Lestat totally needs someone to defend him. He’s a brat. He made such a damn mess that a woman had to climb out of the ocean and eat a brain to fix it.
Lestat: “Louis I was thinking we could be married under the sea.” Louis: “You mean by the sea, that’s very romantic-” Lestat: “Nonono, you misheard me. I said UNDER the sea.” Louis: “We will drown.” Lestat: “We are part mermaid, it’s totes cool” Louis: “We are not getting married.“
“I imagine in this moment Louis thinking “It’s not how I imagined to met my mother in law” xDD “
Some things Lestat learned from Gabrielle were good, tho, like giving really thoughtful gifts at the right time. Actually he gives gifts far more often and extravagantly than she ever could bc he became richer than she had been and also he came to associate materialism w/ ownership and love, and that giving someone things could possibly *~buy their affection~*. 60% of the time, it works all the time 😉
Gabrielle was not the worst parent. She was possibly a very introverted person further pushed into herself bc she was focused on surviving the situation she was put in. Locked in a loveless marriage in a freezing castle in the middle of nowhere. She’d lost 5 of her children, and by the time Lestat came around, I’m not surprised she didn’t give him much affection; she probably couldn’t bring herself to invest in him emotionally when the odds were so high that he would never live to adulthood ;A;
HOWEVER, on the good parenting side:
she defended him against his father and brothers,
she supported him going to school at the nearby monastery to get literate and have a better environment “with people who
believed I could be good if I wanted to be.” ;A;
she gave over her precious family heirlooms to buy him the dogs, mare, and gun that would take his hunting skillz to the next level,
which led to his ultimate triumph over the wolves…
she encouraged him to run away to Paris,
and then stayed with him for a good decade exploring the world, before she finally went off on her own.
Idk if I agree that she treated him SO badly, though she could have shown kid!Lestat a little more affection, he was starved for it. I think she did the best she could given her own personality and their environment.
why do people make shit arguments against queer representation by saying things like “the percentage of lgbt people in the population isn’t that high” well neither is the percentage of vampires but we see plenty of them in our media dont we
I-want-my-IWTV 