the-oziad replied to your post “I’ve thought a lot on the Claudia/Louis thing, and while I don’t think…”

But, we can’t cut Louis’ evil out of the conversation. His own cocktail of potent feelings for his…daughter, sister, friend, almost-lover? Whatever she was. Whatever she continues to be.

Louis’s evil is that he kills indiscriminately, which Akasha points out makes him “the most predatory of all the immortals here. You kill without regard for age or sex or will to live.” 

But yeah, back to the NOTP of Louis/Claudia, I thought it was very well-handled in the movie. Which I consider almost canon bc AR did write the screenplay and was consulted on it alot. My notes in ().

Louis: “Listen to me. Claudia is very dear to me. (pause, feeling like he needs to actually specify the relationship?) She’s my daughter.”

Armand: “Your lover.” (and he mouths this word again silently bc he’s TEH JEALOUS)

Louis: “Well my beloved. My CHILD.” (He’s being very clear here, NOT LOVER)

Armand: “You say so, you are innocent.” (Armand knows that she didn’t come out of Louis’s wrist)

Louis: “She’s in danger, isn’t she?” (Tactically changing the subject so as not to bring up Lestat). 

Truthfully she was his sister. But so is Gabrielle. Gabrielle is sort of his sister, Grandmother, and Mother-in-Law all rolled into one. WHAT A MESS.