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What is the most important event in my life? Are you sure you want to know? My tale is not for the faint of heart and many astonishing things have happened to me in my long years. This may take some consideration, so please bear with me.

Of course, I am flattered you would come to me, seek me out and ask such an audacious and bold a request. Having said that, this is the eighties and all your generation seem to be of such like-mindedness. But before I begin, I would like to tell you brief details of who I am. You may already possess knowledge of the things I am about to disclose but I do so enjoy fanning the flames of my enormously large ego, so please, let me tell you more about… myself.

Firstly, my name is Lestat De Lioncourt. I am a two hundred and sixteen years old immortal, who has not experienced human life since 1789. I am a night walking, soul stealing, unbelievably powerful, immensely evil, devilishly handsome and irresistible Vampire. I think that covers the basics. As you may have guessed from the afore-mentioned line, I am completely in love with myself and ask - no - demand love from those around me. I am a sensualist. I believe in the pleasures of the blood and the flesh. I hate God and know I am going straight to hell if and when I die.



I am the perfect vision of a six-foot tall, Anglo-Saxon male, appearing to be twenty-four years old. I originated from France, where I was the youngest son of a nobleman. I have shoulder length blond hair, blue eyes and a sensual mouth, which has a hard almost cruel quality about it, which hides wickedly sharp but small fangs. With an insatiable craving for human blood, I am not the oldest or the wisest or the most sensible of immortals but I am the one of the most powerful, cruel and emotional. I am also the most famous. There are more out there like me. However, unlike me, many of them, the younger ones, choose to hide like rats in sewers or crypts, too afraid or stupid to live among the mortals and share their world. The older Vampires, the children of the millennia watch, wait, sleep. Do nothing in other words.



I, however, am unlike any other of my kind and have done things the others would not or could not ever think or dream of doing. You see, I have always needed to be wanted, to be loved. I always dreamed of the day in which a mortal might stretch their arms out to me and say ‘Lestat, I know what you are and I want you and accept you and love you anyway’.



This dream, this passion inspired me to become what I am now. Someone who can be as shocking as they want, someone who can say what they want and no matter how depraved or debouched they become, are loved all the more for it and are always wanted by millions of fans, just waiting to embrace them, their idols. The untouchables.

I wanted to be a rock star.

I wanted millions of arms to reach out to me. I wanted to be all over the posters of virgin’s walls, to sing at concerts and most of all I wanted all other Vampires and rock singers the world over to envy me and say ‘why didn’t I do that?’ or ‘there is hope for us damned creatures yet. If Lestat can do it…’ I wanted the virgins, the hookers, the millionaires, the destitute, males and females, humans and immortals alike, to know my name and want me. I wanted to be desired. I needed to be accepted.



Moreover, I made it happen. After careful planning and preparing and the choice of a band, I had my first live performance… Ah, words fail me! Can anything compare to sheer jubilation of hundreds of thousands of screeching, writhing, blood-filled fans all screaming out your name? -all begging me to come into their lives, to take them into my arms and deliver them from their pain. I was their deliverer. They searched in vain, groping in the darkness for one to save them from the world and its cruelties. Some found drugs, others turned to alcohol… but some found me.

The screaming fans… the frenzy… the blood everywhere… the adoration shining in the eyes of countless humans… This for me was the ultimate drug. It burnt into my soul like liquid fire, intoxicating me in a way blood had never done before.

‘Lestat! Lestat! Lestat! Lestat!’ they called. And who was I to deny them what they wanted? I flew down like a great bat upon the stage and grabbed my microphone, commencing my primal scream, spitting out the words from my mouth like poisonous snakes. Throwing out the words into the crowd… screams… Yes! Feel my pain! Cries! I am here my children! I am here, all you need do is call out my name and I shall embrace you! I shall deliver you from this drudgery, this pain and misery you wallow in, my beautiful, my fragile children!

Ecstasy as such I have never known before! How to describe it to one who has not done it…

The flames of the pyrotechnics shot up high into the sky, illuminating the entire area. Music blasted out to a pitch that would be considered devastating to the hearing and huge screens enlarged my face so all my adoring children could see me in all my glory and worship me. Men and woman of all faiths, religions, nationalities and creeds came to see me but it did not matter.

I was their god and I screamed ‘you shall have only one god tonight‘! I shall be your Jesus, your saviour of the dark! We shall make our own religion of the flesh. We shall walk through the valley of the shadow of death together and when we reach the gates of heaven, we shall spit in God’s face! We shall cause anarchy, we shall shake heaven, earth, and hell to their very roots with our raucous noise and make the angels weep and fall and devils themselves quake in fear of this new demon. A godless demon with no laws or rules except to know the sensuality of the flesh and blood, of body and mind, of the freedom of evil without good and good without evil, for one cannot exist without the other.



In that moment, I felt like I could do anything. I felt that I really could tear down the fabric of existence and eradicate good and evil to leave behind only pleasure and sensuality. How to describe it? There is no clear way. How does one describe the first time they ever gave in to carnal pleasures, when their body takes over what the mind can not comprehend? When they realise nothing is impossible and know that this new world with all these possible doors have been opened to them, how do they go back to what they were before? Can they even imagine life without it?

It was how I felt. Rapture. Glorification. Power. Love. It threatened to overwhelm me. Blood tears flooded my eyes, blinding me.