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Soulmate aus are so interesting in an iwtv context. Like for humans it's easy, right? They get their soulmate mark, they find their soulmate, or maybe they don't, and they live their life. For vampires though? Do vampiric soulmates even exist? How could they when the soulmate marks are relics of their human life? When the other person who has the mark will be dead before their life as a vampire has even begun? Or were they always fated to become a vampire? Did the universe take that into account? Will they have to wait some hundreds of years for their soulmate to be born? Their soulmate could be anywhere, any time. Hell, their soulmate could be the person they just drained. Who knows. Even if they were somehow able to find them, what are the chances they'd stay together for eternity? It is eternity after all. Not even the universe or fate can guarantee that.

#but then like uggghhhh thinking about iwtv soulmate au fics and like. they're not soulmates or meant to be but they choose each other anyway #their soulmate could be rotting in the ground or not even in existence yet. maybe they knew them in their human life. or vampire life #but nothing is a guarantee. and isn't it much more profound to choose your own companion anyhow? to love and choose them?#(little do they realize that's what a soulmate is. and even though they might not have the mark it's the same thing. to love and choose)#thinking about louis and armand specifically. like both of them would have Feelings about this i'm sure #louis and lestat are soulmates ofc. ofc there's some string of fate strangling them and they have to figure out what that means #i feel like louis would be resentful of it. like he loves lestat obviously but their relationship is turbulent at best so during the lows #louis 100% resents the universe and god and fate for tying the two of them together #lestat would assume it's all sunshine and roses now that he's found his soulmate and kind of assume it'll automatically work out?#and they'd have to come to terms with the fact that while they are soulmates #their relationship and what it is and how it goes isn't preordained. they still have to figure it out themselves #meanwhile armand and daniel aren't soulmates #god armand doesn't know who his is and he is very like. not melancholy #but he definitely holds that in his chest along with the other things that were taken from him #daniel for sure met his soulmate but like it was nothing compared to armand #and daniel doesn't really buy into the whole romanticization of soulmates anyway #armand kind of does and once they start their relationship he'd definitely have angst about preventing daniel from finding his soulmate #in this universe that could be another reason he tampered with daniel's memories (assuming that's what happened in the amc canon)#to give daniel a chance to live a full human life. to give him the chance to find his soulmate #but then daniel lives a life. he meets his soulmate. and at the end of it all he still chooses armand #and claudia? she just wants someone to choose her. she doesn't care if it's her soulmate or not. she doesn't care about that #maybe she used to romanticize it. having someone guaranteed. but she's seen soulmates hurt each other. both in her human and vampire life #and she knows it doesn't matter what fate or the universe says. people's choices and actions are their own #and so when madeleine chooses her they don't have the marks but claudia thinks maybe this is what a soulmate is after all #interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #armand #claudia #daniel molloy #lestat de lioncourt

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