#i hope claudia's ghost gets introduced early on in s3

[jaypentaghast]

She side-glances Lestat 3 times. First when Santiago says his name, so that may be the sole reason she looks at him, but remember that this is the moment she's scoping out the crowd.

To me she's counting him in too. Her promise to fucking kill them all is to him as well.

However, she's just seen the man with the top-hat. So I wonder if she's looking at Lestat to sort of... check his mood? Maybe see if he'd back her up? Let's remember how smart she is and how well she understands him. Louis gets him but she can become Lestat.

The second side-glance is when Lestat insists that she had her last request. And I'm sure that Claudia mentally came up with at least 50 new swear words for him right then and there. It feels like a "thank you" in the most sarcastic tone.

Then the last is after she finishes her speech. Look at how her eyebrows go UP. "See what I did, dad? Fuck you." or "That goes for you too btw". And how his eyes follow her as she's dragged back, what's on his mind??

It's a little conversation they have with their eyes, and you can interpret it in a thousand different ways but Claudia's last look in particular speaks of a familiarity that is oh so painful considering the circumstances.

Not to even mention her very last glance right before she dies.

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