(mentions of episode five from the Interview With The Vampire show, so warning for mentions of domestic violence and general violence)

I recently noticed two parallels between the show and random moments in Anne Rice books. Mind you, I’m not thinking it’s intentional right now but it did make me go Uh.

The first one is not from the Chronicles actually but from the book The Witching Hour. It’s the only explicit mention of domestic gay violence in Rice books I can remember, happening between Julien Mayfair and one of his male lovers (who was a black man):

For context, Suzette was Julien’s wife.

Mind you, this paragraph is sort of a footnote - both because Victor doesn’t appear a lot, and because Julien is so fucked up (dude makes Marius look almost normal) that the narrative doesn’t linger on it, but it did caught my attention as an example of domestic gay violence that made me think of episode five on the spot as soon as I read this part.

The other one is from Prince Lestat and The Realms of Atlantis; I had forgot until recently that there’s a bit where Lestat grabs the character Kapetria and flies around with her without her permission, for her absolute horror.

The context for this is that Kapetria was forcing his hand in doing something that could potentially get Lestat permanently killed, and she was not being very nice about it. So the whole grabbing her and taking her places is a dick move to show off his power, but even then he’s aware of her fear and how terrified she is despite not being human.

And despite being a dick move to scare her, he also is not actually being cruel to her, despite how hostile things are between them and she being virtually a stranger to him, not someone he actively loves.

I don’t think these two scenes inspired the scenes we saw on show (unless the writers are playing random patchwork with Rice’s books and being real bad about it), but I always do like noticing little parallels that make me go Uh.

And after all this time,
I wash my hands of your charade
And celebrate your fall from grace
Preserve that sad look on your face
And praise what God might manifest
Himself to beings such as us
For vengeance, that at last is mine
Come sweetly after all this time

Lestat (played by Hugh Panaro) and Armand (played by Drew Sarich) kissing during a performance of Lestat, the musical(source)

Interview With The Vampire (2022) //  Prince Lestat and The Realms of Atlantis (2016)

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Have a speed paint of Jacob Anderson as Louis <:

Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble and Threadless (I’m Wisesnail on both <; )    

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eosphoroz:

In response to this ask sent to @amc-iwtv… *spoilers ahead*

By the end of ‘Interview with the Vampire’, did Louis think Lestat was dead and Lestat think Louis was dead, too?
The answer, my sweet innocent children, is YES. And Armand was the mastermind behind it all.

↑ Quote from 'Interview with the Vampire’, Louis’ POV.

↑ Quote from 'The Vampire Lestat’, Lestat’s POV.

Are you already wishing to be an innocent and ignorant child again? Sorry.

And Louis also confirms in his reunion with Lestat in The Vampire Lestat that he thought Lestat was dead: 

So even after Louis and Armand broke up, Armand never told Louis the truth.

from tags:

#if i remember correctly tho armand tells louis and he goes to visit lestat in like?? mid 1950s?? might be mistaken

Lestat says that the whole “Louis saw him again after everything” scene actually never happened. That it was all made up. Lestat even throws out that it was made up in a fight he and Louis have in Tale of the Body Thief:

And Louis doesn’t contradict Lestat when he says it didn’t take place. 

All this was, was Anne Rice retconning what she wrote because she needed Lestat to have been asleep underground for 50+ years before the sequel’s start. His having seen Louis again in a more modern era would have contradicted that, so she retconned it.

The 1994 movie put that scene in for some reason, even though it had long been retconned at that point. 

That said, there is a moment, sometime before 1929, when Armand comes to see Lestat and lets him know that Louis is alive. However, Lestat is still very much in a broken physical state and only living on vermin, and his mental state isn’t really all there either. Plus, he knows how Armand likes to manipulate and lie, so Lestat ends up not believing him:

And then, the part I always found kinda funny was Armand telling Lestat that Louis was leaving him, Armand, and that Armand didn’t want to live anymore because of it. And Lestat tells him he should go dig himself a room in the cemetery up the street then:

Armand then goes into a whole thing about Lestat not wanting him and blah blah blah, and the subject of Louis doesn’t come up again. 

So yeah, Armand did try to tell Lestat that Louis was still alive. But Lestat was too physically and mentally broken to really believe Armand about what he was saying at the time. And Armand never told Louis at all. 

A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart (1x05)
The Thing Lay Still (1x07)

A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart (1x05) / Blood Communion (Anne Rice) / The Thing Lay Still (1x07)  

divineandmajesticinone:

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-)
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994)

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Lestat de Lioncourt 1994 // 2022

The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice) / A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart  (1x05)