AND THEN I HAD TO KEEP LAUGHING TO KEEP MYSELF FROM CRYING.
Think of how strong Louis must be though…he doesn’t even ask or question the others, but you know that he sees and senses: he never tests his strengths, his possible powers that he’s not only gained through his age but by the fact that he was changed and has since shared blood with Lestat who has drank of the most powerful undead. He probably has abilities to match Armand or even more by this point. And he doesn’t.
He at once says that he doesn’t think he has a touch of humanity in him anymore, but his actions lead towards the belief that he clings to whatever humanness is left in him.
And out of the vampires, despite the fact he is indiscriminate in his killings, he seems the most gentle, or at least the most obviously opposed to hurting things himself outside of the need to hunt: think about his choice of weapon—fire.
Fire burns on its own, Louis has to light the match, but the violence is done by the fire, not by himself.
i told my sister the way i draw lestat’s nose looks kinda like lana del rey’s and
like seriously AU where everything is the same but Lestat became a singer in 2011 with sadcore indie pop instead of 80s rock and all the vampires were bitching about him waking up Akasha with his “weepy hipster crap”
“this is my body/this is my blood” LESTAT U CANS NOT JUST USE BIBLE TEXT AS LYRICS. It’s copyright infringement, surely.
while I don’t think an aged up Claudia would give a second thought to ravishing Louis,
YEP NO HESITATION THERE bc let’s be honest we all want to ravish Louis ok.
she’s a symbol for everything that horrifies him about himself, and I don’t think that that would exactly be grounds for amorous thoughts.
Indeed.
Sure, he loves her and cares for her,
Exhibit A:
but I think if she was an adult, it’d be a lot easier for him to see just how far mentally out there she is, how evil, how unable to understand human goodness she had grown to be.
She’s worse than Lestat about playing w/ her food, that’s for sure, and choosing to kill innocents specifically is NOT a turn-on for Louis.
ooc; Well, Louis and Claudia are very complicated, in my opinion, and one of Louis’ weaknesses IS Claudia. He loved/loves her, but that doesn’t mean he’s been unaware of how “evil” she honestly is. I feel like he’s known that very keenly since the night she “killed” Lestat. He’s well aware that in many ways, she’s used him (see: Claudia’s diary entry that Louis reads in Merrick for a full view of exactly how much Claudia used him). He just lets it happen.
But the thing with Louis is, he doesn’t care that she’s used him. He feels as though he ruined her life, and he owes her an eternal debt for all of that. Even when he wanted to be with Armand, he couldn’t detach himself from her (which, Armand thought having her out of the picture would help Louis, but as we all know, that plan didn’t go so great).
Even years later, he reads Claudia’s thoughts in her own words about how she intended to make him into her slave, but it did nothing for his loyalty to her. He still asked Merrick to raise her ghost, and he still wanted to know what he could do to alleviate Claudia’s suffering, going clear to a disregard for his own life.
While he might not have particularly amorous feelings for an adult Claudia, I think that Louis ever saying “no” to her and sticking to it is a very, very difficult thing for him.
I actually really agree with you, very well-put.
For those who missed it, I couldn’t resist doing this…
Our emissary in Venice retrieved it from a burnt-out villa on the Grand Canal. These vampires are endlessly associated with fires, by the way. It is the one weapon they can use effectively against one another. There are always fires.
