Elizabeth

Yes! He's acting as the literal shield to Lestat with his body and holding Lestat up to keep him from collapsing.

He's being Lestat's strength and Lestat's shelter from the storm.

And the kiss to his head —

And then Lestat finally letting go and falling into Louis' protection —

Falling into something he's literally never had before. Someone loving him and caring for him without expecting fucking sex from him.

Geez.

Omg lifesaver I have the memory of a goldfish so I wasn't sure if it was ever said!

I have now rewatched the auction scene and it is confirmed 111 albums. I'm going to presume that Lestat has filled both sides to the maximum on each vinyl since 111 albums of gossip is insane otherwise.

I started by trying to figure out what size the vinyl was (with standard sizes of vinyls coming in 7"/10"/12"). Using the trusty measuring tool of a bendy ruler on my laptop screen, the guy on the left hand side when Lot 2 is being auctioned is around 90mm tall whilst a singular cube of the massive storage thing is about 7mm.

Since the upright vinyl is around 2 cubes tall, I calculated that (if the guy is average height of 175.3cm tall), 1 cube would be 7.78% of average height, so 13.63 cm making the size of the vinyl about 27cm.

Since the 12" is 30cm I went with that.

The maximum audio held by the 12" is 25 minutes per side, and considering the basslines of music usually take up the most space and Lestat is just gossiping I've decided to go with he's got the full 25 minutes.

With two sides each and 111 albums, this would come to 5550 minutes of audio, or 92.5 hours.

AKA a lot of failures.

I don't know if anybody else has calculated this already but props to them if they have and thank you Anon for the info!!!

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