
dark as was chaos, ere the infant sun was roll’d together // header by @bunveh
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you just have to nod your beautiful head and say yes… but the suit changes nothing, and again, i’m kissing lestat on the altar… i came to thank you. for the gift you offered me…
consent in gothic fiction is very rarely any less than dubious because of the staples intrinsic to the genre. the refusal to engage with the gothic without moralizing actions that don’t have a direct equivalent in life (and imho shouldn’t be judged as such) hampers storytelling
of course, upon seeing the death that surrounds him in the aftermath of the priests’ murder, louis is scared, his survival instinct as a human being wouldn’t allow him to not react, but that doesn’t really directly translate into louis being coerced into vampirism
lestat is both only attracted to the façade louis puts up for his family & community and the people he does business with and manipulating louis by turning him at his most vulnerable hour by appealing to his desire for freedom and understanding. a master manipulator

































