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[sam-reid]

Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.03: NO PAIN.

[pixie-middle-name-layer]

Just knocked the wind out of me 😭

I saw Nosferatu tonight.

Maybe Louis and Lestat did too

This time it’s a little different than the last. . .

Inspired by a TikTok by Claude (@cannibalgender) and the comment section under it.

[lioncourtz]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 01.02 | "…After the Phantoms of Your Former Self"

[gaypeople]

unholy family and their matching coats

[samslestat]

I made her for Louis. She is my blood.

[armandlastnamemarius]

Interview with the Vampire 1.05 A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart

[thatmarygirl93]

They are too fucking cute!! 🥹

can i chew on jam reiderson ?

[hallucinatinghalos]

It's interesting to me that the show writers have decided to make the monastery be the moment Lestat is brought home violently, and at (I would assume) such a young age. In TVL he's still taken from the monastery against his will and denied an education (devastating enough) but it's not until he's older and runs away to join the theatre troupe that they drag him home violently. His eventual response to the assault and yet again being denied control of his life, and some other major events I'll skip over, is to move to Paris and become an actor anyway. But by making the physical abuse happen so young, and be so brutal, they're creating a flashpoint of extreme helplessness and harm without hope of escape that will parallel his turning by Magnus (who also now imprisons him for a week which is longer than the books' shorter but still horrific turning)

The repercussions of the abuse at the hands of his father and brother as it occurs in the show would be a little death, a transformation. The child that left for the monastery is lost, the Lestat that walks out of his room with his prayers silenced and saints forgotten cannot be the same person and survive. That will certainly mirror his mortal/human death and turning by Magnus. He is struck down, altered so cruelly by both his father and by his maker.

And don't even get me started on the ramifications of his relationship with the divine. That he wanted to be a priest. That his prayers repeatedly go unanswered in the face of such horrors. The ocean between himself and God.

The part of the apology/reconciliation scene that I think strikes best at the heart of his abandonment issues as it pertains to the divine is when he gently scoffs at himself for calling out to God during his turning. Despite previous experience, he again tried to survive the wrath of a larger, stronger being by praying. The situation so extreme he was made utterly powerless. And yet, again, there was no intervention. Again, he was abandoned to this awful fate and now there he sits a monster. Worst of all though he's his family's monster asking for forgiveness that he does not feel he deserves. You know he recognizes the anger in Claudia's eyes, the harm he's done. His smile a sad defense against Louis' pity. It's crushing.

"I didn't want this." he tells them as if to apologize for his very existence, his being.

He has become the thing he hates most.

He is so vulnerable here. My god.

I can't even allow my mind to delve into his psychological state in the garbage dump, post-murder. Can you imagine one of your greatest fears being abandoned and your family, knowing this, throw you out with the trash. And that he knows he pushed Claudia and Louis to such desperation. It's no wonder he breaks down during the trial when recalling Louis putting him in his coffin, that Louis saved him despite what he was, what he'd done. His one consolation being that Louis still loved him enough. I will never be convinced, until we see otherwise, that he was at the trial for retribution, and I do not trust the tower scene as we saw it at all. He would mentally be in tatters. He would've arrived in Paris already in such a state. Then the events of the trial, whatever his involvement ultimately was, of seeing Louis in that situation and watching Claudia murdered...there are no words for what he would be going through (and that's without knowing what the full context of the trial was for him) we can only assume from what remains years later...

A broken creature.

Louis leaving him was truly a push to destruction equal to Armand pushing his weakened body off the tower in the book, as near a fatal blow as Louis could strike in that moment. Lestat is alone and defeated. A fate he maybe feels he deserves, that he should've never survived to this point anyway. His existence only seeming to harm those he's loved most (can't forget Nicki here.) There is something about him choosing to sit in that ruined house and starve that calls back to his bedroom prison post-monastery. I can see why Rolin allowed the level of emotion to remain in the reunion scene. Because Lestat is as emotionally broken here as he is physically broken in the book. There is next to nothing left in him to rally against the flood of his feelings. He's that kid starving in his room, the man trapped with a monster, and a being that's hated his mind & body for lifetimes. It's unbearably sad and it should be gut-wrenching.

I'm guessing these changes (maybe more a shuffling) are just for more efficient storytelling. A way to get the viewer from point A to point B of his messy backstory more quickly with the same trauma of bookLestat still intact. What is my point? I don't know. I don't really have one. Mostly I'm just rambling, appreciating the show writers, and I really need new content.

Added a cut because below is a short S3 speculation that may contain spoilers.

Not that anyone asked but I'm leaning toward the idea that they'll have it be when he runs away with the theatre troupe (or just leaves for Paris) as a young adult he never comes home again. That the wolves will happen at some point before that but remain the life-changing catalyst and that the reunion with Nicki will be in Paris. That he will have a longer acting career before Magnus finds him. If that is the way it goes I hope Gabrielle still has a hand in his flight from Auvergne, but we'll see.

[metronomicmyarmand]

Interview with the Vampire (2022-) Season 1, Episode 1 In Throes of Increasing Wonder... // Join me in Death - HIM // Nosferatu (2024)

[herrshepard]

Lestat in 1.01 — In Throes of Increasing Wonder…

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

𝑨 𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰’𝒎 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆. 𝑭𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈.

[arun-armand]

I love how the tapes unravel behind him as he casually destroys the one in his hand and looks good doing it 😍

[lenoirexv]

Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt | INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2x07 | I Could Not Prevent It.

[lioncourtz]

I had taken 7,000 souls by then. But Lestat was the only one that felt like murder. Semantics, surely, but it’s how I felt. He came by invitation. My distraction from the monochromatic landscape.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 02.01 | "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned"

[10piece-chicken-mcnug]

I need Louis to be single in season 3. His first husband have a toxic and abusive relationship. I honestly wouldn’t go back to anyone who dropped my ass from the sky. Armand lies too much for my liking it makes me glad Daniel is there to clock his tea. Louis needs to follow Armand’s example tho and be single for like 500 yrs ik he’s tired cuz ik I am