Lestat de Lioncourt

Jason Thomas

Prof. Sledd

English Comp 1102

4/15/11

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Lestat de Lioncourt

A dark night marks November 7^th in 1760, for that is the day Lestat came into the world. He was the seventh son in an aristocratic family that managed to squander their wealth and and lived in ironic poverty inside their castle. Growing up he never got a long with the males in his family. Lestat became an excellent hunter and helped protect his town against a pack of wolves for which he is awarded with a red velvet cloak and boots made from the pelts of the wolves he butchers. His heroics however did not translate to happiness and in his depression the relationship with his brothers worsened. One night after his hunt he told his mother "I dream sometimes that I might kill them all. I kill my father and my brothers in the dream. I go from room to room slaughtering them as I did the wolves." [sic]

leaving his home in Auvergne with his lover Nicolas in hopes of becoming an actor in Paris where he attracted Magnus, and old and powerful vampire who captures and transforms Lestat into the beast he is now. Soon afterward Magnus killed himself leaving Lestat to learn on his own what he became. This allowed him to shed all moral grounds against killing other humans he may have had left in order to survive. He would eventually take on a new partner to replace his human love Nicolas who could not coexist with the monstrous Lestat. A vampire that Lestat himself created named Louis de pointe du lac. They traveled together for almost a century before parting ways in an violent manner marked by fire.

Spending a century recovering from the burn of flame and lost love his narcissism he is so well known for returned and his power grew. His persuasive nature led him to the head of a very successful rock band in the 1980's entitled “The Vampire Lestat” which he used to lure women into his chambers to feed.

Stakes do not kill him, crosses do not frighten him. He is a powerful, egotistical, creature of the night whom will hunt with out regret. If you encounter this undead monstrosity, do not run, and do not fight. Your only hope is to beg, and if your lucky he might spare your life by turning you into a vampire as well. But not before giving you the choice. The choice he never had.