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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.