#her name is claudia

[mikathenerd]

My vampire dnd character right after ripping a man's throat out ^^

AMAZING STUNNING work done by the fabulous @tylerjaaay

[dr-reids-fidget-toy]

I had to search my memory pretty hard to find a straight couple where they’re both vamps

[seefasters]

you can’t tell me they didn’t have some sort of weirdgirl friendship in the vampverse

[pirateshelly]

As much as nearly every character she meets tends to act like there's something uniquely broken and wrong with Claudia, at no point does it truly seem to me like there actually really is? I mean, obviously she is extremely fucked up, she straight up went through a serial killer collecting trophies phase, but there's a level of fucked up that's sort of the baseline for every character in the show, and obviously being turned into a vampire as a child puts her at a unique disadvantage. But for all that everyone around her spends their time bemoaning how dreadful and doomed her life is, even Louis who genuinely loves her but also builds so much of his identity around feeling responsible for her Terrible Fate™, I really don't think she's like, fundamentally damaged any more than any of the other vampires are.

But Lestat is so unwilling to be wrong that every time her life hits an inevitable road bump instead of helping her through it he points and says "look! see! she IS a monster, I was right Louis, making her was a mistake!" (and I think he sees his own monstrousness in her but fails to also see her humanity)

And then Armand meets her and sees only someone who will inevitably lose her mind, so of course speeding up the "inevitable" and siding with the coven to plan her death is just a mercy, absolving himself of any blame. (and he projects his own frailty and desire for death onto her, failing to see her strength and her desire for life)

Which makes it so cathartic when she meets Madeleine, admits to her how broken she feels sometimes, and Madeleine's response is just. Well that's normal. Who isn't a little broken these days. Let yourself feel it, move on, let yourself feel it again if you need to. After spending her life having others act as if her emotions are something uniquely dark and worrying, Madeleine's incredibly blase attitude must have been such an incredible breath of fresh air for Claudia!

To spend her whole life being made to feel like something is Wrong™ with her, and then meet someone who's just like, "yeah, and?? Who isn't? Join the club I guess"

Which makes her death so incredibly tragic and frustrating because like. She was fine! She was making a life for herself! She wasn't doomed by her nature, she wasn't "doomed by the narrative" (whatever the fuck that even means), she was doomed for no reason other than that everyone around her (except for Madeleine) preemptively DECIDED she was doomed and never gave her a chance to prove them wrong.

[mmelolabelle]

Dreamstat referring to Claudia as “our daughter”rather than “sister” doesn’t just reveal that whatever he tells Claudia (and himself), Louis still ultimately thinks of Claudia as his daughter and knows on some level that he’s failing her, but also tells us about the real Lestat’s view of her, because apparently even the most fucked up parts of Louis’ mind cannot conjure up a version of Lestat that doesn’t treat Claudia as his fledgling/child before everything else ->

“It's not as simple as choosing a new family configuration. 'Now I'm your cousin.' 'Now I'm your aunt.' I am your maker!’” (Lestat, 1x06) ->

“Claudia was my dark child, my love, evil of my evil. Claudia broke my heart.” (The Vampire Lestat)

[sillyppi]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO #1 PRINCESS OF THE UNIVERSE !!!!

also gave her the flowers because over here's the first day of spring so there's this little cute thing about gifting yellow flowers to people we love (gracias floricienta)

[xxseraphcrushxx]

Everyday I’m cursed with thinking about how on the train in 1x06 Lestat told Claudia if he she ever tried to leave again he’d turn her bones to dust. Then in 2x07 at the trial he watched as her bones were turned to dust after she was finally able to leave him. Lestat I hope that haunts you

[summerscaries]

IWTV unholy family fic recs <3 (if you have more please send them to me, I'm desperate!!) (was inspired by @ldpdluvr posting a fic rec list to finally post the one I’ve had in my drafts!)

FAMILY CENTRIC / LOUSTAT CENTRIC / BOTH

montage of lost things by twocutlines 🔒(canon world-not compliant, M, 4/4, 15,360 words)

Maman by Gigi_Sinclair (canon world-not compliant, T, oneshot, 2017 words, Claudeleine centric)

Comme Il Faut by lesfleursrouges (canon world-compliant, E, oneshot, 4,049 words)

Parts of You in Me by Pileas (human!divorcees, T, one shot, 8,370 words)

drop off by prtyfears (human!divorcees, M, one shot, 16,322 words, +Claudeleine)

Fifth Avenue by ohofcourse (human!divorcees, E, 14 chapters, ongoing, +Claudeleine)

youngest, greenest, dearest by icedmango (human!divorcees, G, 3/3, 15,429 words)

In Sickness and in Health by Anonymous 🔒(human!divorcees, M, oneshot, 3,327 words, +Claudeleine)

i should be over all the butterflies by Amiteva3 (human!divorcees, N/A, chaptered, ongoing)

The Bug Collector by Megamarvelousnerd (human, N/A, oneshot, 777 words)

bmw baby. by hcneymooners (human, N/A, oneshot, 4,746 words)

cord of communion by themasterletters (human, M, 50/50, 145,053 words)

[cupids-fiction]

AFAD

Assigned French At Death

[wlwarhammer]

If you add de lioncourt to Claudia’s name she will miraculously appear and kill you

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Claudia and Terry are everything I want from a villain romance. he doesn't necessarily approve of her actions, but those are Claudia's actions, and if that is what she's decided to do, then he will do everything in his power to help her. he is her support, her rock, the one person who will never leave her. if she is walking a dark and bloody path then he is too.

[mossytrashcan]

I rest easy at night knowing that my queen has never not served a fucking look. some of yall would be envious it’s true

[jameslongforjimshortforgabriel]

can i just say. may i. please. just scREAM over that... that death? she was always the third, left out, forgotten. and she. she. found madeleine and. i cnat fucking takle it anymore. she got sentenced to death for all the wrong reasons by all the wrong people and she spends the last few seconds of her life, the life she believed would be endless, hoolding the only person she could allow herslef to love apart from louis and apart from all of it. where she found happiness. and. and then. as she was staring at the audcience, the cheering audience, clapping and yelling for her death, she starts singing, WITH HER LAST BREATHS, the song. the song they made her sing every night for 500 nights. the song she naively accepted to when she didnt know or understand the truths of the coven. the song that reminded her, every single night for 500 nights, the biggest setback in her life, the big mistake, the accident, what wasnt meant to be, her breaking of the law to be saved, if you call that saving. she sang that, as she withered away in front of rows and rows of mortals. she. she stared into the eyes of lestat, the eyes of her maker, her enemy, her victim, her.. uncle? the one never deemed guilty, even after proof after proof after proof of his cruelness. can i just. lay down for a sec please

[queerhoodies]

claudia de lioncourt is perfect representation for girls who hate their fathers and whose worst fear is ending up being just like them

[queeringclassiclit]

Claudia de Pointe du Lac

from The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (1976-2018)

submitted by anon

[eternallovers65]

"Now I know what two blood fat cocks slapping hands feel like so thank you for that"

You may hate it Claudia, but you are lestat daughter 😭 like you can take the daughter away from the mother, but you can never take the mother out of the daughter