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danibelu · 1 year

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Nicolás x Lestat

El vampiro Lestat by: Anne Rise

Ben Barnes como Nicolás de Lenfent suena maravillo. ✨❤

#lestat de lioncourt #entrevista con el vampiro #interview with the vampire #prince lestat #tom cruise #1994 #anime fanart #anne rice #cronicas vampiricas #nicolas de lenfent #ben barnes #nicky x Lestat #Nicolas x Lestat

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tired-of-straight-lines · 8 months

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major Nickistat vibes

#if nicki had made it to the early 20th century #nickistat #nicolas de lenfent #lestat de lioncourt #nicolas x lestat #book cover #i haven't read this book. just randomly came across the cover and the vampire chronicles brain fever kicked in.

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thefairylights · 1 year

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Just going to put this out into the tags and maybe someone will see it!

Does anyone have good Nickistat fic recs? I’ve only ever read one fic and it was wonderful, but I’d like to read more.

So if you have any, please share.

#nickistat #nicolas de lenfent #the vampire chronicles #lestat de lioncourt #lestat x nicki #lestat x nicolas #nicki x lestat #Nicolas x Lestat #anne rice

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swedenis-h · 29 days

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“I am in a realm at last where I choose to triumph!”

#to this day can’t read this scene without crying #THEY MAKE ME SO SAD #literally how am I supposed to thrive in these conditions #art #fanart #digital art #fan art #my art #iwtv #tvl #the vampire lestat #nicolas de lenfent #lestat de lioncourt #nicki x lestat #nickilestat #nickistat

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haflacky · 10 months

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Young and in love

Lestat de Lioncourt and Nicolas de Lenfent

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savagewildnerness · 15 days

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Let’s talk about the Theatre Des Vampires & its potential impact!?!

First Lestat: pretty sure Lestat is a vampire here: he has the eyes, the nails & Armand is watching him. (Why would Armand watch mortal-Lestat? Unless watching Magnus and I’m sure we won’t see Magnus this season.) And that back bend has all the vibes of Lestat describing how as a vampire he can do impossibly graceful dance movements if he so chooses! (To delight and beguile, or so inhuman as to disturb!)

BUT book-Lestat does not theatre once he is a vampire. There’s only that one time that goes horribly wrong. To me, this does not look like it’s going horribly wrong!?! It looks like Lestat is still being “the greatest actor to have ever graced the stage”…??

Book-Lestat is horrified by vampire theatre. Including himself on the stage! He used to love how theatre conveyed something human & true & real. He felt it was a truly *good* think he could do. Being unable to read, human Lestat did a lot of improvised theatre (& Nicki taught him lines for some plays later on) - I’d argue improvisation being the most spontaneous & human theatre can get… so he finds it even moreso repellent how false it is as a vampire.

Compelled to go out on stage, Lestat looks out & sees a grinning skull behind every face. He feels he cannot find the natural, human meaning in words that was so instinctive to him when mortal. In the theatre, Lestat’s love as a mortal, Lestat truly feels what he has lost & will now never be. He could beguile & trick, but instead he intentionally horrifies the audience & himself - I think he does it `s he is so personally horrified and yet as theatre always was, still it must remain a place of truth for him? In the moment, there on stage, he realises his inhumanity and sees himself almost from outside himself as a horrific (though perfectly natural) monster “the mortal world seemed some desperate dream of rationality that in this lush and fetid jungle had not the slightest chance.” He sees himself like a cat or a rat or the evil vampire he is - he is a creature, but he is not human.

Until this point, other than when killing, Lestat has passed himself off easily amongst mortals as one of them. Yet, here on the stage he feels the Monster he is & cannot bear the artifice and the difference to what he once was, what he had the potential to be and what he was on the cusp of becoming. The theatre is like a reminder to him that his human life is over. This is a quality he will later be unable to bear in Nicki’s virtuoso violin skill once he becomes a vampire too. Nicki leans right in to the parody & evil manipulation of skill as opposed to mortal expression of humanity & performing with the devil’s instrument. Nicki finds a purity and truth in that & it’s the antithesis of what Lestat adored from & felt in Nicki’s mortal violin playing. Just as mad-Vampire-Nicki is the antithesis of all Lestat loved & they immediately despise each other (albeit Lestat will never truly not love too.)

Anyway, back to just-turned Lestat: at the same time, it’s Lestat’s *need* to return to the theatre that is really Nicolas’ downfall. Nicki was always fragile, and moreso when Lestat was stolen away. And of course when Armand kidnaps Nicki he is completely mad & unsaveable by then. But he had a small chance at some life... until this visitation to the theatre by Lestat, where Nicolas truly sees for his own eyes that something awful has befallen Lestat & he doesn’t understand it & nobody but him will believe it as they just want to believe Lestat the wondrous benefactor who has gifted them so much money and the theatre and charms everyone still.

This is in my opinion the point of no return for Nicki. He is a mad thing who I don’t think has any way back to sanity and life from here on. Gabrielle recognises it already even where Lestat cannot admit it to himself when she asks Lestat if he'll turn Nicki. At that time Lestat says he is appalled by the idea... but obviously he would have thought on it. Once Lestat showed his vampire self to Nicki, Nicki’s mortal life was done for. He begins drinking to extreme excess & cannot cope with life at... and this is before Armand snatches him.

Now, if the show have Lestat at the theatre for longer & actually using his skills to trick audiences for a while, will the impact this has on (presumably still mortal) Nicki be even deeper? It surely would be given the scenario…? And so will Lestat feel even more guilt o we Nicki’s eventual downfall? I can almost see it in my mind playing out now. Lestat using his vampiric skill to beguile audiences for a time, Nicki grieving increasingly mad & all the other people at the theatre merely adoring Lestat & not wishing to see anything wrong. And maybe even Nicki wanting to believe in moments that all is well? But really, Nicki growing increasingly fragile until, as in the books Armand steals him away. I just feel like something like this might be in the TV show and I feel that it could be an interesting deepening of the emotion (although it would alter Lestat in the theatre a little and the impact of the theatre to Lestat's self… but then, that was Lestat’s thoughts and horror as a new vampire. He feels very differently by the time he becomes a rock star… so…?!)

And this ties in: the recent clips suggest Claudia loves the theatre & Louis hates it. Louis always hated the callousness of the theatre, but Claudia loved it mainly as a clever way to ensnare victims. In the theatre in the book she is immediately in danger. Will this be different feelings here. This older Claudia may initially love the idea of joining the theatre! It may appeal to her nature! But oh, what awaits her…

Anyway: just some train-of-thought ponderings….

Anyone have thoughts on this?

#interview with the vampire #anne rice #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire lestat #iwtv lestat #amc interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #iwtv amc #nicolas de lenfent #lestat x nicolas #nicki de lenfent #lestat x nicki #louis de pointe du lac #claudia de pointe du lac #claudia de lioncourt #iwtv louis #IWTV nicolas

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the-slut-lestat · 6 months

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I wonder if Nicki heard the birds too..

#my pretty little violinist 🎻#interview with the vampire #iwtv #nicolas de lenfent #nickistat #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire lestat #tvc #vampire chronicles #nicki x lestat #lestat x nicki #lestat x nicolas #my doodles

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nightcolorz · 4 months

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There r only two explanations for Nicolas never coming back in any form throughout tvc when Lestat both literally goes to heaven and hell and then every dead character is revealed to be either alive or a ghost, and one of which is that Claudia’s ghost upon meeting him immediately bodied his ass. Lestat is always like where is Nicki? Is he at peace? Why isn’t he in hell? Why isn’t he a ghost?, meanwhile Nicki has been blipped from existence for centuries ever since Claudia got to vampire afterlife and instantly unhinged her jaw and consumed him. They didn’t even have an altercation to prompt this Claudia just smelled a shitty gay cunt who was meaningful to Lestat and knew that he needed to go to super hell forever.

The only other explanation is that Nicki is alive and he’s been hiding out with the knowledge that if he shows up he will be a part of these fuck ass stupid ass books against his will, so he only makes his presence known after the series is definitively finished under threat of second divorce

#tvc #the vampire chronicles #vampire chronicles #vc #Said this to translestatdl in discord dms and he told me to post it 🔥#lestat de lioncourt #iwtv #interview with the vampire #nicolas de lenfent #nickistat #nicki x lestat #lestat x nicki #claudia tvc

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poison-and-the-rose · 2 years

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Did you miss them ? I sure did !

#the vampire chronicles #illustration #the vampire lestat #anne rice #sketch #digital art #lestat x nicki #nicolas de lenfent

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williamaltman · 1 year

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People really read Nicolas admitting his self-destructive tendencies and how he thought running away from home to another city and making a living out of being a violinist/his boyfriend possibly being an actor wasn’t gonna work out for them and went "Yeah he really just hated Lestat and wished him the worst".

Yes he was jealous of "Lestat's light", his ability to endure, but he also literally says that that's what attracted him to Lestat in the first place and that he needed him/that light to feel complete.

How come for every other relationship you're appreciating how much they fucking hate and love each other at the same time, but Nicolas is somehow the devil and the ~most emotionally abusive boyfriend~ for having complicated feelings about Lestat and eventually turning on him???

(Mind you it was Lestat's idea to go to Paris, after Nicolas told him multiple times that it wasn't so great there, and he only lashed out against Lestat after they were over, so I don't think you can even say he was emotionally abusive in their relationship)

#defending nicolas de lenfent on the internet isn't enough #i need a gun #nicolas de lenfent #nickistat #lestat x nicki #lestat x nicolas #the vampire lestat #vampire chronicles #the vampire chronicles #vc #tvc

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lestatbaby · 25 days

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Lestat's Diary

Did the manips on Paint so the heads are kinda (lol) off but he expressed himself well I think. Check out the notes and stickers he added!

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vampire-chronicles · 11 months

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“He tore the notes out of the violin and each note was translucent and throbbing. His eyes were closed, his mouth a little distorted, his lower lip sliding to the side, and what struck my heart almost as much as the song itself was the way that he seemed with his whole body to lean into the music, to press his soul like an ear to the instrument. I had never known music like it, the rawness of it, the intensity, the rapid glittering torrents of notes that came out of the strings as he sawed away. It was Mozart that he was playing, and it had all the gaiety, the velocity, and the sheer loveliness of everything Mozart wrote. When he'd finished, I was staring at him and I realized I was gripping the sides of my head. "Monsieur, what's the matter! " he said, almost helplessly, and I stood up and threw my arms around him and kissed him on both cheeks and kissed the violin. "Stop calling me Monsieur, " I said. "Call me by my name. " I lay back down on the bed and buried my face on my arm and started to cry, and once I'd started I couldn't stop it. He sat next to me, hugging me and asking me why I was crying, and though I couldn't tell him, I could see that he was overwhelmed that his music had produced this effect.”

-The Vampire Lestat

The violinist pictures are from the movie ‘The Devil's Violinist’

#interview with the vampire #the vampire lestat #lestat de lioncourt #nicolas de lenfent #lestat x nicolas #nickistat #lestat #anne rice #the vampire chronicles #vampire #violinist #paganini #david garrett #the devil's violinist #iwtv #iwtv lestat #sam reid #iwtv amc

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swedenis-h · 22 days

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“… and though I ignored and would have concealed it if I could, he shoved at me and cursed me under his breath.” (X)

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our-divine-violinist · 4 months

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I was just thinking about this and I’m sure no one cares, but I’m putting this here for the hell of it. Someone talk to me about Nicolas de Lenfent.

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He had turned to the window, and he was rising as if he’d been called by a secret voice. The look on his face was indescribable.

He knew I was there!

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It was a very different thing from a mortal seeing my face and blurting out my name in confusion. He had recognized in my monster self something that he knew and loved.

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And through the silence I heard his panic. He sensed that I was there! My presence, mind you, that is what he sensed, just as I sensed ‘the presence’ in the graveyards, but how, he argued with himself, could Lestat have been here?

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All I could think was, What in the name of hell is this presence that he felt?

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It’s a interesting question Lestat asks here, right?

Nowhere in the few chapters we get of Nicki in The Vampire Lestat is there anything to indicate that Nicolas had anything special about him. We know that he picked up playing the violin well enough to perform at a small boulevard theater but would never be good enough to play for the court or a court sanctioned theater. There’s nothing that was really said that was outstanding about his appearance. And we don’t get any kind of back story that he’s unique from any other young man his age-- we don’t hear of Nicki killing a pack of wolves or exceling in his intelligent or natural gifts.

I really think this is as simple as Anne explaining that Nicolas in this moment had a sixth sense. And that got me thinking about it in relation to the time period of the book.

The theory of a sixth sense is, interestingly enough, something that was being written about during this time period in the late 18th century. This was a time of animal magnetism, the belief that a universal magnetic fluid contributed to the health of individuals. But derived from that theory, the paranormal phenomenon of the sixth sense was introduced by Tardy de Monravel in his Essai sur la Theorie du Somnambolisme Magnetique (1785). This basically said that the sixth sense was the source and sum of all our partial senses combined. It had a more spiritual context to it.

Teachings relating to this was started as early as the 1760s by the mesmerists, but it’s doubtful this kind of knowledge would have trickled down into Lestat’s tiny part of the Auvernge so quickly. So it’s nice that he doesn’t know what to call it. I seriously doubt Anne put this much thought into this little bit of the book, but I couldn’t help but go, huh, why is Lestat so interested in this thing Nicki is able to do? I don’t think Anne was writing this from a late 18th century view on the sixth sense, but it’s nice to go down the rabbit hole and realize how recent the term really is! She’s definitely using it in a very modern sense of the theory.

But being the romantic that I am, I want to believe Nicki’s heart/soul was longing for Lestat’s heart/soul because their fates were so intertwined at this point. That it was the feeling of recognizing something familiar and gravitating towards it. And maybe that’s what love is? I want this to be the case so bad, it’s so sweet. So this is usually the take I go with to quench my parched soul for NickiStat.

But in all honesty, I think we are meant to read this as he had that feeling of knowing he was being watched and assumed it was Lestat—because who else would be creeping on some random alcoholic violinist? His sixth sense was alerting him that he had a predator nearby. Like those stories of people who report feeling something watching them in the woods-- whether that is some wild animal or something supernatural is up to you to decide. We see this same kind of sixth sense from Lestat as a mortal as well when Magnus began to appear. You could argue Magnus was using the Spell Gift on him, but I’m not sure Anne had even thought up that power yet at this point in her writings (but correct me if I’m wrong). We know he has the Mind Gift because Lestat is hearing him call to him as Wolfkiller.

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When Nicki and I were alone I had to talk about it, about the peculiar sensation that I had fallen asleep on the stage and had been dreaming.

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Moving away from this antiquated view of the sixth sense, there are two beliefs that we can look to that might resonate a bit more in the 20th and 21st centuries. Charles Richet—this is the guy who coined the term ectoplasm-- used the term of sixth sense to mean an unknown sense the perceives hypothetical vibrations of reality in his book Our Sixth Sense (1928). He denounced that the spiritual had anything to do with the sixth sense and it stemmed from physiology. And this theory later leads to J.B. Rhines’s term called extrasensory perception (ESP) with a book of the same name (1934), which was the ability to acquire information that was shielded from the sense.

Doesn’t this sound way more familiar? Definitely more of where I think Anne was writing from. So what was the name of the presence you felt, Lestat? Anne was writing about Nicki’s sixth sense, just in a modern way you won’t know for around 150 more years! Or you can just do my thing and say it’s the result of love, knowing someone’s heart so well, longing for the thing you recognize as home. Go for the latter explain Lestat. 🥲

#Nicolas de Lenfent #nicki de lenfent #nickistat #nicki x lestat #lestat x nicki #the vampire chronicles #don’t mind me I’m still trapped in this desolate place #I just wanted them to be together #it was such a star crossed lovers story that could have been

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savagewildnerness · 1 month

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Quick improvisation to Come to Me with Lestat. Maybe I’ll think about this more some time, but just wanted to improvise today & to see if I could do clips like this…

#interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #anne rice #the vampire lestat #iwtv lestat #violin improvisation #amc interview with the vampire #iwtv louis #amc iwtv #iwtv amc #violin #lestat iwtv #lestat x louis #nicolas de lenfent #lestat x nicolas #five stringed violin #vampire chronicles #interview with the vampire amc

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the-slut-lestat · 7 months

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Can’t believe Lestat is the only top in France 😔

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