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Of course Louis is weirded out. Most people would be. He just found out about his ex and his mother, and Lestat's talks about it casually, then makes a joke about technically being in the womb instead of the vagina

And I think some fans refuse to accept that the audience is not obligated to react to Gabistat with the same detached or camp attitude as Lestat himself. Louis is very obviously serving as the normal “human” reaction in that scene because otherwise it just becomes “hehe sexy incest vampire joke”

His discomfort is important because it reminds the audience that this dynamic is deeply disturbing even if Lestat tries to normalize or joke about it.

And another thing, Louis probably doesnt even know the full psychological context yet. In that moment all he sees is:

“my ex is having sex with his mother and is talking about it like it is normal.”

So no, he was not going to applaud, immediately comfort Lestat, or respond with perfect therapeutic language. Especially when:

- they are separated,

- their relationship is still very much emotionally destroyed,

- Louis himself is exhausted from years of trauma,

- and Lestat just dropped something objectively shocking on him.

People keep acting like Louis has an immediate obligation to decode, absorb and emotionally manage every layer of Lestat’s trauma response no matter what. But if we are actually going to moralize things, then what about Gabrielle?

Gabrielle is the parent. Gabrielle is the original authority figure. Gabrielle is the one blurring the boundaries while Lestat is someone who has been emotionally looking for her validation since childhood.

Because we all remember s1, they started as friends. They genuinely liked each other’s presence, talking for hours, opening up in a way they rarely did with anyone else.

So when they try again, they go back to that. They try to rebuild from friendship. And I think it’s beautiful.

But it was doomed to fail.

You cannot ignore almost an hundred year of history. You cannot just step around something that big, that heavy, that literally ruined lives and pretend you can start from a neutral place?? (My sweet himbos you really thought!)

Of course it was going to explode, book or no book.

I am not saying Loustat needs to be healthy to exist. But they both have things to face, individually and together, before anything can truly work again.

And honestly… that tension? That slow, inevitable collapse before something softer ?

It’s delicious.

Them using footage of the DV and teasing that Lestat is finally going to "set the record straight" (train scene, Rue Royale, etc.) it takes scenes that were supposed to carry real emotional weight and shape how audiences connected to Louis and Claudia's trauma, and frames them as things to be relitigated yet again.

And yes, I know, it's just promo,it's marketing. We don't know the full context yet.

(And I actually believe the season itself will most likely be about Lestat confronting who he is, what he has done, and how his own past shaped him)

But this still lands in an already polarized fandom and gives ammunition to people who were already looking for reasons to call Louis and Claudia liars.

When every major act of violence can be endlessly revisited through "wait for the next version" or "the truth is coming" the story starts losing emotional impact.

Audiences start thinking: "let's wait for version #3 before feeling anything"

At some point, that stops feeling like complexity and starts weakening the story.

And there is already a huge empathy gap in this fandom.

Lestat's pain, regret, and guilt get immediate sympathy, while Louis and Claudia rarely receive that same instinctive grace.

My concern is using this specific angle for promo when the season will likely explore guilt and accountability in far more interesting ways. When there were so many other ways to tease his perspective without making Louis and Claudia's trauma feel up for debate again.

Right now, it just feels like putting their trauma on trial again...

And what hurts me the most is not even just the clips/trailers .