like. that was claudia. the real claudia. for the first time. and she was awful. and that’s Correct. the claudia we knew this whole time — that was claudia as told by louis. recalled as softer and smaller, in the same way lestat was recalled as larger and more aggressive.
once, maybe, she loved louis, when she was truly still a child. and of course he had to believe she always did, at least a little. but through the years following? by the time she died, a grown woman still reduced to his daughter? what love would she have left for him?
she was a vampire. and good at it. she was always lestat’s daughter. she is every bit the evil of his evil.
that scene wasn’t character assassination. louis’s retelling for the first two seasons was character assassination.
From the book Merrick. Originally Claudia's speech was written in a diary. I've been waiting years for this unveiling that Claudia hated them both and only chose Louis because he was the more malleable of the two. She knew Lestat would never hurt Louis.
