LestatxLouis HC: Lestat often climbs into Louis’s coffin at night cause he still cries over Claudia. He only does so around Louis cause the memory is so strongly associated with him.

#headcanon accepted

Oh definitely! ;A; Look what you made me dooo…


Just beginning to drift off, there was a soft rapping at my coffin. “Louis?”

Movement was difficult. Rather just stay down. Pretended to sleep.

“Louis, are you awake?”

He wouldn’t let up. “Can this wait ‘till tomorrow?“ 

A brief silence, and the rustling of fabric. He was probably wringing his hands.

I rallied my strength and pushed the lid of my coffin aside a few inches. “Well, what is it?”

When I saw his face I immediately regretted my tone. Tears wobbled in his eyes, a few red trails of tears already marked his cheek. He leaned back as if to step away.

“Oh, Lestat, I’m so sorry, please, what’s wrong?” I said, opening the lid enough to sit up and reach for him. He hesitated, then knelt down, shivering a little as our hands met.

“I- I miss her. A little girl tonight… I bought her a doll… and she smiled…” He managed, shoulders folding in like a bird’s wings. I was so drained, though, the sunrise was rapidly approaching. “She had sweet little dimples just like… just like…”

“Shhh, get in, here, there’s room for you,” I tossed out a few ragged old pillows I normally used. He was shaking a little as I guided him in, and let me arrange him. I shut the lid and fell back finally as he wrapped his arms around me. “Better?” I looked deeply into his eyes.

“Better.” He nuzzled into my hair. “You smell like her.” He took a few more deep breaths.

“So do you, Lestat.” I gripped him tighter, his hair brushing my face, took in his wholesome scent, and let the darkness take us both.

@nixiey sent: Are you familiar with Kim Harrison’s books and Vampires? (She focuses on several species of mythological beings but has a unique twist of Vampirism)

Any way, was asking cause in later books they mention that in that universe Vampires could hear things that other species couldn’t and a lot of popular bands would add a “vampire track” into their recordings to give their music an extra dimension, and thought that’d be a concept that might be appealing to you and would be really cool AU where Lestat did the same thing.

…And I’d recommend her series highly, it only recently was wrapped up but her Vampires are pretty interesting if you have time to read it.


Hey Nixiey, thanks for this! I am not familiar w/ KH and I think that’s pretty brilliant in a very subtle and preternatural way. It is in VC canon somewhat, with messages directed to vampires (and not audible to mortals) over the radio in PL, but I don’t think AR specifically addressed it in QOTD, when Lestat’s rock music was being played on the radio.

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I think it would be fun to consider what messages he might have embedded into the tracks, what would Lestat want to tell the other vampires out there? What would be his message to the ones he knew? Remember that he hadn’t reunited with any of them until the night before his concert…