xxhellonursexx:

Won’t you indulge a dream of mine? It’s Lestat and Louis reuniting at the end of “The Vampire Lestat,” but it’s Tom and Brad. There’s even some scuffed subtitles like it’s a movie or something. 

xxhellonursexx:

from the aftermath of Louis’ near-suicide in “Merrick,” when Lestat, several hours after successfully resuscitating Louis, asks him what he saw as the sun rose and burned him. This is part of Louis’ tearful reply. 

The chapter cuts off abruptly after the quote and does not explicitly state that Lestat hugged him, but, like, what the fuck else would you do if Louis were crying? 

xxhellonursexx:

from “The Tale of the Body Thief.”

If there was ever a time when I’d cheer on a lightening bolt hitting Lestat in the taint, it’s during this book–and this scene in particular. 

xxhellonursexx:

Lestat dances with Louis in the final chapter of “Blood Communion,” which is likely their final canonical interaction with each other. 

I like to “headcanon” that Lestat’s proposal (see my previous post) occurs within a year or two after this. 

saint-molochaii-deactivated2022:

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

xxhellonursexx:

A distraught Lestat rescues Louis from his suicide attempt by helping him drink his powerful blood. Slowly but surely, Louis’ charred flesh is healed and his burnt clothes fall away, leaving him nude and covered in a thin film of blood, but otherwise restored. 

Lestat is not described as crying, per se, but the text in “Merrick” describes his voice as being “hoarse” and “sore,” and he is clearly distraught by the possibility that he could inadvertently resurrect a disfigured, demented version of Louis, whom he would then be forced to destroy. 

Lestat reflects back on this event in later books as a moment that “broke his heart.” 

xxhellonursexx:

Here’s a new pic for you to cry at. 

In all seriousness, though, this is from a rather sweet observation from Lestat about Louis in “Realms of Atlantis,” regarding Louis being there for Lestat as he struggled with grief regarding the uncertain fate of Amel. 

xxhellonursexx:

In the final pages of “Prince Lestat,” Louis sits under a tree at Trinity Gate, reflecting on his own words to Daniel Molloy in his own memoir, “Interview with the Vampire.”

This portion of the book also has a passage about Louis that I have, in many ways, never recovered from:

“His heart broke for all the victims everywhere of blood lust, and war, and accident, and old age, and illness, and unendurable pain.

But his heart broke a little for once for himself too.

And perhaps that was the real change in him, the change that he welcomed–that he could see himself as part now of all this great and glistening world. He was not part of some mindless force that sought to destroy it. No, he was part of it.”

xxhellonursexx:

This is a “fill-in-the-blanks” moment from me, which is supposed to take place sometime after Louis’ rescue and return to court in “Blood Communion.” Lestat, who has been forced by the recent crisis to swallow his emotions and soldier on, is suddenly overwhelmed by them. 

xxhellonursexx:

Is Fandom Hell still a thing? Well, just in case, here’s something from my “Classic Loustat” file: Lestat and Louis reuniting in the 1980s.

(Based directly off an earlier illustration of mine–I wanted to show them kissing this time!)