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* VampiresAreRich: While getting to know her new vampire dads, Claudia observes that "Uncle Les and Daddy Lou were rich. They had nice clothes and a nice auto carriage." (This scene takes place in 1917, when only the wealthy can afford to own cars.) She later writes in her journal that "you wouldn't believe how time flies when there's people to eat and money to spend," and summarizes her vampiric lifestyle as "Kill, spend, kill, spend."
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* CheerfulChild: This is what Claudia was during her formative years as a fledging vampire: laughing, dancing happily, skipping in the house.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Claudia is instantly smitten with Charlie when he first approaches her to check if she's alright after [[EvilDetectingDog his horse is spooked by her presence]].
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* MyBelovedSmother: Lampshaded by Claudia when she scrawls in her journal that "Daddy Lou can be smotherin'."
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* StealthHiBye: Lestat sneaks up on the newly fledged Claudia with his SuperSpeed and greets her with "''Bonjour.''" She reacts with surprised delight and asks, "How did you do that?"
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* GetOut: After Claudia gets her own bedroom, she becomes very territorial about it (as is the case for most teenagers), so when Lestat passes through her open door and leans against the doorway, Claudia exclaims irately, "You have to knock first! Out! Out! Out!", and she even throws an object at him.
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* AgeInsecurity: Lestat is [[ProudBeauty vain]], so he doesn't like it when others bring up his age. He's offended when Louis points out that he's unable to relate to a teenager's mindset because he's too old (Louis' [[StealthInsult indirect phrasing]] while avoiding the dreaded o-word is "''Tu as oublié ta jeunesse!''" [[note]]the precise translation from French is "You've forgotten your youth!", which is slightly different than the "You've forgotten what it's like to be young!" provided by the on-screen caption[[/note]]). Lestat also does the vampire equivalent of claiming that he's 39 years old when he's actually 40.
-->'''Claudia''': How old are you again, Uncle Les?\\
'''Louis''': 160--\\
'''Lestat''': 159.
-->'''Claudia''': How old are you again, Uncle Les?\\
'''Louis''': 160--\\
'''Lestat''': 159.
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* DeathGlare: Lestat gives the undertaker a sinister "I'm going to kill you" look before exsanguinating him to death.
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* StageWhisper: Because the past events are told from Claudia's point-of-view, the official English subtitles list "[Indistinct whispering]" when Louis replies to Lestat's question "You missed me?" as the two men are snuggling inside Louis' coffin. It's a prelude to sex, so they don't want their daughter to hear their sweet nothings, but viewers only need to turn up the volume to discern Louis' answer: "I hated sleeping without you."
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* BoyMeetsGhoul: The cute vampire Claudia becomes enamoured with a young mortal man named Charlie. He gives her a [[FlowersOfRomance bouquet of chrysanthemums]], they eat ice cream sundaes on their first (and only) date, and then they canoodle in his carriage. Their romance is short-lived because Claudia has a voracious appetite and never learned moderation, so she consumes all of Charlie's blood until he dies.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Dear new diary, you've joined a happy home, even if we're an odd one."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Dear new diary, you've joined a happy home, even if we're an odd one."]]
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* FlowersOfRomance: While driving his horse carriage, Charlie tosses a bouquet of chrysanthemums at the doorstep of Claudia's home as a way of displaying his romantic interest towards her.
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* ParentalHypocrisy: Lestat is the "Do as I say, not as I do" type of parent because his ''very'' harsh lesson to Claudia after she accidentally kills her FirstLove (and Lestat forces her to watch as Charlie's face melts in the incinerator) is that vampires should "never get close to mortals because sooner or later, they end up dead." Yet Lestat spent the ''entire'' first episode being wholly ''besotted'' with Louis when the latter was still human. Lestat stalked, flirted, courted, seduced and harassed Louis over a period of a few months (based on Louis' comment that "It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire"). While Lestat's endgame was to turn Louis into a vampire, he nevertheless fell head-over-heels for a mortal and invested a lot of time bonding with his human LoveInterest before offering Louis the Dark Gift. Lestat's warning to Claudia rings hollow knowing that he did the very thing he's telling her not to.
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* ParentalHypocrisy: Lestat is the "Do as I say, not as I do" type of parent because his ''very'' harsh lesson to Claudia after she accidentally kills her FirstLove (and Lestat forces her to watch as Charlie's face melts in the incinerator) is that vampires should "never get close to mortals because sooner or later, they end up dead." Yet Lestat spent the ''entire'' [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder first episode episode]] being wholly ''besotted'' with Louis when the latter was still human. Lestat stalked, flirted, courted, seduced and harassed Louis over a period of a few months (based on Louis' comment that "It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire"). While Lestat's endgame was to turn Louis into a vampire, he nevertheless fell head-over-heels for a mortal and invested a lot of time bonding with his human LoveInterest before offering Louis the Dark Gift. Lestat's warning to Claudia rings hollow knowing that he did the very thing he's telling her not to.
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* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: There's a blink-and-you'll-miss moment when Lestat briefly performs the finger-brushing variant on Louis' bum just as he approaches his boyfriend from behind in the second coffin room scene. Lestat is signaling to Louis that he would like to have sex as soon as Claudia has settled into her coffin, and Louis smiling at the touch means that he feels the same way.
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* PrettyBoy: When Claudia is rescued from a burning house by Louis, she believes that he's a beautiful Black angel.
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* HemoErotic: Downplayed with Claudia, who is only turned on when she's exsanguinating her boyfriend Charlie, as demonstrated by her pleased moans while they're making out in his carriage. However, because she lacks self-control, she ends up killing him unintentionally.
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* PinkMeansFeminine: Claudia is a girly girl with a pink coffin and she wears two different pink dresses in this episode.
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* CallAHumanAMeatbag: As a young fledgling vampire, Claudia refers to human blood as "kill juice."
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* ToughLove: Lestat takes on a disciplinary role after a panicked and heartbroken Claudia inadvertently murders her first boyfriend. He wants to ensure that she never does anything so foolish again by maximizing her psychological turmoil. He smirks while he's mocking her mistake ("It's easy to get carried away when you're young and in love"), picks up Charlie's arm and drops it to emphasize that he's dead as a doornail. Lestat then shoves Claudia towards the corpse and commands her to "clean up after yourself." After she places Charlie's body inside the incinerator, she's about to walk away when Lestat roughly grips her arm and face to hold her in place. She has no choice but to look while her FirstLove's "bones cracked black and his face turned to soup," the disturbing image being seared into her brain.
-->'''Lestat''': Stop squirming and watch. Remember this, his face as it melts. [[ParentalHypocrisy This is why we never get close to mortals.]] Because sooner or later, they end up dead.
-->'''Lestat''': Stop squirming and watch. Remember this, his face as it melts. [[ParentalHypocrisy This is why we never get close to mortals.]] Because sooner or later, they end up dead.
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* RecurringDreams: Daniel mentions to Louis that he had been dreaming about their first meeting in 1973 at Polynesian Mary's ever since Louis mailed to him the cassette tapes of their first interview.
* ScreamDiscretionShot: Lestat kills the undertaker off-screen, so viewers only hear the victim's yelps before he dies.
* ScreamingWoman: The girlfriend of Claudia's victim screams in terror as she runs away from her boyfriend being butchered.
* ScreamDiscretionShot: Lestat kills the undertaker off-screen, so viewers only hear the victim's yelps before he dies.
* ScreamingWoman: The girlfriend of Claudia's victim screams in terror as she runs away from her boyfriend being butchered.
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* ParentalFashionVeto: Lestat doesn't like the skirt that Claudia is wearing when she goes out on her first hunt.
-->'''Lestat''': I'm not sure how I feel about that pleated skirt.\\
'''Louis''': It's chiffon. It has movement.\\
'''Lestat''': ''(disapproving tone)'' Hmm.
* ParentalHypocrisy: Lestat is the "Do as I say, not as I do" type of parent because his ''very'' harsh lesson to Claudia after she accidentally kills her FirstLove (and Lestat forces her to watch as Charlie's face melts in the incinerator) is that vampires should "never get close to mortals because sooner or later, they end up dead." Yet Lestat spent the ''entire'' first episode being wholly ''besotted'' with Louis when the latter was still human. Lestat stalked, flirted, courted, seduced and harassed Louis over a period of a few months (based on Louis' comment that "It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire"). While Lestat's endgame was to turn Louis into a vampire, he nevertheless fell head-over-heels for a mortal and invested a lot of time bonding with his human LoveInterest before offering Louis the Dark Gift. Lestat's warning to Claudia rings hollow knowing that he did the very thing he's telling her not to.
* ThePeepingTom: Claudia, who is ignorant about sex (Lestat remarks that she's too sheltered), curiously observes a young couple engaging in foreplay, and even delays her feeding because she's so intrigued by what they're doing. When the two lovebirds realize that she's watching them, they abruptly stop, and the man asks, "You gonna stand there watchin', little girl?" With nothing more to see, Claudia pounces on him and messily slurps his blood.
* PsychicBlockDefense: Claudia can shield her thoughts from Louis when he telepathically inquires about the identity of Charlie, the young man she has a crush on.
-->'''Louis''': Who's Charlie?\\
''(Claudia gasps in her mind)''\\
'''Louis''': Claudia, are you blockin' me? This is your father speaking.\\
''(Claudia smiles when she realizes that Louis can't read her mind)''
-->'''Lestat''': I'm not sure how I feel about that pleated skirt.\\
'''Louis''': It's chiffon. It has movement.\\
'''Lestat''': ''(disapproving tone)'' Hmm.
* ParentalHypocrisy: Lestat is the "Do as I say, not as I do" type of parent because his ''very'' harsh lesson to Claudia after she accidentally kills her FirstLove (and Lestat forces her to watch as Charlie's face melts in the incinerator) is that vampires should "never get close to mortals because sooner or later, they end up dead." Yet Lestat spent the ''entire'' first episode being wholly ''besotted'' with Louis when the latter was still human. Lestat stalked, flirted, courted, seduced and harassed Louis over a period of a few months (based on Louis' comment that "It was a cold winter that year, and Lestat was my coal fire"). While Lestat's endgame was to turn Louis into a vampire, he nevertheless fell head-over-heels for a mortal and invested a lot of time bonding with his human LoveInterest before offering Louis the Dark Gift. Lestat's warning to Claudia rings hollow knowing that he did the very thing he's telling her not to.
* ThePeepingTom: Claudia, who is ignorant about sex (Lestat remarks that she's too sheltered), curiously observes a young couple engaging in foreplay, and even delays her feeding because she's so intrigued by what they're doing. When the two lovebirds realize that she's watching them, they abruptly stop, and the man asks, "You gonna stand there watchin', little girl?" With nothing more to see, Claudia pounces on him and messily slurps his blood.
* PsychicBlockDefense: Claudia can shield her thoughts from Louis when he telepathically inquires about the identity of Charlie, the young man she has a crush on.
-->'''Louis''': Who's Charlie?\\
''(Claudia gasps in her mind)''\\
'''Louis''': Claudia, are you blockin' me? This is your father speaking.\\
''(Claudia smiles when she realizes that Louis can't read her mind)''
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* NotGrowingUpSucks: At the end of the episode, Claudia writes in her diary with alarming instability about being stuck in a "flat-chested, hairless-crotched 14-year-old baby doll body" as her mind matures into that of an adult. This precedes her beginning to SelfHarm by sticking her arm in sunlight.
* OffWithHisHead: Lampshaded by Lestat when he informs Claudia about the fate of the aristocrat who originally owned the emerald necklace that he gives to her for her birthday (the incident may have occurred during the UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution).
-->'''Lestat''': This was given to me by a marquis who was beheaded by a mob ten years after he gave it to me.
* OffWithHisHead: Lampshaded by Lestat when he informs Claudia about the fate of the aristocrat who originally owned the emerald necklace that he gives to her for her birthday (the incident may have occurred during the UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution).
-->'''Lestat''': This was given to me by a marquis who was beheaded by a mob ten years after he gave it to me.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Although Lestat initially refuses Louis' request to transform Claudia into a vampire because ''[[BilingualBonus "Elle est trop jeune"]]'' ("She is too young"), he does the wrong thing anyway (not to mention that she didn't consent to it) because he realizes that [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter creating a daughter is the only way to ensure that Louis — who was about to abandon Lestat — will stay with him]].
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* EmergencyTransformation: Claudia is dying due to a combination of severe burns and smoke inhalation, so Louis begs Lestat to turn her into a vampire. Lestat doesn't want to at first because ''[[BilingualBonus "Elle est trop jeune"]]'' ("She is too young"), but he changes his mind after it dawns on him that [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter a daughter will bind Louis to him again]] when his boyfriend was ready to walk out on their relationship.
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* EmergencyTransformation: Near the beginning of the episode, Claudia is dying due to a combination of severe burns and smoke inhalation, so Louis begs Lestat to turn her into a vampire. Lestat doesn't want to at first because ''[[BilingualBonus "Elle est trop jeune"]]'' ("She is too young"), but he changes his mind after it dawns on him that [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter a daughter will bind Louis to him again]] when his boyfriend was ready to walk out on their relationship.
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* MixedAncestryIsAttractive: While Lestat isn't sexually attracted to his biracial vampire daughter Claudia, he nonetheless uses similar terms to describe her as he does with the mixed-race Louis and Lily (e.g. "pretty little head," "belladonnic beauty").
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* StageWhisper: Because the past events of the episode are told from Claudia's point-of-view, the official English subtitles list "[Indistinct whispering]" when Louis replies to Lestat's question "You missed me?" as the two men are snuggling inside Louis' coffin. It's a prelude to sex, so they don't want their daughter to hear their sweet nothings, but viewers only need to turn up the volume to discern Louis' answer: "I hated sleeping without you."
* SwitchingPOV: The {{Flashback}} scenes are from Claudia's perspective instead of Louis' because Daniel reads passages from her diary. For the rest of Season 1, Daniel gets a combination of Louis and Claudia's viewpoints.
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* SwitchingPOV: The {{Flashback}} scenes are from Claudia's perspective instead of Louis' because Daniel reads passages from her diary. For the rest of Season 1, Daniel gets a combination of Louis and Claudia's viewpoints.
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* MakeOutPoint: Lestat and Claudia are at a lover's lane to prey on unsuspecting couples. Claudia is innocent when it comes to human sexuality, so Lestat employs euphemistic language to explain to her what [[CallAHumanAMeatbag "the meat"]] do here.
-->'''Lestat''': This is what the meat calls a "lover's lane," and by my estimation, no blood is sweeter. Young people, swollen with passion, denied spirits by this senseless prohibition, park along this lonely stretch to contemplate that most mysterious of mathematical equations -- how one plus one becomes one.
* PuppyDogEyes: Louis urges Lestat to turn Claudia into a vampire, but Lestat turns him down because ''[[BilingualBonus "Elle est trop jeune"]]'' ("She is too young"). Louis then gazes at Lestat with his soulful, pleading eyes while touching his lover's chest and whispering "Please" twice. Lestat is so moved by how vulnerable and {{pretty|Boy}} Louis looks that he caresses his boyfriend's face before proceeding with the EmergencyTransformation even though it goes against the vampire rules.
* SelfHarm: At the end of the episode, Claudia is so deeply traumatized from her unintentional murder of her FirstLove and Lestat's ToughLove discipline that she extends her arm under the skylight during the [[WeakenedByTheLight daytime to hurt herself]].
* StageWhisper: Because the past events of the episode are told from Claudia's point-of-view, the official English subtitles list "[Indistinct whispering]" when Louis replies to Lestat's question "You missed me?" as the two men are snuggling inside Louis' coffin. It's a prelude to sex, so they don't want their daughter to hear their sweet nothings, but viewers only need to turn up the volume to discern Louis' answer: "I hated sleeping without you."
* SwitchingPOV: The {{Flashback}} scenes are from Claudia's perspective instead of Louis' because Daniel reads passages from her diary. For the rest of Season 1, Daniel gets a combination of Louis and Claudia's viewpoints.
* TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: Lestat and Claudia drive to a lover's lane to hunt for humans who are in a state of arousal. In Lestat's estimation, they're a special treat because no blood is sweeter than young people who are swollen with passion. Claudia's fangs rip into one man's neck so savagely that his arterial spray splashes across the windshield of his car, his blood nearly covering the entire surface of the glass. Lestat murders a couple that was parked further ahead off-screen, and when the [[ScreamingWoman screaming girlfriend]] of Claudia's victim runs to Lestat to warn him of the danger, he kills her, too.
-->'''Woman''': There's something back there, something evil!\\
'''Lestat''': Ah, yes. She's with me. ''(dips the woman in TheVJDayKiss pose and then drains her dry)''
* TheVJDayKiss: Lestat [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e94a180fb08835e3b73544fe2090f001/9402f360ff217da7-6f/s540x810/dc5b5b1d944d2f4a62ce61203a13c39161ec8e7b.gif dramatically drops]] a female victim in this iconic pose before draining her to death. InUniverse, it would be incorrect to say that Lestat is parodying the famous photograph because the scene is set in 1923, 22 years before the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* YourVampiresSuck: During a GoodTimesMontage, we see the vampire family laughing hysterically while watching the first run of ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' in 1922. Lestat later parodies Orlok's movements at home, much to Louis and Claudia's amusement.
-->'''Lestat''': This is what the meat calls a "lover's lane," and by my estimation, no blood is sweeter. Young people, swollen with passion, denied spirits by this senseless prohibition, park along this lonely stretch to contemplate that most mysterious of mathematical equations -- how one plus one becomes one.
* PuppyDogEyes: Louis urges Lestat to turn Claudia into a vampire, but Lestat turns him down because ''[[BilingualBonus "Elle est trop jeune"]]'' ("She is too young"). Louis then gazes at Lestat with his soulful, pleading eyes while touching his lover's chest and whispering "Please" twice. Lestat is so moved by how vulnerable and {{pretty|Boy}} Louis looks that he caresses his boyfriend's face before proceeding with the EmergencyTransformation even though it goes against the vampire rules.
* SelfHarm: At the end of the episode, Claudia is so deeply traumatized from her unintentional murder of her FirstLove and Lestat's ToughLove discipline that she extends her arm under the skylight during the [[WeakenedByTheLight daytime to hurt herself]].
* StageWhisper: Because the past events of the episode are told from Claudia's point-of-view, the official English subtitles list "[Indistinct whispering]" when Louis replies to Lestat's question "You missed me?" as the two men are snuggling inside Louis' coffin. It's a prelude to sex, so they don't want their daughter to hear their sweet nothings, but viewers only need to turn up the volume to discern Louis' answer: "I hated sleeping without you."
* SwitchingPOV: The {{Flashback}} scenes are from Claudia's perspective instead of Louis' because Daniel reads passages from her diary. For the rest of Season 1, Daniel gets a combination of Louis and Claudia's viewpoints.
* TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: Lestat and Claudia drive to a lover's lane to hunt for humans who are in a state of arousal. In Lestat's estimation, they're a special treat because no blood is sweeter than young people who are swollen with passion. Claudia's fangs rip into one man's neck so savagely that his arterial spray splashes across the windshield of his car, his blood nearly covering the entire surface of the glass. Lestat murders a couple that was parked further ahead off-screen, and when the [[ScreamingWoman screaming girlfriend]] of Claudia's victim runs to Lestat to warn him of the danger, he kills her, too.
-->'''Woman''': There's something back there, something evil!\\
'''Lestat''': Ah, yes. She's with me. ''(dips the woman in TheVJDayKiss pose and then drains her dry)''
* TheVJDayKiss: Lestat [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e94a180fb08835e3b73544fe2090f001/9402f360ff217da7-6f/s540x810/dc5b5b1d944d2f4a62ce61203a13c39161ec8e7b.gif dramatically drops]] a female victim in this iconic pose before draining her to death. InUniverse, it would be incorrect to say that Lestat is parodying the famous photograph because the scene is set in 1923, 22 years before the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* YourVampiresSuck: During a GoodTimesMontage, we see the vampire family laughing hysterically while watching the first run of ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' in 1922. Lestat later parodies Orlok's movements at home, much to Louis and Claudia's amusement.
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* KissingDiscretionShot: Lestat sneaks into Louis' coffin and snuggles next to him. The last thing Claudia sees before Louis shuts the lid is Lestat caressing his lover, but then she hears smooching sounds.
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* HappyBirthdayToYou: Lestat and Louis sing "Happy Birthday to You" to Claudia on her 17th birthday, although the audience only hears the tail end of the song.
* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Lestat and Louis argue in French so that Claudia doesn't know exactly what they're discussing about her. She scribbles in her diary that "Fighting sounds funny in French."
* {{Hypocrite}}: Lestat insists that there are no secrets within their family, yet he becomes crotchety whenever Claudia inquires about his past or the history of vampires. She confides to Louis that it bothers her that Lestat keeps a lot of information hidden from them.
-->'''Claudia''': Uncle Les got secrets.\\
'''Louis''': How you figure?\\
'''Claudia''': He don't give good answers to questions, sits on the truth like it's his chair or somethin'. I thought we weren't supposed to keep secrets.
* HypocriticalHumor: Lestat, a LargeHam himself, complains about Claudia's "histrionics."
* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Lestat and Louis argue in French so that Claudia doesn't know exactly what they're discussing about her. She scribbles in her diary that "Fighting sounds funny in French."
* {{Hypocrite}}: Lestat insists that there are no secrets within their family, yet he becomes crotchety whenever Claudia inquires about his past or the history of vampires. She confides to Louis that it bothers her that Lestat keeps a lot of information hidden from them.
-->'''Claudia''': Uncle Les got secrets.\\
'''Louis''': How you figure?\\
'''Claudia''': He don't give good answers to questions, sits on the truth like it's his chair or somethin'. I thought we weren't supposed to keep secrets.
* HypocriticalHumor: Lestat, a LargeHam himself, complains about Claudia's "histrionics."
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* DisruptingTheTheater: Lestat, Claudia and Louis are laughing their heads off while watching ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' (which is not a comedy), irritating the other people in the theater.
* EmergencyTransformation: Claudia is dying due to a combination of severe burns and smoke inhalation, so Louis begs Lestat to turn her into a vampire. Lestat doesn't want to at first because ''[[BilingualBonus "Elle est trop jeune"]]'' ("She is too young"), but he changes his mind after it dawns on him that [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter a daughter will bind Louis to him again]] when his boyfriend was ready to walk out on their relationship.
* EvilDetectingDog: Charlie's horse panics when it's near Claudia, so it can instinctively sense that she's a predator.
* EyeCam: Near the beginning, the corners of the screen are obscured to illustrate that a dying Claudia can barely keep her eyes open while looking at what she assumes to be a Black angel (Louis) and a White angel (Lestat).
* EmergencyTransformation: Claudia is dying due to a combination of severe burns and smoke inhalation, so Louis begs Lestat to turn her into a vampire. Lestat doesn't want to at first because ''[[BilingualBonus "Elle est trop jeune"]]'' ("She is too young"), but he changes his mind after it dawns on him that [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter a daughter will bind Louis to him again]] when his boyfriend was ready to walk out on their relationship.
* EvilDetectingDog: Charlie's horse panics when it's near Claudia, so it can instinctively sense that she's a predator.
* EyeCam: Near the beginning, the corners of the screen are obscured to illustrate that a dying Claudia can barely keep her eyes open while looking at what she assumes to be a Black angel (Louis) and a White angel (Lestat).
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Claudia's transformation into a vampire teen completely changes Louis and Lestat's lives. As Claudia asks more questions, Louis and Lestat are forced to confront questions about making a teen vampire. Claudia learns dark realities of her new life.
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!!Tropes:
* AutoErotica: Lestat and Claudia ambush two young couples (although most of Lestat's onslaught occurs off-screen) having sex in their cars at lover's lane.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter:
** Louis and Lestat bring Claudia into their household right when Louis is on the brink of walking out on their relationship. In the short-term, it ''does'' work -- they're quite happy as a little family for a time. Claudia writes in her diary that she helps to smooth out any major conflicts between her Daddy Lou and her Uncle Les ("And when they can't [sort out their problems on their own], I can always get in between and make it right"). In the long-term, though, it doesn't work out so well. Lampshaded by Louis and Daniel:
--->'''Louis''': Claudia was--\\
'''Daniel''': A band-aid for a shitty marriage?\\
'''Louis''': I was going to say... something else. But yes, that's almost certainly what she felt like.
** The trope is played much straighter with Louis individually. Fatherhood brings a great deal of fulfillment and meaning to Louis' life.
--->'''Louis''': Claudia was... everything. I loved her unconditionally. All the noise, the chaos, the crisis of my former existence, silenced. The simple joy of her hand in mine.
* BugCatching: The young fledgling Claudia catches a firefly in a jar during a rowboat ride with Louis and seals the lid. She admires the glowing insect for a few minutes before letting it go.
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!!Tropes:
* AutoErotica: Lestat and Claudia ambush two young couples (although most of Lestat's onslaught occurs off-screen) having sex in their cars at lover's lane.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter:
** Louis and Lestat bring Claudia into their household right when Louis is on the brink of walking out on their relationship. In the short-term, it ''does'' work -- they're quite happy as a little family for a time. Claudia writes in her diary that she helps to smooth out any major conflicts between her Daddy Lou and her Uncle Les ("And when they can't [sort out their problems on their own], I can always get in between and make it right"). In the long-term, though, it doesn't work out so well. Lampshaded by Louis and Daniel:
--->'''Louis''': Claudia was--\\
'''Daniel''': A band-aid for a shitty marriage?\\
'''Louis''': I was going to say... something else. But yes, that's almost certainly what she felt like.
** The trope is played much straighter with Louis individually. Fatherhood brings a great deal of fulfillment and meaning to Louis' life.
--->'''Louis''': Claudia was... everything. I loved her unconditionally. All the noise, the chaos, the crisis of my former existence, silenced. The simple joy of her hand in mine.
* BugCatching: The young fledgling Claudia catches a firefly in a jar during a rowboat ride with Louis and seals the lid. She admires the glowing insect for a few minutes before letting it go.
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