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annabellioncourt:

vampchronfic:

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redversaillesrose:

ok most of you probably know about this already

But the thing is that I can’t help but imagining Louis telling his story to Daniel right and then Lestat just storms in and just goes 

“Heard you were talking shit.”

Louis what’s good?!

mo

I’M GOING TO SIT HERE AND SCREAM FOREVER

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kotilae:

Oops.

♛AND COMPLETE FABRICATIONS OF REALITY in your miserable memoir, par example: my weeping in a scene which we both know did not take place!

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nightling13
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Absolutely agreed.   I first read the first four Vampire Chronicles back in the 90s when I was fourteen and I knew then that the one more likely to lie to the reader, perhaps to protect his own ego, would be Lestat.  As much as I love him he does have an ego and that was a pretty miserable condition he was in.  He admitted he was in that condition yet denied the conversation.  It seems more likely that it did happen than that it didn’t.

Yep, I think it did happen, and Lestat’s ego couldn’t handle it. 

Did Louis actually visit Lestat in IWTV when Lestat went back to New Orleans to rot in his house? Because Lestat didn’t mention that Louis had visited him in “The vampire lestat”. Lestat only said that Armand visited him and that he knew that Louis was in New Orleans. Thanks for clearing up :)

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Ooooh good question! In IWTV, Louis says that he did visit Lestat (and it was in the movie). 

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We actually don’t know if it happened :-

  1. book!IWTV has Louis following a young vampire to Lestat’s door.
  2. 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!”