I don’t know who this guy is, we can’t even see his whole face in the picture, but this is it. This is my Lestat. He has the hair and the mouth, but mostly the hair.
YES, very good Lestat hair. And body and face, from what we can see. We have a mortal!Lestat, or freshly sunburned!Lestat here.
But of course we need to see more.
According to my googling this is Michał Darowski. But the bone structure doesn’t seem to match up 😦
Can anyone figure out who this is so we can see if there’s more than that gorgeous blond mane?
Omg, I cannot! ;A; I didn’t read the HP books, only saw some of the movies, so I’ll turn this over to more qualified ppl.
^I do think Claudia would end up in the same house as Lestat, continuing the tradition like the Malfoy line does, but I could be wrong on that. The sorting hat would be taking a LONG time w/ Claudia, tho.
Anyone is invited to sort our beloved characters! Do the thing (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧
You’re remembering it correctly, Louis didn’t really test his own powers in IWTV in the way that you’re describing bc he was too busy existential angsting :[
He doesn’t seem to have gotten any substantial powers anyway, being Lestat’s 3rd fledgling and made such a short period of time after Lestat’s 2nd fledgling. There is also some speculation that the blood transfer needs to be exchanged more than once (how it was done w/ Louis) to ensure a stronger fledgling. Marius, for example, exchanged blood with his maker multiple times when he was turned.
A maker needs to wait a good long while between making fledglings; too much frequency will make subsequent fledglings weaker than they could have been. Plus, even though Lestat had the blood of a much older and stronger vampire when he was turned, Lestat himself was only a decade into vampiring himself. It seems the vampiric spirit discourages the transfer of powers from young vampires to their fledglings.
Armand did coerce Louis into climbing up a building once, tho!
“`Listen to me; we are going to climb to the tower,’
Armand was saying.“
`I cannot . . it’s impossible … I-‘
‘You don’t begin to know your own powers. You can climb easily. Remember, if you fall you will not be injured. Do as I do.’ ”
And he did climb it, but he didn’t seem all that thrilled about doing so.
Lestat tells us in TVL:
“I never revealed to
him half my powers, and with reason, because he shrank in guilt and
self-loathing from using even half of his own.”
Louis says to Armand in IWTV:
“I don’t see our
life as powers and gifts. I see it as a curse. I haven’t the courage to die.”
In later canon, we still don’t see Louis testing his powers, but it’s fanon that he has some and seems to have no interest in exploring them.
There’s fanon that his sense of smell is stronger than the other vampires, so that’s something!
More under the cut. Cut for length, also mild spoilers.
In TVL, Louis does admit he felt something when Akasha was in the neighborhood, so either he was sensing Akasha or sensing what other vampires were able to sense of her:
“I don’t have your powers,” he said unobtrusively, “nevertheless I felt
this thing. And I tell you it was alien, utterly uncivilized, for want of a
better word.”
Armand describes Louis’ lack of powers here in TVA:
“…unable to read minds, or to levitate, or
to spellbind others except inadvertently, which can be hilarious, an
immortal with whom mortals fall in love.”
Marius considers upgrading Louis in QOTD: but he is not authorized and you know Lestat would throw the hugest tantrum if it happened
This one was so gifted yet not gifted at the same time; [Marius] wondered if the human light would go out of
Louis’s eyes if he ever gained more power, if he ever had, for instance, a little of the blood of Marius in his
veins…
Just a little blood, and Louis might be stronger, true, but then he might lose
the human tenderness, the human wisdom that no one could give another; the gift of knowing others’
suffering with which Louis had probably been born.”
Queen of the Damned sketches, featuring Armand and Daniel Molloy making out in a cab like horny teenagers and then a zero-context sketch of Armand in a lovely disco look of 100% polyester.
neon-taco submitted: Boyd Holbrook was my Lestat visual. what do you think?
@i-want-my-iwtv replies: Oh I saw him in the Skeleton Twins! He was a hot scuba instructor w/ an accent. Australian, I think. He was good stuff. I haven’t seen him in anything else and I do need to.
I think he’s close enough in appearance. The pics you shared are from his former modeling days and he seems to have grown past the slightly feminine look he had in those shots, but I found some more anyway.
They should doll him back up like this bc YUM ;]
^Yes and Yes
^YAS and YAS
^Lestat asks Nicolas when to Do the Thing, not if.
Hit the jump for the gifs.
^good smile action!
^”Don’t fucking cry” face
^”I just thought of such a good idea let me tell you about it” face
^”It’s a GR9 IDEA C’MON” face
^”Louis I’m feeling breathless plz give me CPR” face
Making my way through the Vampire Chronicles at the minute. I needed to get the Tom Cruise vibe for Lestat out of my head! Also took a bit of licence with the hair but what’s new.
OK so I looked up this model bc of @yoonona‘s aesthetic post, and wow. Especially the first pic. With the right lighting, yep, angelic! I’m not 100% selling him for this, but just throwing the idea out there.
Emil is physically stunning and probably closer to more ppl’s headcanon for Lestat than some recent casting suggestions have offered us. Modeling does require some level of acting, and he definitely has talent, I especially love his seriousness in the bottom right pic in an outfit that… while he sells it very well… would probably look laughable on most of us mere mortals!
Acting though, we need to see him in motion with more than the variations of pouty expression above. Lestat has a huge sense of humor with a lot of ways of expressing it. I found ONE pic of Emil smiling, and idk, I need more: [X]
Found just one gif of him in motion, below the cut bc it gets really repetitive!
I normally don’t support casting models for VC characters bc there’s more to our characters than being JUST beautiful, even though they are described as angelic and devastatingly attractive. Part of what drew me to them was that they feel grounded in reality somehow, and their beauty comes more from their personalities, that’s part of why they were chosen to vampire by their makers.
In some cases, though, they really are that beautiful, and Lestat was chosen both for his physical characteristics AND his personality.
I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground. And I was asking myself, Lestat, what do you want to do now? Old rules didn’t matter to me now. I wanted to break every one of them.
In a perfect world, the casting of Lestat for the new movie is someone THIS decorative, but with the acting skills to ensure Lestat is more than a one-note spoiled brat. (Because while he’s the Brat Prince, the stupid egotistical rock star vampire has layers.)
(I’ve mentioned that Lestat is one of my favorites, right? Well I’m mentioning it again.)
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