Are any of the VC vampire religious at all? I know Louis was Catholic when he was human and even asked Armand about God when he was in France with Claudia.

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There is so much discussion of this packed into VC that there is no simple answer, this is up to every reader to decide for every character. It fluctuates over time, too.

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I headcanon that currently none of the VC vampires we’re familiar with (not including PL) believe in a God/Gods, but I would say that they’re all open to proof, should there be a higher power(s). Most, if not all of them, have a healthy respect for voo doo, witchcraft, and other supernatural practices/beliefs.

Louis was Catholic as a mortal and he did struggle w/ whether, by nature of being a creature that exists by killing ppl (in direct violation of the commandment specifically about not killing ppl) he was therefore from Satan, and Lestat didn’t give him any answers on that:

“Because, you see, though Lestat had never said anything about devils or hell to me, I believed I was damned when I went over to him, just as Judas must have believed it when he put the noose around his neck.”

Hit the jump for more, cut for length.

Armand doesn’t have answers for Louis either, except to say that if Louis is from Satan, then he’s from God by default, too. Armand says: “all Satan’s power comes from God and that Satan is simply God’s child, and that we are God’s children also.”). Armand goes on to give what became the monologue in movie!IWTV about God not existing:

” `Then God does not exist … you have no knowledge of His existence?’
“‘None,’ [Armand] said.
” `No knowledge!’ I said it again, unafraid of my simplicity, my miserable human pain.
“ `None.’
” `And no vampire here has discourse with God or with the devil!’
“ `No vampire that I’ve ever known,’ he said, musing, the fire dancing in his eyes.
`And as far as I know today, after four hundred years, I am the oldest living vampire in the world.’

IIRC, Louis doesn’t talk about religion after that exchange, and AR doesn’t have him talk about it in later books, so we really don’t know what he thinks except that he goes on killing ppl so he must have reconciled it within himself. He and Lestat both like to hang out in churches, tho, so there’s that!

Armand and Lestat go through different phases of believing in God, and neither Lestat nor the others are really 100% sure about what he experienced in MtD (aka “Lestat Goes to Heaven and Hell for an Intense Job Interview, All He Gets Is This Crappy T-Shirt Veronica’s Veil”). But he does try to follow Marius’ example in slaying the evildoer, since they need to kill anyway.

Louis is indiscriminate, it’s whoever crosses his path, he doesn’t want the responsibility of judging someone’s goodness/badness, it’s more of a Savage Garden approach.

Claudia went to Europe looking for other vampires, but she was probably also hoping they had some magic/treatment that could make her body into an adult’s, Lestat dreams about it in TVL:

I dreamed of Louis and Claudia and that we were together. Claudia had grown miraculously into a beautiful woman, and she said, laughing, “You see this is what I came to Europe to discover, how to do this!”

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owlygem:

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collectivecreaux:

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I’ve been doing it and i have like, 0 hate on my inbox :>

I came from the days that blocking meant you were a whiny idiot who can’t “take criticism” so its nice to see this. There’s nothing wrong with cleaning the junky people out of your life.

I wore my Lestat shirt, leather jacket, and blasted the songs from your musical every second I could! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, I hope you get everything you want and more… Although, I’m sure your content with the company you keep. I wish you only the best, love ya

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lestat-hyakuya:

i-want-my-iwtv:

♛As well you should have! That’s an appropriate uniform for my birthday, indeed *grins* Many thanks for your lovely message. 

That musical has some good music, but my own music is better, and I really must get back to the studio and record some fresh tunes for my adoring fans…

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Your Music is hard to attain, dearest. I, although I admit to not having tried my hardest to find it as of yet for I am not given enough hours in the day, have yet to find any of your personal work. I would love it listen to it every waking moment of my life (I would play your music at my funeral tbh) if I could, but it seems I am unable to. (@i-want-my-iwtv)

♛ The issue is that some people felt my music had explicit lyrics that might be harmful to children – really only half of the songs were, somewhat, more adult in nature – and these groups gathered together and apparently shattered many of my albums and they melted the cassettes!

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Sadly, few copies exist and even I don’t know where they are! As for the master recordings, well, I would make fresh copies and sell them, but upon further reflection, they could use some remastering, so you’ll have to wait until I get around to that. I’d play my music at someone’s funeral, hell, I already put the “fun” in “funeral” as it is *smirks*

For now, listen to David Bowie, Bon Jovi, Guns ‘n Roses, Sting, and the Boss, those are several of my major influences *winks*

You know, Moon over Bourbon St. was inspired by Louis’s book? It’s true, or so I’ve been told.

hello! i’ve been following your blog for some time and you seem deadly competent. i’m drawing a portrait of Claudia and i don’t know her eye color. every information i can find contradicts informations from other sources, and unfortunately, my books are in library. can you remember what color her eyes were? i think i am desperate :))

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Long-time follower, awww thanks *u*

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[^We barely get to see her glove in this shot, white lace/fishnet, very cool, so I ‘shopped 2 stills together to capture her hand and her expression here <3]

You know, I didn’t realize this was a question until I went into book!IWTV and started skimming w/ my *~deadly competency~* (I like that!) to answer you. 

The short answer: It looks like it’s Louis’ fault for saying her eyes are violet ONCE, just once, during IWTV. So I’d say that was a trick of the light in that scene, or smtg, bc Lestat and Jesse say Claudia’s eyes are/were blue.

They don’t specify what kind of blue, though.

I headcanon Claudia’s eyes as being blue. Specifically, I would say a light blue. Most fanartists make them varied shades of blue, but usually not dark blue, and not blue-green.

IIRC, her eye color isn’t really elaborated on, but her eyes are often described as being “liquid,” or absorbing the light in the area, so do with that information what you will. 

Here’s one of the more memorable examples of her eyes being described, but not by their color (Louis in IWTV again):

I turned around and saw in the light from the street her eyes, like two dark flames in her white face. A doll from whom someone had cruelly ripped the eyes and replaced them with a demonic fire.

^Dark flames? And blue? IDK but I’d go with that. 

Hit the jump for a few canon quotes about her eye color.

A) Blue eyes:

“ `It was something hurried,’ I said, trying now to meet her eyes. How perfectly, coldly blue they were. How earnest.

^This is Louis talking about Claudia’s eyes when he’s trying to explain what making love was like, from IWTV. 

The child moved into the light from the window as she came towards Jesse, and the light struck her blue eyes, her rounded cheeks, her soft naked little arms.

^This is Jesse talking about ghost!Claudia in QOTD, but then that’s a ghost… so idk if you count that.

I saw Claudia quite vividly… a tiny oval portrait on porcelain – golden hair, blue eyes. Something fierce and true in the expression, in spite of the saccharine colors and the oval frame.

^Lestat talking about the locket w/ Claudia’s portrait in TOBT, which he had stolen from her dead mom bc hey, you can’t take it w/ you! 

B) Violet eyes:

” `But is there no crime amongst you, no cardinal crime?’ Claudia asked. Her violet eyes seemed fixed on me, even in the mirror, as I stood with my back to her.

^Later in IWTV, Louis says her eyes are violet, but it’s only on one page, and, IIRC, Lestat never describes her eyes are violet… I can’t explain that but it seems like mistake, or it was a trick of the lighting, idk!

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listentoyousing:

So the story behind this song, is heart breaking and heart warming at the same time. Brian May, the guitarist for Queen, wrote this song for the 1991 Queen album Innuendo. The song was written about how even though Freddie Mercury was slowly dying from AIDS, he was still doing shows, writing, and making music with the band. When they were recording the song, they were worried the Freddie would not have had the strength to do the vocals, because it was getting much worse, and was bed ridden, but he recorded it, and killed it. There will be no one like Freddie Mercury. I don’t care what anyone says, Queen was and still is the best band ever to exist.

The Show Must Go On by Queen

“I’ll fucking do it, darling” he said and killed it in a single take that’s something you need to remember. This is a song that was a single continuous take for his vocals. No misses. No re-records. Not on this, not for Freddie.

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When someone tries to tell you that you have to be pale to be goth, just remember this picture.😘

Bringing this back! Someone actually stole this post (as in with my quote, I didn’t make the picture) but took the time to cut my username out and now its being shared all over facebook, ruuude~ So here is the original.:P

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