Louis calling himself a "magical negro" to Morgan and then turning away and not helping either him or Emilia later was very loaded.

I don't know if Morgan really sensed there was something different about Louis or not. But the audience very well knows that both Louis and Claudia could have very easily stepped in and stopped what was about to happen to them both. Especially since the episode opens up with them slaughtering a large group of German soldiers. Stopping what was happening to Emilia would have been light work.

And I think, in any other show, Louis and Claudia would have stepped in and saved them. To reinforce the idea that they -- she and Louis -- are "good" and "benevolent" vampires, the type Claudia has convinced herself they are and that she is looking for.

And yet? They both turned away very easily from helping two humans who were helpful to them. They, Louis especially, did not play the "magical negro" here. They walked away and did so completely unconflicted about doing so.

Because, in truth, they aren't really benevolent. Not when it comes to humanity. Magical they both are, in the nature that all vampires are. But they are not there to help humans in that "magical negro" trope fashion -- and this goes for all humans, be they white or black or anything else.

Louis now has begun to take to heart that human affairs are not his to get involved with, something he began to learn in the harshest ways possible in Season 1. For better or worse he is part of a different world now. And what that world is and is about is a journey that he will continue to learn throughout season 2.

Close your eyes. And you will find yourself. When I was a boy, my mother used to tell me a story of a demon king and his army. They brought fire and terror to the land. Until they faced the protector of the people. The White Monkey. There you are. You are a beast.

MONKEY MAN (2024) dir. Dev Patel

Monkey Man (2024)

DEV PATEL in MONKEY MAN (2024)

I knew a new Dev Patel movie would bring you back to tumbo!! (This is Erin, I used to be alimentaries)

Omg!! Erin!! Long time!! Yes of course here yo celebrate THE ONLY handsome man

DEV PATEL as THE KID

Monkey Man (2024) dir. Dev Patel

"I just thought, 'I really want to go and lounge around on some sofas and do absolutely nothing and drop some funny lines.'" ROSAMUND PIKE on playing ELSPETH CATTON in SALTBURN (2023)

Vampire

For Louis, my muse! Lestat.

Interview with the Vampire (2022-) | 1.07 ― "The Thing Lay Still"

In the quiet dark

I feel like lestat always knew how good he had it

lestat really woke up from his century long nap and said “mmm how can i make the 80’s about me and how can i fuck david bowie???”

Here’s a formal reminder that the reason Lestat has such extravagant tastes and seems to waste money indulging his aesthetic preferences and spoiling the people he loves is because he grew up with no money, no prospects, and expecting to die penniless. He spent his entire adolescence as not just the sole provider for his family but the protector of his village. He learned his only value is his ability to protect and provide for the people he cares about. He suffered a horrible trauma and then had an insane wealth thrust upon him and his first move was to start giving all that money back to the people who had supported his pursuit of acting. He sent his mother money to travel to Italy, he bought his boyfriend a house, and he bought and started sponsoring the little theater he had worked at, without asking anything in return. Anyway so his love language is gift giving and he clings to materialistic possessions because they remain a novelty to him even centuries after his death/rebirth.

In case anyone was wondering why in the show he is constantly giving Louis and Claudia gifts even before he’s trying to win them back.

(Claudia is extravagant in her tastes as well for many of the same reasons)

the entire show is just this

louis, this film d'animation shows a little rat cooking soupe de pomme de terre et poireau perfectly, come take a look....what a fascinating rat....and you say you want to eat them.....

Louis, Loiuis, mon amant, mon cœur, ecoute ici, this song I have found--it's about dead lovers Louie how perfect is that? It's by this man--they say his name wrong--Hozié, it should be--Louis I don't give a damn how Americans pronounce it, it ends in "er" comme "é"... É--comme AY mon cœur, stop that LOuis. Tu es si impossible mon amour... Mais je disais que-- JE DISAIS -- they kiss like honey, Louiei isn't that sweet? They kiss like humans, like food Louis... Kiss me Louie? Kiss me like a human, comment dire un «bog person»... Don't laugh at me give me your lips Louiuis so I can kiss you like in la chanson...