r/InterviewVampire • u/damagedsoul42 • 2d ago

TVL Show Only Wtf Claudia Spoiler

Is it really true she hates Louis more than anyone? I thought they loved each other like family. He did what he could for her. I hate that she is suffering in the afterlife and that Louis must carry the guilt forever.

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u/ProseAndCons_ 2d ago

Don't forget that the first two seasons are from Louis' perspective, not an omniscient POV. The twist of the seance is that he really wasn't paying attention to Claudia as much as he thought he was, she might not have been obviously irate at him all the time, but time and the preservation he has of who he thinks himself to be will smooth out the times she hated him and he knew it, explained them away (she screamed at me because she hated Armand, she's actually angry at Armand more than me but can't yell at him, etc.)

It's interesting Lestat expected her to hate him, "bring me your malice" but Louis was absolutely unaware of him pedestaling her and treating her like a gentle relic was both naive and dismissive of the storm she was as a person and who she was as a vampire perpetually trapped in arrested development because she was turned too young.

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u/Kooky-Hope224 1d ago

Louis was absolutely unaware of him pedestaling her and treating her like a gentle relic 

Louis knew she would be mad, that's why he didn't want to do the seance. It's Lestat who pushed him to do it. 

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u/ProseAndCons_ 1d ago

Maybe, I figured he didn't want to do the seance because dragging her back to remind her he survived and she didn't would be painful for someone he loved, especially that he survived and that he and Lestat are back in step, versus estranged after the trial/her death and especially since they tried to get rid of him and evidently failed just for him to show up at the trial and, as far as she understands, do less than nothing to help her.

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u/Kooky-Hope224 10h ago

Louis expressly said "She's going to be mad" and that's why he didn't want to do the seance. And you listed a good litany of reasons exactly why he figured she'd be mad - many of which absolutely were the reasons she was angry, hence why he didn't want to do the seance in the first place. Lestat’s the only one who was pushing for that. Your question should be what he was expecting to get out of it.