Why can't we be Friends?

    Immortality sounds all well and good until you realize...oh yeah, I'm gonna live forever. Shame nobody else will. This is the sad truth that Anne Rice has tackled in her famous Vampire Chronicles. Traditionally symbols of repressed eroticism, the Vampires of Anne Rice's imagination are rather lost souls coping with loneliness in their own separate ways.
     Lets take her star Bloodsucker, Lestat DeLioncourt. Lestat was forcefully transformed into an vampire, only to be abandoned by the one who had turned him. Having his mortality violated, he had been thrust into the world,  frightened and abused. What is one of the first tasks he accomplishes? Finding a companion. He finds one in his mother, whom he transforms. The two engage in a new kind of relationship, not simply mother and son, but equal companions. Once their relationship is compromised he is back where he started. Alone. He had found acquaintances in other vampires, but found a close partner once more in Louis, whose story is recorded in Interview with the Vampire.
     Homoetrotic overtones galore, the two try to get by as New Orleans ages before them. Despite the coupling, loneliness is still hovering amongst the two. The two come from different worlds. Lestat has learned to embrace his animalistic qualities and find splendor in being the beast. Louis still suffers from the aches and pains of his former life, primarily the death of his brother. One would think he would've found a brother in Lestat, but due to Lestat's nature, the relationship steadily grows toxic. Even when their "adopted" daughter, Claudia, is thrust into the mix.
     Loneliness is what created many of these monsters, and has even destroyed them. The incomprehensible need for companionship is something that fiction has explored many times over, but none more explicitly than Rice. An author primarily known for erotic fiction, and 1st person Jesus novels, tears apart these ideas of loneliness in a great many of her Vampiric stories. Loneliness happens to be just like a vampire; soul-sucking and seemingly invincible.