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1	* Paul's suicide, made all the worse by Louis' mother blaming him for it and saying it must have been something he said--when really, the last ever words to his brother were about how he loved him.
2	* Lestat's implied DarkAndTroubledPast with the rage and grief in his voice as he talks about his former religious teaching.
3	* Louis' anguish in the church parish, lamenting all his failures and how he is as a person--begging the Father for help.
4	* The jealousy and toxic ways it forms with Lestat and Louis, with the complete lack of ability for either of them to solve it properly resulting in it only further brewing.
5	* The incredibly cruel fate of the tenor, his self-confidence completely destroyed before his voice box is severed, leaving him unable to cry out for help as he is then slowly killed over the course of the next few hours--all because of a few wrong notes.
6	* Louis' dissolving relationship with all of his family, each and every step of the way--culminating to Grace declaring that not knowing what is going on she does not think he even ''is'' Louis and has made a gravestone for her actual brother. She gives him a final kiss on the cheek and leaves forever, with Louis initially holding it together but breaking down sobbing as soon as his sister is gone.
7	* What is essentially a lynch mob running through the streets, burning black homes and businesses--which Louis blames himself for, with the death of the alderman.
8	** Several times the racism endemic to the era comes up. Louis at one point is disturbed to realise his responses to being condescended to and patronised have become automatic and he struggles to get the white French Lestat to understand what he faces. He also has to pretend to be Lestat's valet at the opera, and later on someone heckles Claudia because she isn't allowed in a university library. the vampiric telepathy also gives Louis the ability to tell when even the men he plays cards with are thinking disparaging thoughts about him.
9	* Claudia now only accidentally killing who she had feelings for, but Lestat than viciously forcing her to watch as he is burned away in the incinerator. All of this only causing her to break and self-harm, hating herself and her parents.
10	* Claudia's little cry as following an outburst on how she has nobody to love and pleading for her own companion to be made for her, Lestat manhandles her and angrily calls her a mistake.
11	* Claudia's excitement at finally meeting another vampire being dashed in one of the most horrible ways, as he shows his true rapist colours.
12	* The DomesticAbuse from Lestat to first Claudia then Louis when he intervenes. Viciously beating Louis and throwing him around the house as Claudia sobs and begs for him to stop and Louis even while being horribly hurt, keeps trying to be a good dad and reassure Claudia that it's okay and she is to stay where she is. Both Claudia and Louis completely helpless.
13	* When Claudia leaves the first time Louis is so broken up about it that he neglects the housework completely and ignores Lestat, instead reading newspapers to find her whereabouts and mentally begging her to come home.
14	* It becomes clear that Lestat is abusive to Antoinette as well. Emotionally manipulative to her and very dismissive, roughly handling her and using her as essentially a doll for sex, food and comfort with giving nothing in return. Louis (who wants her dead) even says how he believes Lestat would discard her if it would get the “right” reaction from Louis. In episode 6 alone this has left her mutilated, presumed dead and sobbing outside her own home she was thrown out of so Lestat and Louis can have sex on her bed.
15	* By the end of episode 6 Louis has started to have suicidal ideation and Lestat while worried about him “handles” this by terrorising Claudia, threatening she may have another Bruce appear if she goes and telling her to go back to “her cage”.
16	* The tale Lestat gives of how he became a vampire.
17	* In episode 7, Claudia and Louis go through with their plan of killing Lestat. Louis himself deals the final blow, slitting his throat, but it is clear this is a painful thing for him to do and he is in tears the entire time. Lestat himself doesn't fight back and simply says that he's glad it's Louis with him in the end.
18	** Claudia crying after she tells Louis that they have to burn Lestat, and he shoves her against the wall, choking her like Lestat did.
19	** Daniel understands that Louis is being an UnreliableNarrator again when he says neither he or Claudia wanted to burn Lestat, nor that he was in ManlyTears while doing it, and as he barrages him, Louis holding Lestat while screaming in agony is shown.
20	-->'''Daniel''': Was it raining, Louis?
21	** Louis utter denial of Claudia's personality and feelings is pretty sad, she cares for him in her own way and has been through so much with him but he just will not admit to the fact she 100% wants Lestat dead and was deeply unstable from all the abuse she was put through, preferring to lie and or rewrite events in a way that omits the parts of her Louis didn't like to look at. Daniel bluntly comments that when events came to a head despite all the abuse and cruelty he suffered at Lestat's hands and the fact Lestat was out to kill Claudia Louis choose Lestat over her, with a flashback showing Louis choking her in a rage exactly like Lestat did.
22	** From Claudia's perspective, too - despite how much she and Louis love one another she struggles to convince him to cut Lestat off for good. They naturally have a period apart after Lestat savagely beats Louis but Lestat eventually wears Louis down into taking him back, despite Claudia accurately pointing out that Lestat still likes to withold information and didn't really keep to his end of the bargain to be allowed back into the home - he promised to kill Antoinette, then hid her a town over in what Louis surmises was a deliberate attempt to get caught, power playing the two other vampires because he knows that Louis will not leave him for good. What's saddest of all is that Louis seemed to suspect from the beginning that Lestat would start lying again and would not change just because he [[EvilIsPetty hates being told what to do]]. It takes Claudia forcing the issue for the two to begin their plan to be free of Lestat for good and even then Louis can't come through for her. Louis is certainly right that Claudia and Lestat share some cruel behaviors and love fighting with one another, but he ignores that Claudia's behavior towards Lestat is motivated by wanting to protect Louis from being abused by him again.
23	** The series ending reveal that Louis learned absolutely nothing from his long lasting toxic relationship with Lestat as evidenced by him having struck up another relationship with a shady older vampire, who book readers know is if anything a lot worse than Lestat.
24	* Louis and Claudia spend nearly the whole of the season 2 premiere searching Romania for old-world vampires. They find ''two''. The first is a feral monstrosity who ends up being {{mercy kill}}ed when Claudia tears out its eyes in order to stop it from killing Louis. The second is the thing's sire, Daciana, an ancient vampire who leads them back to her nest. She tells them that there are no other vampires left in Romania, that between the Nazi and the Russian occupations, the old vampires have all been killed off and she's been unable to make new ones because the people are too weak and unhappy for the transformation to take hold. Claudia suggests that Daciana follow them back west to find new and presumably healthier people. Daciana chooses to throw herself into the fireplace instead, rendering Claudia and Louis' journey a complete failure.

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