IKR? Louis rolling his eyes in that scene is so gr9 (like is it ic or is that Brad re: Tom? lol). He’s eyerolling partly bc of the sheer cheesiness of the dialogue. It’s sort of a metaphor for dating, dudes that just want to say whatever it takes to get what they want. And Louis is having none of this farce.
Barwench: “Once you taste this, you’ll never go to another tavern again*
Lestat: “But what if I’d rather taste your lips?”
*She was an Evildoer and she was going to poison them both, hence, why he’d “never go to another tavern again.”
How many of your actually feel that Louis’ visiting Lestat at the end of IWTV and the conversation that followed actually happened? Lestat insists that it didn’t, but both him and Louis are unreliable narrators…
Personally, I think it did, however, I think Louis put in some of his own scenes within his telling of the moment to provoke Lestat. That’s why Lestat says it didn’t happen, because it didn’t fully to the extent that Louis said it did.
I actually got the Barnes and Noble edition of the first three novels of the Vampire Chronicles for Christmas, so I’ll eventually be reading back soon to see if my opinion changes or if something suggests otherwise.
Yes, I’d like to know what ppl think about this, too! Pls comment/reblog with whether this happened, or if it happened differently than reported ;D
We do still have 3 gifts outstanding, we haven’t forgotten you!
For now, I have a few extra that I made and I’ll post them for you, but they may not fit your original prompts 😛
We will be finding legit substitute Santas to fill those prompts properly if the original santas really can’t do their gifts, but the gifts will come post-NYE *hugs*
Wow, good rec, anon! Got the aesthetic down, the right amount of candles, locket w/ a girl’s face in it, torches! Angsting, damp, long-haired brunet men in period costume! And a violin too! Nice.
Ooooh good question! In IWTV, Louis says that he did visit Lestat (and it was in the movie).
We have #unreliable narrators and it’s hard to say whether it happened, or happened in a different way than described…
They do agree that Lestat was in hiding and pretty decrepit. Louis describes Lestat as being holed up in some crumbling old house some short distance away from their old Rue Royale flat, which Lestat does confirm in TVL:
“And I spent the last years of the 1800s in complete seclusion in the old Garden District a block from the Lafayette Cemetery, in the finest of my houses, slumbering beneath towering oaks.”
I answered it more in depth on this post, in which I said that I trusted Louis’ account. Lestat refusing to kill a baby would be in character for him. That Louis would invent this just whole scene to provoke Lestat out of hiding is less in character for him, but possible. He did leave a lot out, and leaving out information is lying by omission.
Your headcanon may be that it happened, and someone else’s may be that it didn’t. Even if AR says one way or the other, there are readers who will still hold onto their own headcanon. #Your headcanon may vary on this one.
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