Characters / The Vampire Chronicles

Characters seen throughout The Vampire Chronicles.

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Aaron Lightner

• Killed Off for Real: By Tommy and Marklin in Taltos, to prevent him from returning to the Talamasca and exposing the intercepted communications.

Amel

• Evil Is Petty: Ignore him and you're placed on his shit list, he'll find someone else to end you.
• He Who Must Not Be Heard: When he reawakens in Mekare's mindless body he begins to telepathically talk to thousands of ancient vampires and urge them to kill fledglings to strengthen his power and control over the Ancients. He also encourages powerful vampires to kill the twins so he can be taken by a new vampire with more charisma. He nearly succeeds in wiping out the vampire race until he is defeated by Lestat and Company. Most of the vampires Amel manages to talk to are driven insane from his constant mental torment.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: After losing the twins due to his decision to possess 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.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: 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.
• Save This Person, Save the World: 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'll have to deal with another worldwide execution of his own kind.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Don't ignore Amel or else you will face his wrath. 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.

Armand

• 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.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: After Lestat and Gabrielle shattered his old beliefs. For a time he leeched onto Lestat himself, as the one who may help him understand the place of vampires in the new century. But after Lestat refused his offer of companionship, he settled for becoming the new director of Théâtre des Vampires.
• The Dreaded: 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.
• Emergency Transformation: Marius never really wanted to turn him, but Armand got into a fight, got wounded with a poisoned blade and was on the brink of death when Maruis decided to save his life by making him a vampire.
• Enfant Terrible: Slightly older than the typical example, but Marius specifically tells Lestat that making 17-year-old Armand a vampire was the greatest crime he ever committed, and warned Lestat to make vampires with more human life experience. Since Armand is an eternally petty, cruel, jealous teenage boy, this was solid advice. Too bad Lestat didn’t listen...

• Game Face: 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".
• Immortal Immaturity: Hasn't matured at all in 400 years.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Armand desperately wants to be loved, but his methods of going about it leave something to be desired. He throws Lestat from the top of a tower, not for revenge, but out of anger that Lestat returned to Paris after a century and still didn’t love him. “A century I had waited, and you did not want me!”
• Mundane Object Amazement: He is fascinated by modern technology, from common household appliances like microwave ovens or kitchen blenders to video cameras and planes.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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, 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.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The whole point of murdering Claudia was to sieze the conscientious, "human" Louis for himself. Turns out, losing Claudia robbed Louis of the very traits Armand coveted. When he realizes this Armand simply walks away...

• Promiscuity After Rape: Was repeatedly raped as a mortal child, and is one of, if not the most, promiscuous and sexual character in the series- despite being an explicitly pre-pubescent teenager. The Vampire Armand is one of the few books in the series to be outright classified as erotica instead of horror.
• Really 700 Years Old: Four hundred, to be exact.
• Religion of Evil: Lead one of these, up until Lestat shattered his cult's beliefs simply by existing.
• Spoiled Brat: Armand likes to get his way. As a human, he broke a door down with an axe because Marius wasn't paying attention to him, and as a vampire he throws violent, murderous tantrums when things go wrong for him.
• Stalker with a Crush: After meeting Daniel and deciding not to kill him, he instead chases him around the world.

• Teens Are Monsters: Armand is eternally 17, mentally as well as physically. When Lestat breaks his cult apart, he throws a violent, murderous temper tantrum and kills his underlings, he orders Claudia killed out of childish jealousy, he throws Lestat from a tower because the latter didn’t love him, and is consistently shocked and angered when these actions don’t get him what he wants. Marius notes that making him a vampire so young was the worst mistake he ever made.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: As a mortal child, he was abducted from his Russian home and brought over to Europe as a slave boy. The apparent brutality of this event caused him to forget pretty much everything, including his name and how to speak. It takes him a long time under Marius' care (and the transformation into a vampire) to remember things bit by bit. And they trouble him.

Claudia

• Alas, Poor Villain: While not technically a villain in Louis's eyes, Claudia reaches some pretty horrifying levels and still a murderous vampire. Still it's not hard to feel heartbroken over her untimely (and equally horrifying) demise.
• The Baby Trap: Lestat turns her into a vampire to keep Louis from leaving him.
• Can't Have Sex, Ever: Because she will be a child forever until her death by sunlight, she believes that she will never be physically appealing to Louis.
• Creepy Child: Perpetually a child and perpetually malevolent.
• Creepy Doll: She hides a corpse under her many dolls.
• Cute and Psycho: The little girl in the beautiful dress just loves killing people.
• Enfant Terrible: Her favored method of hunting is taking advantage of her cuteness to trick people into thinking she's lost and helpless, and then ripping their throats out.
• Freudian Excuse: She's basically a woman trapped in a child's body forever.
• I Hate You, Vampire Dad: She truly hates Lestat. See above.

• Children Are Innocent: She pretends to be this with her victims. Played straight pre-vampirism, though.
• Killed Off for Real There's no coming back from sunlight exposure.
• Lonely Doll Girl: She has a whole bunch of dolls. Which, while she was growing up, she used to camouflage the fact that she'd kept the corpse of a woman she killed out of envy for the woman's adult body.

• Parental Incest: Views Lestat and Louis as her fathers, but also clearly desires Louis as a lover.
• Really 700 Years Old: Looks five forever. Actually far older.

• Vampire Lolita Archetype: Claudia is "turned" into a vampire at a young age, with Lestat 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 unbuilt example of the trope, being effectively a deconstruction of a character archetype that wouldn't become popular until decades later.)
• Yandere: For Louis.

Daniel Molloy

• Drowning My Sorrows: Throughout Queen of the Damned, drinks to push back his oncoming madness from the knowledge that vampires exist.
• Emergency Transformation: Armand makes him a vampire against his better judgement, because he's ruined his liver beyond all repair.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Exclusively called "the boy" or "the interviewer" until the third book.

David Talbot

• Occult Detective: As the Superior General of the Talamasca.
• Odd Friendship: With Lestat.
• Telepathy: He can read minds and shield his own from being read, even before his transformation into a vampire.
• Vampire Vannabe: Subverted. He refuses every time Lestat offers to turn him into a vampire. He gets turned against his will at the end of The Tale of the Body Thief.

Eudoxia

• Bifauxnen: She used to dress as a boy for her haunting. She even found a lover who believed her to be a man for most of their relationship.

• Faux Affably Evil: She starts acting politely to Marius until her true plans are revealed.
• Fashionable Evil: Marius presents her with a detailed description of his wonderful clothing, and thanks to her enormous wealth she flaunts dresses fit for an empress.

• Rich Bitch: She's enormously rich thanks to the wealth accumulated for centuries by her vampire dad.

• Wicked Stepmother: She tried to have her killed, but was rescued by her vampire dad.
• Worthy Opponent: How she sees Marius.

Gabrielle de Lioncourt

• I Love You, Vampire Son: Zig-zagged. She was Lestat's birth mother, but Lestat was the one who turned her into a vampire.
• Parental Incest: Implied to love Lestat as more than a son many times.

Jessica Miriam Reeves

• Child by Rape: Her mother was raped by an unknown perpetrator, leading her to become pregnant with Jesse.
• Emergency Transformation: She is attacked and severely injured by a vampire during Lestat's concert. Maharet transforms her to save her life.
• Identical Grandson: She bears a striking resemblance to her distant ancestress Maharet.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Maharet makes her forget most of the suspicious things she has seen at Sonoma compound. Later she gradually regains a portion of her lost memories.
• Occult Detective: As part of the Talamasca she is often sent out to investigate and document the supernatural. One of her missions involves going to New Orleans and verifying the truth behind Interview with the Vampire. This assignment is her first brush with vampirism and gives her clues to Maharet's true nature.

• Secret Chaser: While initially she tries to put the strange events at Sonoma compound and the mystery of the Great Family behind her, she continues to be tantalized by them. Ultimately, her search for the truth leads her to leave the Talamasca and go to Lestat's concert. She confirms her suspicions, but ends up almost dying in the process.

Khayman

• Amnesiacs are Innocent: 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.
• The Atoner: After he regains his memories of his mortal years and Rape by Proxy of the Twins.
• The Dreaded: Watch arrogant, supernatural predators suddenly shrink away in fear at his presence.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Forgot his entire history and even what he was, repeatedly, each time having to rediscover the world.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: He was completely loyal to Akasha and Enkil, until Akasha forcibly turned him into a vampire. This caused him to free Maharet and Mekare from prison and start a rebellion against his former sovereigns.
• Oh, Crap!: The feeling of more or less any vampire after just seeing him.
• The Older Immortal: One of the oldest, at about 7000 years. After Mekare consumes Akasha, he's the oldest.
• Power Incontinence: Once accidentally incinerates a young vampire when trying to catch up with her, being unaware that he's developed the Fire Gift.
• Rape by Proxy: Enkil forced him to rape both Maharet and Mekare when they were in captivity, and his guilt over this seems to have been a factor in driving him to amnesiac madness.
• Walking the Earth: For thousands of years.

Lestat de Lioncourt

• A God Am I: Starts calling himself this after becoming a celebrity among mortals. He doesn't mean it literally, like Akasha does.

• Anti-Hero: All over the map on this one.
• Anti-Nihilist: Lestat essentially summarizes this philosophy when he says he can accept the lack of God, Satan, or eternal rewards or punishments, but not the idea that acts of human kindness lack value.
• The Baby Trap: Supernatural version; when Louis is on the verge of leaving him the first time, Lestat goes out and sires Claudia to make him stay.

• Character Filibuster: He should be the God of this trope.
• Characterization Marches On: The Lestat that appears in Interview With the Vampire is a rather stupid, petty villain with a streak in banal evil. The Doylist explanation is that Anne Rice's understanding of her character grew over time. The Watsonian explanation is that the portrayal of Lestat in Interview With the Vampire is the result of Louis being an Unreliable Narrator and 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.

• Deal with the Devil: Twice. Once with Akasha, who gave him her extremely potent blood (along with most of his powers) in exchange for his loyalty and love, and again with the actual devil.
• The Dragon: Becomes this to Akasha, for a while. Before betraying her.
• Effeminate Misogynistic Guy: Despite the fact that he's a bling-loving, long-haired bisexual who describes himself as a "mother" in making a new vampire, Lestat "never imagined that a woman" could express thoughts like Gabrielle's; seems more disconcerted by Gabrielle's cross-dressing than by her killing people; assumes that Claudia lacks the will and cunning to defeat him; describes women as "terrifying"; rapes the waitress who tries to help him; agrees with Memnoch that the technically-sexless angels are "more male than female"; and describes the desire to conquer others as "purely male." Given that he has decades of chances to understand women as diverse as Gabrielle, Eleni, Claudia, Pandora, Akasha, and thousands of human examples, it's hard to attribute his attitude to anything but irrational prejudice.
• Evil Is Petty: When Louis furiously forbids a callous Lestat from playing the spinet while his father dies, Lestat's response is to start Banging Pots and Pans. "Brat Prince" indeed.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Lestat was an illiterate, impoverished actor when Magnus turned him into a vampire. 200-odd years later, he's one of the most dangerous creatures on Earth — and possibly Heaven and Hell, too.
• Great Accomplishment, Weak Credibility: The defining experience of Lestat's youth is a harrowing fight in which he kills a pack of eight wolves. When he limps home and tells the story, his Big Brother Bully coldly calls him a lying little bastard. The brother immediately realizes his mistake and starts Verbal Backpedaling, but the snub forever erases whatever love or kindness Lestat felt for him.

• Immortality Promiscuity: 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.
• Insult Backfire: He's known as "The Brat Prince" amongst older vampires (for obvious reasons). Turns out he loves the nickname.

• Man of Wealth and Taste: Absolutely infamous for his vanity and sense of fashion.

• Refuge in Audacity: The only reason he's able to get away with calling himself a vampire publicly, while making money off of centuries-old vampire secrets, is because mortals think it's just a stage act that he's very, very dedicated to. Only other vampires and the Talamasca know otherwise.

• Ungrateful Bastard: He "repays" David Talbot for his help in The Tale Of the Body Thief by forcibly turning him into a vampire.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

• Death Seeker: Becomes this after the death of his brother, and it's what leads him to Lestat.
• Happily Failed Suicide: His failed Suicide by Sunlight in Merrick. The incident not only finally wakes Lestat up from his years-long stupor, but also ends up bringing everyone involved closer together.
• Love Martyr: To Lestat, to Claudia, and then to Armand, though their relationship seems less dysfunctional by comparison.
• Mr. Exposition: His infamous interview. He didn't think Lestat would try to one-up him, though...

• Oblivious to Love: He spends decades believing that Lestat only turned him to get his house.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: His Unstoppable Rage-induced slaughter of the Theatres de Vampires following Claudia and Madeline's deaths.

Maharet and Mekare

• Came Back Wrong: Mekare was a wise and powerful witch back in ancient Egypt, after losing her tongue and being exiled for thousands of years she is not exactly fully there in the head. Swallowing the Core of the Vampires did not help her situation.
• Crack Defeat: Maharet is one of the most powerful vampires after ingesting the blood of Akasha and being one of the first vampires ever created from the Queen's bloodline. She is easily defeated by a character just introduced in the latest book after engaging the ancient vampire and his brood in battle. She was severely depressed when the duo engaged her but nonetheless the fight ended very abruptly for someone who fought the original vampire itself!
• Creepy Twins
• Dying as Yourself: After Amel is defeated and Maharet and Khayman are finally laid to rest Mekare comes before Lestat and telepathically pleads for him to kill her since she wishes to be with her sister. Lestat recognizes her desire and agrees to become the Core's host, Mekare then smiles as she ends her life and gives the title of ruler of the vampires over to Lestat. After thousands of years of solitude she is finally allowed to rest at long last.
• Eye Scream: Maharet suffered this, and inflicts it upon her victims, tearing out their eyes to put into her sockets so she can see again.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: The second example in the chronicles, Mekare is shown to be a far better and saner ruler than Akasha at the end of Queen of the Damned. Unfortunately, having lost the ability to function independently and think for herself causes Amel to wake up and stir trouble. Mekare is unaware for the most part that the Core is killing her vampire children, it's Maharet who makes the terrifying realization of what's happening.
• I'm a Humanitarian: The vision that introduces them is of them as young women on either side of an older woman's cooked corpse, preparing to eat it. Turns out she was their mother, and it was their culture's Due to the Dead. Later, Mekare kills Akasha by eating her heart and brain.
• Monster Lord: Mekare becomes the new Queen of the Damned upon eating Akasha's heart and brain.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Comes with being a vampire. Maharet outlived her daughter Miriam and generations of her mortal descendants. However, her longevity also allowed her to look after her human family to this day.
• Rape as Backstory: When they were in captivity, both were raped by Khayman, on Enkil's orders. Maharet wound up pregnant.

Mona Mayfair

See Lives of the Mayfair Witches

Marius de Romanus

• Agent Peacock: It is probably safer for a vampire to walk into the sun than to anger Marius.

• Crazy Jealous Guy: He has shades of this.

• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Even though he is a vampire, he's not evil at all.
• Heroic Bastard: He's the illegitimate child of a Roman patrician and a Celtic slave.
• Let Me Tell You a Story: In The Vampire Lestat, and many other examples. Marius tends to do this a lot.

• Playing with Fire: The "Fire Gift".

• Really 700 Years Old: He was born in 30 BC.
• Reluctant Warrior: He'd much rather stay back in the shadows and study, but he's forced to enter the battlefield time and time again.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Pandora most of all.

Nicolas de Lenfent

• Death Seeker: Moved to Paris not so much to play his violin as in the hopes that he would fail and die in the gutter.
• Driven to Suicide: After Armand cuts off his hands for a while to restrain him, he convinces his covenmates to build a pyre for him to throw himself on.
• The Lost Lenore: For Lestat.

Pandora

• Big Brother Worship: For her elder brother Antonius

• Cain and Abel: With her Dirty Coward brother Lucius. She wins.
• Daddy's Girl: Her father has spared her, a very uncommon thing in Imperial Rome since he already had five sons and she always his favorite daughter.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette

• Masochism Tango: With Marius. It lasted 2000 years, no less.
• May–December Romance: With Marius when they were mortals. He asked his hand in marriage when she was ten.

• She's All Grown Up: The beautiful little girl grown into the marvelous woman.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: She used to be this to Marius.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Again, with Marius.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: I seem a blind woman set with topaz for her pupils.

Tarquin "Quinn" Blackwood

• Abusive Parents: His mother Patsy is an emotionally abusive bully, hating him since the day he was born because she blames him for living while his twin brother died. She also hates that Quinn was more loved by her parents than she was, especially by her father, and Quinn shows equal disrespect by only calling her Patsy. He also kills her and dumps her body in the swamp.
• Ascended Fanboy: He goes from being Lestat's number one fan to being one of his closest companions.
• Creepy Child: Due to having no exposure to other children his age (save for Goblin) and being around only adults, Quinn had some very unnerving behavior as a child which only turns him into an eccentric adult.
• Disappeared Dad: Quinn never knew his father, only knowing from his grandparents that Patsy slept with multiple men in one night. He also doesn't care to find out his identity since his grandparents and housekeepers are more family than his biological mother.
• Doppelgänger: Quinn's spirit companion Goblin is exactly like him except Quinn is left handed and Goblin is right handed. Goblin is actually the spirit of Quinn's twin brother Garwain who died at birth due to giving Quinn all of his blood.
• Dysfunction Junction: Oh, where do we begin?
• Fourth-Date Marriage: Quinn proposes constantly to Mona starting with their first meeting, receiving constant rejections despite his persistence. He proclaims that Mona is going to be his wife in their first official date despite her constant objections. They never do get married officially but they end up getting as close as can be.
• Grandparent Favoritism: Thomas "Pops" and Rose "Sweetheart" Blackwood see their daughter Patsy (who they had rather late in life) as a disappointment for going wild and country as well as her Teen Pregnancy at sixteen so Quinn became their much favored child.
• Imaginary Friend: Goblin is seen as this while Quinn is a child though he's actually the vengeful spirit of Quinn's twin brother Garwain.
• Kissing Cousins: With Mona Mayfair since Julien is their common ancestor (he's Quinn's great-great-grandfather and has about ten or so lines of relationship to Mona).
• Love at First Sight: With Mona Mayfair. One of his first sentences to her was a proposal.
• Mommy Issues: He genuinely hates his biological mother, Patsy, and slept with one of his maternal substitutes Jasmine.
• Parents as People:
  • Patsy has no maternal bone in her body, especially not toward Quinn.
  • Quinn himself is also a father to young Jerome and while he genuinely wants to do right by his son, he's still quite immature and eccentric. And that's not even going into Goblin's influence.
• Raised by Grandparents
• Really Gets Around: He's had sexual relations with two spirits (one male, one female) and two real women (one of whom helped raise him and got pregnant by him).
• Self-Made Orphan: He kills Patsy after she is forced to confess that he had a twin brother because of the mutual hatred the two have for each other.
• Spoiled Brat: Admittedly, Quinn is very sheltered and spoiled by his family who kept brushing off his behavioral issues as well as kept the truth about Goblin a secret and kept him in the Gilded Cage of Blackwood Farm.
• You Should Have Died Instead: Patsy feels that Quinn should have been the one who died, not Garwain (aka Goblin).

Akasha

• A God Am I: Let's just say she took Lestat's take on this trope up to eleven when it comes to vampire relations with humans.

• Be Careful What You Wish For: She sent for Maharet and Mekare to ask them questions about the supernatural. The answers she received only confirmed her worst, hidden fears: that the gods she desperately wanted to believe in didn't exist.
• Big Bad: In Queen of the Damned.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Literally being eaten by Mekare.
• Dark Action Girl: Being both female and the most powerful vampire alive.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Akasha needs there to be a higher power who gives meaning to her actions, and the confirmation there is no such thing sent her around the bend. And then she went even further around the bend and decided that there is actually such a power—herself.

• Even Evil Has Standards: Is (initially) absolutely horrified by her transformation into a vampire, and feels guilty and shame over the necessity of killing multiple people every night just to survive. Also expresses horror at the idea of creating more blood-drinkers so as to make her thirst more bearable, claiming it's "unthinkable". That said, it lasts about five minutes before she convinces herself that she and Enkil were now divine beings, and about a day before she begins creating new vampires.

• 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.
  • 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.
  • As shameful and guilty as she and Enkil felt over consuming human blood for survival, killing herself never really seemed on the table, despite insisting that death was the rightful punishment for cannibals.
• Irony: The woman so disgusted by the consumption of human flesh becomes a monster who can't feed upon anything else.
• Monster Progenitor:
  • As the original vampire, but she herself only created two fledglings: Khayman and Enkil.
  • Demonic Possession: The reason for the above. She's possessed by the demon Amel, who is the reason for vampires existing. If Akasha were to die (and thus expel Amel from her body), vampires would die as well... at least until Mekare Took a Third Option.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She used her holy war on cannibalism 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. According to Maharet, she's convinced herself she's the genuine article, but in reality she just warps her principles to justify whatever it is she wants to do.
• One-Man Army: One woman army, to be technical.

• Playing with Fire: The Fire Gift. You can almost hear the vampires in the nightclub shit bricks as she whips it out.
• Puny Humans: Delights in slaughtering humans above and beyond the amount necessary for feeding, pretty much because she can.
• Physical God: The first vampire, and therefore the most powerful, bar none.
• Pyromaniac: She clearly has too much fun burning vampires alive.

• Red Baron: "The Queen of the Damned".
• Sealed Evil in a Can: If Marius' basement counts as a can.
• Taken for Granite: She and her husband (and first fledgling vampire), Enkil, were in such a deep sleep that they were basically living statues. Until Lestat woke her back up...
• The Vamp: Pun unintended. First thing she does after hearing Lestat's music? Kills Enkil. Why? She decided she likes Lestat more. (Although it certainly can't have helped Enkil's case that the last time she showed an interest in Lestat, Enkil tried to kill him.)

• Villain with Good Publicity: The old stories Marius was told portray her and Enkil as benevolent Royals Who Actually Do Something 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—most of whom solely practiced funerary cannibalism, and so weren't hurting anyone by doing it—as wholesale slaughter them.)
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Absolutely slaughters the vampires who said they were going to kill Lestat for spilling vampire secrets publicly.
• We Can Rule Together: Offers this to Lestat. He accepts... at first, anyway.
• Yandere: For Lestat. To a scary degree.
• You Are What You Hate: 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.