#he didn’t need hormone injections just some IV thorazine...

[immortalconclusions]

ok hear me out the VC books in-universe are just Lestat’s descent into madness:

The original trilogy (IWTV, TVL, QOTD): unreliable narration but fairly reliable baseline mental status, mostly linear thought processes, cognition intact

TOTBT: Lestat deals with yet another suicide attempt by deciding he’s irredeemably evil again except for realsies this time. growing slightly mad and dangerous to know.

MTD: Lestat has a full on psychotic break...

Merrick: ...and never fully recovers

Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle: Lestat tries to run away from his problems in increasingly incoherent and insane ways

PL trilogy: Lestat has a dissociative figure and is probably holed away in isolation making up this elaborate fantasy about how he’s the prince of vampires or whatever

the end :)

(and it kinda makes sense bc the human brain kept alive for so long would have way too much hyperconnectivity and entropy and probably be way too prone to psychosis)

#vc #sorry Anne your hero isn’t much of a hero in the end #lestat #off the proverbial deep end #he didn’t need hormone injections just some IV thorazine... #vampire physiology