, and when I first heard it, it brought me immediately to tears. So I played it for Louis just now, and… nothing. No reaction! He must prefer the original version because it’s an excellent song and he should have reacted appropriately.” Lestat huffs, glances at Louis, they silently debate for some long moments whether to play the song again. Louis rolls his eyes and the song is not played again.
2 – What’s getting on your nerves right now?
Pondering this, Lestat flicks a fang. So many minor things. “Louis keeps making stacks of books and periodicals and it’s like walking around a little doll set of skyscrapers, he’s forcing me to nag him about picking up after himself.”
Louis adds: “Well, half of those stacks are actually your piano and guitar chord books, which you piled up, dearest.”
“Touché.”
3 – Most visited website?
“This is an easy one. Youtube. I can be satisfied with hours of music, and see musicals and other performances we might otherwise not be able to attend, so many travel videos during sunlight to enjoy…” Lestat trails off, a wistful look in his eye.
Louis adds: “Those are good, we do spend alot of time on that site. He also loves tutorials. Particularly the fashion and
makeup variety. And he tests the techniques on me, when I’m in the mood for it.”
“Especially the Guyliner, Louis!” Lestat elbows him, attempting to impress Louis with the slang.
“Yes, calm down, I’m aware of the term.”
4 – Do you believe in love at first sight?
They exchange a glance. “Bien sûr!” Lestat said, quite sure of himself.
Louis adds: “I never believed in it before meeting Lestat, and even then, I was so out of… not myself… that I wasn’t sure then if it was love I felt for him or just a simple desire to hold and keep him with me, for as long as possible.”
“Is that not love, my love?”
“I was under duress at the time.”
“Was some of that duress my charming self, my love?”
Louis sighs softly, a smile growing across his face. “I suppose it qualifies.”
Lestat smirks, more than a little triumphantly.
5 – Which is better: hugs or kisses?
“Oh, they both have their benefits, to be sure,” Lestat considers, snaking his arm around Louis and giving him a gentle squeeze. “They’re different forms of intimacy… hugs are more for greeting and departure…would snuggling count as a form of hugging? Because I definitely require that.”
“Snuggling is… probably considered hugging, it’s bodies held together, no?”
“Oui, that it is, very scientific of you, Dr. de Pointe du Lac.” Lestat teases, assuming a stern expression and tone before breaking into a smile.
“But kissing has a language of its own, it’s about appreciation, reverence, a deeper connection…” Lestat eyes Louis’ lips as he speaks, growing more than a little interested.
“Kissing need not only be on the mouth, you know,” Lestat says, before making a trail of light kisses starting at Louis’ ear, tracing down the jawline. Louis twists, offering more access.
Louis smiles coquettishly at Lestat, pulling him closer: “Hugs or kisses? But why not both?
Ooooh good question! In IWTV, Louis says that he did visit Lestat (and it was in the movie).
We actually don’t know if it happened :-
book!IWTV has Louis following a young vampire to Lestat’s door.
In the Tale of the Body Thief, Lestat says it never happened.
We have discrepancy in canon. Your headcanon may be that it happened, and someone else’s may be that it didn’t. With Louis’ book, was he telling his tale to try to call out Lestat? Maybe he knew that inventing a scene like this might provoke Lestat to respond. If so, it worked, Lestat wrote TVL as a response to IWTV. Also, Louis told his story to Daniel, who then had to send it to his editor(s), so maybe it was invented by someone other than Louis for whatever reason.
So who do I believe? Umm, I don’t think Louis is a liar, and I don’t think anyone invented it. Lestat has said, “I never lie, at least not to those I don’t love.” which means that he DOES lie to those he loves.
I’m going w/ Louis on this and saying that it happened as Louis described it.
1. Book!IWTV:
“Because shortly after that I saw a vampire in New Orleans, a sleek white-faced young man walking alone on the broad sidewalks of St. Charles Avenue…” (this mystery vampire kills a woman and takes her baby to a shabby old house where he meets up with another vampire) “My eyes widened as I studied this stooped and shivering vampire whose rich blond hair hung down in loose waves covering his face… I saw clearly, unmistakably, the profile of Lestat, that smooth skin now devoid of even the faintest trace of his old scars.”
BTW, it’s implied that that young vampire was one of Lestat’s own fledglings (another mystery fledgling?!):
“ `You all leave me!’ he whined now in a thin, high-pitched voice.“
(Louis taps at the window)
…” `It’s Louis! Louis!’ he said. `Let him in’ And he gestured frantically, like an invalid, for the young `nurse’ to obey. … and I could see the tears welling in his eyes…How baffling and awful it was, this smoothfaced, shimmering immortal man bent and rattled and whining like a crone.”
2. HOWEVER…
In Tale of the Body Thief, Lestat calls Louis a liar, and I think he’s referring to the whole visit scene:
“Ah, that makes you out to be a perfect liar,” I said furiously. “You described my weeping in your miserable memoir in a scene which we both know did not take place!”
Awwwww thank you! Feels good to run one of the fave VC tumblrs of a talented fanartist ❤ Part of why I started it was to get better images out there for fanartists’ reference and inspiration. It’s evolved into smtg else but I think it still inspires? In it’s own bizarre way?
remarried makes gr9 fanart, etc. and I shoulda been following way earlier, People Off the Page, go follow!
(Hah, I read gr9 as grrneeen for some odd reason, and gr8 as grate. Or grinfinity. pfffft.)
i was only on tumblr for a bit when i saw this so i liked it to come back and do this at ya o///o
So he wears white socks then? 😛 rainbow ones? no socks? Is he a man in tights? 😛
TIGHTS YES! Lestat would be totes comfy in tights, from his acting days.
IDK I bet his sock drawer is loaded with silk, glitter, toed socks, tall stripey rainbow socks, etc., all manner of which to cover up his apparent small-foot shame.
Thank Mater for bringing this up. Who else would describe a vampire’s socks and/or foot-size insecurity??
Seldom did I see my feet in black socks. I knew almost nothing personally about my feet. They looked rather small for the twenty-first century. Bad luck. But six feet was still a good height.
