oh stand up, assad zaman! the concert hasn’t even started yet and he’s all over ebogo

the way he speaks about the lives of those around him, and how he'll miss all the life and death he has witnessed/experienced in new orleans reads to me as one final act of confession towards louis. it's almost his way of begging. begging louis not to allow claudia to follow through with her plan, begging louis to run away with him and fall in love with him (completely, flaws and all), forgive him, tell him 'i love you'.

thinking then, about how when louis finds out antionette is still alive he admits that he knew lestat would have killed her in an instance if he knew louis would love him whole. all louis had to do was say 'i love you' and mean it.

following on from that i then think about that one quote from sam reid, how lestat, like anyone, just wants to be loved. he wants to be loved and understood completely. and he wants to live a life of love.