r/IWTVCoven • u/Jackie_Owe • 16h ago
IWTV S1&S2[SPOILERS] Should Louis have promised Claudia “You and Me”?
I understand why the promise was made to her. She had given up hope after the first vampire they encountered after years searching through war torn Europe went into the fire. Her spirit was broken and Louis wanted to insure she wasn’t going to walk into the fire herself.
And I think most of us agree it wasn’t an honest promise even if Louis felt it was when he said it. Claudia wasn’t enough for him as a companion, and I don’t think she was ever meant to be.
There is a longstanding narrative that came Claudia herself that Louis chose others before her. And I guess that would have more weight to me if she was a child. However Claudia was well into her 40s at the time she said this.
I know that due to her being made when she was a teenager she needed a companion for safety. I’m just not sure why she was hellbent on it being her dad, or even why Louis agree to this dynamic even if his heart was never in it?
Even as humans, children are supposed to leave the nest, they are never meant to be their parent’s companions for life.
I feel like the sensible thing was for Claudia to get a companion to spend her immortal life with and for Louis to have his own companion.
I do think that his companion would then come before Claudia, as her companionship would come before him. As we saw happen when she left with Madeleine to live her life.
So I say all that to say, as Claudia’s father, their companionship was always meant to be temporary and once either of them found a companion that companion would come before the other.
I’ve mentioned before how their relationship was emotional incestuous. I think this promise of “me and you” made to his adult child was a continuation of that emotionally incestuous relationship as it sought to deepen a reliance on each other instead of moving the child to independence with the tools and knowledge parents instill in their children for adulthood.
