on a metatextual level I think this (CLASSIC, EMINENTLY QUOTABLE) line
just means someone on the writing team knows about EMDR but in universe I’m like hmmmm did YOU do a hundred sessions of EMDR at some point Daniel? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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All too heartbreakingly human Louis (and Claudia… and even Lestat)
If we look at it on a ground level, we understand why Claudia would chafe at Lestat’s controlling behaviour and plot his demise. Don’t get me wrong, he deserves it - I say it affectionately.
But telescope out and we see a whole wider context. A world of ruthless vampires are waiting on the edges. Despite having experienced firsthand, Claudia still hopes there are better -vampires- (she doesn’t see the irony here) out there because her only other reference points are her fathers, flawed as they are.
Despite repeated warnings (…granted by someone who she no longer trusts), Claudia is so insistent on taking Louis with her to Europe without any concern for his state of preparedness it almost seems reckless. Louis is by no means an innocent, but in vampire context… they are both babies.
Louis is a vegetarian 🥑 vampire just recently returned to feeding on humans as a compromise. He clings to the hope of having a functional family unit based on human familial structures. Unlike other predators (vampire or animal) he isn’t wired to look for weaknesses in others, and even if he notices it, he doesn’t take advantage of it. As a default, he is without guile, unconditionally loving, and self sacrificing. He functions for the most part within human rules and parameters. (Side note, I believe these are the reasons Lestat loves him. Lestat can let his guard down around him, and just be. Also I think Lestat knows his fledglings are unprepared for the big bad world out there and has kept it that way because he feared teaching them would harden them and wear away the very reasons why he loves them - irresponsible parenting but post for another day 😃).
BUT can you imagine what would happen to him when he meets the Others in the midst of WW2 at a time when not even humans seem to value the lives of other humans? When humanity was breaking apart at the seams? This would be a time an old world vampire would be thriving, their convictions as Children of Satan affirmed. The true beneficiaries of a chaotic world that believed some lives mattered more than others because of arbitrary circumstances. If you were a vampire with REAL superhuman powers, you’d believe you were the Chosen ones.
In walks these two curious beings, more human than vampire. Human raised puppies released among a pack of wild wolves. A girl/woman vampire raised in a pink satin lined coffin and chiffon skirts. Her vegetarian leaning bookworm of a father/brother philosophising about the greater purpose of life, who gets watery eyed over operas and cuddles lovingly in pyjamas with his maker in a shared coffin….
Their Maker, a soft handed art fanatic who spent SIX years kicked out of his own home/coven, all the while grovelling to his fledglings begging be taken back after an inadvertent show of godlike power/aggression. And then to be set upon, conditions by the same fledglings for his return, to which he then accepts! 🤯
It’s enough to make an old world Coven Master retch in disgust! As Lestat said, the sheep herding the beauceron. And the beauceron obliges out of LOVE??
Old Coven Masters would want them dead before they can spread their liberal vampire agenda! 😅
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happy birthday to the best train conductor out there
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