#vampire chonicles

And will take time away from scenes where they could be develping Armand and Lestat’s mental health struggles and focusing on them slowly facing their past pain/ mistakes and dealing with the damage they caused Louie. 

That’s the story I want to see improved, the Ann Rice had off screen mostly in the  novels. 

Not some stupid fight where Louie gets reduced to Lestats prize (yuck!) 

Argument that Louie is lying about Armand being the love of his life. 

Lestat takes on at least three more lovers in the last couple of books and basically does the vampire version of dating other people even after he gets Louie to move back in with him. There together but their not exclusive. 

Louie also takes a lot of very vacations with Armand and Daniel and their children to the point he practiculally lives there.  

Armand and Lestat are both the loves of Louis’s life. 

He’s part of Armand family and Lestat’s equally. 

Armand himself loves Daniel, Louie and even Lestat in a romantic sense. (its complicated) 

Honestly I don’t get the Lestat complaints about his behavior, Lestat wouldn’t act like that since in the books Lestat was cannonly very controlling and ignored other people bodily atonomy whenever it was inconvient for him.

A lot of fans seem to forget the body theif had Lestat rape two women while he was human again and he also forcefully turned David into a vampire despite him screaming no don’t turn me! Ann Rice later has both victum’s tell Lestat it was fine because they secretly wanted it which is just (eww!)

If you want to argue Ann went off the rails in later books and lestat is occ. I’ll remind you the Vampire Lestat had Lestat tell a boy  who was raped at 12, 13 they should of just offered a grown man sex and shamed them for not doing so.

So yeah Book Lestat feels he and other men are very much entitled to sex, company ect......

For those who claim book Lestat isn’t racist like tv show Lestat.  It is cannon that book Lestat was freinds with a british colonizer David who eventually became his lover so yeah it was there in the novels as well that Lestat wasn’t exactly mr  progressive. I mean he turned a slave owner into a vampire at best he was unconcerned with slavery/ race relations. 

  The Show just adds another icky layer to his book counterparts behavior. Which is already super icky.  I also think fans ignore  that show  Lestat has more power over Claudia/ Louis.

If Lestat tried some of the shit he did with Book Louis, he would of lost his finacial security since book Louis was playing for everything. Lestat turned him mostly for his bank account.

While their relationship gets pretty abusive emotionally book Lestat couldn’t cross certain lines with Louie since he had actual status/ wealth in the books. It seems he even waited two centuries to even get emotionally abusive. 

So book Louie had some pull in their relationship.  Lestat used his knowedge as a weapon to control him and Claudia but book Louis wasn’t where tv show louis was in terms of position due to racism. 

tv show Lestat louie have a more unequal power dynamic then their book counterparts. So Lestat can be more openly violent/ controlling because Louis has fewer options. Which is why I cann’t wait for Armand to show up since despite their unhealthy start book Armand gave Louis an exscape from Lestat when he needed it and an connection outside of Lestats bubble. 

Shipping aside Louis needs Armand and his family (though I am sour that tv series Daniel/david combo might be a part of that) to have people in his corner. 

Work in Progress: Nicolas de Lenfent

Yep. I'm drawing Nicolas now. And I always forget that I should not draw curls because I end up coloring each curl individually, but here we are coloring curls in 4 colours. He'll look cute.

Anyway, I ended up using Louis Garrel as a reference because I love his profile, his crazy hair is the perfect Nicolas ref AND thanks to @echo-de-la-lumiere I can only think of Nicolas as "unbearably French", and that's M. Garrel for you all, according to the internet and that old photo of him in front of the Eiffel tower looking stereotipically French 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also, I haven't decided yet if his suit should be red or terracota, but Nicolas (in my mind) is definitely the kind of man who wears suit and a tee shirt, and looks stylish and simply elegant, and is also alive in the 21st century. So, there's that.