Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Lestat's Evil Overlord List
Lestat
has become something of a villainous icon for us pop culture types, especially
as a sire. Not an icon for abusive siring – that honor goes to Lucien LaCroix
from Forever Knight.
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Lestat is more of an icon for
staggeringly irresponsible siring.
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1.
Choose your initiate after having observed him
at a distance for what appears to be one occasion.
2.
In fact, choose a guy who tries gambling away
his own fortune, gets into fights, and nearly gets himself killed several times
in a matter of hours. Especially if you’re a gold digging sire and looking for
stable financial support.
3.
After killing two people in front of him, nearly
killing him (really, I can think of several non-vampiric ways Louis should have died in
the harbor scene, including blood loss, infection, stroke, drowning, injury from the water's surface tension from the fall, hell, all of the above), and breaking and entering into his home while he’s in bed
sick – proposition him!
4.
Only tell him the benefits of vampirism, and
none of the costs, and trust that he figured those out in context.
5.
Give him one day to think about it.
6.
Later that day, give him his last chance to back
out after it’s already too late.
7.
Now tell him about the consequences, and give
him very little other useful information except for how to kill Vampires,
especially you.
8.
Take him and try systematically and repeatedly
breaking down the psychological and physical barriers that stop people from
killing each other, whether you need to or not.
9.
After he successfully stops killing, mock him,
and make it clear that not only does he have to keep killing, but he also has
to keep doing it with you, the guy
who’s responsible for all this in the first place. Offer him absolutely no way
out. Maybe unconvincingly argue he can’t kill you.
10. Act
surprised when he destroys everything he owns the next time he kills someone,
and fail to understand why he did it.
11. The
next time he almost kills someone under very horrific circumstances,
immortalize both the victim and the event so he has a permanent reminder of his
resentment for you, what he is, and what he’s done.
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13. Act
very surprised when they both kill you.
Now, if Lestat was a
six-thousand-year-old evil overlord with hordes of underlings and he behaved
this way, I’d have a problem with it. Near as I can tell, though, he’s a bum
who goes from bad relationship to bad relationship while being a social
parasite and crashing someplace every time the lifestyle nearly kills him. So
it works, and it’s clear that Lestat’s reckless irresponsibility makes perfect
sense for the character.
Naturally, he’s the character that
a lot of the audience seems to like and identify with, compared to Louis.
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