What are Louis's abilities?

Louis's abilities include vampire strength, immortality, hypnotic gaze, narrative insight, resilience.

How is Louis connected to other characters?

Louis has 5 mapped relationships in Interview with the Vampire. Explore the interactive relationship map for details.

Lestat de Lioncourt (Unmarried partner). Armand (Unmarried partner).

Melancholic vampire narrator, struggles with morality and his undead existence.

Alignment: Anti-hero
Species: Other
Abilities: Vampire strength, Immortality, Hypnotic gaze, Narrative insight, Resilience

Louis — Power Maker — Lestat (Tom Cruise)
Lestat creates Louis and initially controls his entry into vampiric life.

Lestat attacks Louis in New Orleans and offers to turn him into a vampire. Louis accepts and becomes dependent on Lestat's choice.
Louis — Family Creator — Claudia (Kirsten Dunst)
Louis participates in the creation of Claudia and becomes her parental protector.

Louis feeds on Claudia when she is dying during the plague outbreak, and Lestat then turns her into a vampire.
Louis — Power Maker — Madeleine (Domiziana Giordano)
Louis grants Madeleine vampiric life despite his reluctance.

At Claudia's demand, Louis reluctantly turns the human woman Madeleine into a vampire.
Louis — Professional Teacher — Armand (Antonio Banderas)
Armand becomes Louis's intellectual guide to vampiric existence.

Louis stays with Armand in Paris to learn about the meaning of being a vampire.
Louis — Conflict Interrogator — Santiago (Stephen Rea)
Santiago investigates Louis and treats him as a possible criminal threat.

Santiago reads Louis's mind and suspects that Louis and Claudia murdered Lestat.

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