like he’s not performing goodness he’s performing strength, control, sophistication and sometimes (relative) moral superiority. his desire to come off as these things supersedes his desire to be good or at least the shame he feels at not being good but idk
imo! louis isnt the most concerned with being seen as good/moral. he does rly care about how he's perceived and that can be contradictory to how he acts. but his battle w/ evil is more internal, which does influence how he wants to be perceived, but its far from the whole thing
imo! louis isnt the most concerned with being seen as good/moral. he does rly care about how he's perceived and that can be contradictory to how he acts. but his battle w/ evil is more internal, which does influence how he wants to be perceived, but its far from the whole thing
the way that iwtv deals with identity and true nature is so interesting to me bc so many characters put up “facades” in reaction to things that happen to them but at what point does that become an actual part of their identity? where do we draw the line between real and fake?
why is lestat’s violence/hypersexuality just a trauma response but louis’ selfishness/passivity are inherent moral failings?? if one spends 200 years acting contrary to their nature and those actions shape the course of their life, what matters more the action or the feeling?
is it bad that i dont think vampires killing people is actually that bad?? everyone's always like "well actually they're all evil murderers🤓" but like thats the least of my concerns tbh
"ive decided im ready for whatever lestat has to say" she wanted to go back earlier but she stayed away because of lestat... im just realizing lestat's going to have to read all this for the first time through daniel's book
I found this transcript of claudias diary the other day on reddit... the "I don't know if he even wants to leave lestat even though he causes him great pain" ☹☹ yeah louis never wanted to abandon lestat