During this time, Armand and David also make appearances. What I love most about this series is the characters and the complex relationships they have. It was certainly a pleasure to see Lestat with them, particularly Armand as he’s definitely one of my favorites. However, any other vampires in the story are very minimally present.

Bratty Food Demand: Played for drama in the song "I Want More" from the play, sung by a vampire child Claudia about how she wants to drink a lot of blood and doesn't care if she's being rude or evil. Bedouin Rescue Service: Bedouins saved Mekare and Maharet after Akasha and Enkil sent them into the desert to die in The Queen of the Damned. After stalking and killing Roger, a ruthless but passionate mobster, Lestat is approached by Roger's ghost. Roger asks him to take care of his daughter Dora, a devout and popular televangelist, whom he wants to spare from embarrassment. At the same time, Lestat has become increasingly paranoid that he's being stalked by a powerful force. Eventually, Lestat meets the Devil, who calls himself Memnoch. He takes Lestat on a whirlwind tour of Heaven and Hell, and retells the entirety of history from his own point of view in an effort to convince Lestat to join him as God's adversary. In his journey, Memnoch claims he is not evil, but merely working for God by ushering lost souls into Heaven. Lestat is left in confusion, unable to decide whether or not to cast his lot with the Devil.

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The waitress, David Talbot, and Gretchen all help Lestat-as-human in The Tale of the Body Thief, and it ends badly for all of them. Time Travel - With Lestat, he travels through time and space on Earth and from Heaven to Hell, taking various forms, depending where the location deems appropriate.

Louis de Pointe du Lac tells a young reporter the story of how he had been made a vampire in 18th-century New Orleans by Lestat de Lioncourt. In creating and sheltering the child vampire Claudia, Lestat and Louis had unknowingly set tragedy in motion. Odd Friendship: Even Lestat seems a little bemused by his friendship with human Talamasca director David Talbot. The weirdness reaches an apex when Lestat sleeps off a sunburn on one of David's hunting trophies. Naked. Another bit that felt... well, just wrong to me is when Lestat is talking to Roger, the ghost of his crime boss victim, Lestat asks Roger why he didn't let the old captain have his way with him when he was a boy. What the...?!? Anne?! Since when does Lestat want little boys to have sex with dirty old men who try to molest them?! This felt very out of character to me. It came out of no where and nothing in the earlier books would imply Lestat having an inclination in favour of this. In fact he has once said that nothing justifies the suffering of a child. And you don't think that sort of abuse would cause suffering?!Lestat de Lioncourt – The main character of the story and the past four books, Lestat was created by a powerful vampire named Magnus, who promptly cremated himself after creating his heir. Lestat is a relatively "good" vampire, only feeding on those he deems evil after reading their minds. In previous books, Lestat made the man named David Talbot a vampire by force, an action that went against vampire law.

Petski, Denise (August 25, 2021). " Interview With The Vampire: Jacob Anderson to Play Louis in AMC Series Based on Anne Rice's Book". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved February 2, 2023.Louis' attempts to help Babette Freniere after Lestat kills her brother become this: While his advice initially allows her to save her family's fortune and regain her social status, he is forced to reveal his nature to her when his slaves drive him from Pointe du Lac. She becomes the first example of mortals tending to Go Mad from the Revelation that vampires exist, and dies "young and insane". No Dead Body Poops: Zigzagged. Part of the process of turning into a vampire, which is just dying with an exciting epilogue, explicitly involves emptying your bowels and bladder one last time. However, the countless unfortunate humans who end up as dinner don't tend to leave messes of anything other than blood.