#lestat de lioncourt
Where do you meet the Devil, and what are the terms of the agreement?
Interview with the Vampire (2022-)
diasdelasombra
honestly, i am in no rush to get to lestat’s narration. of course i won’t know if i like it until we get to it, but right now i can’t imagine that i’ll care even half as much as i care about louis’ point of view, and i’m certainly not looking forward to lestat talking on and on without the framing device of the interview.
if it’s not daniel following up on the story, lestat definitely needs someone who will call him out on his bullshit. the biggest issue with the vampire chronicles is that his bogus version of events goes unchallenged for fourteen books, so i suggest that jesse —budding psychic and aspiring reporter investigating daniel molloy’s disappearance— should be the one interviewing his ass.
laszloggs
iwtv actually inspired the Dante and Virgil painting. William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a huge Anne Rice fan
kaelio
cuddly boys :>
(people who know my fanart from elsewhere know I sometimes like to have a weird color mixed version of whatever art I just did. you can prefer whichever one you like!)
sad time ghost memory boys :<
He could fly?
He said it was more like floating, arising at will, propelling in a direction by the decision. He called it “the cloud gift”.
Interview with the Vampire (2022-)
esinofsardis
To any vampire-loving friends who are confused about the "de" and "du" in Louis and Lestat's names, a quick explanation:
These last names function like "Robin of Locksley" or "Lawrence of Arabia". Pre-dating modern last names, people were identified most often by their parentage ("Martin son of John" or "Samuel Davidson") or in the case of land-owning nobility, by their land.
(Like how in Downtown Abbey Robert Crawley is the Earl of Grantham and often addressed as "Lord Grantham" but never as "Lord Crawley". He is associated with the land he owns--Lord Grantham is probably a shortened version of "Lord of Grantham", or in French "Monsieur de Grantham".)
The important part here is that French didn't drop the "of" in these titles. And these titles either referred to a place or family line. Therefore:
- Lestat de Lioncourt = Lestat of [the family] Lioncourt*
- Louis de Pointe du Lac = Louis of Peak of the Lake ("peak of the lake" being the name of the estate)
*Lestat's family name might well come from their coat of arms--a lion on the coat of arms could have turned into Lioncourt
So why all this context? Well it's interesting but because it brings me to grammar:
"de" = of
"du" = of the (this is a contraction of "de le")
So both Lestat's and Louis' names are followed by "de" to indicate who/what they are associated with. Louis then has "du" between pointe and lac because "peak of lake" doesn't make sense grammatically.
These little two letter words are easy to confuse especially if you don't know why they're different. Hopefully this helps!
tl;dr it's "Louis de Pointe du Lac/Louis of Peak of the Lake" and "Lestat de Lioncourt/Lestat of Lioncourt"
Happy writing and shipping!!
ilvalentinos
Forget ‘Lestat narrating TVL to Louis’/‘Lestat narrating TVL to Daniel’/Armand narrating TVL to Daniel in post coital bliss
I raise you lestat on Howard stern eight hour tell all (he will not let Howard or the technicians leave.) in which he drops 89 slurs and confesses to 178 cold cases from years 1960-2010 within the first 15 minutes. #CANCELTVL and #YOUDONTSPEAKFORUS trends above the US election