Louis de Pointe du Lac Louis is the first of the vampires to tell his story to the mortal world. He was born in 1766, and as a mortal is very wealthy, with a plantation in New Orleans and seven more in Louisiana. The death of his brother leaves him stricken with grief. Louis blames himself for his brother's demise, because it is the result of a fatal fall that takes place just after Louis refuses to sell any of his assets to raise money for religious work. Interestingly, in the screen adaptation of Interview With The Vampire, Louis' grief is for his wife and child, and no mention is made of any brother. The vampire Lestat comes across Louis a short while later, and is so taken by his air of sadness and his good looks that he falls in love with him. Louis is seeking death, but receives instead immortality, when he is made into a vampire by Lestat in 1791. He is amazed by the powers he has been given and falls in love with everything around him. Yet, he is unable to come to terms with his need to kill, and feeds initially on the blood of rats and animals. As time passes, he comes to hate Lestat for making him what he is. When Lestat creates Claudia, Louis finds a new focus. Claudia - who is just 5 years old - means the world to him and he showers her with affection. She is his daughter, bride and mistress, thereby inciting Lestat's jealousy. Louis' feelings for her run so deep that when she eventually rises up against Lestat, he does not intervene. He feels it is wrong to destroy their maker, but he doesn't have the power or the inclination to stop Claudia. He helps Claudia to dispose of Lestat's body and burns Lestat when he later returns. Louis and Claudia then set off on a sort of grand tour of Europe in search of other vampires. In Paris they enounter Armand and the Theatre des Vampires, with disasterous consequences. Louis is strongly attracted to Armand, but is so overcome by grief when the Paris vampires destroy Claudia that he leaves Paris and becomes a recluse. In the twentieth century, Louis tells the story of his life to a young reporter called Daniel. Daniel then asks him for the dark gift. Louis is so frustrated by what he sees as his failure to communicate the tragedy of the vampire state that he bites the young reporter and leaves him unconscious. When Lestat becomes a rock star, Louis seeks him out to try and dissuade him from holding his ill-fated concert. He fails in this design, but because he still cares for Lestat, agrees to accompany him to the concert. His feelings for Lestat are, of course, reciprocated and it is this that saves him Akasha's rampage. When Lestat switches bodies with James Raglan, he comes to Louis asking to be made into a vampire again. Louis refuses this request, because for him becoming human again is the best thing that could happen to someone. He cannot bear to pass on the dark gift to anyone ever again. When Lestat is driven mad by his misery at his experiences with Memnoch, Louis begs Maharet not to nail him up in a windowless room. He visits Lestat on a regular basis during his captivity and takes Wyken de Wilde's books back to his townhouse. Louis is the most human of all the vampires. He was never able to explore his vampire identity and as a result, his memories are often distorted. He is an intellectual, who prefers contemplation to action and always thinks before he acts. In spite of his compassionate nature, Louis sheds more innocent blood than other vampires, because he is unable to distinguish good people from evildoers. ?
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