Annabel Lee

will any photo ever go harder than this

the show is using the queen’s blood as an explanation for why lestat unintentionally hurts everyone around him and why he has no impulse control. it’s a valid take that does, in the books, divide lestat’s persona in flashbacks in the vampire lestat versus how he behaves in current day. even if in the book, lestat’s actions are internally driven by love of the world and all its beauty, which doesn’t fully come through in season 3, It explains lestat’s self aggrandising description of himself, especially in later books, and his misremembering of the qualities he possessed as a mortal. i’m into it. as i am book Lestat’s ultimate apologist (why I rarely write about him), I love this explanation. i accept it as canon, even if rice didn’t explicitly state it. if lestat drinking the queen’s blood ultimately translates into the overwhelming love that lestat expresses towards the world, it could be a beautiful motivation for why lestat loves so deeply and is always abandoned. good for the show on this one.

to be a fly on the wall for a conversation between these two