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interview-withthevampire · 8 years ago

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this Gretchen-Lestat accidental child AU I found on an old late 90s/early 00s VC fan fiction archive with no search system had such an interesting premise until...

the rushed pacing never unfucked itself, there was little interaction scenes or building scenes, very little actual background to the OC himself (which sucked because SO MUCH PROMISE and how are you supposed to respond to an OC without building blocks?), and there was no questioning Gretchen’s honesty about his father because Gretchen was “driven mad” after Lestat left and, later, after the OC had miraculously jumped on a plane to the US with the money Lestat had buried under a tree within a couple of paragraphs, immediately jumped to the conclusion upon seeing someone read “The Vampire Lestat” at a cafe that the Lestat mentioned had to be his father (?).

And then Armand just appeared at Louis’ mousuleum where OC was being a creeper to ask, “Do you believe it now?”. Which is a) frankly bizarre because why the TITS would Armand care about any of Lestat’s offspring considering neither like each other very much unless Armand wanted to fuck shit up, and b) why is Armand in New Orleans to begin with? That’s not what he’s about, son, New Orleans isn’t his hunting grounds.

Gosh darn, why am I salty about an almost likely sixteen year old fanfiction? What is this? What does it matter, they did their best.

#Lestat De Lioncourt #lestat #gretchen #the tale of the body thief #tTotBT #gosh its just hard to DESCRIBE BC #SO MUCH COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH THAT?#it was literally a case of:#omniscient third person Gretchen gives birth to OC and has already shown signs of madness #OC raised by other nuns at compound though none of this is gone into indepth at all #(furthermore why wasnt Gretchen excommunicated for getting it on with a man???)#(and having a CHILD OUT OF WEDLOCK?)#(CATHOLICISM: INTOLERANT OF THESE TWO THINGS)#( I KNOW BC I GREW UP IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH)#FURTHERMORE AGAIN WHY WASNT OC SENT TO A CATHOLIC BOARDING SCHOOL OR SOMETHING INSTEAD OF JUST BRAZENLY RAISED IN PERU #HOW THE FUCK DID HE EVEN GET INTO THE US WITHOUT A BIRTH CERTIFICATE OR PASSPORT #continuing on from before poor gretchen was reduced to mother was mad and never spoke until she got sick and then told OC what his fathers #name was until then didnt mention like country or anything #and then within two paragraphs hes in america and is entranced by the statue of Abraham Lincoln #(gretchen died btw she was mostly regulated to that bc why have autonomy of mother character or anything hell no this is about FATHER & SON)#ngl i have like thought of gretchen lestat AU before after reading Body Thief BUT LIKE #this fic HAD SO MUCH POTENTIAL #and like grammatically and spelling wise this fic was top notch #but everything else was ????????????????????????????????????????????#post #i have to shut up

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