Lestat here. Last night, through this FB page, I received this question from Davetta L. Wilson. “If you could have one companion for all eternity, who would you choose? Well, Davetta, I will never face such a choice, obviously, but if I did have to choose, the companion would be Louis. My longest most enduring friendship and love affair in this world was with Louis. And though his limitations can be maddening, they can also be as inspiring to me as his virtues. Of course it might seem that Marius would be a wiser choice. After all, Marius is 2000 years old, and entered eternity with the mind of a brilliant Roman philosopher. But the best choices we make are not always the wise choices. Sometimes they are intensely emotional choices. And I’ve always had a deep Romantic respect for emotion. My love for Louis transcends wisdom. And I may need the pain as much as the consolation that an eternal relationship with Louis would involve. Thank you, Davetta, for your question. Lestat signing off.

-Anne Rice’s facebook.

vampchronfic:

YOU GUYS

Not like we didn’t know it all along, but it was a really nice thing to read first thing this morning!

^Ditto ♥u♥ 

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hyperbeeb:

armandromanus:

I want a VC movie where it’s just a two hour footage of Louis looking done with everything

A sequel which is just two hours of footage of Lestat looking super done with Louis

(My hand slipped, it’s not the 4 hrs you asked for but it’s something!)

1) Louis de Pointe du Lac: So done with everyone’s shit since 1791

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2) Lestat de Lioncourt: So done with Louis’s shit since 1791

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~~~~ And yet… it somehow works out. ~~~~

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“Maybe a relationship is just two idiots who don’t know a damn thing except the fact that they’re willing to figure it out together.”

Lestat, what was it about Louis and Nicki that made you fall in love with them? You said they were similar but (and I’m paraphrasing you here) Louis was better. What was it about Louis that made him better than Nicki? How were they similar/different? Was Louis just a replacement?

gorgeous-fiend-blog:

There is no definitive answer to what you are asking. With Nicolas it had been this intense love that came about  very quickly and rather out of the blue, now that I think about it. We were different, but the same, or so it felt at the time. I suppose I loved him for his spirit which was so like mine, crying out in rebellion.

With Louis…it was also very intense and rather out of the blue. You would not be wrong in saying I chose him largely because he reminded me of Nicolas, but he proved to be so much more than simply a shadow of a past love. Their looks and their penchant cynicism is where their similarities end.   To say that he is  better than Nicolas? Well. I’ve been “with” Louis  (on and off, of course) for the better of his immortal life  .There is nothing I do not know about him. I was with Nicki for…almost two years, if memory serves? And at the end of that he proved to me that he was not, in fact, the person I had come to love. Of course, that did not make the loss of him any easier. As you can plainly read in my autobiography, I went to ground because of his supposed death.

  Hmm, so  let me just say that Louis is different from Nicolas in that he managed to seduce me in ways I never could have imagined. At the same time, however, he has also brutalized me in ways Nicki could have never hoped to. The thing is, Anon,  I do not sit around comparing these two in my head. Perhaps in the beginning I did, but really at the very bottom of everything it is like trying to compare apples to  oranges.