#Gabrielle de lioncourt

[moorsoldaten]

gabrielle de lioncourt. to me.

[hekateinhell]

lesmand au armand & gabby reunion

[fawnnfemme]

welcome back gabrielle de lioncourt

[pynkhues]

What is your favourite aspect of Gabrielle's character? Are there any scenes or dialogues you most want them to adapt in Season 3?

I love that she's unavailable to others. I love that she's selfish, I love that she's a survivor, with no interest in being anything more than that, I love that the second she gets the chance to live a life that's only her own, she takes it, and that as a character, she chooses to exist in her own interiority.

I've mentioned it before on here, but there's this really recurring theme in the books of these vampies wanting to be known and understood by others, to be seen in ways that might not always be the truthful version of themselves, but somehow never stops being something honest too.

Gabrielle fundamentally doesn't need or want that as a character, and it really sets her apart to me. She doesn't ever ask to be understood, to be known, to be seen, she only ever wants to live a life that belongs to her. I don't think there are many characters like that in the series, but I actually don't think there are many characters like that in general. We tend to imbue characters with our own need for connection, no matter how twisted up or arm's-lengthed or badly-motivated, but Gabrielle truly can lie down at the hearth within herself, stoke her own fire and be enough for herself.

Is that learnt? Did she claw her way inside herself to try and keep what she could in an abusive marriage, to fill the space of too-many dead children, to survive a life that told her she was never more than her parents' money and a womb? Or was she born that way? I don't know! That's what I love about her character. Every time she's given a voice, she uses it to tell us that her life, her interiority, her self is none of our business, and in an age (and a series!) that lives and dies on oversharing, I just think that's neat.

There are so many scenes that I want from the book - I want her madcap rescue of Lestat and Louis at the end of it all, I want her and Armand facing off, I want her teaching Nicki how to hunt (and oh, I want it juxtaposed with her never having taught Lestat how to read, and Armand telling Lestat that nobody has ever loved either of them enough to teach them anything - education as an act of love, my beloved), but I think more than anything, I want her monologue about childbirth after the wolfkilling.

I love that scene, and it's incredible writing from Anne, but the comparison of Lestat killing the wolves to Gabrielle's experience of being in labour, of birth and death being ever connected to her (and maybe Lestat too), of this idea of being utterly alone in acts of creation and destruction, and knowing that no one can ever bridge that divide - - it's a scene of all time for me, and I hope the show delivers.

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

Thoroughly.

[and-fishing-equipment]

oedipus complex son..... penis envy mother..... rip sigmund freud you would have LOVED the de lioncourts

[brian-kinney-apologist]

I'M SEATED. THE THEATER EMPLOYEES ARE SCARED AND ASKING ME TO LEAVE BECAUSE IT HASN'T EVEN STARTED FILMING YET BUT I'M SIMPLY TOO SEATED

[mentyblestat]

this was actually mindblowing ngl

[daytimesleeper]

What i’m hoping for in season three;

A reprise of the scene when daniel was going “did you eat the baby” again and again but instead of ‘did you eat the baby’ it’s “did you fuck your mother”

[agathah]

When they can do both

PRINTS on my bio 👆🖤

[veryintricaterituals]

No comment other than the writers are not cowards and I can't wait for season 3

[lesbiansluffy]

daniel in s3

[killer-laurent]

Gabrielle & Lestat (Commission for @kaelio )

[tasteofgrave]

some of my favorite gabrielle transgenderism moments from the vampire lestat

[sam-reid]

[superkitty21]

Anne Rice will write the most loving, nuanced, sympathetic portrayal of a complex messy character and you'll find out she hated them. Like what the hell.