What are some of your favorite Lestat facts and head canons? (Book and IWTV movie versions)

Are you the same Anon who asked me this a month ago? Why ask me when there are perfectly wonderful Lestat RPers who have full writeups about him, as well? I’ve listed them again at the end of this post.

I have alot of headcanons, and really, these are the seeds for fic/RPs. Headcanons come from canon, author interviews, and fanfic/RP. When they come from fanfic/RP, it’s ideas that fans have developed to answer the gaps left in canon, so they’re kind of preciously guarded until they are written into fic and released that way. 

Go to my headcanon accepted tag for headcanons of others that I’ve agreed with ;] but gdi you twisted my arm, so here’s a little peek into my own headcanons… in general strokes. I wouldn’t say favorites. Just ideas that are floating around, begging to be written as fic. They apply to book!Lestat more than movie!Lestat, I guess.

  • Lestat’s birthday is November 7. This is undisputed. He always acts like he couldn’t care less, but if nothing happens that night, he’s wildly offended and can sulk for weeks or more afterwards. So Louis has calendar reminders far in advance so he can arrange an appropriately decadent outing/event/gift of some kind.
  • What do you get the man who has everything and can do anything? Experiences. Everyone in Lestat’s inner circle try to set aside the norm in order to try to give him a unique thrill for his birthday. More often than not they just decide to give him what he wants in the bedroom 😉
  • Lestat knows the date that he was turned and does not celebrate it, but spends it in service to others somehow; being kept busy for that entire night is especially important. He does not like to be in France on that night. 
  • Lestat will lapse into paralysis when overcome with emotion, and Louis is the best at drawing him back out of it, with gentle touches and soothing words, or a little blood-dipped kiss, but even he usually just has to wait until Lestat resurfaces on his own. Sometimes Lestat is not himself if he’s “woken up” from it and it’s jarring to watch.
  • Lestat is a believer in Retail Therapy and has bought things immediately after or during an argument (even something as simple as a pair of shades at a gas station) in order to regain control of his emotions. It’s partly because he enjoys the whole exchange he has with the retail person.
  • Lestat had time to know his little sister, and mourned her loss, but didn’t write about it, ever, because it was too painful. She died young, she didn’t have enough hand-eye coordination developed yet to learn to hunt with him, but he wanted that for her so badly, and Gabrielle would have allowed it. 
  • Lestat has a recent foot fetish. About his own feet. He can spend hours in a CVS picking out nail colors and he paints his toenails himself. He has 3 shoeboxes full of colors and glitters. Louis dislikes the smell, so Lestat will do it in the courtyard and wait until dry before showing off his artwork. 
  • Lestat used to paint Claudia’s little fingernails. He did all sorts of girly activities with her, since it was difficult to find any children her age to befriend her.

Lestat RPers I’ve seen and enjoy watching (in no special order): askthebratprinceeternallyfabulousbratlestatmonsieur-le-rockstarmaestrolestatgorgeous-fiendprincelestatprimusduxasavagegardenindeedlestattheonetruepope, mortcharmant

I’m also tagging viaticumforthemarquise, who, as his mother, has her own headcanons about her son. 

And merciful-death, who, as his #1 bitch, has his own headcanons about his maker.

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Louis memeything by i-want-my-iwtv, Lestat memeything by eternallyfabulousbratlestat [X], inspired by viaticumforthemarquise’s post here.

{{WHERE DO YOU GET ALL OF YOUR PICTURES FROM?! I need more of Lestat… -.-}}

WE ALL NEED MORE OF LESTAT THERE IS NEVER ENOUGH.

*ahem* I get my pics mostly by taking my own screenshots from my DVD copy (same with my gifs), however, textsfromthevampire has a link to high-res screenshots.

My pics are so good bc I am a bit of a technical wizard *smiles haughtily* 

The production stills: I dig these up from all over the interwebs and there’s no secret to finding them, just HOURS OF SEARCHING for higher res pics. Sometimes I just put a low-res version of a VC pic from my tumblr dash into google image search and I find the better version of that pic, plus a little collection of new production stills on whatever site that better version is on.

TL;DR whatever whatever I do what I want. 

PS. I love your blog and your FC obviously (TC will always be my Lestat ngl)(aside from fanart)(I love the spectrum of Lestat fanart representations from silly to manga to realistic)

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And now I have a Star Wars gif in my VC-only blog bc of YOU

thelastvictorian:

Joining a new fandom only to discover it’s been dead for years.

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eternallyfabulousbratlestat added: #BASICALLY VC FANDOM

NO WE ARE NOT DEAD. WE ARE VERY MUCH ALIVE. MY FOLLOWERS (AND YOURS!) BEG TO DIFFER W/ U ON THAT.

WE WATCH AND WE ARE ALWAYS THERE.

eternallyfabulousbratlestat:

mariusthevampire:

eternallyfabulousbratlestat:

{{I was feeling super confident about my Lestat earlier, now I’m like, receding back into myself. My confidence is almost gone now.}}

// I ❤ you

{{*pets face* silence sempai.}}

{{I have seen lots of Lestat RPers. U are very good. Much enjoy. Don’t lose faith}}{{why am I bracketing? I are not RPer}}{{seems appropriate, like whispering in a library}}{{shhhhhh….}}

iamdarcylewis:

eternallyfabulousbratlestat:

[[can someone shorten this gif? I want to use it so often but it’s too long. it can be trimmed to right before he starts talking. I just want that annoyed look on his face at the beginning.}}

here have the same gif in three parts

I actually love how over-saturated someone made the original gif, he would be blonder, the luster of that velvet tophat is so much better, and the brighter violet outfit… #MAD DeLIONCOURT STYLE.