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I haven’t finished the VC yet but I read this quote about Lestat and was curious about what it meant. I know it’s talking about Louis and Claudia, but who else? Quote: “One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out… And the veil will always come down between you. Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!” (TVL)

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That’s a great quote, anon, and a very good question *u*

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[^by @garama and the illustration is more appropriate than you think; they are probably slinging insults back and forth telepathically!]

This quote was actually Armand talking to Lestat about Gabrielle and Nicolas (Lestat had not even met Louis and Claudia yet), and how foolish it was for Lestat to expect either of them to actually want to stay with him. AS IF?! We as readers also add in the fact that it could apply to Louis and Claudia, since we already know that further down the line, yes, they will choose to leave their maker.

Armand’s point is that no matter carefully chosen, every fledgling will inevitably leave their maker. The quote actually begins with: “Each time the death and the awakening will ravage the mortal spirit,” and then he goes into more reasons why the fledglings and makers end up parting. Gabrielle left because she wanted something Lestat couldn’t give her. Nicolas left for a number of reasons, some variation of madness could be part of it. Armand speaks with the knowledge of seeing many fledglings made, and he might even feel like he would not have chosen to stay with his own maker forever, if he had had the choice. 

When Armand says “And the veil will always come down between you,” that’s about the fact that the telepathic connection that can exist between vampires and mortals

(vampire!Lestat could communicate telepathically with mortal!Gabrielle before she was turned)

will be lost with the Dark Gift*

Armand had it with mortal!Daniel.

It’s a deeply intimate connection and many makers and fledglings mourn its loss. 

Armand is basically saying that you can turn however many mortals into vampires you want, but due to the act of turning a new vampire, you can’t keep them as a companion. The best and most true companionship is in finding other vampires who were turned by others. There are many reasons for finding a prefabricated vampire to love, but a major one is that the telepathic connection with them will still be possible!

*At least one fic writer, @vampchronfic, has L/L finding ways to chip away and even dissolve this limitation, and it’s bound them closer together, unlike any other ship in VC.

Louis. Let me light you up with my love ♡ i will set on fire your body without using gasoline. Lestat, Louis will be mine. PD: im a fireman so, i can take louis to see houses and buildings on fire by night. I could make you happy louie. Think about it

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Louis and Lestat, how much do you guys hate twilight?

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[X] //ooc: they are refusing to answer this because they see the Twilight series as the author’s wish fulfillment

fantasy, and they don’t want to step on anyone’s feelings, but neither of them would want to go to high school for centuries, nor do they have any issues killing people now. Lestat is a little jealous of the sparkling tho, so he just wears face and/or body glitter sometimes.

Lestat and Louis, are you excited for the new movie? Honestly, I think it should be made into a tv show because they can’t possibly condense two of the books into 2 hours without making it horrible. Do you guys have anyone in mind to play yourselves?

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♛I’m excited for the new movie, Louis not as much… he doesn’t think we should be drawing more attention to ourselves, but why didn’t they just cast me? Creative license, I suppose. As for actors to play us, I’m open to anyone. I actually suggested that Louis play Nicolas, since they’re doing my story first, but he’s not so keen on the idea for whatever reason… I don’t see the issue, we could give him brown contact lenses and style his hair differently…

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[^X by @garama]

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nightislandofficial:

apparently last night at like 4:30 am i started a louis/lestat comic but i have no clue what about because i filled in zero word bubbles except a few cryptic sound effects.

going on expression, body language and my general knowledge of vampire chronicles as a series, lestat was being annoying. 

Source: nightislandofficial

I thought of something the other day. Almost everything (not really, maybe half of everything)that’s happening in the VC is because Lestat wasn’t given a choice. He says it a lot and until recently I was joking “HA, you call Louis a cry baby, but concerning the way Marius made you, you’re forever complaining.” But wait a second. It’s much more than a complaint, isn’t it? If he WAS given a choice, half of the things in VC wouldn’t have happened. All the vampires that he created wouldn’t be there.

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Your question… is it a question? I’m so confused. You say Marius is Lestat’s maker and maybe that’s a typo, or maybe you accept movie!QOTD as canon, either way, it’s not my headcanon.

Lestat gave Louis the choice to be a vampire, because when Lestat was forced by Magnus into being a vampire, that was essentially a form of rape. Lestat tells Nicolas (TVL): 

“When it was offered me I said no. I tell you I said no. With my last breath, I said no.” 

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The ramifications of rape are many and I won’t go into detail here, but it had an enormous impact on Lestat’s well-being, and in his relationships with everyone in his afterlife. 

Lestat wanted Louis to choose it, to WANT to be a vampire, he wanted it to be consensual, to spare Louis the damage of what Lestat had to deal with.

When Lestat teases Louis about his “whining,” it’s partly out of frustration; he saw in Louis a kindred spirit, and in book!IWTV he explained that killing was part of the deal, and Louis accepted the Dark Gift but then, fledgling!Louis was aghast at taking human life! In later canon, Louis’ “whining” is actually just putting up any rational resistance at Lestat’s ideas for adventure. 

VC itself was born from Lestat not having a choice when Magnus forced him into vampirism, in the sense that none of the books would have been written if Lestat had chosen NOT to become a vampire. If Lestat had died the night that Magnus kidnapped him, or been released and died later, as a mortal, he wouldn’t have turned any fledglings, Louis wouldn’t have been a vampire in the 1970s to be interviewed, Louis probably would have succeeded in killing himself over his remorse about the death of his brother… there would be no IWTV, no TVL,… 

But Armand would still have existed, as would Marius, and others who existed long before Lestat’s mortal birth. Maybe VC would have been about them.

I wore my Lestat shirt, leather jacket, and blasted the songs from your musical every second I could! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, I hope you get everything you want and more… Although, I’m sure your content with the company you keep. I wish you only the best, love ya

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lestat-hyakuya:

i-want-my-iwtv:

♛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…

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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!

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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.

Dear Lestat: I understand that certain misogynistic cretins are using the election of Donald Trump as an excuse to grab women by their privates. May I borrow your axe?

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♛An axe is a close-range weapon, would you really want to have to be that near to these repugnant animals? I wouldn’t. 

If they’ve done such things, they should be hit with the full extent of the law, and learn how to touch people appropriately by finding themselves violated in prison. That’s a far better punishment than death for them, having to learn things in such a visceral way.