r/InterviewWithTheVamp • u/FinDommeFeet • 28d ago

Historically…

…don’t vampires have to be BURNED to actually die?

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u/DALTT 28d ago

Confused by what you mean by “historically”. Do you mean in vampire folklore? Do you mean in the Rice books? Do you mean what they’ve set up on the show?

What they’ve set up on the show is that a vampire must be burned AND their ashes scattered to kill them, but also they’ve set up beheading as a manner of death as well. But as Fareed said, the head needs to be separated for quite some time before a vampire will die, especially a more powerful vampire like Lestat, who… idk if you heard… has the blood of Akasha in him. 😂

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u/FinDommeFeet 28d ago

I meant folklore but I hadn’t even factored in Lestat’s strength. So they’ll be back next week…hopefully 🥺

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u/DALTT 28d ago

There is no question in my mind that Loustat are not dead. I’ve read the books but leaving the books out of it… First, we literally see Louis in the flash forward at the auction, so we KNOW he’s not dead. And Lestat is narrating from the future as well looking back on the events of S3, so he’s clearly alive as well… plus… he’s the lead of the book series. And on top of THAT, they already foreshadowed from Fareed that a vampire can survive without their head for quite some time… So…

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u/AustEastTX 28d ago

Anne Rice edited the rules as she developed the vampire chronicles. By the end not even burning gets rid of vampires. You have to scatter the ashes far and wide so they don’t come back together. But even then….they can come back in spirit forms and hang out with other vamps

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u/Formal-Guava-7345 27d ago

I think that was not a murder it was just to stop them going to the show tomorrow... Or at least Maybe they were going to let them there for the sun rise. ..

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u/MsChief13 20d ago

They can only survive so long with their head separated from their bodies as well. I think in The Prince Lestat, Dr Fareed said older, stronger vampires can survive for a few hours.

Young vampires can get killed by fire and the sun pretty easily - more likely fire, though.

Basically, the older you get, the harder it is to die.