Like Copper Like Salt

Saas-Bahu (mother-in-law/ sister-in-law) beef

Nand -Bhabi (Sister in laws) beef

Extended family that tries to kill you

Lovestruck hero who's torn between two girls

Dysfunctional arranged marriage

That one phuppo (auntie)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

18th century mortal Lioncourts

Marius & TWMBK

Present day (ghosts/hallucinations especially)

20th century revisits

And more. Give Kelly some clicks!

For Jacob, Loustat has only been FaceTiming, hanging out online but "not in person," since Louis' still off being "companion enough for myself," so he's maintaining his physical distance from Lestat and refusing to go to Montreal, etc.

For Sam, Loustat's doing FaceTime, AND "going on walks, chatting," like WHERE, sir? 😅 We already know Lestat was begging Louis to visit him in Montreal and check out his "guest room" (*cough!*) and Louis kept saying no.

So it's just adorable that Jacob's like: Yeah Louis, hold the line soldier! Don't give an inch! First it's picking out paintings in the guest room, then it's you getting your back blown out in the coffin room. You're supposed to be SINGLE, dangit! 😤

Jacob said in an earlier interview last year that Louis is NOT ready to talk about the Trial yet with Lestat--he wants to focus on being kind to Lestat, and being grateful to Lestat for giving him the GIFT of vampirism, and prove that he's enjoying life & owning the night & not being so depressed & suicidal ("thank you for the nights in front of me"):

Because it was what Sam Reid called "a monster choice" for Lestat to sacrifice Claudia's life for Louis', when Jacob said Louis would've preferred that Lestat have done the opposite, and still hasn't accepted what it means that Claudia died so that he could live.

So yeah, he's just trying to learn how to accept Lestat, and live in the moment, in the present, rather than dealing with anything from their past--just like Lestat can't live in NOLA right now because it has "too much baggage." The baggage IS Claudia. Neither one of them are honestly ready to address the elephant in the room.

And so even as cutesy as they're being, Louis' doing the right thing by staying far away and not falling back into bed with Lestat when he knows they don't have their ish together yet--they're just FaceTiming. They share a heartbeat; cuz as soon as they enter the same room they're gonna sync up again--and it's always either fighting or banging with those two losers.

But ofc, Daniel I Wreck Marriages For Fun Molloy publishes the book. And that's another thing Louis' holding onto--he's scared to tell Lestat about the book, because he knows that their tenuous peace is gonna crumble as soon as Lestat finds out; and they'll be right back to their worst times together in NOLA: resentful & angry & nasty & hurt.

This is a frikkin MESS.

“Between seasons, they’ve been hanging out, talking. Been hanging out over FaceTime, not in person,” Anderson told TV Insider on the Upfront carpet. “Trying to figure out how to start being friends again, and then pretty quickly, things take a turn.”

“They’re gently negotiating each other, going for walks, chatting, doing a lot of FaceTime,” Reid explained. “Lestat leaves New Orleans; he needs a break. He’s like, ‘There’s a lot of baggage in New Orleans.’ So, he goes to Montreal, and he starts a new life there. Louis and Lestat are probably calling every day and talking and texting and warming back into potentially thinking about getting back together.”

"Make Friendship" Walk and Talks

It is possible Lestat classifies firing up FaceTime while doing a walk and talk while his IPad/ IPhone is open as "going on walks". When I was actively on apps and matched up with some long distance profiles (think: plane ride not optional), I would actually go walking and talking outside on a regular basis - sunset was just cool enough. Sometimes people wanted a standing appointment time and treated those as dates, sometimes they didn't. The words "hanging out" are doing a lot of work for Louis because that can be anything from body doubling to do chores (what chores would a vampire need to do) to phone sex. I'm not sure when Louis moves from Dubai or what time zone he's in on Halloween. The FaceTime has to be when they're in different cities/not driveable distance. There's no way Lestat's dramatic ass is going to FaceTime Louis in the same city, let alone the same time zone unless Louis's posture is "Hell no you can't just vampire fly over and drop in on me."

On the phone, you and me/Remember the time/'Til dawn, two or three/ What about us, girl?

Why Should We Sully Our Beautiful Minds With Touching the Grass Outside and Current Events

I think these beautiful oblivious beings who can work Apple products but don't have antivirus products have no real sense of time and just like keeping it nebulous. Louis is just not going to think about Daniel Molloy or his book or angry (bounty hunting) vampires once he made that announcement, it's out of his beautiful mind. I'm not sure he even read it after the end of season 2, honestly. He might not have even read it when Lestat runs to the bookstore buys copies and starts rage-annotating with color coded highlighters.

Lestat is similarly oblivious to news even with notifications. The man had been living in New Orleans since the 1940s and probably all the way forgot about Hurricane Katrina, who's that? A 2025 Beyonce sales notification pops up and he just completely fucking ignores it, because they both live in parallel universes. Maybe an Apple Genius or Felix (if he survived unnamed hurricane) told Lestat about antivirus software, keyloggers and spyware, but it went in and out of Lestat's ears. And we know Louis wasn't the tech savvy one in his last relationship.

Remember the Time: Denial Is A River In Egypt

Daniel Molloy didn't wreck anyone's marriage, I'm sorry. Louis, despite his memory issues knew. All that Chekhov's Script did was force enable Louis to stop denying Armand orchestrated directed the play. He knew Armand de Gaslighting Not Emotional Abuse set him up in a sting operation but didn't want to think about what that meant or what being at the theater all the time after the coup (or "coup") meant. And Louis doesn't want to think about how that script does not change that Lestat actively colluded. Lestat had all of that time to ask Louis why he changed his mind or how he figured it out and he doesn't-- most likely because he doesn't want to know.

Louis knew Lestat was in New Orleans (otherwise why immediately hop on a plane straight there -- was he going to go just wander around the streets on "touring my old houses and gravestone holiday while mourning my life" tour?) Chekhov's Script just reinforced that Lestat didn't want him totally dead. Either Louis' crazy ass thinks or knows he's totally invincible from hurricanes or Lestat stopping his execution on stage (but not, note, the actual trial or starvation in a Mentos gravel box, indefinitely) was just enough for Louis to decide "Lestat's not dead to me, let me check if he's still alive" check? "He didn't want me dead that means I don't want him dead that means I love him and we might get back together forever!" Pelleas and Melisande indeed.

[Sigh. This is why chemistry reads were so important because my OTP is Louis and intense therapy - and the actors are super cute friends on press tours]

My First Scratch N Sniff Interview With a Vampire Baby Board Book

If an entire gaggle of children are dressed in Interview With the Vampire Halloween costumes, which don't look too improvised, it's probably filtered its way from SNL -- and in this universe Daniel gets to claim he sold more books than Prince Harry, which means he outpaced J.K. Rowling's last Harry Potter book, without pushback. It's in paperback and hardcover, and multiple languages and there isn't a line out the door for it because if it just came out it there'd be Halloween events advertised. At this point, there are probably abridged children's versions and baby board books for IWTV in the universe. There's a way that it could've been record presales before official release of Daniel's book but that makes Louis and Lestat even more oblivious.

All of this is to suggest that if Lestat was surprised by the book a full calendar year and change after it was out he was actively making an effort to avoid knowing anything about it. He and Louis should've had a discussion blowup fight about it way earlier -before it came out. When it came out.

And if there was no book when would Louis and Lestat have discussed the Trial and Claudia on their own?

Wearing Floaties in the Dating Pool

Louis is just a Libra and a vampire Taurus so he has several men vampires on deck in rotation for when he decides he wants to be back in a relationship needs a fuckbuddy needs the ego boost of knowing he's still got it. No way is he SUPER SINGLE CELIBATE NO FLIRTS NOBODY TO TAKE HIM DANCING. Pretty sure there's a lot of "keep talking to me until the sun makes me go nap" on all sides of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, from all corners. At some point, Daniel has been dropped from the rotation of "talk to me until I fall asleep because I'm scared of the sunrise (Daniel IS, not Louis)" pals and he's kinda sad about it even if he's gleeful about being on tour and acts like the book isn't the reason.

Last sunrises: June 16, 2022//May 3, 1911 That night I had to call you/I was rapping till the sun came up None of these vampires men could ever. Lestat can't, I see that June 7th premiere date, AMC.

Lestat will probably call and ramble FOREVER. Remember Louis broke up with him so Lestat grasps at "Louis wants to talk with me? Louis listens to me!? We will be friends. We were destined to be very good friends! We ARE destined to be very good friends! That's how it started!" And Louis plays it off as "Yeah well, doing regular wellness checks, like people who give any shits about each other do. Don't want him dead because I'd feel guilty. (But y'know Louis still loves him. Or he'd just find out what he wanted to find out and then peace out.)

Happy Deathiversary to Lestat

Book Lestat, in my best guess was turned near the end of October, probably something like Devil's Night. If the show decides to follow canon in that respect in 1794 (or 1795) he's coming up on his turn-a-versary, which means the anniversary effect could be in full swing and he is very prone to losing his entire fucking shit on the smallest of pretexts without realizing it on top of his mental fragility.

Spirits come and spirits go/Some stick around for the aftershow Claudia should haint his ass.

Louis is either beautiful or oblivious about Daniel's book or he's not mentioning anything Lestat doesn't first b/c Lestat is not mentally well and Louis genuinely thinks he can't handle it. (In addition to Louis not being able to handle it.)

Lestat was in an unwashed Leyendecker of Longing robe in a shack playing a wooden piano keyboard-lovey talking to Siri and eating rats when Louis sees him in July 2022 and I'm not sure he is that much better in 2025. He's in a non wrecked house and he's bathed and wears clean updated clothes but otherwise?

We Are Vampires, What is Therapy?