There is so much discussion of this packed into VC that there is no simple answer, this is up to every reader to decide for every character. It fluctuates over time, too.
I headcanon that currently none of the VC vampires we’re familiar with (not including PL) believe in a God/Gods, but I would say that they’re all open to proof, should there be a higher power(s). Most, if not all of them, have a healthy respect for voo doo, witchcraft, and other supernatural practices/beliefs.
Louis was Catholic as a mortal and he did struggle w/ whether, by nature of being a creature that exists by killing ppl (in direct violation of the commandment specifically about not killing ppl) he was therefore from Satan, and Lestat didn’t give him any answers on that:
“Because, you see, though Lestat had never said anything about devils or hell to me, I believed I was damned when I went over to him, just as Judas must have believed it when he put the noose around his neck.”
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Armand doesn’t have answers for Louis either, except to say that if Louis is from Satan, then he’s from God by default, too. Armand says: “all Satan’s power comes from God and that Satan is simply God’s child, and that we are God’s children also.”). Armand goes on to give what became the monologue in movie!IWTV about God not existing:
” `Then God does not exist … you have no knowledge of His existence?’ “‘None,’ [Armand] said. ” `No knowledge!’ I said it again, unafraid of my simplicity, my miserable human pain. “ `None.’ ” `And no vampire here has discourse with God or with the devil!’ “ `No vampire that I’ve ever known,’ he said, musing, the fire dancing in his eyes. `And as far as I know today, after four hundred years, I am the oldest living vampire in the world.’
IIRC, Louis doesn’t talk about religion after that exchange, and AR doesn’t have him talk about it in later books, so we really don’t know what he thinks except that he goes on killing ppl so he must have reconciled it within himself. He and Lestat both like to hang out in churches, tho, so there’s that!
Armand and Lestat go through different phases of believing in God, and neither Lestat nor the others are really 100% sure about what he experienced in MtD (aka “Lestat Goes to Heaven and Hell for an Intense Job Interview, All He Gets Is This Crappy T-Shirt Veronica’s Veil”). But he does try to follow Marius’ example in slaying the evildoer, since they need to kill anyway.
Louis is indiscriminate, it’s whoever crosses his path, he doesn’t want the responsibility of judging someone’s goodness/badness, it’s more of a Savage Garden approach.
Claudia went to Europe looking for other vampires, but she was probably also hoping they had some magic/treatment that could make her body into an adult’s, Lestat dreams about it in TVL:
I dreamed of Louis and Claudia and that we were together. Claudia had grown miraculously into a beautiful woman, and she said, laughing, “You see this is what I came to Europe to discover, how to do this!”
♛As well you should have! That’s an appropriate uniform for my birthday, indeed *grins* Many thanks for your lovely message.
That musical has some good music, but my own music is better, and I really must get back to the studio and record some fresh tunes for my adoring fans…
Your Music is hard to attain, dearest. I, although I admit to not having tried my hardest to find it as of yet for I am not given enough hours in the day, have yet to find any of your personal work. I would love it listen to it every waking moment of my life (I would play your music at my funeral tbh) if I could, but it seems I am unable to. (@i-want-my-iwtv)
♛ The issue is that some people felt my music had explicit lyrics that might be harmful to children – really only half of the songs were, somewhat, more adult in nature – and these groups gathered together and apparently shattered many of my albums and they melted the cassettes!
Sadly, few copies exist and even I don’t know where they are! As for the master recordings, well, I would make fresh copies and sell them, but upon further reflection, they could use some remastering, so you’ll have to wait until I get around to that. I’d play my music at someone’s funeral, hell, I already put the “fun” in “funeral” as it is *smirks*
For now, listen to David Bowie, Bon Jovi, Guns ‘n Roses, Sting, and the Boss, those are several of my major influences *winks*
You know, Moon over Bourbon St. was inspired by Louis’s book? It’s true, or so I’ve been told.
♠(Louis) Mais, oui, fire burns even in humid places. Where there’s a will, there’s a way, as they say. Lestat thanks you for the birthday wishes, by the way, and we did have candles, and no one was injured. It’s insulting that people have this perception that I burn things accidentally, believe me, it’s almost never an accident. Or perhaps they are aware that’s it’s done on purpose…
It isn’t humid here year-round, but yes, we love the heat, we love the flora and fauna that love the heat, many things are different, more sultry, in the dead heat of summer. Although I do visit other places, I wouldn’t trade New Orleans as my true home for anywhere else on earth.
As for my hair and the humidity, well, even as a mortal my hair was not very affected by the elements, and it isn’t now. My sister and mother on the other hand, they were always at war with the damp air during the summer months. It was a source of great amusement for my brother and I.
♛I have and we’ve watched it together more than once. My criticisms about it are for Louis’ ears only. I will say that the actor they cast for me did a very accurate job, but I am much more attractive than he is, they could have just cast me *winks* but then all the other actors might have broken character swooning at my feet, so, it probably worked out for the best.
[//ooc: ^X dug this old gem up from the archive! I made it before I was watermarking things. BTW can u believe that’s Travis Fimmel?! from his modeling days… he could have made a great Lestat then, he’s so grizzled now, not sure if he’d want to be so pretty ever again…]
Well… your message sat in my inbox for 5 days bc this is a question every reader has to answer for themselves. It partly depends on how much canon you’ve read.
[^X“I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.” is that not canon?!]
IWTV is Louis’ account of their time in that era, and as @vraik astutely pointed out, Louis admits that he’s holding back information when he says “If I held something too close for you to ask about it, I would not bring it up in the first place.” Lestat says as much near the end of TVL, that Louis left many things out. *~Unreliable narrators!~*
And movie!IWTV had even less of what Louis says in the book, because it had to be edited for the sake of time… many scenes in the book were not in the movie. Also, it was made in the early 90′s, keep in mind that it pushed the envelope for its time re: showing any homosexuality.
tl;dr: I ship Louis/Lestat, I don’t need to define my ship as romantic, sexual, or platonic, etc. I just hardcore ship them TOGETHER.
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While they don’t “date” in canon, Louis talks about Lestat in IWTV with a lot of fascination, and later, Lestat writes about Louis with a lot of fascination, too (more, really!)… and they don’t actually kiss in canon until the 3rd book, right before Lestat’s big concert, and then they’re separated again soon after. It’s a ship that takes alot of Read Between the Lines.
Most of the vampires who are turned in canon are turned bc their makers love them so much that they can’t let their loved one be perishable any longer. Whatever Louis’ perception was of IWTV!Lestat, it seems clear to many of the fandom that Lestat chose Louis for more than his wealth and/or friendship, and that now, in later canon, the feelings between them are mutual.
io9: There’s the concept of Louis and Lestat as Claudia’s “parents,” which we see in the novel, movie and now in the graphic novel. When you know the narrative, it’s not quite the modern statement it could appear to be visually, in the adaptation. Are you okay with that as an idea for the new century?
AR: Sure! [Laughs] Sure! I never thought of it, they were the first vampire same-sex parents.
io9: I had wondered if that had been a thought on your mind before.
AR: No.
io9: That’s the way that it seems to be shown, it’s very much “she’s our daughter now.” So I can say, they’re a same-sex couple with children?
♛Merciiiii, glorious and magnificent, oui, but king of the night? There’s Jareth the Goblin King, but he is in another realm, after all… and anyway I’m sure he’d share his throne with me *smirks*
♛Thank you! Yes, I have already learned my lesson about Louis and fire… Had to be taught more than once, but it finally got through to me. He has to be supervised with all forms of candles.
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