My blorbo would never
I was amused/annoyed while watching "Interview with the Vampire and Adaptation | A Video Essay," about season 1 of the recent TV series, when the creator says that her blorbo Lestat would never do domestic violence. Lestat from the books wouldn't ever! Fortunately for me, many people in the comments chimed in for me to say that he would, and many mentioned Tale of the Body Thief. (One or two said they'd dated Lestat types, and yeah, the charming is there with them but so is the gaslighting and abuse.) Lestat does canonically have a history of doing some bad to terrible things and then being all "Oh, I'm just a little stinker!" about it and everyone still loves him because he's the author's pet and they have no choice about it.
The creator also said that Anne Rice wouldn't write Lestat doing such a "Dragonball Z"-style violent action thing. Rice barely wrote action at all. This was the author who had Louis burn down his plantation in the Interview with the Vampire novel and basically covered it as a teeny bit of Louis saying, oh, he burned down the plantation house and Lestat responding in annoyance that it was stupid and where are they going to live. And that's it. Rice mentions that they have an occasional physical altercation and barely describes those either.
I know, I know, Rice later retcons Interview with the Vampire as being very unreliable narrator so she can focus on her love for her "brat prince." But that's the foundational book of the series, so now there's precedent.... I don't know why so many Lestat stans never seem to think that Lestat's accounts might not always be totally factual either.
I hear that some people following the show hope that it will later be revealed that Armand mindscrewed Louis into believing that Lestat so viciously beat the total shit out of him so badly that it took him years, even as a vampire, to fully recover but I hope that's not the case and that it really happened.
The creator also said that Anne Rice wouldn't write Lestat doing such a "Dragonball Z"-style violent action thing. Rice barely wrote action at all. This was the author who had Louis burn down his plantation in the Interview with the Vampire novel and basically covered it as a teeny bit of Louis saying, oh, he burned down the plantation house and Lestat responding in annoyance that it was stupid and where are they going to live. And that's it. Rice mentions that they have an occasional physical altercation and barely describes those either.
I know, I know, Rice later retcons Interview with the Vampire as being very unreliable narrator so she can focus on her love for her "brat prince." But that's the foundational book of the series, so now there's precedent.... I don't know why so many Lestat stans never seem to think that Lestat's accounts might not always be totally factual either.
I hear that some people following the show hope that it will later be revealed that Armand mindscrewed Louis into believing that Lestat so viciously beat the total shit out of him so badly that it took him years, even as a vampire, to fully recover but I hope that's not the case and that it really happened.