#lestat muse

[lafamilledelioncourt]

The heartbreaking thing about a lot of viewers who haven't consumed the books is they don't completely see is WHY Lestat is near sobbing when he asks "Did you hurt yourself?"

Yes, for general reasons like he loves him and what not. But, don't forget, he also said, "I gave you to Armand. You tell me if that is saving."

In TVL, you get ALOT more of the Lestat/Nicky relationship. You see them bond, fall in love, and then Lestat have to contend with that love once he's kidnapped and turned.

Nicky does not take the vampirism very well. Nicky is a very desolate sort of character. Religious trauma to the max, and then throw in family trauma, gay repression, and then vampirism.

When Lestat leaves Paris with Gabrielle in TVL, he essentially leaves Nicky with Armand. He entrusts him into his care in a way, and Nicky chooses the fire. He can't endure as they call it. Naturally, it breaks Lestat's heart.

One of Armand's jobs as coven leader was to cull weak vampires who can't survive on their own or endure. So there is definitely room for S3 for them to show Armand pushing for Nicky to accept the flame.

With Louis, Lestat doesn't fight back in Paris and lets Louis go with Armand. Once again, he's entrusting someone he loves to Armand. Even if it's very much unwilling, but I'll give it to him for once for respecting a choice.

When Armand calls out to him in San Francisco, it's Lestat's worst nightmare. Louis is hurt, Lestat can't get to him. Armand either has allowed him to be hurt, hurt him himself, or did not protect him as Lestat wants him protected.

It is heavily implied Lestat thinks Louis died in San Francisco. In the books, Armand tells both of them the other died to keep them apart. Once again, the person Lestat loves is dead because of Armand.

Lestat, in his mind, has ultimately failed Louis, and so he falls apart as we see him do in 2x08. When Louis shows up, he cannot believe he's there initially. It's very clear he's only half there mentally. He has to ask him if it was all real and if he'd really been hurt because he has to know if it is really Louis. It's a question you'd ask the ghost of the person you love, but Louis CAN answer him.

Needless to say, please read the books if you're up for it. They are a riot.

[onlymywishfulthinking]

Interview with the Vampire - s1e6 / s2e2

My muse / My Louis

[nancydrewwouldnever]

RANDOM MUSING: (for like the one person following me who is also into IWTV)

For the love of everything, I really, really hope the showrunners/writers of the Interview with the Vampire series keep the canonical scene of Gabrielle's return to Lestat's life by stealing her son's Porsche and driving it like a speed demon in a heist movie while Louis is crawling over Lestat's lap in the passenger side seat.

Because I need this to be the way Louis meets his Mother-in-Law for the first time. And bless Anne for writing such a batshit crazy scene to begin with.

[tarsusingkirk]

louis learns about social media in his best girl summer era and gets an instagram for posting his photography. his bio reads amateur photographer.

it starts slow and easy with some black and white portraits of humans, a few low contrast wildlife shots. he captions them variously with numbers and letters, not fretting over fuax deep captions, more concerned with archiving them orderly. Except when he indiscriminately deletes them when a rando says he sucks. he roams from subject to subject, thinking he's not really, truely capturing the art of emotion in his viewfinder, that parisian art dealer from years ago hounding his every shutter click. nevertheless, his follower count rises from zero.

and then, well, lestat hits the airwaves like an atom bomb. a fragile, messy mascara'd atomic bomb.

louis finds himself scrolling through candids of lestat on stages, hair flaring messily and rings glinting into the blur of a single snapshot. torn crop tops falling off sweaty shoulders, and pale eyes smattered with what is apparently glitter staring off into the distance. sometimes leaning breathlessly over a mic, sometimes baring his chest as he bows back, nimble fingers riffing on a guitar.

it's really only a matter of time until louis quietly purchases a ticket and goes to a concert, his fingers tip-tapping over his camera case.

his first shot of lestat comes thirty minutes into the concert because all he could do was stare in the midst of roaring humans, the air alight with manic energy that made his breathing stop.

He takes hundreds that night, and spends the next several nights going through and picking ones he thinks have some kind of merit.

two months and two more concerts, taking shots of lestat from the anonymity of his rabid fans is as natural as breathing.

three months later magazines have him on speedial, it feels like, and then he's contacted by the vampire lestat's agent asking if he can do a shoot.

it really was as simple as finding his muse.

[noliaert]

Finally got around to finish this one! Here's my ode to iwtv season 1! <3 I made both a version of bailey's claudia as well as delainey's 👍👍

Close ups 👇

[1e1e1e]

"This was originally heavily inspired by Interview With A Vampire (2022), but obviously, it became a small motif instead. Opera houses and silent films were also an inspiration, can you tell? Anyway. Please enjoy this 9-page, multi-muse template, clad in red, black, and gold, with vivid red curtains, baroque picture frames, and an overall vibe of warm luxury."

my first template in a while! thank you everyone for supporting me 🥺 im so grateful!!

... and im so sorry that this post is formatted terribly, I lost access to my account on my laptop sigh but you know the drill!

this was made by me, don't steal, and so on and so forth! I should be posting a lot more now...

[theatrevampire]

something something the parallel between armand lurking in the corner of the room the entire time while louis talks about his relationship with lestat in season 1 vs louis letting a vision of lestat haunt the narrative while he and armand begin their own relationship in season 2... walk with me...

[celestialbruise]

I was kinda musing over the idea of a loustat parent trap AU because there are two actresses for Claudia, so, they could be (fraternal) twins! It’s kinda perfect. but then I was wondering what the other twin would be named? they can’t both be Claudia😭

or would loustat be that lazy? discuss

[arylleth]

Kill me again. Show me the only way you know how to love.

[funtheysaid]

IWTV 2x02 Initial Thoughts (Stream Of Consciousness)

- ooh the title card changed! I’ve been wanting to see the Eiffel Tower as a “fang” since season two was announced. WE IN PARIS BABY!

- ayooo three-way (interview) incoming

- Daniel’s “Paris sucks” aka “Paris is where my ex-bf is from and he sucks (dick), but not mine anymore, and no, I’m not bitter abt that, his city just fucking stinks (literally)”

- not two minutes in and Devil’s Minion is already flirting bickering

- ALICE MENTION alice!armand truthers are gon love that shit i just know

- “I’ll tell you what a woman is” That’s my sapphic-coded queen!!! 🕯️ pls S2 give me claudeleine 🕯️

- “Gauche” well, yes.

- Loumand: 🥰🥰 Daniel: 🙄 he‘s so second-hand embarrassed for them I can’t

- I mean, it’s crazy. What? We finish each other’s- I WAS WITH HIM FOR LONGER THAN LESTAT WAS WITH HIM WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN DANIEL PUT IT ON RECORD WEVE BEEN FUCKING FOR LIKE DOUBLE THE TIME …that’s what i…was….gonna say?

- Louis would be that faux-intellectual hipster who has his own darkroom full of overexposed and blurry, unfocused photos that are his “art” bc he took them on film (affectionate)

- Not claudia calling him out on it in the next scene “let me think I’m deeper than I am” okay honey you do you

- “She’s miserable but she doesn’t want to fuck with your too delusional left bank dilettante vibes” ahh the narrative foils are foiling, I see

- The show: Alice was pregnant, My dumb ass: OMEGAVERSE DEVILS MINION !?!?

- “joyfully joyless” MOOD.

- Claudia looking at Madeleine like “I don’t know if I want to be her or be with her” Dw babe it’s a rite of passage for all of us you’ll figure it out

- “Your French is ugly” 🥹👉👈 weally?

- “the dress for my body” LOOK I know what she meant, but I can’t help it that my mind is perverted

- LMFAO NOT GLORYHOLE PARK

- okay why Loumand playing with my heart “I will never harm you. And I never have” wtf wtf wtf

-Oh no the ole business card trick! we all know that’s Louis’ kryptonite he loves a man with credentials

- i like girls, but why is santiago kinda…

- Woah the Annika scene was really hard to watch which I think was the point but goddamn idk if I’ll be able to rewatch that part

- Estelle is my self-insert. I’m claiming her.

- “You both fucked Lestat!?!” HOW DID THEY KNOW WE WANTED HIM TO SAY THAT!?

- “He tasted of vermouth and annihilation” We both know you have no earthly idea what that man tastes like, Armand. Be so fucking fr right now.

- Did Armand just casually drop that he had a threesome with a father and son? I’m sorry, sir????

- “Now I know what two blood fat cocks slapping hands feel like” When I tell you my spirit left my body

- oh shit here we go. I’m a caged animal and it’s time for my weekly enrichment. give me my loustat.

- there’s a letter !?!? Wait wait I wasn’t ready for something like this wait stop stop please

- “all my love belongs to you. you are its keeper” just take me out back and shoot me at this point

- “it is a thin veil” fucking fuck why was that so romantic??

- the blood tears welling up in Lestat’s eyes I’m-

- “Rebound of my life” and in that moment, he spoke for the people

- WHAT IS HAPPENING???? Jesus Christ, they were talking about Alice and then it cuts to FUCKING ARMAND!?! This is not a drill. Everyone to your stations, this is not a drill.

- “You sold your Dad’s playboy magazines at recess” Hmmm? You’re telling me a “straight” teenage boy sold porno mags instead of keeping them for himself??? Yeah, I call gay on that one

- “she wanted to say yes” you motherfuckers.

- Oh shit Louis is pissy tonight rawr kitty got claws

- Devils minion girlies are thriving, skin glowing, hair silky, breath minty, pillow cold, stomach full, dreams sweet, and by Jove, we fucking deserve it !!!!

- daniel’s shaky “um- gulp” …….guys this is gonna sound crazy but i think there might actually be a god

- ooh the camera/photography being like a divide or barrier between Louis and his present situation. Like he wants to capture the moments, but only as if an onlooker and not a participant… interesting!

- “Who?” will never not be funny

- “Mon ami” in the same episode as “Mon Cher” FUCK ME GENTLY WITH A CHAINSAW

- “Armand for you” nah nah nah i changed my mind, you can do like Leatherface and shove that chainsaw in rough and hard

- Close up on Louis’ conflicted face, fire blazing behind him…. That’s not foreboding in any way. I’m sure they’ll all live happily ever after from now on :D

What a ride! Until next week! 🧛‍♂️🩸

[lafamilledelioncourt]

we joke about louis being helen of troy, but guys, he got lestat and armand in a singular look down bad crying at the gym.

these ancient vampires who were feral about each other took one look at his bright ass eyes and his cocky little half smile and just lost their fucking minds.

their asses 404 errored the second he batted his eyes in their direction. there is no recovery.

[radiantlestat]

hi guys!! while i’m not new to tumblr, i am relatively new to the iwtv fandom and i’m looking for some new mutuals and blogs to follow 🥹

pls interact with this post if you post about iwtv and are interested in becoming mutuals. i’d love to get to know everyone! ♡

[soliloqueeer]

I Belong To You (Mon Cœur S'ouvre à Ta Voix) by Muse | Lestat & Louis

When these pillars get pulled down / It will be you who wears the crown / And I'll owe everything to you

How much pain has cracked your soul? / How much love would make you whole? / You're my guiding lightning strike

I can't find the words to say / They're overdue / I've traveled half the world to say / I belong to you

She attacks me like a Leo / When my heart is split like Rio

But I assure you my debts are real

Then the lyrics transition to an 1877 French opera, “Samson & Dalila” by Camille Saint-Saëns. The aria is called “Mon coeur s'ouvre à toi” (“My heart opens to you”).

Ah! Réponds, réponds à ma tendresse (Ah! Respond to my tenderness)

Verse-moi, verse-moi l'ivresse (Fill me with ecstasy)

Réponds à ma tendresse, réponds à ma tendresse (Respond to my tenderness, respond to my tenderness)

Ah! Verse-moi l'ivresse / Ooh, verse-moi, verse-moi l'ivresse (Ahhh fill me with ecstasy, fill me with ecstasy)

Réponds à ma tendresse, réponds à ma tendresse (Respond to my tenderness, respond to my tenderness)

Ah! Verse-moi l'ivresse (Ahhh fill me with ecstasy)

I belong / I belong to you alone.

[lestats-musings]

Louis! The Swiftiés, Louis! They're calling ugly, Louis! They're calling me untalented! I'm not ugly and untalented, Louis!

Louis! Tell the Swiftiés I'm not ugly and untalented, Louis!

They keep saying I'm just an ugly, untalented white man, but their patron Taylör is also just some random white person! Is itbecause I'm French, Louis? Is that why they hate me?

[nashvillethotchicken]

Loustat during the Rockstar lestat era

[cr-nack]

When Claudia storms and dreamstat says “speaking of mistakes” like yea lestat would say something like that but also do you think Louis’ own resentments of Claudia and her place in the coven is coming out