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it runs in her blood

No one suffers more than girls who are a little too much like their fathers. No one suffers more than girls who love their mothers more than their mothers love them back. No one suffers more than hopeful girls who are trying their best in a world that hates them by design.

Armand wants to play the martyr. In the script he’s mocked up, he plays the martyr. Louis plays the ingenue, Claudia plays the selfish, lying villain, and Lestat plays the trickster (half-victim, half-villain). Madeleine plays collateral damage.

Re: Claudia de Lioncourt, like, yeah, of course she’s a Lioncourt. Lestat is the father. He made her and he was the patriarch of their family, so he’s the father. Armand’s being insulting by calling her that and comparing her to the man she hates, but it’s her name. What makes her a Lioncourt (and not a de Pointe du Lac) is the authority and abuse enacted on her by Lestat. It may not be in her legal name, but it’s in her blood. Not only is it in her blood, she’s like him in a lot of ways. The family resemblance is real. It’s hurtful when Armand says it because it’s true. You can’t just undo paternity because you hate your dad. If only it were that easy.

Did you hear about that, mother?

Broke her daughter's legs in two

And said it's too dangerous out there to walk

So

I had to save you

claudia is what happens when you have a baby to save the relationship and i fully mean that actually. from the beginning her existence is not about her. her life not her own. crazy crazy crazy

my coven is claudia

The revelation that Louis fed Claudia his blood before Lestat turned her has broken me entirely... Lestat may have been her "true" maker but she had Louis' blood in her as she transformed too. They made her and raised her together just as much as they both failed her and destroyed her in turn.

"love makes you stupid" is about louis who decides to chose his companion of the day over a child he cursed into the darkness out of his own selfishness; it's about claudia who despite experiencing the cruelty of different vampires firsthand time and time again decides to stay with her newfound beloved nearby the coven who she knows is ruthless to anyone who breaks their self-imposed rules; it's about armand who decides it's okay to get rid of the child of his new lover because "can you imagine me without the burden of her?" and he does the idea a little too much and wants to believe it'll work out in the long run; it's about lestat who knows that you shouldn't turn children into vampires but his husband who just left him, now is begging him to give him one, and he succumbs because he hopes that this will save their marriage even though deep down he knows it won't

I think Armand considers what he did (complicit in Claudia murder) to be less awful than what Louis did (complicit in Claudia’s turning) because he so strongly believes that vampirism is a fate worse than death.

And when Louis then makes his own fledgling? Armand could kill thousands of vampires and not believe himself as cruel as Louis.

the score playing as Claudia is sentenced to death is a track from season 1 "the fantasy of happiness" which first plays at the end of episode 4 when Claudia tells her dumb dumb diary that she's doing just fine then sticks her arm in the sun....

something so poetic about the actress change for Claudia in s2 actually. something about how she’s only defined in relation to Louis in s1, and once we start seeing her from Armand’s and Madeline’s and eventually Lestat’s perspective she’s a whole different woman. like the fact that when we see the scene where she’s turned again, see the version Lestat showed Louis during the trial, she’s quite literally a different person. we will never know what she was actually like, we only have her words and the reconstructions other people have made of her, and those reconstructions are so contradictory and incomplete that we don’t even have a clear picture of what she looks like in a visual medium. memory is a monster and it fucking ate her

the way claudia is never allowed to tell her own story and only ever exists as a subject in someone else's narrative. a child not allowed to speak up against her parents a performer forced to repeat the same song a writer deprived of her diaries an accused without the right of defense. and the way they let her have her last words with madeleine, out of earshot and inconsequential to the narrative, and therefore finally her own. the way we don't know what she says, but we do know that she gets to say it. that finally she gets to say it.

i dont think iwtv couldve communicated the utter horror of claudia's situation better than in that scene of her being dragged on the floor by louis. its genuinely frightening to watch. it really hammers home the emotional horror that exists in louis and lestats relationship - revealing the depth of louis despair, so awful that it would make him do something like that, beg the way he did. lestats own strange panic, unsettling. and the plain, unobscured, violent horror of claudia's burned body being pulled around like a doll, never to have autonomy ever again. its not romantic, not from any point of view, not anymore. it is just horror.

iwtv, episode 14 // young man kneeling before god the father by egon schiele

you will regret this for the rest of your life

Interview with the Vampire | user Starpeace

tragic father daughter duo save me...

I see the best of my vampiric self in her

never been about me