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monstersinthecosmos · 7 months

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(I deeply, sincerely apologise if you don't want to receive this sort of ask. Please ignore it is that is the case) however, Claudia and Madeleine survive au with awful lesbian voyeuristic dynamic - Claudia treating Madeline like her doll, obsessively sketching her and being vicariously fascinated with her body, forcing her into all the fascinating female trends of the late nineteenth century (I gave Thoughts about Claudia and the New Woman era, specifically how she would be attracted to it's views but yet again impeded from meaningfully participating in it.), having Madeline impersonate her in the 'grown up' world - since Claudia didn't turn Madeline herself, given time there's the chance she might eventually learn to use the mind gift, and her using it to literally see the world through Madeline's eyes, treating her body as if it were her own, growing more like a doll herself, sitting in her room and living vicariously through her lovely puppet, having Madeline bring her victims (I am getting brainworms thinking about the bloodsharing between them), and Madeleine accepting it all willingly - her chance to be a mother again - she's half mother, half dutiful wife, half child, half protégée/muse; instead of feeling life grow inside her again she is overcome from the inside out by the mind of a long dead, long constrained woman. It would be like an even more fucked up Devil's Minion, I think. Ugh, I have so many thoughts about them, but I am neither a good enough writer of literary critic to properly understand them myself. That said, a thousand apologies if you find this content disturbing or just not for you, I absolutely understand.

she's half mother, half dutiful wife, half child, half protégée/muse; instead of feeling life grow inside her again she is overcome from the inside out by the mind of a long dead, long constrained woman

okay first of all, IM GLAD YOU SAID THIS LOL don't worry i am unshakable I love disturbing content, you've come to the right place!

SECOND, PLEASE DO NOT NEG YOURSELF ABOUT BEING A GOOD ENOUGH WRITER OR CRITIC BECAUSE THESE ARE SOME FUCKING INCREDIBLE IDEAS AND YOU WROTE IT DOWN JUST FINE. If you ever turned this into a fic it would be SO GOOD!!!!!!!

But wow wow what a fucking concept!! Ironically it feels EXTREMELY Ricey but like, perhaps could never have existed as a Claudia concept for Anne at the time she wrote IWTV.

I love this so much you don't understand, I will be haunted by it for months. yes. YES!

I wonder so much about like what would have been for Claudia if they had survived. AND LIKE IRONICALLY, IN AN ANNE RICE FRAMEWORK, I wonder what type of like casual internalized misogyny would've come out of it. Like Claudia was already SO CRUEL to Louis, and I wonder if she was simply too sick of him, too resentful, couldn't get past it--does that go away for a new person or was Claudia innately cruel? Does she--in Rice-Typical-Casual-Misogyny--become EVEN COLDER to Madeleine because she's a woman?

Or even wondering, does relating to Madeleine as a proxy of herself make her even crueler just by this different dynamic that she didn't have with Louis? If Claudia had lived, would she have bounced from adult to adult until she got sick of them, because that resentment would've bubbled up eventually always? In this situation it's almost like she goes from not seeing Madeleine as a complete person to being sick of her, the way she was sick of Louis. SHE WOULD JUST LEAVE SUCH A FUCKIN TRAIL OF HOPELESS DEVOTEES BROKEN IN HER PATH. (This is also very Let the Right One In adjacent im sdjhgka)

Anyway I think this could be such a good fic or even SERIES of fics about the miscellaneous adventures and depravity that happens, I hope you write it!!!! PLEASE WRITE IT YOU HAVE A BIG BRAIN!!!

#claudia #madeleine #claudia/madeleine #this is a super cool concept i am in love with it i adore you #vampire chronicles #interview with the vampire

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bandedbulbussnarfblat · 5 months

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Claudia/Madeleine for the Eternal Yuletide thingy. Madeleine's POV, her and Claudia have their first kiss under the mistletoe

#IWTVfanevents #EternalYuletide #iwtv fic #claudia/madeleine

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the-slut-lestat · 6 months

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Rotating the Madeleine x Claudia 18k words tags: mommy kink, blood play, d/s notes app WIP in my head like a microwave

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #iwtv amc #amc’s interview with the vampire #amc's interview with the vampire #amc immortal universe #amc interview with the vampire #iwtv claudia #claudia #claudia iwtv #claudia de pointe du lac #madeleine iwtv #iwtv madeleine #madeleine #Madeleine x Claudia #claudia x madeleine #claudia/madeleine #madeleine/claudia

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brian-kinney-apologist · 2 months

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what it means to be an iwtv girlie (gender neutral) these days

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brotherconstant · 3 months

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DELAINEY HAYLES as CLAUDIA INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S2 | May 12th 2024

#iwtvedit #iwtv #interview with the vampire #claudia #claudia iwtv #delainey hayles #louis de pointe du lac #armand #madeleine iwtv #santiago iwtv #beegifs

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xxhellonursexx · 2 months

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Welp, time to end it all

Just a real nice normal toast, probably proposed by Armand in honor of "Friends, Family, and New Beginnings 🥹🙏🏽" right before they all go to the theatrical tragedy that he conveniently Could Not Prevent™️ as Claudia sits there in the yellow dress that she will die wearing.

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #iwtv spoilers #iwtv claudia #armand #louis de pointe du lac #iwtv madeleine

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fuzziiwuzzii · 1 month

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CLAUDELEINE IN THE TRAILER TOMORROW PLS 🙏🙏🙏

#this is referencing something but im not telling u what #interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire fanart #iwtv #iwtv fanart #iwtv amc #claudia de pointe du lac #claudia de lioncourt #iwtv claudia #madeleine iwtv #iwtv madeleine #delainey hayles #roxane duran #claudeleine

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mmmngoc · 3 months

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To die in this blood was heaven

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv amc #iwtv 2022 #iwtv fanart #claudia #claudia iwtv #delainey hayles #madeleine iwtv #roxane duran #art tag #anyone remember that one Roxane Duran’s instagram story

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uthseikoashx-goingmyway · 2 months

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things in IWTV season 2 i'd lose my mind if it actually happens (or when. because some of those things will happen.). sorry for the mistakes btw

1. Claudeleine romantic relationship

Claudia finally having a vampire lover she can be herself with. the romantic & sexual tension. the heart to heart Louis and Claudia would have before changing Madeleine. the yearning. the tragic ending. the change of dynamics in the De Pointe du Lac family. the disruption of it all.

2. an exploration of Armand's relationship to religion, faith and God

specially in 2022. past religious crisis. how he articulates his vampire nature, his faith and his despair. lots of hints of TVA. God and art. religion, Armand and Louis. his religion (conversion from being christian to being muslim in this universe? if so, why?). "i serve, a God," would you mind to develop?

3. dramatic irony about Daniel's past and Devil's Minion

the rent boy. Daniel actually realising he had been a dick about that. "oh." after understanding the irony of it all. Armand talking in riddles and hinting at something Daniel is totally ignorant of. young Daniel's life and messy, loving and weird relationship with Armand. some activism. 2022 Daniel getting old, sicker and sicker. laughs. angst. tension. yearning. longing stares. petty remarks. revelations.

4. Loumand complex relationship

the love and the suffering. how they are both deeply attached to each other. how they show their care. the place Lestat holds right in the middle. how they deal with Claudia's death. what Louis really thinks about it. the tension. the yearning. how their relationship actually developed. the extent of Louis' memory alteration and how it plays a role into their dynamics. the after: how Armand helped Louis. messy divorce vibes. petty moves. to what extent their relationship is doomed. how one person can love several persons and in different ways, and how complex and delicate it is.

5. The Groan™

what is that. a metaphor for sexual arousal? Lestat scratching the walls? Rashid trapped? some clues. what the fuck.

6. Antoinette alive and kicking

and coming back right on time for the trial, because it would be 1) so fucking funny 2) utterly tragic, considering Claudia would be killed for killing nobody.

7. amazing outfits

amazing outfits

8. lots of french

i'm french

9. Claudia and Armand's relationship

Claudia being protective of Louis. Armand dealing with it. some sort of bond rivalry. both of them aware that something's wrong with the other. Armand and Claudia's similarities being acknowledged (age, killing a human they loved — Charlie, Ricardo — and complex situation regarding their maker), even a possibility for some kind of understanding and compassion (making the end more tragic). Armand seeing a some of Lestat in Claudia. Claudia seeing Armand's love for Lestat. a common love for theater and spectacular shows. that awful experience before Claudia's death.

10. Louis and memories

the photos he takes (where are they in 2022? will they clash with Louis' tale?). the metatextual dimension of themes such as: unreliable narration, memories and perspective, autofiction. Daniel calling out Louis' avoiding strategies. Louis calling out Daniel's rudeness and biais. how Louis really sees his relationship with Claudia? the gap between Louis' and Armand's recalling. a deeper exploration of his superimposed identities (black, queer, american man; in 1940, 1973, 2022). learning how to trust someone new after being abused. the rain metaphors. Louis saying the most poetic and heartbreaking thing you'll ever heard. his relationship to vampirism as he joins Armand's coven. grief and loss of a family member. hallucinations and how they are filmed / manifesting. guilt. loving Claudia and Armand. loving Lestat, still. etc.

tysm for coming to my tedtalk. it was very self-indulgent but very much pleasant. i won't be mad if it doesn't happen (obviously!), or not like i imagine. still, it's fun to imagine and put that here on tumblr. no shame on lestat, i just have no special things i'm waiting for about him, and will be very happy indeed to see him again. salut

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thefairylights · 25 days

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Another woman who has the strength to take on Claudia. Back for a moment to say:

#interview with the vampire #roxane duran #delainey hayles #claudia iwtv #madeleine iwtv #claudeleine #iwtv

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i-want-my-iwtv · 5 days

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Anne Rice’s gothic bestselling novel! Pre-order of this illustrated Limited Edition opens soon! 18 May 2pm UK time

www.booksillustrated.com

We have another great reveal to share with you. It is a stunning illustration of Claudia and Madeleine the dollmaker. Anne Yvonne Gilbert has created a beautiful and menacing image showing the fury Claudia feels at being trapped in the body of a child while she begs Louis to make a vampire of Madeleine.

^Louis and Claudia observe this amazing scene on visiting Europe in search of the Old World vampires. 'A beautiful thing it was, though, a splendid animal—a stallion, and pure white'

#vampire chronicles #interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire 1975 #the vampire claudia #madeleine #anne rice #booksillustrated #Anne Yvonne Gilbert #fanart #it counts #european vampire #quote #actual quote #cross #Books Illustrated Ltd #doll #dolls

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cbrownjc · 8 days

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My Long Season 2 Prediction Post:

So this is a long post containing all my (more or less) final predictions for Season 2 of IWTV. Mostly so I can keep track of everything I've been predicting since Season 1 ended.

I'm breaking this all up between General Predictions and some specific Episode Predictions. And I'll put it all under a spoiler cut due to the length and just in case any of this is correct, which would mean massive spoilers. Because yes, many of these predictions are based on things found in many of the books in the VC, not just IWTV; as well as recent trailers and other press material.

General Predictions:

Louis will attempt to end his life like he did in the book Merrick by the end of the season, likely in EP08: This is something that I've been predicting since EP05 of Season 1 first aired. I think it is pretty much my oldest prediction wrt the show, and one I've never wavered from. Now it's time to see if this prediction is right or not.

Lestat is asleep in a coma somewhere in the Al Shafar Tower, and is the source of The Groan: I first made this prediction back before EP07 of S01 aired. I wasn't too confident about it being proven during Season 1, but I think now is the time. Maybe Lestat's in the penthouse. Maybe he's in the basement. Maybe he is on some floor in between, I don't know. But something like The Groan wasn't spoken about as just some throw-away line. There is a reason it was pointed out. And I think that is because Lestat is the source for the sound and makes it sometimes while he is in his post-Memnoch coma state. And what is going to finally wake him up will be Louis doing what I predicted above in my first prediction.

Armand and Daniel's relationship (ie their past romantic relationship) will be revealed in EP08: I've been predicting this more times than I can count during the hiatus. Simply because, as far as general/causal audiences go, revealing it in the finale always just seemed like the most impactful place to reveal it.

The missing pages of Claudia's diaries will reveal the information about her that we learned in the book Merrick, particularly regarding her feelings toward Louis: Via the link above I made a long meta post about that. I'll say more about it below, but in general, why Louis is going to do what he does by the end of EP08 will be because of what he reads/learns from Claudia's missing diary pages, just like as what happened with book!Louis in Merrick.

Louis will begin to awaken his Fire Gift abilities during the season: There is a quick shot in one of the preview trailers of what looks to be Louis setting one of his photographs on fire, but not with a match or candle or anything, but just by staring at it. I think when Louis first discovers he has the ability to light things on fire like that, he'll not be overly excited about it or anything, and only reluctantly test it out sometimes . . . until he unleashes it in full in the season finale against the theater coven.

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Episode Predictions (Spoilers):

Episode One (many people have already seen this episode at the premiere, but there is one thing I was already predicting about it before then that I want to say again):

-- Louis and Claudia will not arrive in Paris until either the end of the episode or the beginning of Episode Two.

-- This episode will be a set up to explain how revenants are created. That they are made if you try to turn a human but don't give them enough blood; OR if you don't scatter the ashes of a vampire that has been reduced to one. This will be done to set up both why Claudia's ashes had to be scattered AND the risks being made to bring Louis back either at the end of Season 2 or the beginning of Season 3.

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Episode Two:

-- Not much to say really that most don't already know/suspect. Louis and Claudia arrive in Paris, and Armand and Louis first meet. Louis and Claudia meet the whole theater coven.

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Episode Three:

-- Again, not much to say. Armand's full backstory will be told. This is also the main episode where we'll see Nicki and what his fate was. We will probably also get confirmation from Armand that the backstory that Lestat told Louis and Claudia about Magnus and how Lestat said he was turned was true.

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Episode Four:

-- Louis and Armand have sex for the first time (with Dreamstat in Louis' head giving commentary 🤪).

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-- The "banquet" scene, where Armand puts the coven members to sleep and Louis and Santiago have a confrontation (Louis looking like he's going to cut Santiago's tongue out.)

-- We will see the rift between Claudia and Louis continue to grow, as well as Claudia's distrust/dislike of Armand.

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Episode Five:

-- "Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat." 😂

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Yeah. We'll see this moment above in Episode 5. And Louis and Armand will basically deliver all their break-up dialogue from the end of the first book HERE, in Louis' shitty apartment in San Francisco; after Louis has attacked and almost killed Daniel.

This means that yes, Louis will confirm to Armand that he knows what Armand did to Claudia here. (With only heavy illusions made about what her ultimate fate has been.) And then Armand will give his "I thought you'd get over it" monologue.

And while Louis and Armand won't fully go their separate ways as they did in the book after all of this (because Armand will still feel he needs to look after Louis), we will very much understand that these two are not a happy couple at this point in time, and are full-on toxic in their own unique way.

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-- Along with the FULL 1973 interview, The Chase between Armand and Daniel will be shown almost in full. We'll see a lot of things about The Chase, but we will probably not see fully when, or how, it ended.

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Episode Six:

-- "I betrayed Louis once in my life and it wasn't in San Francisco." Armand says this to Daniel in Dubai in this episode.

-- Madeleine gets turned in this episode.

-- Louis says goodbye/breaks up with Armand.

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-- "The Last Supper."

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-- The episode will end with Louis, Claudia, and Madeleine all being taken by the Theater coven to be put on trial. Armand gives Louis a "Judas kiss" and leaves the three alone at the dinner table right before they are taken.

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Episode Seven:

-- Okay so, back when the Jones Cut trailer first aired, I said that this moment was Rockstar Lestat:

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Well, I was wrong about that. Why? Well take a look at this:

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Do you see it? Behind Santiago, in the upper left. That is the same key prop on the railing as in the shot with Lestat on the right on the railing. If you squint, you can also kind of make out the musical notes on the railing to the left of the Lestat image on the railing on the right in the Santiago one.

The shot of Lestat isn't Rockstar Lestat, as I first thought it was. It is the real Lestat's first entrance into Season 2. And it's going to be at the trial, in Episode Seven.

-- And because Lestat is making his first entrance in the way I talked about above? This is 100% from Armand's POV with some of Louis' misremembered POV with it. Because Lestat was not in any condition to make THIS kind of entrance on his own.

-- The revisit of Mardi Gras Murder Night from EP07 of Season 1 will happen here, during the trial. And it will be revealed that Claudia alone slit Lestat's throat while Louis stood by passively, while Lestat begged Louis to put him in his coffin. (Matching up to what Claudia wrote, in Lestat's blood, what his last words were.) Giving the full context to this moment we only saw in a flash in EP07 of Season 1:

Which will then lead into . . .

-- The revisit of the Louis-Lestat fight from EP05 of Season 1 will be shown in this episode as well. (And will give viewers, particularly non-book readers, their first hints of Amel.) And because of what happened in that fight, specifically why that fight started in the first place, will tie into . . .

-- Claudia's diaries, which will be read at the trial. Out loud. By Santiago. And more specifically the missing pages, which we see Louis and Armand talk about in this preview, will contain some damning evidence that will all lead to . . .

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-- Claudia will reveal right there, on stage, to Louis himself, how much she hates him and blames him more for her situation than she does Lestat. Because "It's never been about me." Lestat made her for Louis. If Louis hadn't wanted her, she would never have been turned.

-- This episode will end with Claudia's death. Louis will be rescued from his coffin prison by Armand, and the episode will end with Louis breaking down over her loss -- both in the past and in the present in Dubai now that he remembers everything about Claudia's true feelings towards him right before she died.

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Episode Eight:

-- Louis goes all Carrie/Firestarter on the Theater coven (after warning Armand to stay away first), unleashing his full Fire Gift powers on them all.

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-- Louis grieving in the park -- the same park where he first met Armand -- in the rain after destroying the theater coven, comforted by Dreamstat. And then Armand arrives . . . because Armand is whom Louis was actually waiting for. Why? Because, as Louis said about it in the book --

Where to go then, if not to die? It was strange how the answer came to me.

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-- Louis and Armand (and Dreamstat) go to the "Louver" for that moment from the book; which in the show has been replaced with someplace else since, post WWII, the Louver was apparently still closed at that time. It will be revealed that Louis knows of Armand's hand in Claudia's fate, shown via Dreamstat's reaction to everything Armand says about what happened.

-- And this will all now tie everything together into what will be alluded to about Claudia -- and Louis knowing Armand had a hand in it whatever it was -- in Episode 5 . . . and this now reveals why Louis and Armand's relationship has not been a happy one at all over the years, as we will see in Episode 5. And this will all be summed up by Louis probably saying this from the book directly to Armand:

"Yes, that is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other."

-- And the "Louver" scene will be the last scene we see Dreamstat in, as it will be here that Armand will tell Louis that Lestat died in the destruction of the theater. And Louis will believe him.

-- Armand, in the present in Dubai, will reveal the head thing he did to Claudia before she died.

-- Armand will reveal how he threw Lestat off Magnus' tower, even after Lestat was badly burned by Louis setting fire to the theater (but survived).

-- we will find out WHY Louis stopped feeding on humans in the year 2000. And it's probably not something anyone expects.

-- At some point in here it will be revealed that Lestat and Louis do reunite after Paris -- for real -- for a time, in the recent past. As seen by this hug:

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However, something happened that made Lestat unavailable/incapacitated again (some Memnoch-type event is my guess.) So Lestat is now in a coma and Louis, rather than be alone, chooses to stay with Armand for the same reason he did after losing Claudia in Paris.

-- In Dubai, Louis will try to end his life via sunlight exposure, as he did in the book Merrick (as I noted above). Because, along with finally remembering the truth about how Claudia really felt about him, Louis will also be under the impression that Lestat will never wake from his coma again.

-- The bookcase collapsing around Daniel is a consequence of Lestat waking up from his coma after he stops hearing Louis' heart beating. (I.E. a visual representation of Lestat "shattering the realm" as it is apparently explained in the book Prince Lestat about this moment when he woke up in Merrick.)

-- Armand saves Daniel from getting crushed by the bookcase, which will also come tumbling down after the books and glass do.

-- Somewhere in all of that, Daniel will have a flashback that reveals he and Armand were actually lovers in the past. Daniel will be stunned by the memory. Armand will just be surprised that Daniel finally remembered it.

-- Armand and Daniel won't have time to talk about it though because Armand fears/will realize that Louis has done something that caused the commotion to happen (and likely because he also notices The Groan has stopped).

-- Armand and Daniel find Louis' body, burnt to coal ash. Lestat is either already there with Louis' body or arrives very soon after they do.

-- Whether we see Lestat revive Louis (as he was revived in Merrick) at the end of the episode (with Armand's help) or if we are left on a cliffhanger about it? IDK.

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The predictions above are all the ones I feel most confident about right now. There are some others I have, but I'm not very confident about them, so I'm not listing them. I might mention them in individual posts after certain episodes air or not.

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