#I saw an analysis post about the PL trilogy and really I feel like the biggest issues I have with it beyond

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I haven't read the Prince Lestat books and to be honest I don't know if I ever will, but I feel like even book!Lestat's ending shouldn't have just been him 'returning to his former home in France to act out some would-be vampire hierarchy'. Not even because I consider him to be some sort of exquisite exception or special vampire in the way that Anne probably did, but because the notion of him returning to his old family home makes little sense to me at all, based off of what it represented to him. Namely his terrible upbringing on account of his family's neglect and abuse, that in spite of (but also because of) he returned to take care of his old father (while also verbally berating him when he could). He also can't straighten out his own life even when it literally depended on that, so I can't take the monarchy angle seriously at all.

#lestat de lioncourt (book) #the vampire chronicles #lestat de lioncourt #I saw an analysis post about the PL trilogy and really I feel like the biggest issues I have with it beyond #anne rice's insane writing choices; is the decision to have Lestat 'rule' in his old home??? the home he kept running away from #in every possible way? #and this isn't to say that the framing or character aren't warranted criticism #but I feel like when discussing the lack of logic in this overall writing choice #you also have to consider his history with his family in that place and namely the abuse he suffered under #like......it's why I can't even make fun of the fact that he went back to take care of his ill father #despite what he and Gabrielle went through with him #because it's too often the reality of how abusive familial structures work #no matter how much you try to detach yourself from your upbringing or your former self #be it through money or in Lestat's case a literal change of what you are #you can't run away from your past unless you detach yourself from it permanently #so really the whole 'him going back to his home' would sooner be a tragedy than an intro to them all playing castle #I feel like in Anne's obvious favoritism of him and in wanting to write out her fairytale-like fantasies #through these vampires she forgot what actual character development is