If Louis had gone back to France like his brother wanted, well… who knows what his life would have been like? His brother wanted him to sell “everything we owned, and use
the money to do God’s work in France.” So, would they move the women into a convent to be nuns; freeing Louis and Paul to become priests or monks? In Paris, or some other part of France?
If Louis was a priest in Paris, would he have drawn the attention of any of the vampires there? The Theatre des Vampires was set up and had been going for some 10 years by the time Lestat met Louis. Armand was there. If he met Louis as a mortal, would he have been interested in him at all? I don’t know. Part of what drew Armand to Louis was his connection to Lestat. Would Louis still be as appealing without that connection? Would he be appealing as a companion to any other vampires roaming around in France at that time?
Those are all questions to consider.
I don’t think anyone would have chosen him to vampire, if he were some French priest, probably dissatisfied with his life choices. They might have just killed him for fun, though. The TdV killed innocents and they seemed to really enjoy killing the beautiful ppl, and he still would have been attractive enough for that.
As to Louis having a different maker, that’s why I couldn’t answer this ask sooner. It’s too big a question for me!
Physically, he probably would have been better off. He was Lestat’s 3rd in about a decade (and Lestat himself was still very young!), contributing to his ‘weakness’ as a vampire, and lack of some of the vampiric gifts that others can get when they’re turned.
But I think no matter who turned him, or how strong he was, he would still struggle with the whole killing people issue. Marius might have helped guide him into it more slowly. As problematic as Marius became later, in earlier canon we knew him as a mentor figure, and if he had just been that, with no Amadeo situation, he might have been a good maker for Louis.
I’ll open it up to everyone else bc it’s just too big a question: Who would have made a better maker for Louis, and why?
has anyone written the incredibly ridiculous coffeshop AU premise for Louis and Lestat yet? Like, is there a Vamp Chron Coffee Shop AU?
are they all human for this?
Like for some reason Louis is the moody neighborhood barista introvert and he probably doesn’t NEED to work the counter, probably he OWNS the damn coffee shop because his family is loaded but he just wanted a quiet place to read and an excuse to buy an industrial latte machine, but NOW he has a damn coffee shop and this OBNOXIOUS, utterly obnoxious customer who is also very blond comes in near closing all the goddamn time, and Louis hates this guy’s guts, like, so hard, and Obnoxious Blond is always trying to flirt and god he isn’t even that funny and he probably doesn’t even KNOW HOW TO READ. Louis hates him. So much. So, so much. Louis hates him and his stupid pretty eyes. Why does he come here? WHY WON’T HE LEAVE?
And then Lestat makes his move and then they make out wildly and probably break furniture, the end.
i’m cry! I love it when the fandom collabs like this *u*
has anyone written the incredibly ridiculous coffeshop AU premise for Louis and Lestat yet? Like, is there a Vamp Chron Coffee Shop AU?
are they all human for this?
Like for some reason Louis is the moody neighborhood barista introvert and he probably doesn’t NEED to work the counter, probably he OWNS the damn coffee shop because his family is loaded but he just wanted a quiet place to read and an excuse to buy an industrial latte machine, but NOW he has a damn coffee shop and this OBNOXIOUS, utterly obnoxious customer who is also very blond comes in near closing all the goddamn time, and Louis hates this guy’s guts, like, so hard, and Obnoxious Blond is always trying to flirt and god he isn’t even that funny and he probably doesn’t even KNOW HOW TO READ. Louis hates him. So much. So, so much. Louis hates him and his stupid pretty eyes. Why does he come here? WHY WON’T HE LEAVE?
And then Lestat makes his move and then they make out wildly and probably break furniture, the end.
“Are you unhappy, darling?” “Oh yes, yes! Completely.”
Month before last someone on my Patreon requested Addams Family AU for the Murder Family and I love it ;w; Will is an ancient warlock full of dark and powerful magic and Hannibal is still a creepy serial killer who can’t get enough of his husband and Abigail is their daughter who keeps losing her head~ Extra points if you recognize Thing~
I’m trying to find this great graphic I saw ages ago about types of fanfic, where, say, the source text would be a continuous line, and an augmenting fanfic would be a line that takes off at at angle, or an AU would be a line separate from the canon line—does this ring a bell with anyone?
THIS. Is one of my favorite posts re: fanfic and I am so glad I found it again to reblog it here. Such accurate description of what fanfic is/seeks to achieve in its many forms. I’m sure someone out there is thinking it’s incomplete, and maybe that’s true, but I love this for what it explains anyway and so HERE IT IS.
I would add that Drabbles and Additions exist within canon, filling out interstices of the overall story.
And I also find this diagram creatively inspiring. If you’re stuck, you might find a way through by choosing a different route based on these diagrams.
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