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i have two approaches to canon
- So if we extrapolate from this one-off line in episode fifteen, as well as this tweet by the creator and the answers given at this comic con panel from 2014, we can infer that this character’s relationship with salad is more complex than it first appears …
- *pulls down sunglasses and points a flamethrower at the source material* Death of the author, baby.
Lestat’s birthday, the right date is 1758 or 1760?
I think his birth year is 1760 or ‘61.
Lestat turns Louis in 1791. At that time, Lestat’s been a vampire for 10 years, and he was turned when he was 20 or 21 (it’s UNCLEAR, there’s a debate about this)(even AR doesn’t remember).
So Lestat is 30 or 31 in 1791, which would make his birth year 1760 or ‘61 ;D
I got a similar ask a few months back, it’s got a little more thought on the subject. There’s a timeline in the official Vampire Companion (there is some debate about discrepancies of this book to canon, but this book was intended to be the author’s deciding word on canon facts):
Nicolas de Lenfent and Louis de Pointe du Lac.
Turns out they don’t look alike at all, who’d’ve thunk?
Look at @hedonistbyheart‘s tags LOL #in other words plz don’t cast the same damn guy #also 99% of fandom louis looks like nicki guys plz i suffer
THIS. And please guys please just read the descriptions of Louis properly in the books. HE DOES NOT HAVE LONG HAIR. His hair is relatively short, and wavy. Pleeeeease can we have more canon Louis and less Pitt!Louis and his bizarre hair.
I am 100% supportive of #in other words plz don’t cast the same damn guy. That “twin” comment from TVL was more about their personalities than physical resemblance:
I fell fatally in love with Louis, a young dark-haired bourgeois planter, graceful of speech and fastidious of manner, who seemed in his cynicism and self destructiveness the very twin of Nicolas.
Although, I’d say canon Nicki has dark and curly hair… the first time Lestat describes Nicki in TVL:
Only his hair was what it used to be, dark and very curly, and boyish looking for some reason though it was tied back with a fine bit of silk ribbon.
Re: Louis: I gotta say, I do love me some closer-to-canon depictions of Louis! All fanart of Louis is good, but yes, @wicked-felina and I have discussed this privately for longer than I’d want to admit and I am convinced that Louis has short, wavy/curly hair as shown above.
Brad’s Louis will always have a place in my heart, long and Barbie-like, almost chestnut color (I think Brad himself called it “Lion King” hair”)! I don’t remember if Louis actually has long enough hair in canon to tie back in a ribbon, and if he doesn’t, then really, shorter like this fanart here, is more canon-compliant, at least in my reading of canon.
BUT ANYWAY I wouldn’t trample on anyone’s depictions of Louis, #Your Headcanon May Vary, and all that, but it is true that we have more of Brad!Louis than not, so I encourage everyone to try their hand at a Louis with shorter hair (it will also serve the dual purpose of pissing off Lestat, so, y’know, there’s that).
I literally can’t remember but do Louis use a scythe in the book ??
Yes! Yes he does.
[X] by @sanguinivora
In the book it was just a random farm scythe. Stronger element of JUSTICE in the movie version, for Santiago to be killed by his own – and very real, not a prop – scythe.
“In a kitchen garden I saw something, something that had only been vague in my thoughts until I had my hands on it. It was a small scythe, its sharp curved blade still caked with green weeds from the last mowing. And once I’d wiped it clean and run my finger along the sharp blade, it was as if my plan came clear to me and I could move fast to my other errands…” – Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire
Give a man a match, and he’ll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
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– Louis de Pointe du Lac
I took QotD out of the shelf after x years, randomly went thru pages and then read about how Daniel and Armand were heading to Lestat’s concert wearing glorious couple look (or at least that’s the image this particular translation lead me to believe), and one point Daniel holding Armand from his belt so he wouldn’t get lost in the crowd while spacing out.
Gosh darn these vampires, these fools. I love them all. o<-<
lestat: the stars sure are beautiful tonight, mon cher.
louis: yes, they are…
lestat: you know what else is beautiful?
louis, blushing: what?
lestat: me.
Louis may never “get it” with fashion, but I’ll be damned if I’ll be seen in public with him when he’s dressed like the equivalent of mouldy American white bread when I am a divine Parisian croissant.
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