Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that’s ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
i never post cosplay on here anymore BUT i am super excited ab my Lestat cosplay ohh my god (makeup will def change btw)… i also have a group with my SO as Louis and one of my closest friends as Armand !! i’ll wear Lestat to Sakuracon and we’re hopefully gonna host a panel at kumoricon
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Christopher Mason y su hija Basie son Lestat y Claudia.
Hi! So, I was reading an analysis about homosexuality in the vampire genre, and the autor talks about Lestat and Louis relationship in IWTV, and says this: “Louis and Lestat are a couple and have specific roles in a relationship. Louis is feminized, presented as passive, delicate and sensitive, and speaks about his feelings at some length. Lestat’s masculinity is strongly emphasized; the consummate hunter, he is aggressive, arrogant and unfeeling.’ ( Pt 1/2 )
The author reinforce this by adding that, when they adopted Claudia, Louis took the maternal role. What do you think? ( Pt 2/2 )
It’s not a groundbreaking concept, we often talk of mommy!Louis in fandom. If there were a “mom” in that relationship, Louis would be more of that than Lestat was! ❤
[X by @ofallingstar, but I brightened it]
#don’t you love the way Claudia snuggles in there #tucks herself in #like she’s actually Louis’ doll? #she is 80% made of that dress and those curls #how he places that little kiss on top of her head right before he shuts the lid #Right before theyll be in total darkness #just to reassure her #He is such a good mom
^my tags on that gif, bc I do love mommy!Louis ❤
(Lestat was actually Claudia’s biological maker, it’s his blood that turns her; she is technically Lestat’s fledgling, which actually makes Louis her “brother”!)
Louis was based on Anne Rice herself; Lestat was based on her husband, Stan; and Claudia on her own daughter, Michele, so you could say Louis was the “mom” bc of who he was based on. IWTV was partly about AR investigating the tragic loss of her own daughter through these characters. Louis’ separation from Claudia was not his choice; neither was AR’s from her own daughter ;A;
When you’re a Ricean vampire, gender doesn’t really matter, it definitely doesn’t matter physically in making new vampires, which is how they procreate. Post-IWTV!Lestat is much more into fashion, jewelry, and other typically “feminine-specific” stuff/activities that Louis has little or no tolerance for. Lestat is also one of the most prolific makers we know of in the series. The act of making fledglings could be compared to pregnancy, and he loves doing it, so that could make him more “feminine” than Louis, who has only made two fledglings (but both were made under duress, not 100% his choice).
Lestat and Louis both parented her in their own ways. Lestat took Claudia out and taught her to hunt, and all this other stuff he shared with her that Louis couldn’t. Hunting can be considered more “masculine.” You could label more domestic things like literature “feminine,” I guess, and that’s what Louis offered her. IWTV!Lestat was just more interested in action and less interested in introspection. Your author says that one of Louis’ feminine traits is “speaking about his feelings,” Lestat does TONS of that in later books. So if you only read IWTV, you miss out on that.
The other thing is that IWTV is Louis’ account, so yes, it paints Lestat a certain way, when Lestat was frustrated that he couldn’t reveal so many secrets that it drove a wedge between them. I feel like most of Lestat’s “masculine” behavior is just about that frustration, at having to keep his history a secret because of Marius’s threats.
As Lestat puts it in TVL, Louis’ account is somewhat accurate:
“…which for all its contradictions and terrible
misunderstandings manages to capture the atmosphere in which Claudia and Louis and I came together and stayed together for sixty-five
years…
But he adds this about Louis as a narrator:
“[Louis’] blindness to
the motives or the suffering of others was as much a part of his charm
as his soft unkempt black hair or the eternally troubled expression in
his green eyes.
So I wouldn’t say you can totally define Lestat and Louis’ gender roles in their relationship based solely on reading IWTV. But many of us, myself included, enjoy daydreaming about mommy!Louis ❤
Reblog if a relationship between a blonde and brunette has emotionally destroyed you
Omg Lestat, there is a girl in my art class who basically looks like the female version of Armand and I am totally crushing haha. Like I didn’t even know that that level of beautiful hair actually existed and she is so funny and cute, she’s so great. Sometimes it freaks me out though because I look over and see her from the back and I think I see Armand and it’s so weird.
♛Armand’s capable of being funny and cute, you should see him when he’s pulling things apart with Daniel!
Yes, that gorgeous russet hair does in fact exist. I love the excuse to touch it when I pose him in our selfies.
[^X by @sheepskeleton]
@laurasking submitted: If vampires had a TV soap opera, it would be called “All My Fledglings.”
Eheheee… and Lestat would have to be a leading character, as he is one of our more… erm… fruitful makers. He’s not at all embarrassed about it, either.
How does the fandom joke go? Every time X sound occurs, Lestat makes another fledgling? *facepalm*
Tbh I think he’s just addicted to the act of doing it at this point.
Do the VC vampires ever need to take showers or baths?
I headcanon that they are pretty clean creatures, unless they have a messy kill or a particularly adventurous night 😉
They do love all kinds of creature comforts, tho, so I’d imagine Lestat especially loves baths. Louis is like a cat and has to be dragged into any body of water! Louis
dislikes unnatural chemical scents, so he doesn’t like most scented products, unless they are legitimately natural.
Louis and Lestat are my OTP. I think they can be very romantic. However, I think that Lestat constantly ruins romantic situations. The shampoo unicorn horn will ruin the sexy candlelight bath any time.
Hey Lestat! Have you heard of Salt Bae? If you haven’t please check it out on Youtube, you won’t regret it.
♛I hadn’t heard of him before your mentioning him to me, I must say… while I don’t eat meat this man is making me salivate for it. His knifework is very impressive.
Of course I do have my own culinary techniques…
I-want-my-IWTV 