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I have some questions about how AMC!GabriellA's got the Cloud Gift.
Because if she's had it this whole time, and they don't eff around with the lore (eg: Gabrielle & Lestat BOTH met Akasha & drank from her--I would lose my mind), that means she inherited the Cloud Gift from Lestat the night she got Turned--we'd just have to wait/guess if she developed it quickly OR if it only emerged with time & (negroni) effort/practice.
(I already surmised that book!Gabrielle's antigravity/climbing was an indication that Lestat was right in the PL Trilogy, that she DID have the Cloud Gift already, but had just been too scared to try using it.)
But my main thought is that IF Gabrielle inherited the Cloud Gift the night she was made, then Lestat had the Cloud Gift immediately after he was made, too. 🤔 Meaning, BEFORE they got on the Devil's Road.
Which would mean that unlike the books, AMC!Lestat did NOT inherit the Cloud Gift (and I reckon the Fire/Time Gift too?) from drinking Akasha's blood. It would've come directly from Magnus (who did have the Cloud Gift in the books).
Small nitpick: While I like the link between people in Toledo being depressed so they walk with their heads down--too sad & distracted by misery to notice 2 vampires flying overhead--AMC's run into the exact same problem Anne Rice had years ago when folks criticized her later books for ignoring the realities of the technological age's surveillance state. Just cuz people aren't looking doesn't mean CAMERAS aren't DRONES even. It's the same bullcrap Armand was talking about, how technology distracts humans from the supernatural--but again: just because WE are too nihilistic doesn't mean THE POLICE aren't.
3x3: LOUIS
Biggest shocker of the season thus far, IMO.
They grow up so fast~! 😭💚
No, I actually mean that literally. They grow up SO FAST.
Cuz Louis did NOT have The Cloud Gift in 2022 Dubai. 👀
UNLESS.... Louis' Cloud Gift had been slowly percolating, as he practiced in secret to not clue Armand in that he'd been losing his hold on Louis over the years? 🤔🤷♂️
OR, he got stronger as he killed the 31 vampire assassins that came after him in Dubai, thinking he was easy pickings now that Armand was gone from the territory.
But yeah, I think he's been learning the Cloud Gift since 2022!Dubai--
--as it became necessary when he needed to defend himself against all the rogue vamps.
TL;DR: It's a bird! It's a plane!
But regardless, I think this dual reveal in S3 backs up my theory that antigravity jumps/leaps count as precursors/clues that the Cloud Gift IS present even in "weak" fledgling vampires--so long as they have all of the requirements:
inherited the (dormant/nascent) Dark Gift it from their Maker who already posses it (dormant/nascent)
is practicing enough
most importantly, is drinking enough blood (preferably Ancient blood).
We see this with book!Gabrielle's strange antigravity crawling:
And we see it with AMC!Louis' "Batman" antigravity jumps:
Oh, Daniel Molloy has got it BAD. As the camera spins around him, and Armand, time stops, everyone else disappears and he hears the orchestra joining the violin in "A Postcard to Henry Purcell"
or the opening notes of Pompeii or Cities in Dust
Romance (tm): Hooking up in an S&M themed villa perfectly preserved frozen in time with ash from a volcano for a Brooklynite who remembers 9/11, a vampire who had his siblings' ashes dumped on him and vampires who will survive the Akasha turning most of the world's vampires to ash.
Wistfully remembering the one time Armand hid from the cloud
Or.. he's unwittingly foreshadowing the (vampire) Rapture -- in which he and Armand are one of a few the only vampires on earth.
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louis saying he didnt like being portrayed as a liar and then acting like he doesnt know how it feels to have everyone disappear in your maker's presence as if that didnt happen to him on THE NIGHT HE WAS PLOTTING LESTAT'S MURDER
"going out to get milk" is a common turn of phrase used to describe a man abandoning his family.
the "milkman" is a common figure in stories depicting a woman's infidelity and adulterous affair.
this implies that the ability to provide milk would both decrease the likelihood of a man abandoning his wife and children, as it would eliminate the need for leaving to get milk AND would secure that man's marriage, as his wife would have no need to seek milk from an extraneous source.
therefore, all men should produce milk, through various means such as:
- being a cow
- being an almond
- being a woman
- being a coconut
- being in the omegaverse
- being an oat
(list is exemplary and not finite)
in this essay, i will redefine the nuclear family and explain the seductive and inflammatory nature of the 1993 "Got Milk?" commercials.
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Jarda Klapek Czech brick layer and karaoke from Ostrava, tuna melt eating, Applebee's inhabiting, doppelganger aka alibi aka probable fall guy for Lestat de Lioncourt's shenanigans and possible human rights violations.
They will never figure out Lestat Jarda's real identity. Give him glasses and not even Apple Face ID can suss him out.
I know we already have a in-show joke about how iwtv reads like a telenovela but if you think about it it also has all the elements of a desi soap/Indian TV drama
Rolin Jones trailer:Gabriella de Lioncourt and her son
All of this is below a cut -- mind the tags.
What is she doing on that chaise lounge?
Hey son, I'm dying...
"My maker called for his mama,...
"..and I came...
"...and I came..."
"and I came..."
This is Gabriella getting a meal. Or reenacting Judith Slaying Holofernes from below. Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Rolin Jones, you just edited two lines with some repetition together didn't you?
Bolero works pretty well and horrifyingly here to go with Gabriella acting like this is steamy Habsburg-Game of Thrones-action via her fantasizing. I don't know how Mayfair Witches is going to crossover (Blood Canticle has a Rowan-Lestat romance) but none of the women seem to be enjoying Witch CRISPR... process in the books or the show at all, let alone three times in a row.
Gabrielle in the books, paraphrased: "Hello my son, get out of your room. Let me tell you about how giving birth so many times is isolating. And also I am terminally ill with tuberculosis the coughing blood disease and my revenge fantasy isn't murdering the entire family it's this proto gangbang scenario":
Daniel Molloy: "A woman in the mold of [my] mother.... [My] wife counting down [my] thrusts..."was part of Armand's KYS It Doesn't Get Better speech in 1973 to me. The Rice A Roni montage was horrific, thanks for asking.
Daniel was not nearly this isolated or long dead or somehow in a Greek play (Oedipus Rex) to think about doing his mom.
In Oedipus and Jocasta's defense neither of them realized they were child parent because Oedipus was abandoned on a mountaintop because of a prophecy he'd kill his father and marry his mother -- oh. Westermarck effect not in effect at all with Lestat and his momma.
Louis is reconsidering his life choices. "Are you hitting the same vagina you spent the first nine months of your mortal life in?"
Very Freudian way of putting this. Also very Catholic "life begins at conception."
Instead of answering "No" or "Yes." Lestat decides to give Louis a female anatomy lesson but before he can explain how fingering for vampires isn't a thing for him and his mother or what a clitoris is or "but actually technically" of the rest of that, Louis decides to leave the tour bus to deal with a series of sickening epiphanies, like the coincidence that Lestat turned Antoinette, when she was a hard looking self proclaimed 38. Or that Lestat was going on about making and continuing human attachments was folly, to him and Claudia for decades, when he had turned his mom. Or Lestat lost his entire shit about Louis hooking up with Jonah, when Lestat hooked up with his mom.
But mostly, he's realizing he's part of an active ongoing love triangle with Lestat's mom.
Please remember that Louis is not any kind of psychologist, psychiatrist or mental health care worker. Most random therapists are not equipped to deal with this. Louis has never been to one. Louis spent 70+ years with Armand who was constantly abused via sex trafficking and by his maker/parental figure Marius and neither of them went to therapy about it. Louis is not equipped to deal with this as his ex who Lestat is trying to get back with. He cannot be Lestat's husband, situation-ship, friend, or therapist... ethically (but this is the AREU so...give it time). It's one thing to have a partner who was abused in the past by people who are not around (and presumably dead) but it's another thing entirely to be in a relationship with someone who has an active sexual incestuous relationship going on right now.
And no matter how sad, nauseated or enraged he might feel, Louis cannot act on that feeling. He cannot be Fire Gifting the bus they're on right now. Practically speaking, Gabriella is likely a much stronger vampire because she's much older. And Lestat loves Gabriella.
The kindest thing in the moment is probably to manage the rest of whatever reaction he's having away from Lestat. So he has to leave the bus.
I'm sorry Nicki, you can never compete with a Mama's boy. I wonder if he knew about Gabriella and Lestat or when it started
Nicki, Nicky, Nicky... No wonder you look so fucking pissed. You think you got vampire dumped for Lestat's mom. You literally went to Paris, left your village and he disappeared for six months and surprise, your ex and his mom are vampires. Also you've just been a coven chew toy and you cannot catch a break as the world's most depressed third violinist with a Stradivarius while Lestat is/was a star.
Also, consider that Armand wrote Gabriella out of his version of events in season 2 in part b/c he thinks he got left with Nicki ...for Lestat's mom. Armand's Wattpad story that he tells Daniel of getting pumped and dumped seems less embarrassing (to him) than whatever happened with Gabriella.
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Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)
(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.
✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.)
✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.)
✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.)
✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.)
✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.)
✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.)
✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.)
✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.)
✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.)
✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.)
✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.)
✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.)
✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.)
✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.)
✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.)
✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.)
✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.)
✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.)
✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.)
✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)
I suspect this is a Rolin Jones joint. Music: Ravel's Bolero.
This is its own character in this trailer. Why? Why is this Lestat's depression music.
For the amount of times pingpong lady has appeared in trailers, she should get her own title credit at the same level as Baby Jenks.
I'm not sure why Lestat looks horrified here.
Shower Review: But if it's walking in on his tour bus shower -- nobody made him get a tour bus with a shower with no stall and eleventeen windows that don't seem to have physical shutters [iow not "smart shutters" that can malfunction with malware or ddos attack or a power failure] with a disco light waterfall showerhead on top of a wood (imitation?) floor. I'm sure Lestat enjoys giving night commuters a show. But what happens if he decides to take a dawn shower? Does he just combust naked? I'm not even sure there's a good drain here. This makes the men's locker room group showers look spacious, private and clean. Where is the rest of the band humans showering on the road? What if you have actual long hair attached to your head? I sincerely hope that Gabriella has short hair or that long hair is a wig b/c washing, drying and styling long hair takes three business days. Practicality 1/5 stars. Verve: 3/5.
I fucking hate Older Brother Vampire Bait here. Baby Lestat stutters and... was illiterate? No wonder he loves improv on a character rather than a set line. And music. Can Lestat sight read in his mortal life or does that only happen with vampire literacy?
Nothing says romance or seance like a lot of glasses and votives. Lestat is about to demonstrate his water glass skills for an intimate concert of three to seven guests?
"I think in the end I was pretty fucking great! " - This is either a really funny freakout or a really horrifying freakout.
Marius! Probably horrified at Lestat's horrible choices in home decor and home design throughout the centuries. Or maybe Lestat's violin playing effect on Akasha. I am personally horrified by this Caesar salad bowl cut he has to give himself every night in order not to look like a Merlin cosplayer in buckle shoes. Yes, those time periods do not go together.
Recording studio seance with mama?
Wow these vampires were ready to end him, hitwise.
This is not how you break pinata. Place the pinata where you can spin around blindfolded (without hitting the tv) and whack the candy out you coward!
This seems like he's giving a concert the day after halloween or he's hallucinating that. IDK
Time to talk to nature.
Is Real Rashid going to die? Or is baby Jenks wrong and she's going to die? RIP Real Rashid.
Ok, what got fire gifted here?
When your child self is latchkey kid unsupervised in a concert space around working musicians. Is child self reading? This is right in the middle of a section when Louis is asking adult vampire Lestat if he's fucking his vampire mother fledgling right now. The giant hand right by the child!?
Claudia in her trial outfit. I'm guessing this is before he goes on tour with the band.
I'm not sure who the woman is on the left but Antoinette sitting by a typewriter staring you down eating a sausage? A finger?
This is a mirror or a record but I think Lestat's just been turned here. Somehow I don't think Jefferson Airplane vinyl was involved but every memory we've seen it looks like Lestat is actively hallucinating.
Taking down someone who is literally dusty here.
Claudia is either repeating lines he's heard before or this is a remix from something else. Who is the "skinny little bitch?"
Toss the vampire! Whee!
This is obviously the masked guy during Lestat's freakout about how good of a job he's doing. Not ye old Parisian vampire playing ring toss the vampire in the 1790s.
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