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armand made his first fledgling in 500 years and immediately enlisted him in his ongoing deranged one-sided beef with his situationship from two centuries ago,, like he put that two-year old to work STAT

they’re a million years old and they’re sitting on a bench talking about their shared troubles but they’re also blushing like teenagers when their pinky fingers touch and they’re in the middle of two separate and one joint emotional breakdowns but they’re imagining a future together because being close to each other soothes them 😭

the way claudia is always what brings louis and lestat back together. time and time again, from the moment she was born and their marriage was falling apart, to her death in paris, and then again in new orleans the first time they were able to grieve her together, ending a decades-long separation; and now once more the memory of her, the ghost that haunts them both creates a bridge, because no petty hurt they feel towards each other can compare to the chasm she left in their immortal lives. they both failed her in many ways and she died thinking it’d never been about her, but now in death she binds them forever. now it is all about her, their love for each other inextricably entwined with their grief.

I am the first in my bloodline to hear louis and lestat be compared to taylor swift and travis kelce

I love that lestat has a petty song ready to go for whenever each one of his exes shows up in town

louis’ coping mechanism for grief and trauma being delusion and daniel’s being drugs, while lestat’s is just.. rock music is so funny, like who’s the crazy one here guys

louis, for all of his growth, is still in many ways the same he’s always been. still living in a world of illusions of his own creation. as a human, he made himself believe he was a straight and pious man and a valued member of his community, as a vampire fledgling he wanted to believe that he could rise above his own killer nature, then he wanted to believe claudia could live and thrive as a vampire, then he believed in armand’s lies and now.. regina. killing bruce gave him momentary satisfaction, but his go-to coping mechanism has always been lying to himself and living in dreamlands. presumably regina doesn’t look exactly like claudia, but louis is seeing her anyway, convincing himself that the way she looks matches exactly his fuzzy fading memory of claudia, using his own inability to remember every detail of her features to conjure her up in someone else’s face. he may have accepted his vampire nature (“he owns the night”) but he’s still louis the pimp, still paying a poor girl to play pretend.

after two seasons of daniel being a dangerous player in the interview and outsmarting two powerful vampires with his wit, it’s kind of fascinating to see him so out of his depth now. he knows ball but he’s never played against lestat. he’s never met someone more stubborn than him, and on top of that he’s a baby vampire now! and lestat is using his inexperience and vulnerability to his advantage, beating him at his favorite game. how ironic it is to feel weaker now that you’re immortal than when you were dying

iwtv continues to be so smart in its portrayal of memories and trauma, the way lestat’s memories of his family are so obnoxiously loud, everyone’s screaming all the time for no reason and everyone’s acting like caricatures, like an actual assault on the senses, as if lestat’s mind is filled with unbearable noise every time he thinks about them. lestat’s memories coming at him all fragmented and loud and violent, attacking him and beating him into submission as he desperately tries to escape them is such an interesting contrast to how louis would carefully weave a thread of his past pretending the glaring holes in it weren’t there