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Also, the lawyer says SPECIFICALLY that their law firm knows how much LOUIS meant to their dear client. That Lestat had communicated to his lawyers specifically that Louis was important, this letter was to him, and Lestat's estate was to go to Louis. And given how 18c letters work, it likely would have arrived to Roget all in one big envelope with smaller envelopes with instructions and Louis' letter inside. There might even have been one for Claudia that Roget either decided not to hand over or that Lestat instructed that she was only to get if she came herself. He knew that she was plotting to kill him, true, but in the books he never begrudged her that and in fact admired her for doing what he himself never could. The idea that he would write her a similar 'I love you' letter isn't 100% outside of the scope of his characterization, nor is the idea that he might confess/repent to her some of what he considered to be his sins regarding her in it.

​I hope you don't mind me pulling this up, because: yes.

The lawyer knew who Louis was, and addressed him then.

That letter was for Louis.

I've just realised, I always presumed Nicolas sleeps at the Théâtre des Vampires once he's a vampire, after he and Lestat's parting... and I still think it... not least as, if Nicki's going back to his apartment, he ain't lasting a week as a vampire. He's burned in the sun: farewell Nicolas... or with the tiny eventuality of escaping that fate by his own choosing, he's locked up in jail by mortals and burned there. Anyway, he's definitely not lasting the decade he survived, alone.

But... what happens to Nicolas' apartment?!

Lestat bought the apartment!

Currently it's in an absolute STATE seeing as Armand ransacked the place, destroyed every item in it, doing everything but eating it all, and melted candles over every surface and artefact. He even tore down the curtains and broke the books.

But, what then?

It never meant anything to Nicolas.

It was never Nicki-and-Lestat's apartment, only ever Nicki's, bought by Lestat. It was only ever emblematic of the death of love and provision of only money in that era of mortal abandonment to Nicki.

So, I don't imagine Nicolas would want to live there. I think it would feel awful to be there. Doubly so seeing as it's also been ransacked by Armand (who also abducted and tortured his mortal self from there) so it's literally just a trauma-reminder building in every way... I'm really talking myself into Nicki burning it here, hahaha... but I think that's not very practical for an apartment! He'd burn the entire street!

But what do you think happened?

If you think *, please comment how Nicki survived beyond a matter of days! 😂...

Not sure if this counts as some sort of mini-analysis because it’s more of a late realization that came as I was thinking that some people think that his off-screen death was “easy” and dunno, I guess they wanted to see him punished onscreen? 

Because he was such a well-written scumbag that at the end we were all rooting for his demise, but I mean more like, I don’t think I ever heard anyone even refer to him as a “problematic fave” or anything even as a joke. He was irredeemable to the point that the only believable reason many find for him not dying on-screen or getting carded or something, it’s because censorship and the like. 

But that’s not the only reason, Arc V needed to stay consistent in the central themes of the series revolving entertainment dueling and bonding with people, by that logic they couldn’t have any of the Lancers and much less Yuya to card him or anyone else, for some of you it may be easy to say: “But, he really did deserve it and it’s not like they were suddenly going to card people willy-nilly.”

Well, no, obviously, but it would mean that it would have made it okay for any of them to card Dennis, or the Doc, or Leo, because doing that with Roger would have set up the precedent of “it’s okay to card people, if they deserve it.” and it’s also the reason why the Doc’s carding had to be done by Leo rather than any of our heroes.

And at the end? Roget died a miserable death anyway, crushed between dimensions and brought only by himself because he refused to accept defeat, so imo, it’s even poetic in a way.

If I wanted definition I’d hit the gym.

Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus was first published on 29 April 1852.