IWTVL S3 Ep2 & Ep3 Musings - The Cloud Gift
3x2: AMC!GABRIELLA
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:
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