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| Antoinette Brown | |
| Continuity: | Vampire Chronicles |
| Notability: | Recurring character |
| Type: | Singer |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Vampire |
| Location: | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Relatives: | Lestat de Lioncourt [1] |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Died: | 1917 |
| First: | "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil" |
| Final: | "The Thing Lay Still" |
| Actor: | Maura Grace Athari |
Antoinette Brown is a fictional singer and a minor recurring character featured in the "Vampire Chronicles" multimedia franchise. She is associated with the Interview with the Vampire television series on AMC and was played by actress Maura Grace Athari. She first appeared in episode 1x03, "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil".
Biography[]
Antoinette Brown was a blonde-haired woman who worked as a lounge singer in the early 1910s. She arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1917 and began working at a brothel called the Azalea Hall. While there, she met and sparked a romantic relationship with a Frenchman named Lestat de Lioncourt. Antoninette became aware of the "odd" relationship that Lestat shared with the hall's owner, Louis de Pointe du Lac. Antoinette and Lestat went to the Rue Royale.
While in bed together, Louis burst into her home and demanded some private time with Lestat. Lestat demanded that Louis should kill Antoinette. However, he instead helped Antoinette fake her death, though it did require cutting off one of her fingers, burning her home down, and hiding her away in a nearby hotel. Antoinette proposed that they go away to a big city for a better future, but Lestat claimed that New Orleans was the only city for him, much to Antoinette's disappointment. Stashed away at a run down hotel, she questioned how she was supposed to make a living, but Lestat wasn't concerned with her concerns, though he did assure her that his promises would be kept. [2]
Antoinette was turned into a vampire by Lestat and tasked with following Louis and Claudia, who were plotting to kill him during the Mardi Gras ball. With this information, Antoinette and Lestat confronted the two of them. Lestat restrained Louis whilst Antoinette forced Claudia to drink from Mark MacPhail, who she had poisoned with laudanum and arsenic and attempted to trick Lestat into drinking from. However, it was Lestat who suddenly fell ill. In turn, Antoinette became distracted, allowing Claudia to gain the upper hand and stab her with a poker before burning her in the incinerator. [3]
Abilities[]
- Vampirism: In addition to the various mental and physical benefits that vampires are heir to, they also possess the ability to turn others into vampires as well. Each new vampire is traditionally subservient to the one who "turned" them, but some strong-willed vampires have been known to rebel against their masters.
- Enhanced senses: Vampires have improved several times higher than those of any human being of course these skills can vary depending on each person they will have some other stronger senses of his companions always given the dedication and training that each set to improve ways. Among the main ways that vampires have improved we find the following:
- Immortality: So long as vampires continue to consume blood, they will not age beyond the physical state they were in when they first became a vampire.
- Invulnerability: Vampires are invulnerable to most forms of injury (certain exceptions apply). Bullets, blades and blunt objects do little to no damage to a vampire's body.
- Regeneration: In addition to being virtually indestructible, whatever damage a vampire does in fact suffer can be healed through the consumption of human blood.
- Superhuman strength: A vampire's strength level is several times that of a normal human being and they are considered superhuman.
- Superhuman stamina: So long as they continue to consume human blood, a vampire can function tirelessly without rest or relaxation. However, a vampire's stamina wanes the closer it is to sunrise.
- Psychokinesis: Most vampires possess some form of psychokinesis. Some are clairvoyant, others can communicate telepathically, some possess mind control. Particularly powerful vampires can control the minds of several people at once.
- Hypnosis: Vampires possess the ability to hypnotize or mesmerize human targets. This may become difficult against opponents with an extremely high will power. It often doesn't work against other supernatural creatures. In some cases, vampire mesmerism may be referred to as "glamouring".
- Transformation: Vampires often possess the ability to transform into a variety of creatures or effects such as bats, wolves, rats or even mist. While their physical attributes may fluctuate during such states, a vampire's mental acuity is the same as that when they are in their human shape. A vampire who transforms into an animal may also benefit from that particular animal's attributes including razor-sharp claws, fangs or the ability to fly.
- Metamorphosis: Only vampires with a more advanced powers Control demonstrate the ability of altering either its appearance to imitate other people or in such cases selective transformation for creating claws to increase the lethal capability of its attacks in extreme cases and only vampires with a capacity of very advanced monitoring capabilities such change would show how elements, elasticity and other capabilities which vary depending on their ability, imagination and control, because as you know some vampires are stronger than others.
- Claws: Vampires can often turn their fingernails into sharpened claws, which are extremely durable and sharp. They are ideal for rending and tearing through flesh, though they are not as effective as the claws possessed by a werewolf.
- Fangs: A vampire's most often-used weapon are her fangs. They are enlarged sharpened canine teeth, which are often retractable so as to allow a vampire the ability to pose as a normal human. The primary purpose of fangs is for feeding, which they use to puncture the jugular vein of a victim in order to get to their blood.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Antoinette Brown was created by director Keith Powell & writers Rolin Jones and Hannah Moscovitch based on concepts originally developed by Anne Rice.
- Antoinette Brown is unique to the continuity of the Interview with the Vampire television series and does not have a direct counterpart in the "Vampire Chronicles" series of novels.
- Antoinette Brown is not a native of New Orleans. She originally hailed from Atlanta, Georgia.
Appearances[]
- Interview with the Vampire: Is My Very Nature That of a Devil
- Interview with the Vampire: A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart
- Interview with the Vampire: Like Angels Put in Hell by God
- Interview with the Vampire: The Thing Lay Still
See also[]
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ Vampire progenitor.
- ↑ Interview with the Vampire: Like Angels Put in Hell by God
- ↑ Interview with the Vamipre: The Thing Lay Still