2017. Somewhere. It’s a late September Evening and days are finally getting shorter. Yes, Lestat is wearing a blue pair of velvet pants. Slim Fit. Louis is trying to not think about how troubled he is by this “l’homme moderne”.
[The vampires in the theatre] can’t reflect anything. But you do. You reflect……its broken heart. A vampire with a human soul. An immortal with a mortal’s passion. You… …are… …beautiful, my friend.
So I tried to do something… It’s supposed to be Claudia and Louis, but Louis looks like Steve Harrington from Stranger things because I used Harry Styles’ hair for it and… That came out. They don’t even look like vampires, but I’m practicing.
Also they don’t have face because I suck at drawing faces. So I guess I have to finish it sometime.
Please don’t judge, I usually draw people like the second picture ( human scale for architecture :v ) and I use a picture of some random dude with a baby so I cheated. (?
Pd: I did try to draw the face, but they scared me.
Louis feasting on a succulent rat while looking like the saddest vampire in all the world
I like this as an Aesthetic post and will reblog separately w/o commentary but you hit one of my #vampire physiology buttons, so let me add:
I gotta redo the math on how many rats Louis would have had to consume on a nightly basis. I did it once or twice and it was ridiculous. Bc if you calculate:
I) People blood needed for a fledgling vampire:
I can’t remember where it’s mentioned in TVL, but I’m p sure that Lestat killed 3 ppl/night (full grown adult humans) as a fledgling*, and that’s 1.2 to 1.5 gallons of blood per person.**
So that’s 1.35 gallons x 3 = 4.05 gallons of blood. PER NIGHT.
LIKE. I don’t think Louis was chomping on over 300 rats per night, which leads me to conclude that:
I am a lazy potato, I don’t think I could even unwrap and eat 300 candybars in one sitting, even if they were in a big pile right next to me on the couch and I had the stomach capacity for it. He had to chase each one of these things down and bite them individually, they’re not capri-sun packs (tho, those still take the effort of pushing a straw into),
So he probably didn’t want to do that 300 times a night,
So he probably didn’t actually get the volume he required on a nightly basis,
If you cut it down by half, like 150 rats, he had to have been killing SOME larger animals like dogs/cats/etc. to make up for the difference.
And that malnourishment added to the crap he was already dealing with. I’m cranky when I’m hungry. It certainly doesn’t help when you’re already under extreme duress from your daily nightly situation aside from the sustenance aspect.
ANYWAY Thank you for coming to my TedTalk on why Louis was malnourished for the first few years of his vampiring.
(Asterisked stuff under the cut.)
*1 of 2: By IWTV-era, Louis says Lestat killed 2-3 a night, a 10 yr old vampire might already need less than a fresh fledgling but *handwaves*
it’s so nebulous so idk.
“Lestat killed humans all the
time, sometimes two or three a night, sometimes more.” – IWTV
*2 of 2: Plus, consider that this might be less than for a “normal” fledgling, bc Magnus was an older vampire and *handwaves* you know, that means he himself feeds less often, so one could assume a fledgling from that vintage blood would also need less, but it’s so nebulous so idk. MEANING that Louis, being Lestat’s 3rd fledgling in less than 10 years would mean that, being of “weaker stock,” he might need more blood on a nightly basis as a fledgling.
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