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Echo by SavageWilderness
Fandoms: Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Interview With the Vampire (Movie 1994)
09 Aug 2025
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This is Lestat de Lioncourt’s internal response to the final confrontation with new-vampire Nicolas de Lenfent at Renaud’s, as described in Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat and expanded upon in Symphony of Malice, Chapter 3: Cadenza.
It can be read as a standalone work, with the knowledge that this scene immediately follows a painful and decisive argument between Lestat and Nicolas, and Lestat is remembering it in a non-linear way.
While this story explores Lestat’s grief and guilt, it also carries the pulse of the love that has bound him to Nicolas since they were mortal. A love that is as destructive as it is inescapable.
It contains an extended tender, romantic memory of Lestat and Nicolas’ mortal love... a moment we could almost call a wedding 💕… near the end. Sorry, you have to suffer to get to it! 😇😈
Content warnings:
- Psychological trauma/PTSD
- References to self-harm
- Suicidal ideation
- Complex relationship dynamics
- Mental breakdown/psychological distress
- Violence
- GriefSeries