It is interesting with Antoinette. I could see it being that Lestat genuinely had affection for her, even if he would certainly have killed her had Louis personally asked him to -- or it could be that she was just familiar, and he wanted the closest thing to intimacy he could get, so someone who knew him was better than someone who didn't. And the whole possibility that she reminded him of Gabrielle in some ways...
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Yeah, I totally agree, anon.
I actually unfortunately suspect that Antoinette isn't a character the show will really come back to, and I think I'm one of three people that cares about that, haha, but where I tend to land on her relationship with Lestat is the fact that neither Lestat nor Louis actually have any friends.
That's not to say that I think Lestat and Antoinette were just friends, I don't, they obviously fucked a lot (which like, also comes down to the fact that Lestat doesn't know how to have friends he doesn't fuck, haha), but I do think the reality is that Lestat and Louis have very different racial and cultural contexts, hobbies and areas of interest which aren't things they can easily share with each other, especially not in early-1900s America, and I think that's a bigger factor in their relationship breakdown than either will admit to.
It's why Louis' able to reconnect with Jonah so quickly - they might be leading different lives, but they have more overlapping factors than they don't, whereas he and Lestat have less than they do - and for Lestat as a white theatre kid, he needs to be around other performers. I think with Antoinette, she's obviously a talented vocalist and an ambitious artist, and I can see that genuinely just being company that Lestat wants to be close with. They probably talk shit about crap theatre they've seen and do vocal runs together and fuck, and honestly for a part of Lestat, that would lowkey be a dream relationship, haha. Do I think they have a deep emotional connection? No, but given even Louis' willing to admit she's talented, and his own complex relationship with not succeeding as an artist, I wonder how much that factors in to his portrayal of her and his insecurities around their relationship (to say nothing of the fact that she's both white and a woman).
This feels like it's going on a hundred tangents, haha, but my point is maybe they'd step out on each other less or descend into unforessen levels of chaos and destruction if they both had a few friends they could talk about their identities and niche interests with!!
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Totally forgot I didn't post these sketches from a few weeks ago! Anyway, this is in an au of an au of sorts. Here, Ingo and Johanna had already married pre-eeby (I have a whole plot for that in my head if anyone's interested). Now, instead of Dawn getting sent to Hisui, Johanna gets sent there and gets to reunite with her amnesiac husband.
So, obviously, Ingo would be there helping his wife quell the last two nobles, but while facing Lord Electrode, he gets a bit distracted cuz his wife is pretty and strong and an amazing dodger, and as a contest coordinator she's probably occasionally throwing in some flair due to habit, and Ingo is just in awe. Poor guy almost gets crushed cuz he's not paying attention to the frenzied noble. And poor Johanna has to keep an eye on her mess of a husband.
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What happens to el in s4e2 in the rinkomania is obviously foul and awful and hurts to watch of course but also it is easily the most coordinated act of bullying ive ever seen before in my life. angela and co got like thirty people in on it. They got the Dj in on it. We’re shown there were adults at the rink and they chose to do nothing. Everyone things its fucking hilarious. the people running the stupid rink didn’t bother to stop it
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oh my god my evil ex who broke up with me over text and said she never wanted to see or hear from me again just texted to apologize for still having my stuff three months later. ON LESBIAN DAY OF VISIBILITY….😄
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