"I want you to go to Paris, Lestat," she said. "I want you to take this money, which is all I have left from my family. I want to know you're in Paris, Lestat, when my time comes. I want to die knowing you are in Paris."

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"Do you want to come with me now?
DO YOU WANT TO COME WITH ME INTO THIS NOW?

I hide nothing from you, not my ignorance, not my fear, not the simple terror that if I try I might fail. I do not even know if it is mine to give more than once, or what is the price of giving it, but I will risk this for you, and we will discover it together, whatever the mystery and the terror, just as I've discovered alone all else."

The Vampire Lestat ~ Anne Rice

Lestat's mortal mother and first vampire companion. She is named for an archangel and a messenger of God, who announced the birth of Christ and will also announce the Day of Judgement.

Gabrielle is a marquise, the wife of a blind and indigent lord in the Auvergne. Originally from Naples, she has eight children, but only three - all sons - survive to adulthood. Blond, with cobalt blue eyes, she keeps mostly to herself, reading books. She does not like to be touched or to communicate with words. She never voices ordinary thoughts and, when she does talk, can be blunt to the point of cruelty. She hates to be called "Mother" and exhibits no sense of humour. Her dream is to detach herself from her family and take lovers of all kinds to her bed. She wants to be purely herself, belonging to no one.

There is a bond between Gabrielle and Lestat, her youngest son, because they are alike in their hatred of castle life and their family's attitudes. They are two parts of the same soul, and Gabrielle tells Lestat that he is the male part of her, the organ she does not possess. She intervenes for Lestat when she can and uses her own gold and jewels to obtain things for him, like a pair of mastiffs, a riding horse, and a trip to Paris.

Gabrielle has consumption, a fatal disease, and urges Lestat to leave for Paris before she dies. After he becomes a vampire, Gabrielle comes to Paris and Lestat visits her. Gabrielle realises that he is "not alive," and when he offers existence as a vampire to her, she takes it without hesitation. Their union as they engage in the transformation is highly erotic.

"She was the best person around for Lestat," says Rice. "It took a great act of maturity for him to realise that this was the person he wanted, even thought she was his mother. He treated her as an equal."

As a vampire, Gabrielle quickly discards her mortal ways and female garb; she wants to be free of all female entrapments. Instead, she dresses as a young man and chooses for herself the sarcophagus of a man, rather than one carved for a woman. She tries to cut her hair and when it grows back to its natural length, is greatly upset.

Gabrielle is obsessed with finding truth and beauty in nature. Her curiosity leads her away from mortals, in much the same way she has been withdrawn from people in her mortal life. She wants to unite with that which never changes: the mountains, the jungles, the deserts. Soon she learns to sleep in the earth and abandons the use of coffins. She quickly acquires her own strength and no longer needs Lestat to be her "male part." She is completely androgynous, bold, tenacious, and practical. She embodies a sense of freedom that Lestat cannot grasp; the freedom from gender, social roles, familial expectations and the demands of relationships. Despite Lestat's aspirations from their relationship, a strange mental silence falls between them; this is a metaphor of their destined estrangement.
Gabrielle claims that she would be happy if nature totally overran the world of men. In this desire, she prefigures Akasha. In fact, Gabrielle even predicts that some dark monarch may arise and attempt to sow chaos in the mortal world. She tries - and fails - to get Lestat to go with her to the jungles of Africa, to live in her world, with her vision. His continuing attachment to mortals irritates her, so she leaves him.

The character shows up again near the end of VL; she is the limousine driver who takes Lesat away from his chaotic rock concert to a retreat in Carmel Valley. Their reunion is happy but short-lived, for Akasha abducts him that same night. Gabrielle then joins with other vampires in planning a stand against the vampire queen that could be potentially fatal for them all.

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I don't like the way this came out It's, One too feminine, Two just horrible brush work on my behalf!! I personally don't know if I like it or not... hard really.

And the only reason I'm uploading this is course I need to have more stuff up. I'll end up re-brushing this along with 'Pandora' and most probably every single other one I do!

But tell me what you think anyway.