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In Blackwood Farm, Lestat says his name is “compounded of the first letter of each of my six older brothers’ names.” Is that true? Whose brilliant idea was that? Were you that disinterested in choosing an actual name for him?

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viaticumforthemarquise:

-sighs-

This is a falsehood. 

When he was very young, his brothers (not known for their kindness), told him this story. They made it quite clear to him that his parents, having no love left for him after six children, took the laziest route possible in naming him. 

This is, of course, an utter lie. I’ve already told the story here of Lestat’s naming—and I’ve also explained this to him many times (he tends to accept this story as a part of his own mythology, unfortunately). 

He does, from time to time, need reminding that his name, just like my love for him, was not accidental in nature. He is, and ever will be, my Lestat. Thus I named him, and thus I keep him. 

And his brothers are dead. So there’s that. 

(he tends to accept this story as a part of his own mythology, unfortunately).He picks and chooses his own mythology, for SURE.

“What an unusual name, Lestat,” she returned. “Does it have a meaning?”

“None whatsoever, Madam,” Lestat answered. “If memory serves me right, and it does less and less, the name’s compounded of the first letter of each of my six older brothers’ names, all of whom – the brothers and their names – I grew up to cheerfully and vigorously despise.”

– The vampire Lestat, Blackwood Farm

So he must have known all his brothers before they died ;A;

Discussing this with viaticumforthemarquise… maybe Augustin (or one of Lestat’s brothers) told him that just to hurt his feelings, like “YOU ARE SO WORTHLESS THAT AT BIRTH OUR PARENTS COULD ONLY MUSTER THE CREATIVITY TO TAKE A LETTER FROM EACH OF OUR NAMES” *SLAPS*

Lestat: *screaming internally*

They told him this at a young age … and he never questioned it.

Sentence Starters — The Vampire Lestat Edition

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devilsviolinist:

Send my muse one of the following and my muse will write up a starter for yours reacting to what was said. [All sentences can be found in The Vampire Lestat, by Anne Rice]

  1. “I never lie, at least not to those I don’t love.”
  2. “Oh, my darling, wish you were here!”
  3. “You will be, always and forever alone!”
  4. “You deserved everything that’s ever happened to you”
  5. “I want to go home.”
  6. “You sense my loneliness..”
  7. “I don’t deserve to be loved.”
  8. “I don’t believe in anything!”
  9. “We’re going to die and not even know.”
  10. “What did I say last night?”
  11. “You’re the mad one.”
  12. “Save your kisses for the world, little one.”
  13. “Who cares?”
  14. “I didn’t tell her…”
  15. “But, I think she knew…”
  16. “We were supposed to go down.”
  17. “It was what I wanted…”
  18. “All a misunderstanding, my love..”
  19. “It has nothing to do with goodness!”
  20. “You’re a liar, a contemptible liar”
  21. “It is petty!”
  22. “You are God’s fool, that’s what you are.”
  23. “You may have it, if you wish.”
  24. “You turned everything upside down!”
  25. “I despise you.”
  26. “But I am done with you.”
  27. “Come, my beauties, come.”
  28. “He’s made his choice.”
  29. “He didn’t know. He doesn’t know still …”
  30. “Let him go…”
  31. “But now I have to find that devil…”
  32. “He watches…”
  33. “God only knows what he will do…”
  34. “No, no, my dearest one..”
  35. “You know it was the damnedest luck.”
  36. “Devil!”
  37. “Surely you know what they’re doing.”
  38. “What can I do to make you love me?”
  39. “But take me with you.”
  40. “I don’t know how to exist here now.”
  41. “Is there nothing outside yourself you would respect?”
  42. “I might have destroyed you tonight.”
  43. “That you never could have done.”
  44. “I curse you!”
  45. “Let her be!”
  46. “Oh, but it’s always a travesty, don’t you see?”
  47. “I don’t want to hear this. It means nothing”
  48. “Don’t you see your error?”
  49. “You are a fool.”
  50. “Don’t say any more…”
  51. “You make me hate you. Is that what you want?”
  52. “Unlike her, you cannot stand to be alone.”
  53. “Who else can understand your suffering?”
  54. “What do you want? Really want?”
  55. “Don’t be a fool for the Devil, darling.”
  56. “To be godless is probably the first step to innocence..”
  57. “It’s just the card I drew.”
  58. “You better not die…”
  59. “You might actually go to hell.”
  60. “Monsieur, what’s the matter!”

Yes, you are alive and that means you can die. And everything I see when I look at you is utterly insubstantial. It is a commingling of tiny movements and indefinable colors as if you haven’t a body at all, but are a collection of heat and light. You are light itself, and what am I now?

Lestat (via jardinsalvaje)

Source: jardinsalvaje