#lestats anger at louis ‘stooping so low as to eat rats’ always read to me as anger and humiliation at someone who is an extension of himself | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kingworm · 6 months ago

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there is a duality that claudia was a forty year old woman, who essentially joined a cult - louis warned her, but what else are you to do? she is not a child, though trapped in the body of one, that is to say that although it would come from a place of pride and claudia being an extension of himself as her maker: lestat would have never allowed her to be so ridiculed and humiliated

#iwtv #claudia de lioncourt #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #claudia iwtv #to say their relationship is complicated and toxic is the worlds biggest understatement #but i think about how he taught her things such as chess #he lost it when she surpassed him - but he taught her nonetheless #because no matter what they would like she is a de lioncourt #and he would not allow his daughter to be anything less than the perfect poster child for high society #lestats anger at louis ‘stooping so low as to eat rats’ always read to me as anger and humiliation at someone who is an extension of himself #by being their maker #doing something ‘so unbecoming’#he purposefully didn’t teach louis things as a false means to ‘protect’ and entrap #but claudia he swung back and forth on wanting possession over her and wanting to discard her #so teaching her became an option - i believe in another world he would have taught her all the vampiric tricks of the trade #even if they hated each other

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