Louis is troubled through the book to know if he is truly damned or not. Even before he joins Lestat as a member of the eternal, Louis contemplates suicide but refuses to do so. He is caught between the depression and sadness he feels for his brother and his faith as, at the time, it was believed that suicide would doom one to an eternity in hell. Once he becomes a vampire he initially refuses to kill because he doesn’t know if he is damned or not, and as Lestat consistently doesn’t believe in god or hell, he is no ease to Louis’s torment. This is even symbolized in Louis’s Indigo plantation. Indigo is a royal color which is known to represent heavenly grace, misery and depression. The thought of never knowing if he is truly damned drastically changes his relationship with humans from being one, to being a vampire but still sympathetic to humanity and refusing to murder, to finally accepting that he has to eat and killing people while maintaining compassion for their life. He eventu