bitingfaggotry

my hottest take is that the fight isnt about who is and who isnt lying, but perspective. claudia only hears and sees the collateral of the fight, when she talks to louis its his thoughts so she cannot hear how hurt he is, and the only line he says is to try to keep her calm and away from them. she's experiencing domestic abuse from a child's perspective, she's never going to see exactly what happened with one parent trying the hardest to keep it away from her, the other one showing her the wounds he caused.

louis in the present day is reframing this as "yes he did this but are we the sum of our worst moments", doesn't even consider himself a victim. he's so avoidant of what lestat did he doesn't even fill in the information with what he remembers, letting claudia describe it until lestat flew them into the sky and he has no choice because she isnt there anymore to be a third perspective he can use instead of talking about his own feelings and thoughts because as we see he still has flashbacks of the fall (experiencing his brother's suicide by his lover's hands) in the present day