Claudia smiled at the compliment, weighing her head to the side slightly. “Merci beacoup, cheri. I wont wear just anything you know.” Thinking to her wardrobe, for a moment she glanced off into space. “My favorite color is royal blue. All those deep colors are really beautiful. Red, purple, even gold although I like gold more for accessorize than a clothing color.”
“Of course I adore lace. You can’t go wrong with floral patterns…..then again it depends on the floral. I don’t like to over do it.” Which was funny because Claudia was the queen of ‘over doing it’, next to Lestat of course. “There are so many crazy prints out there…” She had a look on her face that was a mixture of confusion and disgust as she shook her head. “Je ne sais pas…”
“Satin, silk, cotton, velvet, cashmere.” She listed. “Wool is good for warm but I hate that rough texture.”
“I’d like to think my taste has changed at least a little bit with time. Fashion has changed so much and new things come out all the time. The things people wear now is very different from what we use to wear. Less layers, then more layers again, then less material. I can’t wear my big thick gowns in 2018, I would stand out. You have to adapt and learn to accept change. Childrens clothes are one thing…” Claudia rolled her eyes. “It’s becoming worse and worse in my opinion but I have a personal seamstress, thank god.”
“I first started to drive just a decade or so after the automobile was becoming widely accessible to the average consumer, sometime just before the 20s I believe. I never had a professional instructor as we think of them today, seeing as they were still rather new and potentially dangerous that most automobile manufacturers or sellers would volunteer a brief guidance lesson. It was odd to see the physical evidence of the world’s transition into the modern era, but the very first time I drove down an open stretch of road I was so overwhelmed with a sense of liberation that I could barely breathe. I cannot remember feeling more free than I did in that moment.
To fully answer the question, I did not get a modern driver’s license until 1957, and I did not require a teacher for that either. It was easy to read the guidebooks and memorize the rules of the road; I even went so far as to read and memorize the entire manual for my Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible. Driving a car is, understandably, much easier with enhanced eyesight and lightning fast reaction time- therefore, I’m an excellent driver by mortal standards and have no need for instruction.”
I took my meds too close to bedtime again and I need you all to know the dream I had last night involved Robin Williams becoming the new Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. Not, a character portrayed by Robin Williams, just Robin Williams as himself running around Hogwarts doing wandless magic and being as loud and big as possible because and I quote before I forget:
“Listen, children, I’m not saying all this bad shit that is happening isn’t scary and you shouldn’t be concerned–because you should!–but I’m telling you this now for free. Life is a boggart, it’s the biggest boggart of them all. You never know what it’s going to look like one moment to the next. And sometimes you just gotta laugh. It’s okay to laugh. It’s part of the grieving process. You need to grieve before you can heal. But it’s okay to laugh while you’re doing it.”
I didn’t wake up right after that, some more stuff happened in a hazy sort of way as the dream began to dissolve into conciousness, but I remember him yelling Expecto Patronum as he punched a Death Eater in the face. Because sometimes, evidently, you have to make your own happy memories.
Headcanon that Louis, despite his stuffy erudite persona, is a huge fucking nerd, and accompanies Daniel and Armand to all the midnight premieres of the new Star Wars and Marvel movies. He has Opinions on the prequels and has gotten into literal fights with Lestat over them. His favorite Avenger is Hawkeye, even though Daniel constantly bashes him for being lame. He also read Tolkien before it was cool and is lowkey salty about it but also had a crush on Orlando Bloom’s Legolas so there’s that. (Also don’t even get me started into how deep he is in the Harry Potter fandom. Like, this bitch would die for Hermione Granger okay).
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