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eosphoroz:
In response to this ask sent to @amc-iwtv⊠*spoilers ahead*
By the end of âInterview with the Vampireâ, 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.
â Quote from 'Interview with the Vampireâ, Louisâ POV.
â Quote from 'The Vampire Lestatâ, Lestatâs 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:Â
So even after Louis and Armand broke up, Armand never told Louis the truth.
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#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 âLouis saw him again after everythingâ 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 doesnât contradict Lestat when he says it didnât take place.Â
All this was, was Anne Rice retconning what she wrote because she needed Lestat to have been asleep underground for 50+ years before the sequelâs 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.Â
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 isnât 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 didnât 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 doesnât come up again.Â
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.Â
chietozier:
“Even his unusual beauty and unfailing charm were something of a secret to him. When you read his statement that I made him a vampire because I coveted his plantation house, you can write that off to modesty more easily than stupidity, I suppose. […] Read between the lines.”
craqueluring:
The Vampire Lestat (1985), Anne Rice / NBC Hannibal (2013-2015)
âIt horrified me that this food should be alive, that delicious blood should flow through these struggling arms and fingers, and then it seemed perfect that it should. He was what he was, and I was what I was, and I was going to feast upon him.â
susiephone:
i haven’t read the vampire chronicles yet but i find it hilarious how whenever you talk to a fan they’re always like “yeah it started off pretty good but some of the books just go completely off the rails” and you’re like “oh, like the one where the main centuries-old vampire chooses to deal with his existential crisis and angst by becoming a goth rockstar?” and then they’re like “no that’s one of the good ones”
knightbird:
I went straight into the second Vampire Chronicles book and got halfway through the first page before I had to put it down, go on a walk, have a sandwich, then draw this. Now I finally feel emotionally recovered enough to keep going.
I’m sure it’ll have its fair share of dark and serious content but the mood whiplash between the last page of book 1 and first page of book 2 almost killed me, jesus christ.
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Lestat and Louis through the years
I wanted to forget him, and yet it seemed I thought of him always. It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face - not as it had been the last night in the fire, but on other nights, that last evening he spent with us at home, his hand playing idly with the keys of the spinet, his head tilted to one side. A sickness rose in me more wretched than anguish when I saw what my dreams were doing. I wanted him alive! In the dark nights of eastern Europe, Lestat was the only vampire I’d found.
Interview With The Vampire (1976)
"But why, Lestat? “ he asked a little suspiciously. "Why the danger, the risk? After all, you have done it. You have come back. You’re stronger than ever. You have the old fire as if it had never been lost, and you know how precious this is, this will simply to go on. Why risk it immediately? Have you forgotten what it was like when we had the world all around us, and no one could hurt us except ourselves? ”
“Is this an offer, Louis? Have you come back to me, as lovers say?” His eyes darkened and he looked away from me.
“I’m not mocking you, Louis,” I said.
“You’ve come back to me, Lestat,” he said evenly, looking at me again. “When I heard the first whispers of you at Dracula’s Daughter, I felt something that I thought was gone forever- ” He paused. But I knew what he was talking about. He had already said it.
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
I smiled. I kissed him suddenly, thrilled by the warmth of him, the soft pliant feel of his near human skin. God, how I hated the whiteness of my fingers touching him, fingers that could have crushed him now effortlessly. I wondered if he even guessed.
There was so much I wanted to say to him, to ask him. Yet I couldn’t find the words really, or a way to begin. He had always had so many questions; and now he had his answers, more answers perhaps than he could ever have wanted; and what had this done to his soul? Stupidly I stared at him. How perfect he seemed to me as he stood there waiting with such kindness and such patience. And then, like a fool, I came out with it.
“Do you love me now?” I asked.
He smiled; oh, it was excruciating to see his face soften and brighten simultaneously when he smiled. “Yes,” he said.
The Queen of the Damned (1988)
He grew reflective again and very sad. It almost hurt me to look at him. I wanted to grab him by the shoulders and shake him, but that would only have made him furious.
“I love you,” he said softly.
I was amazed.
“You’re always looking for a way to triumph,” he continued. “You never give in. But there is no way to triumph. This is purgatory we’re in, you and I. All we can be is thankful that it isn’t actually hell."
The Tale of The Body Thief (1992)
"Come home with me,” he said. Such a human voice. So kind. “There’s time to come here and reflect. Wouldn’t you rather be home, in the Quarter, amongst our things?”
If anything in the world could have truly comforted me, he would have been the thing—with just the beguiling tilt of his narrow head or the way that he kept looking at me, protecting me obviously with a confidential calm from what he must have feared for me, and for him, and perhaps for all of us.
My old familiar gentleman friend, my tender enduring pupil, educated as truly by Victorian ways of courtesy as ever by me in the ways of being a monster.
Memnoch the Devil (1995)
“I’ll spend the next few evenings with Lestat,” Louis said quietly. “I want to read to him. He doesn’t respond but he doesn’t stop me. You’ll know where to find me when Merrick returns.”
“Does he never say anything to you?” I asked, regarding Lestat.
“Sometimes he speaks, just a little. He’ll ask for Mozart perhaps, or that I read him some old poetry. But in the main, he’s as you see him yourself, unchanged.” He paused, then looked directly at the sky. “I want to be alone with him for a few nights, I suppose, before Merrick comes back.”
His tone had a finality to it, and a sadness that touched me to the quick. He was saying farewell to Lestat, that’s what he was doing, and I knew that Lestat’s slumber was so deep and so troubled, that even such a dreadful message from Louis might not rouse him at all.
Merrick (2000)
I
stopped. I put my arm around him. I held him close to me.
“I’m Lestat,” I said in a low voice. “Your Lestat. I’m the same Lestat
you’ve always known, and no matter how I’m changed, I’m still that same
being.”
“I know,” he said warmly.
I kissed him. I pressed my lips to his and I held this kiss for a long
silent moment. And then I gave in to a silent wave of feeling, and I
took him in my arms. I held him tight against me. I felt his
unmistakable silken skin, his soft shining black hair. I heard the blood throbbing in him, and time dissolved, and it seemed I was in some old
and secret place, some warm tropical grotto we’d once shared, ours alone
in some way, with the scent of sweet olive blossoms and the whisper of
moist breeze.
“I love you,” I whispered.
In a low intimate voice, he answered: “My heart is yours.”
Prince Lestat (2014)
“Very well,” Louis said.
“What do you mean?”
He shrugged and smiled.
“I’ll come if you want me. I’ll come and I’ll stay and I’ll be your companion if you want. I don’t know why you want this or how long you’ll want it, or what it’s going to be like, being with you and watching all your antics up close, and trying to be of help and not knowing how to be of help, but I’ll come. I’m tired of fighting it; I give up; I’ll come.”
I couldn’t believe I’d heard right. I stared at him as helplessly as I had in the hallway of the townhouse when I’d first seen him, trying to grasp what he had said.
He leaned close to me, and he put his hand on my arm. “ ‘Wither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people’; and because I have no other god and never will, you shall be my god.”
Prince Lestat and The Realms of Atlantis (2016)
“When I was finally led down the stairs, Louis came with me. In the
darkened passage before my resting place, he embraced me and held tight
to me, his lips pressed to my ear. I was aware of my hands moving over
his hair, embracing his neck, drawing him ever closer, in a way I had
never done in our long years in New Orleans. We joined in the posture of
lovers, brothers, fathers with sons.
“I love you with my whole soul, and I will always love you”, he confided
to me. “You are my life. I have hated you for that and love you now so
much that you’ve been my instructor in loving. And believe me when I say
you will survive because you always have and you always will.”
I couldn’t answer. I knew I loved him more than words could say, but I couldn’t respond.”
Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (2018)
