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obaaaa · 21 hours

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They're so sick for this

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #jacob anderson #louis de pointe du lac #sam reid #lestat de lioncourt #assad zaman #loustat #delainey hayles #anne rice #the vampire chronicles #paul de pointe du lac

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blueiight · 3 days

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“…i was haunted by my brother’s death, by the abandonment of my sister…”

majority of the conversation around paul in the amc setting revolves around the question of whodunnit, jokes about him at the second dinner table scene of the pilot, or paralleling his mental illness to louis [a parallel the show admittedly draws upon - with louis stopping his suicide attempt bc “paul forever ruining grace’s wedding night, and [louis] not wanting to do the same to claudia on the anniversary of her escape”] what i intend to focus on, is the specific nature of paul’s complaints with respect to levi, and what paul and claudia represent to louis.

in the book, paul wants louis to sell the plantations & town homes they own in new orleans, and give louis the money so that paul could travel and become a missionary saving france from the godless jacobins. the paul that we’re introduced to in the show is… similar in motivation, but fundamentally divergent. tithe the money over to st. augustine’s so the house dont fall in on them, but the first dinner table goes as this after he says that:

whats of note too is the divergence of the draft v the pilot release. the show excises the freniere family w the exception of levi himself to drive home how paul’s objections to levi’s religious and ethnic background are overruled by the lingering shadow of jim crow.

paul is also reminded that his autonomy is conditional in this first dinner scene here: louis quips back to his point about sugarcane with “if daddy was still here, you’d be locked up in that asylum over in jackson”. its a reminder of the earlier point, but also speaks to something else.

bc of paul’s profound mental illness, he would never be allowed to live an autonomous life, much less hold authority over anyone: whether its the man of the house [as louis was in the du lac family], or as a bride [grace] or as the mother [florence].

this is strongly reminiscent of claudia — someone whos personal autonomy is entirely dependent on the purview of physically mature vampires by nature of permanently being trapped in the body of a preteen. it is also reminiscent of claudia in that louis in both cases plays a sort of savior in relation to them — whether its louis taking paul out of the asylum, or louis taking claudia out of the burning rooming home. louis views paul and claudia, especially claudia, as people that save him from his own self-loathing.. claudia somehow possessing this redemptive quality re: baby jesus…

louis loves both of them deeply, but as iwtv has established, love as a feeling does not exempt someone from enacting violence toward you. in fact, the very loved one that harmed you has an entire framework of rationalizing that violent act as being ‘for your[my] own good’ as is.

the title of this little post comes from the season one finale, where louis collapses in on himself to try to make sense of why he spared lestat, invoking paul and grace to create this red herring to the ‘murder of lestat’. but truly, the thread is false. louis did not abandon grace, and lestat’s death was only an attempted murder sabotaged by louis. modern day louis in the season finale triggers himself through daniel in order to provoke armand, the “protector of his pain”, to reveal himself + question him on the death of claudia, just as he questioned lestat on the death of paul in s1e6.

#yn.#iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #claudia #paul de pointe du lac #tldr: he ended on a good note w paul but a bad one w claudia & thats why hes so regretful/did the 2nd interview in 2022

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fayevalcntine · 2 months

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Louis de Pointe du Lac - Declarations of Love

#iwtvedit #iwtv #interview with the vampire #amc interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #claudia #claudia iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #paul de pointe du lac #vampireedit #dailyflicks #iwtvsource

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machonnes · 1 year

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) 1.01 "In Throes of Increasing Wonder" (inspo from @loveblcd‘s post)

#iwtvedit #iwtv #iwtv amc #interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #loustat #grace de pointe du lac #levi frenier #paul de pointe du lac #*mine #*

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brotherconstant · 2 months

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | S1 It is time for me to leave home, yet again, as I have so many times before. To walk away from the table still hungry.

#iwtvedit #iwtv #interview with the vampire #beegifs #long post #body horror #louis de pointe du lac #grace de pointe du lac #paul de pointe du lac #florence de pointe du lac #daniel molloy #miss lily #claudia #claudia iwtv #charlie iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #jonah macon #armand

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hapireads · 9 months

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"the birds speak for him"

lestat de lioncourt and louis de pointe du lac in interview with the vampire (ep. 6)

#jacob anderson #louis de pointe du lac #sam reid #lestat de lioncourt #interview with the vampire #iwtv #iwtv2022 #amc iwtv #the vampire chronicles #paul de pointe du lac #amc interview with the vampire #hapireadsgifs

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losingbenni · 1 year

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LOUIS & PAUL de Pointe du Lac

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022) 1.01 - In Throes of Increasing Wonder…

#interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #paul de pointe du lac #iwtvedit #vcsource #mygifs #jacob anderson #steven norfleet

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fishslappping · 1 year

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Altar Boys Come Dancing Everyday For God(dammit im sad now)

#🥺🥺🥹#interview with the vampire #my stuff #Louis de pointe du lac #Paul de pointe du lac #Jacob Anderson #Steven G Norfleet #I was gonna do more but I don’t know if I’ll have the energy for drawing after work starts back up tomorrow so TAKE IT

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jamiie-tartt · 1 year

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Interview with the Vampire (2022-) | 1.01 ― "In Throes of Increasing Wonder"

#iwtvedit #interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #paul de pointe du lac #louis de pointe du lac #grace de pointe du lac #florence de pointe du lac #loustat #userbbelcher #chewieblog #tvedit #iwtvsource #vcsource #interview with the vampire amc #*

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sommerspage · 2 years

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Requested by Anon.

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #iwtv spoilers #louis de pointe du lac #paul de pointe du lac #sompagedit #sompagerequests

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blueiight · 5 months

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in the book, i think paul’s death , the frenieres and their connection via slavery are more important mortals to book louis than his sister or mother. they both remain unnamed figures, tertiary symbols for how immortality and time strip u away from the mortal sphere. we have kalyne’s acting and the show to thank for making her a complex character.

the show elevates the entire du lac family dynamic imo, paul’s one-dimensional fanaticism becomes a compelling sort of religious psychosis - a mad black man clinging to faith in a world that gave him very few other options. the ‘asylum in jackson’ at their time was a segregated facility that made their patients build the infrastructure themselves. the last sunrise book louis saw of his sleeping sister becomes the last sunrise show louis saw - his younger brother killing himself the morning after his sister’s wedding.

paul is also an introduction for the ‘roles louis (and paul, who is unable to) has to play’. unable to mask, paul propositions a lady of the night with the word of god. louis, who ‘did not want to draw a knife on [his] brother, but couldnt afford to look weak on liberty’, threatens paul. lestat is seduced not by the act alone, but the tempest in louis’s mind as he commits it. it is paul’s suicide that is the last time louis sees the sunrise, and grace + florence’s subsequent responses to it that drive louis in the drunken haze he was in before/while being turned. with the loss of paul, louis is the sole ‘aberration’ of their family while grace is the ‘good sister’ as kalyne coleman worded it.

grace’s arc in the show is rendered a fascinating parallel to louis’s. as pointed out in many gifsets + the like, grace is married proper while louis has a bloody vow of immortality in st. augustine’s. also grace, whos able to be properly married with children of her own, her expected role as a (cis) woman of her age, v. louis, whos rendered an immortal placee, who nearly eats his own nephew and weeps bc he cannot have ‘children of his own’ (unlike grace, is whats unsaid).

he desires to have a family to complete his companionship, and also to be in an ‘aberrant’ role for a man of his age. louis, in his adoption of claudia in the next episode, then brings her to the first time to his mother’s funeral, with a ‘family of his own’ to protect him from his mortal family’s dispute.

grace is also rendered a sort of babette here, as a mortal observer to louis’s immortality, who watches him be gradually removed from their day, and ends up parting with louis on vaguely similar notes - fear of the devil in louis.

but where babette was terrified of book louis (& lestat, though she gave no indication of knowing they were both there) bc of his oppressive hunting of the people in his capture, bc louis+ lestat were threatening her for a way to escape to new orleans; grace in the show was burying the memory of the brother she once had, lost to the abstract devil that is immortality. its a coda, a sequel of sorts to the confrontation at the du lac mansion in episode 3, where florence calls louis the devil. grace buries louis with him standing there. the makeup is dubious, but grace is meant to be older as indicated by her attire + dialogue (“prayed myself old thinkin bout u”). babette’s departure from the narrative segways claudia’s entry, but in the show, grace’s departure from the narrative marks a turning point for claudia and louis. claudia watching louis weep over his own grave makes her believe she was ‘made to be louis’s sister’, and louis losing his last mortal connection marks a turning point that opens him for further abuse that very episode ends on.

all of this is to say this is an extremely compelling depiction of siblinghood, and how love can be lost and/or estranged between family.

#yn.#iwtv #tvc #louis de pointe du lac #grace de pointe du lac #paul de pointe du lac #claudia #☀️

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fayevalcntine · 7 months

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