Jun 27
"I take daughters with no homes and I put them out on the street, Lord, and I lie to myself and say I'm giving them a roof, and food and dollar bills in their pockets but I look in the mirror, I know what I am: the big man in the big house stuffing cotton in my ears so I can't hear their cries." - Louis's confessional in S01E01 of IWTV
And here's Regina, a woman with no home and no family and in serious trouble. And he's coercing her with money (so she can get a better apartment) to provide a very intimate service for him. And he's absolutely ignoring how freaked out Regina actually is about all this. And how he's mostly exploiting her desperation.
#interview with the vampire#iwtv#the vampire lestat#tvl#louis de pointe du lac#iwtv spoilers#the vampire lestat spoilers#tvl spoilers#regina tvl#to clarify because there seems to be some confusion: the issue is not that he's paying her for an intimate service#like sex work is work folks#(and sure he's not hiring her for sex but like - he's hiring her for roleplay; it's in the same realm of work)#but anyway the issue is that he's not treating this like a professional transaction#he's put himself into the role of 'savior' and he's been stalking Regina and he isn't really taking no for an answer#he's using his considerable wealth to make her an offer she can't really refuse#it's coercive#if he'd just hired someone through a service it'd have been relatively fine (except that Louis still needs therapy to process his grief)#but like if he'd just hired someone in the roleplay line of work it absolutely would not be as fucked up as all this#but of course he can't just do that because as Lestat says at the beginni g of the episode - he 'doesn't know he needs rest or service.'
