#merciful-death

[i-want-my-iwtv]

Will Louis have big cats as pets? They are well suited for his vampire-strength than house cats. There is a video on YouTube of a tiger saving a man from a leopard's attack. Louis seems like that guy who fosters love and loyalty in unexpected places.

I love videos like that that show that animals have compassion for other animals (including humans), too, even putting their own lives in danger.

Well, canonically, his vampire nature itself repels animals, sadly. Lestat mentions something about this re: horses. It's especially hard on Lestat re: dogs, here's when he meets Mojo:

I'd caught its scent as soon as it approached, but I did not see the animal until I came over the roof to the back of the house. I'd expected to hear from it before this time, for surely it would pick up my scent, know instinctively that I wasn't human, and then begin to sound its natural alarm of growls and barks. Dogs had done that enough to me over the centuries, though they don't always. Sometimes I can entrance them and command them. But I feared the instinctive rejection and it always sent a pain through my heart. This dog had not barked or given any clue that he knew I was there. He was staring intently at the rear door of the house and the butter-yellow squares of light falling from the window of the door onto the deep snow. - TOBT

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Louis seems like that guy who fosters love and loyalty in unexpected places.

Yes, I love that!

There is fanon from a popular Louis roleplayer from years ago ( @merciful-death) that Louis did adopt a black cat (or she adopted him, really) named Harriet. She leaves him dead mice often, and according to Lestat roleplayer @devilsfool: “She hunts them to try to feed you. She’s convinced that you are a terrible hunter.” I love that! 🐁🐁🐁

(...I also see Louis as being visited frequently by a big stray tomcat, and Lestat doesn’t approve of this one either bc MORE CAT HAIR ON VELVET FURNITURE. Velvet is very cat-hair-ophillic. This cat doesn’t have a name but Louis calls him by a lot of baby names (”Mon chou,” “Sir Fluff,” “Kitten,”) and Lestat calls him by a lot of rude names (”Hairball,” “Trashface,” “Loaf”). This cat actually followed Harriet to their home one night, and he likes to nap with her when she allows it.)

As far as big cats, I think Louis would be fascinated with them as he is with most natural beauty, including plants, constellations/space (the new pics from NASA's Webb!), the simplicity and complexity of a crackling fire... I like to think they go to the zoo at night and admire the animals from afar.

As far as owning a big cat, that might be a danger to his towers of books and other collections! But I also like to think Gabrielle has taken him out to hunt in far off places and they've gotten close to sit among mountain lions and tigers.

I think Louis has a wide array of plants, night-blooming flowers, a lot of succulents 🌱🌱🌱

[forgotten-mayfair]

[text] We haven't spoken in some time. I hope you are well.

[text] We haven’t. I think I frightened you. 

[text] I am well as I hope you are too.

[devilsfool]

Your "spamming" of text messages has broken my phone. Just so you are aware.

Maybe if you answered one occasionally, I wouldn’t have to send so many to make sure you’re still alive. 

[a-misunderstanding-my-love]

I've not heard from you in far too long. I hope you are well.

I have been traveling. San Francisco has lost some of its charm--perhaps it reminds me too much of you. ...Regardless, all I know is that there was too much noise to stay there. 

Also, my cell phone was destroyed because fuck that I don’t need a cell phone. 

Where are you?

[moral-cipher]

❝ Don’t be mad, but the kitchen is on fire.❞

“The kitchen? What were you even doing in there? ... and what do you mean, is!?”

[i-want-my-iwtv]

i just realized my first prom dress is soo Lestat. Gold everywhere, sequins, over the top patterns, i can't believe i never noticed XD

That sounds very #Lestatuesque, share a picture with us if you have any! He does love gold and sequins and over the top patterns and !SPRAKLES! (which, really, is a much better way to spell “sparkles,” n’est pas?).

^X by @garama & @merciful-death

[i-want-my-iwtv]

Lestat & Louis! Do you have any pets? if you don't, what ones would you want?

♛Lestat here. Louis and I had a wonderful dog, which took some time for him to warm up to as he had nearly killed the poor creature the first time they met! Mojo remembered that, but having such a large heart, Mojo was able to forgive and forget.

[^X by @woutertulp]

There was a cat that made her home with us, a black cat named Harriet. Louis informed me that that was her name.* She is tolerable. I mean, she only lets Louis pet her so you can see why I’m not overly fond of her!

Animals are instinctively wary of us, it’s been a painful side effect of being what we are that dogs in particular often see us as threats and their startled owners are left flustered with apologies like “She never acts this way around strangers normally!” and that sort of thing. Dogs were a great source of solace for me in my youth and I know that Louis loved horses. I have frightened horses into compliance but it’s not the same as the caring relationship one can have with a beloved pet *sighs*

What type of pet would we like if we could have our choice? Louis has always been fond of birds, so I would say that he’d like a pair of lovebirds, or an a talking bird like an African Gray parrot. I’m sure he’d prefer I not teach it curse words, but you know that I would have to do that!

Personally I find large cats like tigers compelling and would love to have one, but I love my interior decoration more, and those two things do not mix. As much of a gentleman as Mojo was, a number of vases and statues fell to their deaths due to an accidentally wagging tail or… admittedly… our impromptu wrestling matches *grins*

*(//ooc; @merciful-death‘s headcanon, for more on that: #harriet). 

[devilsfool]

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