Turns out, adopting a teenage vampire won’t fix your marriage.
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Hold my blood bag.”
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She’s 14 years old.
She’ll always be 14 years old.
And she’s about to make that everyone’s problem.
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We first see her being rescued from the fiery inferno of her blazing boarding house.
And like that, a new predator is born.
Their loving and living and fighting is the constant static in the background of Claudia’s story.
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Claudia adapts quickly to her new life of wealth and blood.
Let’s just get ahead of this now: they all have secrets.
The owner (and his confusion about Claudia’s excitement) doesn’t survive long.
It leads to a conversation with Daddy Lou about love between two men and his kinda-open relationship with Lestat.
Louis warns her to tread lightly about Lestat’s past, which he doesn’t like to talk about.
Her exuberance and lethal naivete are downright charming.
But Rashid calmly lets it roll off his back, and Daniel returns to Claudia’s writing.
We see them in stitches over F.W.
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She flops onto the mattress and shouts at her dads to knock coming into her room.
They’re a family, and she breathlessly describes their happiness.
But there are shadows on the horizon.
Neither man gives her a straight answer, and life continues.
But more reality creeps in when Louis gets a call that his mother has died.
When the woman bolts, Lestat grabs her, spins her into a dip, and drinks her dry.
In the background, we hear Louis shouting at Lestat for taking Claudia to lover’s lane.
homicide, she’s interrupted by Charlie (Xavier Mills), a handsome young carriage driver.
Just like that, she falls hard and fast.
But her lust moves from sex to blood, and his racing heartbeat overwhelms her.
She brings his drained body home and frantically asks Lestat to turn him, but it’s too late.
Poor Lestat, surrounded by young vamps struggling to sever their human ties.
“Claudia was everything,” Louis says.
Note the past tense here; Charlie’s death burst the fantasy of their happy family.
Louis reluctantly agrees with Daniel that Claudia wasn’t enough to fix the fundamental problems between him and Lestat.
From inside her coffin, she rages, laughs, cries, grapples with her stuck existence.
And eventually she breaks.
