sleevebuscemii
crazy and insane how louis’ biggest lie and biggest tragedy was claudia. how he tells the story like it’s about him being in an abusive codependent relationship with lestat until claudia comes into his life and they manage to run away together. how he tells the story like it’s not about his romance with lestat but actually about his love for claudia. and how the culmination of that is them killing him together for each other and starting a life together. that is what louis is leading up to from the very start that is the point of his story and the core of it and it’s a lie. because he chooses lestat. because he turns on claudia and chooses lestat. how he positions himself as claudia’s greatest protector and advocate and that above all she was the most important thing to him and that’s all true!!! but what’s also true is that he chooses lestat and that’s his biggest shame and he’s trying to retell this story so he can come up with the ending he wishes for but this ‘nuanced version’ his ‘odyssey’ is a lie!!!! he can’t tell the truth because it’s too painful so he’s fabricating this idealized ‘nuanced’ version to make it bearable but he can’t escape it and that’s been the whole point and that’s the crux of louis’ entire being!!! everyone is right when they say louis is a tragedy is the tragedy of the story because he never escapes any of it. he chooses lestat and loses claudia he leaves lestat only to get with armand. it’s 2022 and he’s got a journalist in his concrete living room trying to fabricate a version of his life he can live with but it won’t work because it’s not real and all that’s real are his choices and his burdens and his trauma and everything he’s lost
