#and the removalists are just like 🤨🤨🤨

[pynkhues]

I hope Carol goes all the way with how poor the Lioncourts are. I hope their costumes are ratty, worn, out of fashion and have mended patches that don’t match in color. I hope Lestat wears Augustin’s hand-me-downs. I don’t want them to downplay the Lioncourt poverty for TV Period Piece Glam. I grew up in a trailer park and I hate it when they do that. Let the main characters be visibly poor and unglamorous!!!!!!!

Me too, anon, especially because the descriptions as Anne writes them are so evocative. I know I just tagged it, but have that full little sequence as she wrote it:

'When I reached the hall, I found the rich shopkeepers there, all men I knew well, and all dressed for the occasion. But there was one startling young man among them I didn't recognise immediately. He was my age perhaps, and quite tall, and when our eyes met I remembered who he was. Nicholas de Lenfent, eldest son of the draper, who had been sent to school in Paris. He was a vision now. Dressed in a splendid brocade coat of rose and gold, he wore slippers with gold heels, and layers of Italian lace at his collar. Only his hair was what it used to be, dark and very curly, and boyish looking for some reason though it was tied back with a fine bit of silk ribbon. Parisian fashion, all this - the sort that passed as fast as it could through the local post house. And here I was to meet him in threadbare wool and scuffed boots and yellowed lace that had been seventeen times mended.'

It feels so important to me for his character that he came from this sort of once-opulent poverty in his father's castle, and I have hope given the worn clothes they dressed Louis and Claudia in during their Eastern European trek, and the squalor of Armand and the Children of Darkness. I'd imagine it'd be a really fun contrast in terms of the visual language for Carol too to move him design-wise from the hand-me-downs and mended clothes to the costumes of the theatre in Paris to the finery that Magnus lays out for him, to say nothing of everything after that.