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13eyond13 · 7 months ago

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One of the main things I dislike about book 2 Lestat vs book 1 Lestat is it just takes away a lot of the interesting mystery about his character in the first book to have him definitively answer everything like: "oh actually I WAS hiding a bunch of secrets of the vampire universe and rules and hierarchy and history from you the entire time, and actually I WAS also filthy rich secretly the entire time due to a treasure left to me by my maker and didn't actually need you for your money at all, and also I wasn't a bit insecure about my lower class upbringing and poorer education and trying to compensate for that by being both showy and secretive about myself I was actually a noble, and also I CAN do a bunch of other vampire things that I never taught you to do or did in front of you even though we lived together in the same house as a family for like 70 years, and yes I DO hate following rules and doing what I'm told and keeping secrets but I did it because Marius said your fragile minds couldn't handle the truth if I DID tell you anything else, and also I DIDN'T want any revenge on Claudia or blame her for attempting to murder me or think I maybe should undo what I did by making her one bit, I was just being forced by the even EVILLER vampire to have her condemned to death, and also almost everything questionable or problematic or cruel that I did within the first book was either a lie told by Louis or secretly actually a kind and heroic thing I did because I cared about someone other than myself, IN FACT I SECRETLY THE ENTIRE TIME HAD A STRICT MORAL CODE I WAS FOLLOWING every time I casually killed an innocent npc in the first book, and whenever you watched on in horror at my cruelty and toying with my victims I was actually only killing scummy evildoers and Louis was just too dumb and romanticizing of humans to ever see it etc..." like FINE WHATEVER, I GUESS hahaha but I actually kind of liked you better when you were a bit meaner and a bit petty and a bit imperfect and a bit lame

#also he gets so powerful so quickly that its just like too much to me kinda #ANYWAYS i feel like this is maybe an unpopular opinion but idk #its hard to articulate exactly what i mean but it sort of undermines a lot of the stuff i like about the first book as a standalone tale #even though theres def stuff i like about the continuing lore and worldbuilding in the rest of the series as well #like i think louis is too hard on book one lestat sometimes because louis is always looking at and judging things from a human pov #and Lestat is like looking at things from a totally different one himself #and as the reader that made me feel like lestat was maybe a bit more valid and less awful than Louis was constantly making him out to be?#and i feel like even louis eventually reaches some of those kinds of conclusions himself later on #when he doesnt really find the answers that he seeks #like oh maybe he was just kind of a sad pathetic dude in his own way and i was trying to force him to have all the answers in an unfair way #or holding him to human morals and standards that no longer apply the same to us now #which only works if lestat as a character didnt actually have all the answers hahahaha #or wasnt also holding himself to those human moral standards #do ya know what i mean...#interview with the vampire spoilers #the vampire lestat spoilers #vampire chronicles spoilers #p #vmpcs

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