#Claudia De Lioncourt

[gaypeople]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE - 1.07 “The Thing Lay Still”

[whewchilli-theghetto]

i love this photo so muchhhh

like girl this is literally their biological child?

[brian-kinney-apologist]

*14 but yeah 😔😔

[ashiistired]

Third time trying to post this Claudia sketch

[fishfingersandscarves]

some turned at 23 au

[rodrickheffeley]

Interview with the vampire (book) // Interview with the vampire (s1 ep4)

[interviewwithdracula]

1x08 is CRAZY because you have lestat and claudia playing 4d psychological chess with each other and louis is just like 'i'm so happy to be here :D'

[jellyfishcharm]

they also studied the way gay and straight people talk (about vampirism)

“hi, nice to meet you, i like twilight!”

sounds straight to me — and he is straight.

“hi, nice to meet you, i love interview with the vampire!”

🏳️‍🌈GAY.

[glabzzitto]

Family

[oonoturna]

An old drawind that I did... a long... long time ago...

Interview with the Vampire and the Vampire Chronicles are very important to me… so I don't want to say anything about that. But my history with the books goes back over 20 years… and I don't want to say anything more about it because I'm very emotional about it… I'm loving the series and that's it… and this is a drawing I made with the description of what I imagine Louis… I used my own handwriting there…

Use the art… do whatever you want with it…

FREE TO USE...

[ven0mvamp1re]

modern(ish) claudeleine <3

[brian-kinney-apologist]

missing these beautiful gorgeous princesses today

(I need them to have a joint photoshoot sooo bad 😔)

[shrek-two-enjoyer]

memory is a monster and it fucking ate her

[theblaseharbinger]

Claudia, my beloved

[doktorfreud]

That Devastating Shard of Light

(IWTV S2 E8)

Just by setting your eyes on the gorgeous photography, the meaningfulness of this scene strikes you even before a word is uttered: Louis and Armand are separated by a shard of light. 

The room is obliquely cut in half, that slice of illuminated floor is quite literally lava. And that’s not just a turn of phrase: they are separated by a line that cannot be crossed, a line drawn by the sun itself – their mortal enemy, which drives home the notion of just how much their relationship is irreversibly fractured. You can’t patch up that shard of light, no matter how hard you try (more on this in my next post) – especially if it uncovers and echoes the deed which caused the rift in the first place: flooding your lover’s daughter with a windowful of sunlight, leading to her annihilation. As Armand’s treacherous act put an end to Claudia’s life, so did it put an end to his (genuine) relationship with Louis.  

The dust particles dancing in the beam of light hail back to the moment Claudia dissolved into ashes on a theatre stage, hobbled, alone, deprived of her father Louis’ presence, clutching in her arms the only person, Madeleine, who had always put her before everyone and everything else. And Louis is aware of this, and will have to live with this knowledge and the ensuing feelings of guilt for the rest of his immortal days.  

That shard of light takes on an almost physical, solid nature, piercing through Louis’ heart, turning the hopes, dreams and future of two women who had finally found each other to dust, tearing Armand and Louis’ relationship to shreds.

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Next time, I will go into the infamous “beigest pillow” scene from s2e5, and look at how both light and Claudia’s memory play a crucial part in the ruthless escalation between Loumand. 

Thanks for reading!