i was like why do i barely see people discussing that it's confirmed lestat willingly participated in the trial but now i realize most of his fans probably don't believe it still. my bad
All I'm gonna say if Louis was f*cking Lestat while Lestat was disassociating, depressed, and comparing sex to a chore yall would have held a trial pt.2 and connecting it back to him being pimp like yall do everything else.
"The sky is blue"
"That's bc Louis was a pimp"
armand was running that coven like the fucking navy bro TOO OLD TO PLAY HAMLET, TOO YOUNG TO PLAY POLONIUS, KNOW YOUR ROLE, THESP, OR JOIN YOUR MAKER IN OBLIVION
Twt is the only place where you can say “they made lestat passive and had him be manipulated into all his worst moments” and ppl will tell you you’re defending him being sexually abused by his mother
the way you can literally map the trial script onto major s3 story beats. lestat's agency diminished to the point every bad choice he's ever made is someone else controlling him, louis the cold callous pimp did we mention pimp?? and claudia defined by her manipulation and rage
also can i just say i don't like how a lot of people talk about louis being an unreliable narrator. like some of you genuinely think he was lying for fun and not a traumatized brain searching through and picking apart all the trauma he'd been through to the best of his abilities
they took every questionable (and interesting!) decision lestat made with his own free will bc he’s messy and made him a victim of circumstances idk who this damsel in distress is but it’s not lestat