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I love that the beat where he drops his head is repeated when Louis drops his own in the finale too.

YES. I love that Louis recalls Lestat's expression in that moment of realization and realizes for the first time that Lestat MEANT it -- he wasn't just being chaotic and apologizing in the middle of trying to kill them, he truly meant everything he said, so he's truly different from what Louis had thought he was.

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Totally, and I think what really gets me about it is that it's almost this moment of realisation of how far apart you are from someone? I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself here, because I thought I posted something about this the other day but I can't find it so maybe I just was thinking about it, haha, but to me that beat is also just this moment of Louis realising just how broken the thing is between them?

He's just spent two weeks telling Daniel about this unbreakable cord between him and Lestat, about the maker's bond, that they share a heart, that he felt Lestat in that building before he ever stepped foot on stage, but then, there, in the moment of it, what did it matter when he didn't even realise that Lestat was as much a prop as they were? He's spent close to a century believing a lie about a person he always thought he knew better than anyone else, close to a century distrusting a moment of grief and pain and honesty from someone who hurt him, yes, but loves him, and close to a century with a man who'd use that hurt and distrust to keep him.

If that's not distance, if that's not an almost tangible depiction of how far apart they've let themselves become, how far Louis would push Lestat the man away, even as he pulls the memory of him close, I don't know what is. In that little tiny beat though, I just feel that really profoundly. It's such a brilliant performance from Jacob (always), but also just a really masterful cut from the editor.

#this also kind of goes back to that ask i replied to a while ago about how lestat's kind of objectified / dehumanised #which isn't a criticism of louis #i think he's needed to do that to create that distance #because as he tells us in the s1 finale it's just too easy to lose himself in lestat #and he's been trying to process this profound trauma #he needs space and time and that's what's so great about the series is we're meeting him at the point where suddenly he has both #and the s2 finale is what really lets lestat just be a person #instead of this character this spectre this THING in other people's stories #and that person is a trainwreck haha #iwtv 2.08 #iwtv 2.07 #louis asks #loustat asks #lestat asks #iwtv asks

And then the way Lestat is sucking on his lower lip a moment later...and isn't he kind of doing that in the 1.7 kiss too?? Louis imagining tongue-first and lip-sucking, all their greatest hits....

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Yes!! Both at the lip sucking and the throwback! Louis knows what they're about and he will project that onto an indiscriminate, murderable guy he's just been cruised by in a park!!

#both the tongue fucking and lip sucking are top tier to me i can't lie #re: the former there need to be more fics where louis eats lestat out because frankly i do think louis would be into it #(and look i also can't lie about the fact that i'm writing it rn so it's been front of mind lately haha)#loustat asks

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Technically Louis seems to be drinking from him in 1.6, right? Though that's so brief/blurry that it doesn't fully count, maybe

You're so right, anon, but we kind of hear it more than we see it, haha:

#the chomp sound followed by lestat's little 'aaH' is so funny without the build up #iwtv 1.06 #loustat asks #also hilarious/tragic that antoinette stays just crying and smoking #girl get UP #do we think louis took him home straight after?#i can't work out if i think he'd want to leave lestat to mop up and deal with antoinette or if he'd just like #throw his clothes at him and take him home to leave antoinette with the mess of it all as like #a statement #i'll need to figure it out for the fic haha

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this gifset and your tags reminded me that I'm still so mad we haven't got to see Louis drink from Lestat. not even ONCE during TWO seasons. and no the turning wrist sucking doesn't count! 😤

Never forget what they took from us, anon!! I hope we get MULTIPLE in s3 to make up for it.

#i fear it's a false hope though haha #we're going to get it every other way with every other character </3 #at least we have fic!!#and the allusions to it in canon the make up artists have our back #iwtv asks #loustat asks

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this still is too much

The one thing about Louis is that he IS going to go in tongue first.

#he simply sees lestat's mouth even in hallucination and wants to be in/on it #loustat asks #iwtv asks

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I know there were people who wanted this to be a more passionate/intense kiss like several of their others, but I love that it's so gentle and delicate--there's so much affection and love, not just lust, in it, and I think that's both so perfect and heartbreaking for the moment they're in, and also makes the kiss seem so pure in the face of the homophobic reaction around them and the violence that's about to come

Totally agree, anon. The tenderness and intimacy of it just works on so many levels, but especially as a goodbye they both know is coming.

It was about something deeper than passion, more lasting than lust, a final moment of gentleness and intimacy before Louis would slit his throat and bleed him out. It's about the love that Louis could never speak aloud, a love that would be ignored by the press of the era and forgotten by history, Louis' own silence echoed by the annals of time, but felt and seen and heard for maybe just a moment on that dancefloor.

#it's about the juxtapositions of it all!!#soft lips and sharp fangs and the hand around the back of your neck to pull you closer or around your throat to choke you out #love with a closed fist and hate with a caress #that's gothic romance baby!!#loustat asks #iwtv asks #iwtv 1.07

All the little differences between the two version of Claudia's turning just constantly have me clawing at the walls, like the way Louis puts his hand on Lestat's cheek here and the way Lestat's eyes close when he feels it, and how lost and uncertain he looks....

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The thing that really gets me the most about it is that in Louis' telling, it's Lestat who puts his hand on Louis' cheek. Like he remembers the touch in the moment of it, remembers the intimacy of it, remembers, to an extent, his own desperation, remembers the fact that it marked Lestat caving to him, but the context is so enormously different because at the end of it all, it is reflective of Louis starting to take accountability, because it shows Louis using intimacy to manipulate Lestat.

He's not asking Lestat to make him a child, he's coercing him into it, and Lestat's expression wavers because he knows it. Has to, because Louis effectively broke up with him just hours ago, and here he is now promising him - literally - that he'll never leave him if he can give him this, and the gentleness of that physical touch is a part of that promise, because Louis might not know the details of Lestat's past, but he knows the loneliness. He sees the scar of the abuse and the neglect, even if he doesn't know what Lestat was cut with, and so he knows moving Lestat is best done with a soft hand, not a closed fist.

And it's so, so telling that he remembers that touch even if he's spent a century lying to himself about who's hand was on who's cheek, because he's needed Lestat to be the only one who manipulates. Needs him to be the only one who hurts others, who makes the bad choices, who turned Claudia without feeling, without warning, without thought, without care, needs him to be the one who was selfish in that room, because the alternative is that Louis was the one who was selfish. In that moment, Louis was the one with the power, and he used it to bring a little girl into the world just so half a century later she would burn.

It's just such a vital moment of accountability for Louis and it's one that feeds directly into the reunion scene - - hell, is one of the key reasons that the reunion scene works, and it's insane to me that something as simple as changing who's holding who's face can do that.