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veronicaesque:

My agony was unbearable. Never since I was a human being had I felt such mental pain. It was because all of Lestat’s words had made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed, only for that minute; and there was no question in my mind that the killing of anything less than a human being brought nothing but a vague longing…

I was turning around and around in the street, looking at the stars and thinking, Yes, it’s true. I know what he is saying is true, that when I kill there is not longing; and I can’t bear this truth, I can’t bear it.

Armand’s “Burn Book” Chapter Insults (TVA, Part 2, Chapter 16)

punkrockaryastark:

Lestat

  • “Had thrown over custom and
    respectability and any hope of court ambitions, of which he had none anyway since he
    couldn’t even read or write, and was too insulting to wait on any King or Queen, who
    became a wild blond-haired celebrity of the boulevard gutter theatricals, a lover of
    men and women, a laughing happy-go-lucky blindly ambitious self-loving genius of
    sorts.”
  • “[Louis’] cocky insolent maker”
  • “Comprising everything you could ever possibly want to know about him
    and some of us.”
  • “The most bold and disregarding dusty vagabond
    on occasion, loner, wanderer, heart-breaker and wise guy, dubbed the “Brat Prince”
    by my old Master-yes, imagine it, my Marius, yes, my Marius, who did indeed
    survive the torches of the Roman Coven-dubbed by Marius the “Brat Prince,” though
    in whose Court and by whose Divine Right and whose Royal Blood I should like to
    know.”
  • “Almost destroyed the world.”
  • “Maddening and fascinating and intolerably annoying,”
  • “So much for him.”

Louis

  • “He remained with me because he had to do it. It was the only way that he could go on
    existing, and for death he has never had the courage, and never will.”
  • “Very human,
    weak, having lived only two hundred years, unable to read minds, or to levitate, or to
    spellbind others except inadvertently, which can be hilarious, an immortal with whom
    mortals fall in love.”
  • “Easy to
    track and easy to abandon,”  

  • “Will not make others after his tragic blunders
    with vampiric children,”
  • “Dusty Louis”

Claudia

  • “Who among us is going to let me be silent on the
    matter of Claudia, the child vampire whom I am accused for all time by all of having
    destroyed?”
  • “I never loved her. I didn’t know how.”

Daniel

  • “Sometimes an intolerable nuisance,”
  • “Equipped with my powerful blood, he can contend with
    any who should be foolish enough to interrupt his plans for an evening, a month or a
    year, but he cannot contend with my continuous company, and I cannot contend with
    his.”

Gabrielle

  • “Gabrielle. She’s around now.”
  • “Everyone hates her.”
  • “Abandons [Lestat] for centuries, and somehow doesn’t
    manage to heed Lestat’s periodic and inevitable frantic cries for help, which though
    she could not receive them, being his fledgling, could certainly learn of them from
    other vampiric minds which are on fire with the news round the world when Lestat is
    in trouble.”
  • “A vampire so cunning and cold that she has forgotten what it ever meant
    to be human or in pain. Indeed, I think she forgot overnight, if she ever knew it.”
  • “Something more akin
    to a prehistoric reptile than a human.”
  • “Gabrielle, virtually useless to anyone but herself. Some night
    she’ll say something to someone, I suppose.”

Pandora

  • “I don’t know her.”
  • “Seems
    too beautiful to hurt anyone.”
  • “She seems harmless.”

Santino

  • “Silent and without apology for the credos
    he had stuffed down my throat in the year 1500 before I was sent north to Paris.” 
  • “He says nothing to anyone.”
  • “He looks at me silently
    as if we never talked together of theology and mysticism, as if he never broke my
    happiness, burnt my youth to cinders, drove my Maker into century-long
    convalescence, divided me from all comfort.”

  • “At times he looks shrewd and even hateful.”
  • “Where he actually lives, and when he will surface,
    nobody knows.”
  • “We keep a gentlemanly distance from
    one another.”

Marius

  • “It is like a glacier between us,”
  • “Neither microscopes nor
    computers shake his faith in the infinite, though his once solemn charges-Those Who
    Must Be Kept, who held such promise of redemptive meaning-have long been toppled
    from their archaic thrones.”
  • “Enough of him.”

David

  • “Assaulted by
    your closest of friends, the loving monster, the vampire who would have you as his
    fellow traveler in eternity whether or not you gave him leave,”
  • “You dress with high
    vanity”
  • “You look at me as though your
    curiosity will put me off guard, when nothing of the sort is true.”
  • “Hurt me and I’ll destroy you. I don’t care how strong you are, or what blood Lestat
    gave you. I know more than you do.”
  • “Because I show you my pain, I do not of
    necessity love you.” 

TLDR: What Armand thinks of everyone

  • Lestat: Dumb asshole that nearly killed everyone.
  • Louis: Weak and can’t do anything, bless his heart.
  • Claudia: No one will shut up about how I killed Claudia. Yeah, I mutilated her, but she needed to go.
  • Daniel: I can’t stand him anymore.
  • Gabrielle: Useless cold-hearted reptile bitch that everyone hates.
  • Pandora: Seems pretty chill and harmless?
  • Santino: Destroyed my entire life and acts as if nothing ever happened. Rude.
  • Marius: Acts so perfect, actually isn’t.
  • David: I will not hesitate to fucking annihilate you cause you’re nothing compared to me.

Now tell me Armand isn’t the saltiest vampire out of the coven….

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ganee101:

Lestat in The Vampire Lestat 

lestating:

Interview with the vampire (1994)

`I cannot make her happy, I do not make
her happy; and her unhappiness increases every day.’ This was my
chant, which I repeated like a rosary, a charm to change the facts, her
inevitable disillusionment with our quest, which left us in this limbo
where I felt her drawing away from me, dwarfing me with her
enormous need. 

– Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire

Dear Lestat, I feel like I’m never enough. Not smart enough for my parents, not good enough of a sister, my work is not nice enough for my teachers, I’m not thin enough, not beautiful enough. Even in things I really put effort into. Do you have any advice for a desperate mortal?

♛Darling, you are good enough *embraces gently* Do we criticize a rose as it begins to bloom? No! You are a work in progress. Do not give others your permission to drag you down or crush your spirit, if that’s what they’re really doing. I’ve been there, I can recog

Of course, sometimes, that’s not what they’re doing. They might actually have something valuable to offer, but when there are so many voices, or it’s the heat of the moment, it feels so unbearably stifling. I know. 

Failure is a part of life. I fail more than I succeed, even in things I’ve put an incredible amount of effort into. Some things can’t be achieved on effort alone, some can’t be achieved at all. Some require different tactics. Each failure is a chance to lay it all out and strategize, whether to keep aiming for that goal, and if so, what steps might better achieve it. Perhaps advice from others is needed, perhaps not. 

Whether these people in your life are right or wrong, I’ve always found nourishment of spirit in inspiration. Seek out that which inspires you and consume it, let it nourish you in the face of negativity. Is it music? Art? Fashion? An indulgent bubble bath with candles and a good book? Do it. 

As for your beauty:

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“How to describe what humans look like to us! … you can’t imagine what it’s like for us to look on living flesh. There are those billions of colors and tiny configurations of movement, yes, that make up a living creature on whom we concentrate.

But the radiance mingles totally with the carnal scent. Beautiful, that’s what any human being is to us, if we stop to consider it, even the old and the diseased, the downtrodden that one doesn’t really “see” in the street. They are all like that, like flowers ever in the process of opening, butterflies ever unfolding out of the cocoon.” (TVL)

You are in my thoughts, anon, and I hope you found some strength in my words. If anyone finds you less than beautiful, that is their own limited view of beauty.


//ooc; As introspective as he can be, I don’t think Lestat is necessarily the best at giving advice on this subject, and then, my own headcanon of him will vary from other Lestats. My Lestat doesn’t like to get down deeply into emotional details (which is why he didn’t address your specific examples, which I will address in an ooc post). Other Lestats are welcome to add to this, but you might want to ask them separately, too. 

Also, I’m just another blogger sharing my own experience, and I wouldn’t want to mislead you, I don’t know your situation and I am not trained in life coaching. If you are having real issues, please seek a professional, a guidance counselor or therapist, etc. 

yourtinseltinkerbell:

veronicaesque:

“Listen, keep your eyes wide,” Lestat whispered to me, his lips moving against my neck. I remember that the movement of his lips […] sent a shock of sensation through my body that was not unlike the pleasure of passion.

A dull roar at first and then a pounding like the pounding of a drum, growing louder and louder […] until it seemed to fill not just my hearing but all my senses, to be throbbing my lips and fingers, in the flesh of my temples, in my veins. Above all, in my veins […].