Egotistic, Lestat is greatly concerned with fashion, taking the time to pause mid-narrative merely to remind the reader what he is wearing, and as a singer and musician who plays both the piano and violin more than reasonably well, he relishes the attention that comes from performing on stage to a crowd, which began in his mortal life as an actor and continued into his formation of a rock band called The Vampire Lestat which he formed with a group of humans in the 1980s. The Devil known as Memnoch claims he wants Lestat to be his assistant. Lestat leaves the island reluctantly and heads for New Orleans to join his dying father. For a while, he sees life as "the Savage Garden", filled with beauty and death. Follow. Lestat manages to run away and explains this story to David and Armand who both believe him completely. Louis turns his back on him in pity and disgust. Lestat manages to get out of the swamp and after this, it is assumed that he made a vampire of a young man and all that is known of this man is that he was a musician and Lestat had befriended him sometime before Claudia tried to kill him. Lestat, Merrick and Quinn then take part in a ceremony (involving the dead twins corpse) to get rid of the spirit Goblin. Lestat hunts the streets of Paris and the surrounding villages, learning as he goes, while occasionally sensing an unknown menacing "presence", which he chooses to ignore for the most part. [1] His full backstory is explored in The Vampire Lestat (1985), which follows Lestat's exploits from his youth in the Auvergne region of France to his early years as a vampire fledgling. Lestat leaves the flat, disgusted with what he has seen and returns to the tower where Gabrielle and Nicki are. Lestat remains this way and many vampires come to see him in this state including the vampires who care for him as well as many vampires who've never even met him. Akasha tries to get these vampires (who include all the people Lestat loves) to side with her and help her in her in the massacre because it will supposedly make the world a better place. The only feature that proves he is not human is his glazed fingernails which give the impression that they are made of glass. Lestat finds tremendously gigantic amounts of happiness in drinking David's blood and sees what a beautiful mind and soul David has. In Paris, Lestat finds four vampires from Armand's coven who ask for his help as Armand has started burning members of the coven. The first thing Lestat notices is how the much younger body is very harmonious with David in it. Echo. David is no longer infuriated with Lestat and suggests that he, Louis and Lestat should travel together. #iwtv #vampire chronicles #tom cruise #interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #90s #1994 #horror #vampire #kirsten dunst #anne rice #mine #my edit #iwtvedit #lestatedit #brad pitt #louis de pointe du lac #1k. He buys Nicolas an apartment and many other luxuries, such as a Stradivarius violin, with his newly acquired "coin of the realm". Hint: the perfect vampy soft boy for Astarion roleplayers Lestat tells Gretchen all about who he really is and how he came to be in this mess, but she doesn't really believe it so he promises to come back to her when he is in his own body again and he later does. Lestat sought Marius out to be his teacher but the relationship turned out also to be a father-son relationship. Despite his charisma, Lestat is portrayed as a lonesome individual. [IN THE LINK] you will find 85 gifs of TOM CRUISE as LESTAT (”Interview with the vampire”) All by me. While Lestat eagerly learns from Marius, he also openly breaches many of the rules Marius seeks to impress upon him, such as the prohibition on revealing himself to mortals. For this very reason Lestat makes a dying Gabrielle his first vampire companion when she comes to Paris in search of her son, wishing to see him before she succumbs to consumption. Lestat De Lioncourt scenes || HD & LOGOLESS. In exchange for his help, Lestat is forced by Armand into admitting it was Claudia who attempted to kill him which leads to Claudia's execution by the vampires of the theatre. Being the youngest of three, Lestat had no prospects; any land or money that his father left behind after he died would likely go to his eldest brother, Augustin, and his family. ", and "What makes a person happy?" Lestat finds Louis and then takes him to the Talamasca offices in London, where they meet David Talbot and Lestat gives him his phone number. Lestat is also fond of music; he sings and plays the piano and violin. Just as the sun rises Akasha comes to Lestat and takes him away. He attempts to escape from them several times, first by asking to remain at a monastery, and later by running away with a troupe of traveling players. Here he discovers that Louis and Claudia are also in Paris. Not too long before the day of the concert, Lestat is reunited with Louis who begs him not to go ahead with it as Lestat has angered many of the other vampires by revealing all the secret of their existence to the entire world. Lestat has grown very lonely and is very weary of life and plans to kill himself. Lestat promises David that he'll never let him die thus meaning either by an immense loss of blood or by any other type of a mortal's life limits, especially by sickness and old age. Lestat is a creature capable of love, being first portrayed in the series as a bisexual who is attracted to whoever interests him. Lestat spends the rest of the nineteenth century alone in a house in New Orleans, feeding on rats. Lestat is taken to hospital where a nun/nurse called Gretchen takes care of him and then takes him home to take care of him better. He is described as "...a hipster vampire whose stand-offish demeanor hid that he was truly a lovable dork." He also mentions that seeing him was only one of the reasons of why he came. Unfortunately, when he awoke not many days later, he found his brothers waiting for him and all the actors gone. In Blood Canticle, Lestat falls in love with a witch of the Mayfair clan named Rowan Mayfair, who shares the same feelings towards him. They manage to fend them off and soon learn that "the presence" is no more than a group of other vampires but later find they have kidnapped Nicki. During performances, he attracts the attention of an ancient vampire named Magnus, who later abducts him and transforms him into a vampire against his will. [4][5] In a 2003 interview, Rice noted that the character had also taken on some of her own attributes, stating, "Stan was Lestat; he was the inspiration. Lestat absolutely adored the play and took on the part of Lelio and loved performing so much that he decided to leave with the actors when they took leave of his village. Lestat de Lioncourt was born November 7, 1758, during the reign of Louis XV, in Auvergne, France. Lestat's fingernails (like those of all vampires in The Vampire Chronicles) look like they are made of glass. But even without the replimoids in the mix, the establishment of the court at Chateau de Lioncourt is still not running so smoothly. Lestat epitomizes an aristocratic vampire in 18th century Paris. Rice later revisited the Lestat-centric series, starting with Prince Lestat (2014),[3] followed by Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016) and Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (2018). As a vampire, Lestat's abilities include telepathy, mind reading, superhuman physical attributes, and rapid healing. A bold, enthusiastic and defiant being, who delights in his own arrogance and conceited attitude, Lestat carries himself with the aura of richness and entitlement that comes only from a privileged upbringing, gaining him the affectionate title "the Brat Prince" by his vampire elders, a title he takes great pleasure in. Lestat. Lestat then goes to the flat where Nicki lived and finds Armand there, gathering all the information he can from the flat. He points out that he was heir to a vast fortune well before meeting him, and says that he "fell fatally in love with Louis", who reminded him of Nicki. Claudia and Louis take Lestat to the swamp and dump his body there unaware that he is still alive. Lestat has blond hair that is not quite shoulder length, and that is rather curly, which sometimes appears white under fluorescent lighting. After this Lestat helps Armand in ridding New Orleans of the many vampires who came to see him by burning them with his mind. Lestat & Claudia (Interview with the Vampire). The car is followed by vampires who are annoyed at Lestat causing the car to crash. Lestat warns him not to fight, but David does anyway which Lestat secretly really enjoys. Please, like/reblog if you use them. Having been illiterate as a human, after becoming a vampire Lestat learned how to read first in French and then in English, developing a great love of literature that made him quite the academic and a fondness for colloquialisms. After a long time in isolation, Lestat finds himself with the desire to become the vampire he once was. Lestat holds his dying mother as she realizes he is no longer human. ", "What happens after death? Lestat furthermore refers to David as "his" beautiful friend and even much more intimately and lovingly as "his" beloved David. 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