History Characters / TheVampireChronicles

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The Lestat that appears in ''Interview With the Vampire'' is a rather stupid, petty villain with a streak in [[CardCarryingVillain banal evil]]. Anne Rice wrote in her later books that this portrayal was merely Louis being an UnreliableNarrator, spreading spiteful gossip and/or misunderstandings. If ''The Vampire Lestat'' is read before ''Interview With the Vampire'', the impression that Louis is giving the account as a bitter ex-love becomes pretty unmistakable.

!!Aaron Lightner

!!Amel

!!Avicus

!!Armand

!!Azim

!!Bianca Solderini

!!Claudia

!!Daniel Molloy

!!David Talbot

!!Eric

!!Eudoxia

!!Gabrielle de Lioncourt

!!Jessica Miriam Reeves

!!Khayman

!!Lestat de Lioncourt

!!Louis de Pointe du Lac

!!Mael

!!Magnus

!!Maharet and Mekare

!!Merrick Mayfair

!!Mona Mayfair

!!Marius de Romanus

!! Nicolas de Lenfent

!!Pandora

!!Tarquin "Quinn" Blackwood

!!Akasha

* YouAreWhatYouHate: She was disgusted by cannibalism and her proudest achievement as Queen of Egypt was to abolish it as a custom. Then she ordered the slaughter of Mekare and Maharet's tribe, which directly led to her becoming a vampire, unable to consume anything ''but'' humans.

* GreatAccomplishmentWeakCredibility: The defining experience of Lestat's youth ss a harrowing fight in which he [[WrestlerOfBeasts kills]] a [[SavageWolves pack of eight wolves]]. When he limps home and tells the story, his BigBrotherBully coldly calls him a lying little bastard. The brother immediately realizes his mistake and starts VerbalBackpedaling, but the snub forever erases whatever love or kindness Lestat felt for him.

* BreakoutCharacter: An extremely controversial figure among vampires by ''Literature/QueenOfTheDamned''. He's either loved or hated in the vampire community, almost nothing in between.

%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler: After losing the twins due to his decision of possessing Akasha and losing his self in the process he has mostly been asleep for thousands of years. When he begins to reawaken he acts like a spoiled child hysterically pleading with vampires to save him from his cage (Mekare). As Lestat discusses Amel at the first council between ancient vampires, he mentions how childish Amel is and how he believes Amel's loneliness is causing him to lash out at vampires. ]]
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: [[spoiler: Amel is rather articulate with his demands to vampires who are easily swayed. However, powerful vampires who manage to ignore his demands are treated with constant whining noises and screams of anger until they fully fulfill blocking him out altogether. Lestat does this at the beginning. After merging with Lestat the vampires can no longer hear Amel's telepathic messages and have to ask Lestat what Amel is thinking. Surprisingly out of all the vampires Amel made contact with Lestat was the one who managed to easily decipher Amel's loneliness and why he was killing vampires. ]]
* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: [[spoiler: Subverted. Finally give in to Amel's demands and watch as he ends his cruel slaughter of thousands of innocent vampires because he's been 'satisfied'. Hopefully Lestat will keep Amel happy or else he has to deal with another worldwide execution of his own kind. ]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Don't ignore Amel or else you will face his wraith. When Amel finally manages to mentally break some of the Ancients he forces them to go after other Ancient vampires or fledglings who have ignored him. A small portion of the deceased vampires mentioned in the train of unnecessary slaughters worldwide were vampires who refused to slaughter their own kind. Amel doesn't take 'No' very well. He nearly exterminates the entire vampire population, simply as payback for being ignored, and is rather petty in his interactions with every character who refuses him and yet Lestat is sympathetic towards the Core despite despairing over the cruel slaughters earlier in the novel and adamantly stating how those deaths were unnecessary. Makes you think Amel got off too easy. ]]

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Downplayed, but still there- at the beginning of "Queen of the Damned", while other characters are doing normal vampire activities, Armand is fucking around with blenders.

* TheDreaded: In early-modern Paris, he is this. Also becomes this in New Orleans for most of the 20th century: After losing Louis it becomes his territory and he murders every vampire who trespasses.

* GameFace: When extreme anger breaks through his usual serene, beatific expression the effect is essentially this. It's enough to terrify otherwise-fearless vampires; Lestat describes it as "a perfect incarnation of malice".

* FauxAffablyEvil: She starts acting politely to Marius until her true plans are showing.

* AGodAmI: Starts calling himself this after becoming a celebrity with mortals. He doesn't mean it ''literally'', like [[spoiler:Akasha]] does.

* ImmortalityPromiscuity: Lestat has had a lot of lovers over the course of his vampiric life, but Louis seems to be the one he considers to be his true love. Polyamory appears to be the norm for most vampires, or at least not unheard of.

* DeathSeeker: Becomes this after the death of his brother, and what leads him to Lestat.

* TheVamp: Pun unintended. [[spoiler:First thing she does after hearing Lestat's music? Kills Enkil. Why? [[{{Yandere}} She decided she likes Lestat more.]] (Although it certainly can't have helped Enkil's case that the last time she showed interest in Lestat, [[CrazyJealousGuy Enkil tried to kill him]].)]]

** Her constant railing against men as the source of all woe suffered by humanity in general, and women in particular, rings quite hollow considering her senseless slaughter of a peaceful tribe for an imagined slight. The cherry on top is that she also ordered the rape of two innocent women simply because the spiritual questions she asked them produced truthful answers (and proofs) she could not face

* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really 6,000 Years Old]]

* TheDreaded: In early-modern Paris, he is this.
** Also becomes this in New Orleans for most of the 20th century: After losing Louis it becomes his territory and he murders every vampire who trespasses.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: For a given value of "hero", anyway. His cruel punishment of Nicki is actually an attempt to be ''nice''--the only other option is to kill him, as he was so sloppy and indiscreet he was endangering the entire coven. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: the strain of starving and being unable to play the violin, even temporarily, destroys what's left of Nicki's will to live and he kills himself immediately afterwards. You tried, Armand.]]
** Assuming, of course, it wasn't all intentional.

** AmnesiacsAreInnocent: He describes his unknowing self as "a being who understood the word ''joy''", and takes a childlike interest in the technology and arts around him.

* ParentsAsPeople: Patsy has no maternal bone in her body, especially not toward Quinn.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Her grand plan to create a paradise on earth (that she rules, naturally) is to kill all but one in a hundred men, on the grounds that men are "naturally" the source of all violence, war, and other destruction, while women are naturally peaceful and cooperative. This is coming from the woman who's been burning vampires alive left and right, and who spent her mortal life slaughtering people for having different religious beliefs.

* MonsterProgenitor: As the original vampire, but she herself only created two fledglings: Khayman and Enkil.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Even before he became a vampire, Quinn was far from stable mentally with being able to see spirits and having NoSocialSkills to the point where he comes off as fanatically eccentric. And that's not even taking Goblin into account...

* {{Woobie Destroyer of Worlds}}

* {{Face of an Angel Mind of a Demon}}
* {{Fiery Redhead}}

* PrettyBoy

* StepfordSmiler

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette

* FemmeFatale
* PimpedOutDress
* Really700YearsOld: Literally.

* SmugSnake
* WickedCultured

* PsychicPowers:
** ISeeDeadPeople: She can communicate with spirits and ghosts.
** {{Telepathy}}

* AgentPeacock

* AffablyEvil

* ByronicHero

* DeadpanSnarker

* HemoErotic

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone

* BadassBookworm
* ByronicHero

* TheHedonist

* ManOfWealthAndTaste

* PsychicPowers

* BrokenBird

* MadArtist

* BadassBookworm

* FemmeFatale

* Really700YearsOld

* AxCrazy
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking

* TheDreaded
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen

* PersonOfMassDestruction

* VampireMonarch

* ChristmasCake: Not that she disliked this, indeed. She used to sabotage any engagement.

%%* EmergencyTransformation: See IllGirl.
* IllGirl: The main reason Lestat turned her into a vampire was due to the fact that she was dying of tuberculosis. She's also, well, his mother, and the only member of his mortal family that actually gave a damn about him.

* AGodAmI: Let's just say she took Lestat's take on this trope UpToEleven when it comes to vampire relations with humans.

* {{Yandere}}: For Lestat. To a scary degree.

* VampireLolitaArchetype: Claudia is "turned" into a vampire at a young age, with Lestadt reckoning that this is better than allowing her to die. She then joins the two older male vampires as a child-companion. It takes some years before awareness of the awful reality sets in: a human child who becomes a vampire at eight or nine years old will never grow into physical maturity. She is locked into a child's body, fated to be forever pre-pubescent but with a mature adult mind and intellect. (This is an [[UnbuiltTrope unbuilt example of the trope]], being effectively a {{deconstruction}} of a character archetype that wouldn't become popular until decades later.)

* IncestIsRelative: Views Lestat and Louis as her fathers, but also clearly desires Louis as a lover.

* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: To Louis.]]
* NotGrowingUpSucks: Her FreudianExcuse.

* SmugSnake

* ChekhovsGunman
* EmergencyTransformation: See IllGirl.

* IncestIsRelative

* IncestIsRelative: With his mother, Gabrielle.

* ManipulativeBastard

* PlayingWithFire

* SenseFreak
* {{Ubermensch}}

* WickedCultured

* BrokenBird

* RaisedByGrandparents: Due to his mother's outright refusal to raise Quinn, Thomas "Pops" Blackwood and Rose "Sweetheart" Blackwood raise Quinn more like a son than a grandson since Patsy was considered a disappointment.
* ReallyGetsAround: He's had sexual relations with two spirits (one male, one female) and two real women (one of whom helped raise him).

* YaoiGuys: Mostly with Marius, but he also has some sorts of... ahem... ''chemistry'' with Lestat, Louis and Daniel.

* YaoiGuys: Chronologically, he first has Nicolas, and then Louis.

* YaoiGuys: With Armand.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: She used her holy war on canibalism as an excuse to have Maharet's and Mekare's village slaughtered and the twins brought before her, just so she could ask them some questions.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The old stories Marius was told portray her and Enkil as benevolent RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething who converted a land of cannibals to the peaceful worship of an earth goddess. This is, shall we say, somewhat less than truthful. Some of the particulars are ''technically'' correct, but put in context not at all heroic. (For instance, she didn't so much "convert" the cannibals--who solely practiced funerary cannibalism, and so weren't hurting anyone by doing it--as ''wholesale slaughter'' them.)

* TheVamp: Pun unintended. [[spoiler:First thing she does after hearing Lestat's music? Kills Enkil. Why? [[{{Yandere}} She decided she likes Lestat more.]]]]