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I just had the most angsty idea but i could be wrong however i just need to put it out there.
Obviously we all know Louis is very unreliable and his memory has definitely been messed with. So what if Madeleine wasn't real and Louis inserted her into his memory because he holds so much guilt over the fact that Claudia has never been anyone's first choice. So he created this whole person in his mind because he couldn't cope with the fact Claudia died alone.
Death and the Maiden (Marianne Stokes, 1908)
2.06 “Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light”
that loustat redraw meme that was making rounds a few weeks ago but i made it claudeleine
kind of insane how Madeleine is introduced to us as some sort of "traitor" and yet she's the only one who stays steadfast in choosing Claudia. we see her choose Claudia over life and over death and even if you beat her up, mess with her head and put her through the humiliation of yet another linching? she chooses Claudia again
Madeleine looks so small here, she truly feels younger than Claudia
GUYS.
madeleine whispered moi et toi (me and you in french) anD CLAUDIA RESPONDED ME AND YOU IN ENGLISH OHMYGOD I AM UNWELL
I FIGURED IT OUT
Interview With The Vampire Relationship as Greek Mythology
Claudia and Madeleine as Orpheus and Erudice
Lestat and Nicholas as Apollo and Hyacinth
Louis and Armand as Odysseus and Calypso
Armand and Daniel as Eros and Pysche
Lestat and Armand as Theseus and Ariadne
i’ll never get over the scene between armand and madeleine but specifically
“claudia, he thinks there’s something left of my era.“
her addressing armand as “young man” in french, her pronunciation of claudia and era, her maintaining eye contact with armand while yelling out to claudia to make fun of him, armand’s little smirk
i personally think she was telling armand in more ways than one that he knows nothing and he’s not as smart as he thinks he is
I love that weird white lady
power couple of the century
To love is to look back.
that loustat redraw meme that was making rounds a few weeks ago but i made it claudeleine
as much as i want to know what claudia and madeleine said to each other in their last moments i'm really glad we don't get to know. it's not for us, not for louis or lestat or armand or daniel and certainly not for some fucking book. their last moments together belong to them forever.
parisian gothic
my coven is claudia
"love makes you stupid" is about louis who decides to chose his companion of the day over a child he cursed into the darkness out of his own selfishness; it's about claudia who despite experiencing the cruelty of different vampires firsthand time and time again decides to stay with her newfound beloved nearby the coven who she knows is ruthless to anyone who breaks their self-imposed rules; it's about armand who decides it's okay to get rid of the child of his new lover because "can you imagine me without the burden of her?" and he does the idea a little too much and wants to believe it'll work out in the long run; it's about lestat who knows that you shouldn't turn children into vampires but his husband who just left him, now is begging him to give him one, and he succumbs because he hopes that this will save their marriage even though deep down he knows it won't
i'm not coherent enough to say it but i'm glad someone who is smart and who can at least try to analyze media recognized the thing with madeleine and the nazi soldier probably didnt go down as louis and armand described it! i thought the scene showing her hair being buzzed would make it obvious for everyone else but apparently not :/
I think it’s fair for people to interpret Madeleine’s actions however they want, because when Madeleine retells the story to Claudia she frames it as a love story and something she did for fun. Later on, it’s suggested that’s not true, when she tells the story about seeing her neighbor starve to death and how traumatic it was to find the corpse. Originally, she says something something like “I found whatever love I needed to survive,” making it sound romantic, but with the added context, it makes that statement much more literal. Madeleine hates being portrayed as a victim, so it makes sense she would cast her actions in a worse and more willing light than they really were. The shearing doesn’t really change anything for me; the French were shaving the heads of any woman who had “consorted” with Nazi soldiers, whether those women were assaulted, or had acted under duress (where I’d categorize Madeleine), or were actual Nazi collaborators. The more important thing is that Madeleine isn’t really a good person. He responses to Armand’s interview are supposed to be unnerving. It’s unnerving that a person could be utterly fine with being turned into a monster. But as Madeleine says, she already is one. The social stigma she’s faced and the years of war have destroyed everything and everyone she knew, and now she has nothing, so she might as well be a vampire and stay with Claudia. That doesn’t make it less unnerving, but it does make it more sympathetic. The enduring impression the audience gets of Madeleine is that she’s a pragmatist. She slept with the soldier to survive, she’s willing to become a vampire to survive. She’s not ideologically motivated the way some other characters are. She’s a survivor, and she cuts out the parts of herself that can’t survive. It’s what makes it so romantic when she chooses to die with Claudia. She did so much to survive and she threw it away to die for Claudia.
Interview with the Vampire | user Starpeace
claudeleine thru the eras
YOU WANNA TELL THAT I'M WRONG?!?!
