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I honestly prefer Louis the messy victim than the angelic victim (tm) in Claudia's recollection. I think it tells you a lot more about what Claudia means to him (he didn't just defend her, he lost his shit), how he excuses the abuse later despite it's severity, and how Lestat's abuser logic works.

And of course, it's not the lion comment that wakes the bear. Lestat isn't *frightened* by Louis' threats, he's angry, and that anger starts brewing when he realizes Louis is leaving. It's the 'disrespect', it's the audacity of saying that on his way out the door.

And we see that Louis is destabilized, mentally and physically. He's taunting Lestat even while he can barely stand. He's picking a fight as Lestat's gaze hardens. So either he's past noticing the eggshells, or more likely ('whatcha gon do?') past caring about the danger.

Like I said, I've been on the sidelines. From what I've seen, when the victim finds the strength to fight back, they aren't at their prettiest. They lash out. They say unhinged things. Elaborate revenge fantasies are common.

And okay yeah whatever, Louis threatens to feed Lestat's head to a lion. The man can barely stand up! He's shit talking! What, he's gonna be mad enough about *watching his husband lay hands on his daughter* that he'll finally fight back, but not enough to talk shit?

It wasn't one massive escalation, it was a bunch of small escalations that piled up until it hit a breaking point - until Lestat was escalated enough that the bear was liable to be woken, and Louis too escalated to care whether he poked it. (And to be clear, that's not Louis fault).

Abuser's don't abuse for no reason - there's a fucked up internal logic behind why they do the things they do. And with physical abuse, it doesn't usually go from 0 to 100 in one event. With the context that it was a *fight* before it was a one-sided beating, the shift makes more sense.

What, Lestat beat the shit out of Louis, Louis nobly fought back (defensively! no more than necessary!) but couldn't land a punch, and Lestat just kept going and going until he decides to drop Louis from the sky? After having never laid hands on him before? Where's the escalation coming from?

On rewatch that's clearly a cue to understand the scene as Claudia's interpretation of events (and likewise, the extent to which Lestat is covered in blood in his telling reflects how *he* experienced it). But it just... doesn't add up.

One of the things I *disliked* about S1 on first watch was that the abuse scene in ep5 felt too... tidy. Literally. Despite the preceding fight, Lestat comes down from the sky with his shirt unruffled, hair blowing in the wind, skin unblemished. Like some distant, untouchable god.

I've never been in an abusive relationship, but I've been close to people going through that, and in some cases a witness TO the abuse. And partially as a result of that, I've done a lot of reading on this topic on my own.

I don't know there's so much I could say about him. Love when he's a mess. Love when he's a messy victim. Love seeing him bug-eyed and vicious.

Even the family dynamics; there's something in their gens de colour creole shtick that feels very "light-skinned mestizos" to me. Down to the family wealth from a grandfather who made money off darker-skinned men, but was never going to be white ~enough~ for the USA.