Quite possibly!
Lestat’s Mind Gift at that time was more for when he was directly interacting with the person, but in TVL he could call a horse to him from a distance with it.
I don’t know if Lestat’s Mind Gift was ever as fine-tuned as Armand’s, tho, in the sense of bending someone’s will as far as Armand could bend it. Armand used his Mind Gift to manipulate Louis into making a vampire, which was the last thing Louis ever wanted to do!
George, Sr.: I don’t have time for your magic tricks.
G.O.B.: Illusions, Dad. You don’t have time for my illusions.Episode 1×01 “Pilot”
^It’s CANON!
To hone your psychic powers for blocking out vampires, it takes a considerable period of time devoted to practice and a strengthening of your personal gifts. Also, the success rate depends entirely upon the vampire in question. Many have never honed their own psychic powers and are only able to read surface thoughts of humans. A vampire who has mastered their abilities (Armand, as an example, is a master of those gifts) would be considerably more difficult to keep out.
Your mind is only as open as you permit it to be. It has been described in the Chronicles how vampires keep their thoughts obscured from others. Images, a closed door, or sounds and sensations intended to confuse the intruding mind. My own psychic gifts were formidable enough towards the end of my mortal life that I was able to pick up on the thoughts of vampires and mask my own from them. I’d had a lifetime of practice.
My preferred imagery is that of a jungle when I must guard my thoughts without much notice — like in an emergency. I scatter my thoughts throughout it like drops of rain. By the time they have made any progress in their trek to find them, I am usually gone and beyond their lasting mental reach. My standard imagery is a library. In that defensible mental place, I keep my thoughts and memories in the pages of the books, and a countless number of blank ones as handy camouflage.
If you want to be successful, then you should work upon your own method. Use things that are so familiar to you in your physical world that they’d be mentally easy to grasp. Music or radio static are simple things because they require no imagery. Those two are rudimentary skills that are taught for those first learning their gifts in the Talamasca. Or basic visual images. A closed door, a locked gate. Literal things.
Work on strengthening those blocks in your mind and keeping out a vampire will become easy over time.
Because I happen to think my FC is the perfect Lestat. I’m biased, obviously, but I figured you could use some more fodder to tempt you to the dark side~
Received. YES. These are good 😀 Now i gotta watch some of his repertoire. That last one made me do this…
maestrolestat’s vc casting for Lestat
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