I’ll get rid of you. It will be a battle between us, and I needn’t point out to you I have more wit to fare better in my little finger than you in your entire frame. Do as I say.
Louis to Lestat. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (via nodominion)
Seeeeee??? I keep telling you guys Louis is a BAMF okay, even from IWTV.
Louis loved Elsa’s “Let it go”
I mean this in the kindest way… LOUIS IS A BAD ASS MOTHERFUCKER OK so people need to let go of this singular-mopey-tortured-soul-Louis thing!
Your headcanon may vary of course, but this is my interpretation…
I still haven’t finished Prince Lestat but I know some of the spoilers. I won’t share them here except to say that I understand Louis gets a good chapter to himself. He’s in Prince Lestat and he does make the impression of someone who is comfortable in his own skin and generous in his interactions with others, so far as I’ve read.
Aside from that, Louis shook off his mortal coil as early as in IWTV. When still but a fledgling, he stood up to Lestat during the Freneire incident, “And so I physically grappled with Lestat. I held him… I held him in the dark, where he spit at me and cursed at me…” Lestat sounds like an angry cat. That must have been fun. NOT.
He helped Claudia escape from Lestat. He burned down the Theatre des Vampires in revenge for Claudia. Etc.
In my favorite fanfic and RP threads, Louis is a BAMF. He doesn’t let anyone step on his toes, and he enjoys time to himself, but he’s not merely a hermit the sum of his library. He’s protective and nurturing of Lestat (and others) in physical AND emotional ways, which are reciprocated in kind.
Louis is at odds with everything. He always has been. Even in his darkest, saddest moments, there was the little flame of his ego and will to survive. It’s one of his most endearing qualities.
I think it’s this ego and indomitable nature that draw Lestat – and others – back to him again and again. Also, Louis is very pretty ❤
‘Are you afraid of me, Louis?’ he shouted. ‘Are you afraid? The child’s alive, Louis, you left her breathing. Shall I go back and make her a vampire? We could use her, Louis, and think of all the pretty dresses we could buy for her. Louis, wait, Louis! I’ll go back for her if you say!’ And so he ran after me all the way back to the hotel, all the way across the rooftops, where I hoped to lose him, until I leaped in the window of the parlor and turned in rage and slammed the window shut. He hit it, arms outstretched, like a bird who seeks to fly through glass, and shook the frame. I was utterly out of my mind.
ooc; Never forget that time Louis and Lestat got into a fight where Lestat chased Louis across the whole fucking city and then Lestat hit a window like a bird (via merciful-death)
#NEVER FORGET #ITS CANON BITCH
Haters gonna hate, so we gotta support eachother!
“… two wet shriveled things that had been alive, mother and daughter in one another’s arms, the murdered pair on the kitchen floor. But these two lying under the gentle rain were Madeleine and Claudia, … the hand that clutched at the child was whole like a mummy’s hand. But the child, the ancient one, my Claudia, was ashes.”
– Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire
I remember when I first saw the movie this scene destroyed me. It blew me away to be honest, first, out of sympathy for the character’s loss and also for just how perfectly this one moment, Louis’ expression of grief and compassion for these two people he’s just lost, encapsulated his character.
^This commentary is BEAUTIFUL go read it. ;A; It’s probably the ideas there that drew Brad Pitt to the role, and unfortunately, alot of Louis’s internal turmoil didn’t make it into the movie.
“[Louis] doesn’t hide away or back down, but transforms that grief into a single minded, eerily calm wrath that razes the theatre and its inhabitants to the ground. (That look he gives Santiago after this moment… He doesn’t say anything, he doesn’t need to, you just know immediately, “shit’s about to go down.” and it’s all the more chilling because it’s a startling shift from Louis’ introspective empathy to something much more raw and brutal.)
I’ve never understood how anyone can dismiss him as the whiner, simply because of Lestat’s comment at the end of the movie. I took that line the way friends will dig at each other, slinging transparent insults without really meaning it.”
- You choose to ignore any complaints from said fledglings.
- You do not listen to opinions other than your own.
- You’ve let your fear of solitude push said fledglings away.
- You did not give David a choice as to of whether he would become your fledgling or not.
- When you have a crisis, you simply leave.
- Rather than ever answer my questions personally, you publish the answers in books for the whole world.
- You flaunt your many relationships in said books.
- You are clingy.
- You are possessive.
- You are foolish.
- You become enraged at unfounded and hypocritical notions.
- Your dog makes messes.
- You have little thought to any of your actions.
- You have no concept of thinking before acting.
- You never keep in touch.
- You make me worry.
- You leave me wondering if you have lost your mind or perished somewhere.
- I learn via the publishing of novels that you are not, in fact, dead, but then I truly fear for your sanity when you write of “the miracle of ice cubes.”
Shall I continue?
ooc; No, not at all. I think Louis is honestly very tough. While he undeniably can be melancholy, he is and always has been a fighter, even when he himself might not have wanted to be.
There are many examples of how he’s
actually a strong independent vampire that don’t need no manvery willing to fight for himself throughout canon. His father died and he became the master of the plantation. That time he fought Lestat on the Freniere issue. When he set his own house on fire. When he kind of set Lestat on fire. When he set a whole theatre on fire. When he pretty much was like “ok bye” when Armand left him. When he basically survived those years by himself before Lestat resurfaced. When he legit never put up with Lestat’s bullshit from TVL onward. Lestat himself said that Louis acts as his conscience much of the time, and to be that conscience, Louis has to be strong.There’s a reason he’s one of the only vampires to have never went to ground.
I think, to be honest, the only person that’s capable of making him “fragile” is Claudia because he feels/felt he’s responsible for all of her sorrows and anger.
Indianaaaaa Gabrieeeeeelleeeeee!!!
Come on, I could not be the only person who made this association when I did read this fragment of the book xDDDDI imagine in this moment Louis thinking “It’s not how I imagined to met my mother in law” xDD “
One of the best scenes of that book :3
Gabrielle de Lioncourt © Anne Rice
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