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breha · 1 year

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claudia’s birth allows louis to believe that he and lestat have become The Parents (equal status) and so the teacher-student power dynamic has gone away, but really it’s just been repressed and it comes up again like wack-a-mole

#clearly he wanted kids and he adored her but also the introduction of a literal child #makes him no longer occupy the position of ‘child’ in the house #in a way that is a relief to him #all that language like fledgling pupil student baby bird is dropped #he’s daddy! they're daddy and uncle :)#and then once claudia is an adult and trying to assert her own equal status #it becomes clear how much that original power dynamic had at best just become latent. bc now there's nobody to transfer it to anymore #'blame the teacher not the student'#addressing louis and claudia as a unit to tell them to clean up the corpse he left #and claudia is obv really aware of this #but like. ‘could the children murder the father’ is something present-day louis says #i think at the time he was still unable or unwilling to look that idea in the eye #anyway. hell hell hell #iwtv #vampire posting

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