#i'm always percolating on this anon haha

[pynkhues]

https://x.com/Sima_loustat/status/1843759021205139933

this is funny and somehow so sad. despite his outgoing nature Lestat is so closed up in NOLA. he doesn't share his past even with the love of his life :'(

I mean, I actually wouldn't assume that Louis doesn't know what bruises he's pressing on in that argument? His fight with Armand in 2.05 shows that there's not a low he won't stoop to when it comes to a fight after all, including weaponising the trauma of someone he cares about, and honestly, it's one of the things that I love about Louis. If someone goes low, he'll go lower, haha.

It's an interesting thing to think about how much Lestat actually told Louis about his life in their NOLA chapter though. He obviously told him bits and pieces about Nicki, given the weight placed on the music box, and Louis was of course present for the reveal of Lestat wanting to be a priest and the hint of his father's abuse at the du Lac family dinner table (and honestly, I kind of get the vibe in 1.01 that Louis already knew a little bit about that when Lestat weaponises it against Paul). He clearly hadn't told him anything about Paris, given Louis and Claudia go in completely blind to the Coven, or about his turning prior to Claudia forcing his hand almost 30 years into their relationship. I strongly suspect he hasn't told him about turning Gabrielle, but has he told him about her at all? (Also one of the things I desperately want in s3 is a flashback to the moment Armand realises Lestat had never told Louis about her, haha).

I don't know! I kind of go back and forth on what I think Lestat wanted to paint of his past to Louis. Lestat in the books does typically avoid conversations about truama (and literally never deals with any of it lol), so I can see him alluding to things being bad and then handwaving them away, but they did have a chapter early in their relationship where they seemed to try to get to know each other. In that sense, learning to read on the boat to America can be something I can see Lestat sharing as this sort of romantic aside to his recent travels and growth (because he does love to romanticise everything, haha). I almost feel it might depend partially though on what Louis chose to vocally reveal about himself, and also what you think Louis' education level is?

I tend to think Louis' university educated, particularly given it seems his father passed not that long before the start of the series, meaning Louis was probably in his late 20s when it happened. There were historically black universities open by the late-1800s when Louis would've gone, and I kind of have a loose headcanon (and am writing it into fic, haha) that he probably went to what's now Dillard University (New Orleans University at the time) to stay close to home (and I headcanon Florence probably would've wanted him to, particularly if Paul had already been sent away at this time).

Nicki being (partially) university educated while Lestat was completely uneducated to the point of illiteracy was a bit of a loaded dynamic between the two of them, and I can see Lestat wanting to play it differently with Louis? I don't know though, haha, this has gone down a winding road of speculation that isn't really what you're ask was about at all so what do you (and others!) think? Do you think Louis knew what he was saying (even just partially) in that fight? And what do you think he knows about Lestat's past in general?

[forcebookish]

OMG GIMMERREE MORES FORCEBOOK F I CS TJE LOL FEDDT ONE WAS SOO GOODD I CR I RD

>insert kylo ren screaming more gif<

kjfdslsa omg thank you anon ;; it's such a tiny little thing that i almost didn't write it, it's very moving how much y'all have loved it ;;

my HOPE is to write more but i don't have any real ideas percolating in my brain right now. i'm sure i'll end up with too many to write soon (that's what always happens lmao), but you might have to "settle" for guncher and akktheo for a li'l while haha

in the meantime, me @ you