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Other Characters Currently In-Game: Steve Harrington (stevieboy).
Character Name: Lestat de Lioncourt.
Series: Interview With The Vampire (2022).
Age: 180, but appears to be 34.
From When?: From the end of the first season. Having been tricked into drinking the blood of someone already dead, and thus starting to die himself, Lestat has his throat cut and dies on the floor of his home.
Inmate Justification: Lestat's biggest problem is his total disconnect from humanity. Having lived for nearly two centuries and experiencing a lot of disillusionment, as well as suffering through both mental and physical traumas, he has become a textbook narcissist. While he believes himself to be superior to any being immortal or not, this is most true with humans; Lestat sees a human life the way a human may see an ant's. They are meaningless and at best serve as amusement before he takes what he needs from them without thought or guilt. That is to say, while vampires need to feed on blood to live, Lestat turns it into sport.
He is blunt and unapologetic in everything that he does. He takes no responsibility for his actions, often finding ways to blame other people for his behaviour. He has a constant need for attention and acts out when he doesn't get it. Someone willing to take the time to see that there are glimmers of redemption inside Lestat would be able to foster it with equal measures of patience and tough love. He's walked over people for so long that having someone not be a pushover for him will be a much needed dose of reality.
Arrival: While Lestat doesn't feel he needs to change, he will agree to come and "graduate" as the thought of eternal and very real death frightens him.
Abilities/Powers: [CW: senseless violence/gore]
Telepathy: Lestat can read people's thoughts, as well as speak to them inside their heads (even while holding a full conversation about something else). He doesn't need to be in the same room or area as the other to make this happen. He can also make other people do things, such as slap themselves repeatedly. IN GAME: Like any good classic vampire, Lestat will need permission (both IC and OOC) to enter someone's mind. He will be unable to control a person's actions.
Hypnotism: What it says on the tin. Lestat can put multiple people (think a full bar) in such a powerful hypnosis at once that it seems time itself stops. IN GAME: In a well-rested state, he can, at best, merely hypnotize to slow the feeling time for a total maximum of 30 real-time seconds. This will cause some fatigue at the effort and he won't be able to repeat the action until he's recovered.
Telekinesis: Lestat possesses certain telekinetic gifts. He can, for example, close and open doors, or unlatch doors. IN GAME: Lestat is unable to do this at all on the barge. UPDATE (11/2023): Fully restored.
Vampire Physiology: Being inhuman means Lestat is incredibly strong (strong enough to punch a hole clean through a man's head) and incredibly fast (blink and you'll miss it). IN GAME: This is completely gone upon arrival. Willing to strike a deal with a warden to have these abilities come back in increments as Lestat proves himself to be working towards change. UPDATE (05/2023): Lestat's speed has been returned back to him at 50%. This means he is inhumanly fast, but think more superhero fast than supernatural fast. UPDATE (11/2023): Fully restored.
Healing: Not only does his body just heal itself at an alarming speed, not even being stabbed seems to actually do anything to him. IN GAME: Healing factor will be slowed. While it will still be better than the average human, what may have once taken an hour will take a day or two. UPDATE (05/2023): Fully restored.
Flying: Or as his dramatic ass likes to call it, "The Cloud Gift." IN GAME: Totally gone, no one needs to fly on a ship in space. UPDATE (11/2023): Fully restored.
Inmate Information: [cw: violence, gore, domestic abuse, death, kidnapping, suicide, emotional manipulation, simulated infant death]
Like all vampires, Lestat started his life as no more than a man. Despite having the noble distinction of being the son of a marquis in rural France, his was not a charmed life. As the youngest of the family, it was clear that Lestat would not inherit the family title or lands, and he sought for himself a life that he could make into his own - the life of a priest. Lestat went to a monastery, keen to learn the word of God and become an educated man. This angered his father and his brothers, who pulled him from his studies and, according to Lestat, beat him and starved him for days for running away. This is likely the first instance where Lestat began to lose faith in not only his God, but in people. Another such instance would happen only years later, making it the second time in his short mortal life that he was abused for no fault of his own. Having left his family to go to Paris, Lestat caught the attentions of an old vampire named Magnus who coveted him. Lestat was taken against his will and kept in a room amidst corpses that all bore a horrifyingly striking resemblance to him. The divine intervention that saved him did not come from God, though, but rather from something darker as Magnus chose to turn him into a vampire. Then, new and alive-but-undead, Lestat watched as his Maker burned himself alive.
It's easy to imagine how this might affect anyone's psyche, much less that of a relatively uneducated person in eighteenth century France, who's life had been wholly simple in the grand scheme of things. Certainly for a man who once looked to God to be the purpose of his life, the anger Lestat felt at what happened to him must have filled every part of him. Over the decades, this cynicism stewed and festered. Life, he realized, amounted to nothing and there would be no God waiting for anyone after their death. He found a particular dislike for those who chose to preach the gospel. For example, while Lestat has a general brutality about his actions, some of the most visceral deaths we see him deal are to two priests. After setting the confessional booth ablaze, Lestat desecrates the body of one man to the point that the aisle between the pews has a pool of blood in it. As for the other man, Lestat punches him with such force that his fist goes clear through the man's head. And while this is unspeakable, the most terrifying example of Lestat's views on Men Of God comes in a much simpler, calmer form. Paul de Pointe du Lac may have avoided Lestat's attention were he not the brother of Louis, the man Lestat decided to love. Paul was affected but believed steadfast in the bible's teachings. Lestat was unnecessarily harsh in his criticisms about such things when speaking to Paul, and days later Paul stepped off the roof of his home and died. The details of what, exactly, Lestat said or did to him remain unknown, save for Lestat's singular confession of "He longed for the flagstone."
As previously mentioned, Lestat's a classic case of narcissism. His self-inflated superiority is always on display, but most particularly when people do things that don't live up to his ideal of competence. Does this mean he kills people who offend him? Absolutely. But it's not enough for him to simply just end their life. In such instances, Lestat feels the need to draw out their pain as long as possible. The most prime example of this being when a young tenor poorly sang a role in an opera that Lestat particularly cherished. Lestat seduced the man with kindness, then brought him home only to humiliate him by giving him an impromptu singing lesson to point out his errors. When the humiliation was over, Lestat expertly cut the man's throat right across the vocal cords - enough to keep him alive but also enough to keep him from making any sound at all - and slowly let him die while drinking his blood from a wine glass. This is actually the fatal flaw that lead to Lestat's downfall, as they knew he couldn't resist getting the final blow to a man that spent thirty years getting under his skin. Another narcissistic trait that Lestat exemplifies is the need for attention. He goes out of his way to put himself at the centre of everything, from inserting himself at a piano while a band plays to ensuring he gets invitations to parties and card games. Being the centre of attention doesn't just mean having all eyes on him, either. He likes to make a ripple and leave a lasting impression, so not only was it incredibly appealing to him to be the king of Mardi Gras, but he delighted in making a grotesque display of feeding on a papier-mâché baby (complete with streams of red tissue to represent the blood).
Much of Lestat's toxic behaviours come out in regards to one Louis de Pointe du Lac. While there's no denying that Lestat loves him, that also means Lestat is willing to go to extremes to try and keep Louis beside him at all costs. The dispatching of the priests and Paul were absolutely grounded in Lestat's hatred of God, but these were also people who seemed threatening enough to get between Lestat and Louis. Lestat also pushed hard for Louis to embrace his vampire nature and abandon humanity to drive a rift between Louis and his family, and when he inevitably pushed so hard that Louis was drifting away from him, Lestat chose to turn a young girl into a vampire to create their own little family. Claudia, the girl, was very much a pawn for Lestat's own joy. As long as she was happy, Louis was happy, and even when she and Lestat grew to hate each other, Lestat wouldn't let her leave. When Claudia attempted to take the train to New York, Lestat followed, using her love for Louis to make her feel guilty enough to come back home. He was, however, quick to tell Louis that Claudia was the source of their unhappiness at the same time. The biggest crime against Louis came when it seemed that Louis was going to finally leave him forever. The fight that ensued was unfair from the start, Lestat being an older vampire and with more knowledge of how their powers worked, and culminated with Lestat dropping Louis out of the sky. As Louis took weeks to heal and recover from his wounds, Lestat found a way to appeal to Louis's jealousy and take him back. Lestat's reasoning for the whole thing? He has an issue with abandonment.
Path to Redemption:
For Lestat to ultimately find any sort of change or redemption, he needs to be able to find empathy for humanity again. Important milestones will be listening to people and acknowledging their grievances, learning to feel or express some sort of remorse of sympathy, and especially allowing himself to feel like it's okay to be vulnerable. He's learned to close himself off from feeling to keep himself protected, and to always be in charge of the situation to avoid getting hurt by the world around him. There's something very healing in the idea of "it's okay to not be okay" and that's a lesson Lestat can stand to learn.
Being on the barge will, of course, annoy him. The idea of bettering himself is a silly notion to him (after all, he feels he's already fine as he is, the problem is with everyone else), but mostly he'll dislike being weaker due to having his powers effectively stripped. The situation will immediately put him in a state of discomfort, as he doesn't like to be out of his depth. He'll enjoy being wardened much less. Lestat's a man who likes to control his own life. Learning to let someone else take the reins will be the first baby step in his path to graduation, but as he learns that there may be benefits that come with compromise, he'll play as nice as he can.
The best wardening approach to Lestat will be patience. His road to redemption will not be quick and may involve more than a few steps backwards, so he'll need a warden that's willing to put in the effort for the long haul. Someone with a lot of patience would be ideal. Lestat can be petulant and his mood swings are unpredictable. His warden will need to be able to let him throw a tantrum without getting heated as well. However, Lestat also needs someone who won't let him walk all over them. A firm hand is necessary, while also not being too controlling. If Lestat's warden tries to take total control and dictate his life on the barge, then Lestat won't even entertain the idea of change. There should be enough give that it entices him to continue to do well, with the idea being that things are earned and nothing is a right.
A warden's best bet of pulling anything out of Lestat is tapping into what of his humanity still lurks under his otherwise cold facade. Lestat is not incapable of love. For all of his bad traits, he genuinely loves Louis, and he also once loved another man in Paris many years ago. Nicholas, his first real love, was a violinist, and Lestat used to compose music for him to play. In fact, it's in music that we see Lestat truly let go for a few moments. He reveres music in all forms, from musicians to singers to composers, and finds his moments of peace in playing at the piano or writing. It's possible for Lestat's warden to reward him with time at the piano in the gazebo, but also perhaps to use music and his ability to still truly love in a therapeutic approach.
History: Here.
Sample Network Entry: TDM.
Sample RP: TDM
Special Notes: While Lestat plays his cards close to his chest, I'm hoping to be relatively mindful about his interactions with people, particularly regarding parts of his life that may offend people. He's not above being a shitty person to prove a point, and I may consider doing an opt-out post as well.
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malicieuxOther Characters Currently In-Game: Steve Harrington (
stevieboy).Character Name: Lestat de Lioncourt.
Series: Interview With The Vampire (2022).
Age: 180, but appears to be 34.
From When?: From the end of the first season. Having been tricked into drinking the blood of someone already dead, and thus starting to die himself, Lestat has his throat cut and dies on the floor of his home.
Inmate Justification: Lestat's biggest problem is his total disconnect from humanity. Having lived for nearly two centuries and experiencing a lot of disillusionment, as well as suffering through both mental and physical traumas, he has become a textbook narcissist. While he believes himself to be superior to any being immortal or not, this is most true with humans; Lestat sees a human life the way a human may see an ant's. They are meaningless and at best serve as amusement before he takes what he needs from them without thought or guilt. That is to say, while vampires need to feed on blood to live, Lestat turns it into sport.
He is blunt and unapologetic in everything that he does. He takes no responsibility for his actions, often finding ways to blame other people for his behaviour. He has a constant need for attention and acts out when he doesn't get it. Someone willing to take the time to see that there are glimmers of redemption inside Lestat would be able to foster it with equal measures of patience and tough love. He's walked over people for so long that having someone not be a pushover for him will be a much needed dose of reality.
Arrival: While Lestat doesn't feel he needs to change, he will agree to come and "graduate" as the thought of eternal and very real death frightens him.
Abilities/Powers: [CW: senseless violence/gore]
Inmate Information: [cw: violence, gore, domestic abuse, death, kidnapping, suicide, emotional manipulation, simulated infant death]
Like all vampires, Lestat started his life as no more than a man. Despite having the noble distinction of being the son of a marquis in rural France, his was not a charmed life. As the youngest of the family, it was clear that Lestat would not inherit the family title or lands, and he sought for himself a life that he could make into his own - the life of a priest. Lestat went to a monastery, keen to learn the word of God and become an educated man. This angered his father and his brothers, who pulled him from his studies and, according to Lestat, beat him and starved him for days for running away. This is likely the first instance where Lestat began to lose faith in not only his God, but in people. Another such instance would happen only years later, making it the second time in his short mortal life that he was abused for no fault of his own. Having left his family to go to Paris, Lestat caught the attentions of an old vampire named Magnus who coveted him. Lestat was taken against his will and kept in a room amidst corpses that all bore a horrifyingly striking resemblance to him. The divine intervention that saved him did not come from God, though, but rather from something darker as Magnus chose to turn him into a vampire. Then, new and alive-but-undead, Lestat watched as his Maker burned himself alive.
It's easy to imagine how this might affect anyone's psyche, much less that of a relatively uneducated person in eighteenth century France, who's life had been wholly simple in the grand scheme of things. Certainly for a man who once looked to God to be the purpose of his life, the anger Lestat felt at what happened to him must have filled every part of him. Over the decades, this cynicism stewed and festered. Life, he realized, amounted to nothing and there would be no God waiting for anyone after their death. He found a particular dislike for those who chose to preach the gospel. For example, while Lestat has a general brutality about his actions, some of the most visceral deaths we see him deal are to two priests. After setting the confessional booth ablaze, Lestat desecrates the body of one man to the point that the aisle between the pews has a pool of blood in it. As for the other man, Lestat punches him with such force that his fist goes clear through the man's head. And while this is unspeakable, the most terrifying example of Lestat's views on Men Of God comes in a much simpler, calmer form. Paul de Pointe du Lac may have avoided Lestat's attention were he not the brother of Louis, the man Lestat decided to love. Paul was affected but believed steadfast in the bible's teachings. Lestat was unnecessarily harsh in his criticisms about such things when speaking to Paul, and days later Paul stepped off the roof of his home and died. The details of what, exactly, Lestat said or did to him remain unknown, save for Lestat's singular confession of "He longed for the flagstone."
As previously mentioned, Lestat's a classic case of narcissism. His self-inflated superiority is always on display, but most particularly when people do things that don't live up to his ideal of competence. Does this mean he kills people who offend him? Absolutely. But it's not enough for him to simply just end their life. In such instances, Lestat feels the need to draw out their pain as long as possible. The most prime example of this being when a young tenor poorly sang a role in an opera that Lestat particularly cherished. Lestat seduced the man with kindness, then brought him home only to humiliate him by giving him an impromptu singing lesson to point out his errors. When the humiliation was over, Lestat expertly cut the man's throat right across the vocal cords - enough to keep him alive but also enough to keep him from making any sound at all - and slowly let him die while drinking his blood from a wine glass. This is actually the fatal flaw that lead to Lestat's downfall, as they knew he couldn't resist getting the final blow to a man that spent thirty years getting under his skin. Another narcissistic trait that Lestat exemplifies is the need for attention. He goes out of his way to put himself at the centre of everything, from inserting himself at a piano while a band plays to ensuring he gets invitations to parties and card games. Being the centre of attention doesn't just mean having all eyes on him, either. He likes to make a ripple and leave a lasting impression, so not only was it incredibly appealing to him to be the king of Mardi Gras, but he delighted in making a grotesque display of feeding on a papier-mâché baby (complete with streams of red tissue to represent the blood).
Much of Lestat's toxic behaviours come out in regards to one Louis de Pointe du Lac. While there's no denying that Lestat loves him, that also means Lestat is willing to go to extremes to try and keep Louis beside him at all costs. The dispatching of the priests and Paul were absolutely grounded in Lestat's hatred of God, but these were also people who seemed threatening enough to get between Lestat and Louis. Lestat also pushed hard for Louis to embrace his vampire nature and abandon humanity to drive a rift between Louis and his family, and when he inevitably pushed so hard that Louis was drifting away from him, Lestat chose to turn a young girl into a vampire to create their own little family. Claudia, the girl, was very much a pawn for Lestat's own joy. As long as she was happy, Louis was happy, and even when she and Lestat grew to hate each other, Lestat wouldn't let her leave. When Claudia attempted to take the train to New York, Lestat followed, using her love for Louis to make her feel guilty enough to come back home. He was, however, quick to tell Louis that Claudia was the source of their unhappiness at the same time. The biggest crime against Louis came when it seemed that Louis was going to finally leave him forever. The fight that ensued was unfair from the start, Lestat being an older vampire and with more knowledge of how their powers worked, and culminated with Lestat dropping Louis out of the sky. As Louis took weeks to heal and recover from his wounds, Lestat found a way to appeal to Louis's jealousy and take him back. Lestat's reasoning for the whole thing? He has an issue with abandonment.
Path to Redemption:
For Lestat to ultimately find any sort of change or redemption, he needs to be able to find empathy for humanity again. Important milestones will be listening to people and acknowledging their grievances, learning to feel or express some sort of remorse of sympathy, and especially allowing himself to feel like it's okay to be vulnerable. He's learned to close himself off from feeling to keep himself protected, and to always be in charge of the situation to avoid getting hurt by the world around him. There's something very healing in the idea of "it's okay to not be okay" and that's a lesson Lestat can stand to learn.
Being on the barge will, of course, annoy him. The idea of bettering himself is a silly notion to him (after all, he feels he's already fine as he is, the problem is with everyone else), but mostly he'll dislike being weaker due to having his powers effectively stripped. The situation will immediately put him in a state of discomfort, as he doesn't like to be out of his depth. He'll enjoy being wardened much less. Lestat's a man who likes to control his own life. Learning to let someone else take the reins will be the first baby step in his path to graduation, but as he learns that there may be benefits that come with compromise, he'll play as nice as he can.
The best wardening approach to Lestat will be patience. His road to redemption will not be quick and may involve more than a few steps backwards, so he'll need a warden that's willing to put in the effort for the long haul. Someone with a lot of patience would be ideal. Lestat can be petulant and his mood swings are unpredictable. His warden will need to be able to let him throw a tantrum without getting heated as well. However, Lestat also needs someone who won't let him walk all over them. A firm hand is necessary, while also not being too controlling. If Lestat's warden tries to take total control and dictate his life on the barge, then Lestat won't even entertain the idea of change. There should be enough give that it entices him to continue to do well, with the idea being that things are earned and nothing is a right.
A warden's best bet of pulling anything out of Lestat is tapping into what of his humanity still lurks under his otherwise cold facade. Lestat is not incapable of love. For all of his bad traits, he genuinely loves Louis, and he also once loved another man in Paris many years ago. Nicholas, his first real love, was a violinist, and Lestat used to compose music for him to play. In fact, it's in music that we see Lestat truly let go for a few moments. He reveres music in all forms, from musicians to singers to composers, and finds his moments of peace in playing at the piano or writing. It's possible for Lestat's warden to reward him with time at the piano in the gazebo, but also perhaps to use music and his ability to still truly love in a therapeutic approach.
History: Here.
Sample Network Entry: TDM.
Sample RP: TDM
Special Notes: While Lestat plays his cards close to his chest, I'm hoping to be relatively mindful about his interactions with people, particularly regarding parts of his life that may offend people. He's not above being a shitty person to prove a point, and I may consider doing an opt-out post as well.