I was juuuust waiting for someone to come along with this fandom! :D
the character I least understand If we confine this to the main characters, I think I'd go with Armand - there's an essay Anne wrote ("Twenty-One Years with my Beloved Immortals", I think) that appeared in the trade paperback of the comic adaptation of TTOTBT, where she says Armand's mindset is alien to hers; SHE doesn't "get" him the way she does someone like Lestat. And there's Louis, to a lesser degree, though maybe it's just that I disagree with him so profoundly on some things...
interactions I enjoyed the most Oh god, we'll be here all day! I adore Marius and Pandora in her book; Thorne and Marius will later call their conflict "a good quarrelling". It's angsty to read sometimes, but I always like the feeling that you're watching two mature adults have a relationship, rather than two people who are still trying to self-define. These two have defined themselves just fine, and their conflict comes from very different approaches to themselves. I find that interesting.
Also, I guess this would be everyone's answer, but Daniel and Armand in QotD... that whole section is sheer gold. And I'm very, very fond of David and Lestat together.
the character who scares me the most I guess Akasha for her sheer, unpersuadable implacability. Nothing like a leader who has a bizarre, violent "solution" to deep, complex social problems, and can't be swayed. :|
the character who is mostly like me Jesse and I have some very formative stuff in common, only she didn't know either of her parents. We're the same age now (or at least, she was 35 when she was turned), and every time I come back to her section of QotD it hits me more deeply, how very much I understand what she's searching for and why she won't be turned from it.
hottest looks character ALMOST EVERYONE IS HOT. IT'S EVEN A PLOT POINT! If they actually do manage to make that TV series, the collective hotness of the cast will freaking break the internet! Clearly Lestat is the hottest, most magnetic being who ever lived, and he'd pout if I said otherwise. :P
one thing I dislike about my fave character Almost his entire handling of his relationship with Armand. But on a deeper level, it's something he does with nearly everyone he's close to: the deep conviction that he knows best, for everyone. It says a lot that his one relationship with an equal ended the way it did and has never been able to re-coalesce: Pandora just knows him too well.
one thing I like about my hated character Collectively, that would be the Replimoids... I have to say, the whole body horror reproduction thing they're capable of is very cool.
a quote or scene that haunts me Off the top of my head, Lestat experiencing the Dark Moment and then that realisation, that idea of the universe, never really going away.
a death that left me indifferent I'll give Anne this - I don't think I've been indifferent to any of the deaths. And I'm still steaming mad about Eric! Off the page, even!
a character I wish died but didn’t I feel I could have done without Amel surviving PLROA, but who knows, maybe she'll find a good way to use him in the next one...
my ship that never sailed I'm generally a canon shipper, so I don't have a lot of problems in this area, but I would've liked to see some fanon ships like Eric/Santino happen in canon. A Marius/Pandora/Flavius trio would've been nice, too.
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the character I least understand
If we confine this to the main characters, I think I'd go with Armand - there's an essay Anne wrote ("Twenty-One Years with my Beloved Immortals", I think) that appeared in the trade paperback of the comic adaptation of TTOTBT, where she says Armand's mindset is alien to hers; SHE doesn't "get" him the way she does someone like Lestat. And there's Louis, to a lesser degree, though maybe it's just that I disagree with him so profoundly on some things...
interactions I enjoyed the most
Oh god, we'll be here all day! I adore Marius and Pandora in her book; Thorne and Marius will later call their conflict "a good quarrelling". It's angsty to read sometimes, but I always like the feeling that you're watching two mature adults have a relationship, rather than two people who are still trying to self-define. These two have defined themselves just fine, and their conflict comes from very different approaches to themselves. I find that interesting.
Also, I guess this would be everyone's answer, but Daniel and Armand in QotD... that whole section is sheer gold. And I'm very, very fond of David and Lestat together.
the character who scares me the most
I guess Akasha for her sheer, unpersuadable implacability. Nothing like a leader who has a bizarre, violent "solution" to deep, complex social problems, and can't be swayed. :|
the character who is mostly like me
Jesse and I have some very formative stuff in common, only she didn't know either of her parents. We're the same age now (or at least, she was 35 when she was turned), and every time I come back to her section of QotD it hits me more deeply, how very much I understand what she's searching for and why she won't be turned from it.
hottest looks character
ALMOST EVERYONE IS HOT. IT'S EVEN A PLOT POINT! If they actually do manage to make that TV series, the collective hotness of the cast will freaking break the internet! Clearly Lestat is the hottest, most magnetic being who ever lived, and he'd pout if I said otherwise. :P
one thing I dislike about my fave character
Almost his entire handling of his relationship with Armand. But on a deeper level, it's something he does with nearly everyone he's close to: the deep conviction that he knows best, for everyone. It says a lot that his one relationship with an equal ended the way it did and has never been able to re-coalesce: Pandora just knows him too well.
one thing I like about my hated character
Collectively, that would be the Replimoids... I have to say, the whole body horror reproduction thing they're capable of is very cool.
a quote or scene that haunts me
Off the top of my head, Lestat experiencing the Dark Moment and then that realisation, that idea of the universe, never really going away.
a death that left me indifferent
I'll give Anne this - I don't think I've been indifferent to any of the deaths. And I'm still steaming mad about Eric! Off the page, even!
a character I wish died but didn’t
I feel I could have done without Amel surviving PLROA, but who knows, maybe she'll find a good way to use him in the next one...
my ship that never sailed
I'm generally a canon shipper, so I don't have a lot of problems in this area, but I would've liked to see some fanon ships like Eric/Santino happen in canon. A Marius/Pandora/Flavius trio would've been nice, too.