FILED AS: #lestat likes this #lestat is all #omg I am so proud of you #even tho u are slamming me into a tree #look at you finally testing your strength!! #my son #my husband #ily SO MUCH #imma tap your beautiful head to show you how proud I am of you
To me these moments in Interview get SO HILARIOUSonce you read The Vampire Lestat, because, like, in that book you learn that Lestat is a unusually strong vampire since what, day one? He’s beating the shit out fuckin Armand when he’s basically a vampire toddler, and then flash forward to Interview and Louis is all like “omg I’m stronger than u i could beat u and u know it >:(((”, and I’m just
Louis you sweet summer child
How much it must have costed Lestat to not giggle in these moments, tho
“It’s you who need me, and if you touch but one
of the Freniere slaves, I’ll get rid of you. It will be a battle between us,
and I needn’t point out to you I have more wit to fare better in my little
finger than you in your entire frame. Do as I say.” – Louis de Pointe du Lac (Interview with the Vampire)
Louis you sweet summer child! I’m gonna injure myself worse LAUGHING than u could ever hurt me.
I can’t explain all those relationships! Even the characters involved couldn’t explain them. They’re a big ol pile of dysfunctional hipster vampires and their ships are a hot mess.
BUT I SHALL TRY. Nobody attack this please, I’m grossly over-simplifying for the sake of this one Anon’s overwhelmtion ;] #your headcanon may vary, #ship and let ship.
At their most basic:
Lestat/Louis – Murder husbands, OTP, 5ever
Lestat & Marius – not a pairing, but there’s definitely a mutual respect and caring in a paternal sorta way.
Lestat & Armand – not a pairing, but there’s definitely a mutual respect and caring in a fraternal sorta way MURDER BROS.
Lestat & Daniel – they’ve not had a lot of canon interaction but I’d bet Lestat is forever grateful that Daniel basically started the VC which eventually brought him back together with Louis. There’s fic and RP (see daniel-james-molloy) out there that would support a Lestat/Daniel BROTP, possibly an actual ship, I likes it.
Lestat/David – Post-TOBT David has had little canon interaction with Lestat in a loving fledgling/maker way. There have been one or two scenes of extreme feistiness between them, which were hot and problematic, but they seem to have reached a kind of amnesty and even care for eachother.
Armand & Marius – have a kind of amnesty between them. Marius has done some pretty insane things for Armand, with good intentions, but still.
Daniel is with Marius these days.
David is sort of a loner but he does visit with Louis, Lestat, and Jesse on occasion. They seem to be his closest friends.
I would say that the relationships change throughout the series, and that some ppl simply do not include certain books in their headcanon, which changes relationship dynamics, too. Including “present day” ship dynamics. For example, if you don’t include Prince Lestat in your VC headcanon, then Marius and Daniel have a different sort of (probably specifically and clearly) platonic relationship than they do if you DO include Prince Lestat.
For more specifics, check out VC Wiki, but there’s gonna be spoilers. Fair warning.
Sure, I may not like all of it, but honestly I love all of Anne rices work and could not , with conviction, tell someone not to read it.
So all of you peeps who are afraid to read it or put off because of the fandoms feelings in the book, just ignore all that and work to craft an opinion of your own on the book by bravely reading it yourself.
~T~h~i~s~/
TL;DR WARNING.
Before I launch into this, the title itself felt like a joke: "Oh gdi Lestat you are so obsessed with your stupid nickname, you hamburger-brained moron" but really he did not coin that phrase, and in fact he resisted it for most of the book. So let’s not blame Lestat for that bit. In fact, it is meant to follow Queen of the Damned in a very big plot point kinda way, and so the title makes perfect sense once you know that plot point.
I finally finished it after picking it up, setting it down, and repeating that procedure a number of times. There were sections that made me lose total interest for weeks. Then I’d grumble and trudge through. I knew some spoilers (bc I had asked for them!), just plot points, but I wanted to experience it as it deserved to be experienced. Even the parts that made me invent a wholly new WTF facial expression. But I laughed more than cried of second-hand embarrassment at those scenes.
I finally closed that book with the feeling that I opened it with: cautious optimism, and glad for having given it the chance. It’s revived our fandom for sure. I might even reread it soon. Is any of it really canon? Maybe. Not sure. I think some good RP and fanfic will revise some of it, fill in the missing parts, and glue it all together.
Oh, you want more? Well I’ll give you more…
Let me just say that there are several canon/fanon-worthy scenes in this book, that are not to be missed. There’s a lot of good character work with several of the characters (not ALL of them, but hey, it’s something).
There’s an intensity to the last 25% that’s worth the anguish of the parts that lost my interest. You have to slog through to get to that, though. It makes it more worthwhile, a creeping sort of anxiety in the story until that last 25% sweet spot.
There’s also a lot of good exploration of the PTSD in Lestat himself. There are times when it really feels like the Lestat from TVL or even IWTV! His brutality is still there. His gentleness is different now, worn sort of thin by too many people abusing it (*cough cough* Mona! Though she was in the right in several instances back in Blackwood Farm), but still there.
There’s a great, short, powerplay with David. There’s some great mother & son bonding (lol) with Gabrielle. Louis has a sort of change of heart. Armand is so chill you might think he’s being sarcastic. New characters are brought in (this includes old ones that we thought were long gone and are now brought back and dusted off), and lined up, they’ll surely be more developed and have roles in the next installment.
The entire vampire tribe has turned a new corner at the end.
if you haven’t seen it already, you should definitely watch “The Vintner’s Luck”. He plays a strange angel there who has a particular interest in…wine and wine maker as well.
OuO thank you! Added to my list.
Edit: atsumistress: Don’t watch the vintner’s luck – read it!!!! The film completely altered the plot and missed out the most important part! It is a fantastic story!
Heyyyy thanks for the compliments ♥u♥ You just saw the movie 2 wks ago?! omg wow you are very fresh blood for the fandom. Yummmm. Lestat has claimed another victim. If I may suggest, read the book. Let the movie be your gateway drug to the WHOLE SERIES *evil laughter*
Your murder families thing is hilarious! I love Hannibal/Lestat crossover action. Please do moar! Here’s one of mine:
The Queen of Shadows has been silent for too long; her powers have regrown and her subjects move to shift the balance. Few stand against her, and those that do aren’t exactly hero material. An unlikely group of inhumans is brought together by circumstance and find themselves drawn into the war against the shadows while struggling to deal with their own problems. Between vampire politics, lost aliens, and the struggle to blend in with humanity, they have the odds stacked. The patchwork group may be the only hope left as the Shadow Queen nears her ultimate goal…godhood.
I-want-my-IWTV 