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| User: | lestat_00 (215952) The Vampire Lestat
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| Name: | lestat_00 | |||||||||
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| Bio: |  Character Info Name : Lestat de Lioncourt Birthday : November 7, 1760 Birth place : Auvergne, France Mortal age : 21 years old (Immortal age : 248 years old) Immortal birthday : October 1780 Lestat’s maker : Magnus PB : Stuart Townsend -Complete Character Description: I will let Lestat describe himself for you. I’m six feet tall, which was fairly impressive in the 1780s when I was a young mortal man. It’s not bad now. I have thick blond hair, not quite shoulder length, and rather curly, which appears white under fluorescent light. My eyes are gray, but they absorb the colors blue or violet easily from surfaces around them. And I have a fairly short narrow nose, and a mouth that is well shaped but just a little too big for my face. It always looks sensual. But emotions and attitudes are always reflected in my entire expression. I have a continuously animated face. My vampire nature reveals itself in extremely white and highly reflective skin that as to be powdered down for cameras of any kind. And if I’m starved for blood I look like a perfect horror --- skin shrunken, veins like ropes over the contours of my bones. But I don’t let that happen now. And the only consistent indication that I am not human is my fingernails. It’s the same with all vampires. Our fingernails look like glass. (written in the book The Vampire Lestat)  -Personality: Because of his boldness, enthusiasm and reluctance to follow rules, Lestat's seniors refer to him affectionately as 'the Brat Prince', a title of which he is very fond. He is very vain and concerned with fashion. enjoys performing onstage, which he does as both a mortal actor in Paris and a vampire in his rock band, 'The Vampire Lestat'. Lestat is also fond of music, sings, and plays the piano and violin. Although he is illiterate as a mortal man, he learns to read and loves literature as a vampire. In one period of his life, he becomes a hermit and spends every night holed up at home, reading. Lestat's first language is French, although he "writes" his novels in English. In The Vampire Lestat, he notes that despite his French accent, he speaks English "like a cross between a boatman and Sam Spade" and is fond of slang. Lestat is bisexual, and has male and female lovers as both a vampire and a mortal. He is attracted to whomever most interests him at the time. Most of his early experiences are with male companions. He himself explains this by saying the women in previous centuries simply weren't that interesting. Lestat offhandedly mentions that he is frightened of women and finds them extremely and egregiously distracting. Throughout his long life, Lestat is plagued by common philosophical questions, such as "Are my actions good or bad?", "Is there a God?", "Am I in His plan?", "What happens after death?", "What makes a person happy?" He finds himself more in love with humanity than ever before, despite his relationship with mankind being savage. For a while, he sees life as "the Savage Garden", filled with beauty and death. Lestat exhibits a strong altruistic nature at several points in his life. For instance, after he first becomes a vampire, he sends large gifts to his family and friends, purchases the theatre where he once worked, and settles the debts of his old manager, Renaud. Later, after his brothers and family are killed in the French Revolution, he steps forward to care for his ailing father, the only survivor, despite their strained and unfriendly relationship. Lestat also frequently hunts evildoers instead of feeding from innocent victims, although he does not always abide by this rule. As a vampire, Lestat's abilities include telepathy, superhuman strength and resilience. After receiving blood from several ancient vampires, including Marius and Akasha, Lestat's strength increases dramatically, and allows him to fly, perform feats of telekinesis and pyrokinesis and survive exposure to the sun. -Background: Lestat was born on November 7 as the seventh son of the marquis d'Auvergne in the Auvergne region of France. Only two of his brothers have lived to adulthood. While they are technically aristocrats, the de Lioncourt family's fortune has been squandered and they live in relative poverty in their feudal castle. Lestat's mother, Gabrielle, is the only literate member of the family. Lestat's father is blind and spends his days playing chess. Lestat's relationship with his father and brothers is strained, and 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. In both instances he is returned to his family. Encouraged by his mother, who sells her family heirloom jewels to purchase horses, guns and mastiff dogs for him, Lestat takes up hunting and soon finds a role as the family breadwinner. The townspeople of Lestat's village come to him to request his help with wolves who are terrorizing the town. He rides into the mountains and kills the entire pack of eight, losing his horse, dogs and nearly his own life in the process. Although the action wins him the respect and admiration of the villagers, who present him with a lush red velvet cloak and boots made from the pelts of the wolves, he goes into a deep depression. Prodded by Gabrielle, he eventually leaves Auvergne with friend and lover Nicolas and heads for Paris, intending to become an actor. During a performance, he attracts the attention of an ancient vampire named Magnus, who watches him, abducts him and transforms him into a vampire. After turning Lestat, Magnus commits suicide, leaving Lestat to fend for himself without any kind of guidance. Lestat finds himself heir to nearly inexhaustible wealth, and begins an adventure that leads him all around the world.  Relationships with other characters Despite his charisma, Lestat is portrayed as a lonesome individual. In his childhood the only member of his family that he had any connection with was his mother, Gabrielle. She is the only member of the family who could read and often immersed herself in her novels, neglecting the mundane life around her. Lestat both admires and hates her for this, yet he is the only person of her family she can confide in; they develop a silent but strong bond. For this very reason Lestat makes 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 also makes his best friend, Nicolas de Lenfent, a vampire. They both work at a small theatre called "Renaud's". Lestat starts off as a stage hand and then, to his surprise, becomes star of the show when he steps in for another actor. Nicolas becomes a violinist in the theatre's small orchestra. After Lestat is abducted and made a vampire he tries to distance himself from his mortal friends and family, but he still provides for them. He buys Nicolas an apartment and many other luxuries, such as a Stradivarius violin, with his newly acquired "coin of the realm". Nicolas is suspicious, especially when Lestat disappears with his mother the night she comes to visit, and Gabrielle returns magically healed. Lestat eventually gives into the love he feels for Nicolas and makes him a vampire as well after saving him from the self-proclaimed Children of Darkness, a coven of vampires led by Armand. Nicolas rejects Lestat as his new maker and sinks into madness. Lestat collapses Armand's coven, buys Renaud's old theatre and gives it to Eleni and Nicolas to do with it whatever they wish, while he and Gabrielle leave Paris to explore the world. Another fledgling and long-term companion is Louis de Pointe du Lac, a young Creole from New Orleans whom Lestat turns into a vampire in the 18th century in 1791. For almost a century, Lestat and Louis live, travel, and kill together. Though Louis claims that Lestat made him into a vampire because Lestat merely wanted his fortune, Lestat refutes these claims in his own book. He points out that he was heir to a vast fortune well before meeting Louis, and says that he fell "fatally in love" with Louis, and that he reminded him of Nicki. Lestat and Louis "adopt" a young orphan named Claudia in 1795. Lestat turns her into a vampire despite Louis' objections, in order to tie Louis, who wishes to leave, to him. While Lestat spoils Claudia and tries to teach her how to become a vampire, it is Louis she truly loves. She ignores Lestat on several occasions, something he resents greatly. In 1860, after 65 years of living together, Claudia struggles with the reality of what she is, an immortal woman eternally trapped in a child's form. Claudia rebels and tries to kill Lestat by giving him a dead boy poisoned with absinthe and laudanum, then cutting his throat and stabbing him multiple times in the chest. With the help of Louis, she dumps him in a swamp near the Mississippi River. After Lestat comes back and assaults them with the help of a young pianist he has converted, Louis flees with Claudia. In desperation they burn down their French Quarter house while Lestat is still inside, horribly disfiguring him. Louis and Claudia flee to Europe. Lestat follows the two, and meets up with them at the Théâtre des Vampires. Armand, upon learning what has happened, executes Claudia and leaves with Louis, finally feeling that he has had his revenge on Lestat for ruining his coven. At the turn of the 19th century, Louis once again discovers Lestat living in New Orleans in a weakened state. Louis turns his back on him in pity and disgust. This version of events however is also refuted by Lestat, who says that he had no contact with Louis in that era, though he had been visited by Armand. Louis and Lestat reunite in the 1980s with a new understanding, only to be caught up and briefly separated again. Lestat has a disdain for rules and order, and states that he has always had to be his own teacher. He openly disregards and refuses to show fear to Armand, the leader of the Paris coven, even when confronted with the possibility of execution. The only immortal Lestat appears to openly respect and defer to is Marius. Lestat seeks him out as a mentor in the late 1700s, leaving him messages across Europe and Asia until Marius decides to reveal himself. 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. Such behavior inspires Marius to refer to Lestat as "the damnedest creature" and give him his title of "the Brat Prince". -Family: Marquis de Lioncourt (father), Gabrielle de Lioncourt (mother), 6 brothers -Friends: ? -Lestat’s Fledglings : Nicolas, Gabrielle, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Claudia, an unnamed vampire, David Talbot  | |||||||||
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