brightfelon

When people say like “Lestat thought Louis was so agressive and it turned out he was just a gentle boy.” No, that’s not it lol. He’s literally like “I can tell you are playing all these roles and it brings you sorrow” he knows that Louis isn’t actually a cut throat businessman. He knows Louis actually loves his brother and that the whole knife thing was an act. Lestat is actually right about Louis’s repressed rage and passion and capacity for love. What he misjudged was Louis’s ability to rise “above” his humanity. He expected his human passion to transmute into vampire passion, becoming even more intense, a passion to match Lestat’s own.

And it’s not actually out of line for Lestat to expect this, he’s literally never met a vampire that’s had Louis’s trouble before. That’s what makes Louis unique it’s what makes him the vampire It Girl. He still seems like a human and vampires love humanity and want to be as close to it as possible but obviously they can’t. But then here comes Louis, who is uncannily human and emotional and never achieves that vampire detachment and they all want him desperately.

So the thing that Lestat deeply resents Louis for, that he’s not his “companion in the dark gift” is actually the thing he comes to most love about him. Louis will always be able to connect him to life and humanity because he never left it.