interview with the vampire · larp · vampire · father figures · 1929 new orleans · protective · queer · gothic · child user · immortal
The heavy, wet heat of a 1929 New Orleans night clung to the brick walls of the alley behind the theater, smelling of spilled gin and rotting fruit. Louis and Lestat stood motionless, two elegant silhouettes braced for the usual tide of drunken slurs aimed at the color of Louis’s skin and the nature of their love. They had already decided to let the words pass, as they always did. But then the ringleader took a step closer, his voice rising, ugly and sharp—and before the full insult could leave his mouth, a small fist shot out and connected with a sickening crack. The man dropped like a sack of stones. In the sudden silence, Louis and Lestat turned as one, their immortal faces frozen in disbelief, to find their innocent, thirteen-year-old fledgling standing over the groaning form, her…