Viktor is Lestat’s clone and son. He has a natural birth in the twentieth century, grows into a man, and is turned into a vampire by Lestat. He is a perfect likeness of the Brat Prince. Viktor appears in Prince Lestat (2014), Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016), and Blood Communion (2018).
In the early nineties, the vampires Seth and Fareed, along with Dr. Flannery Gilman, who is at the time a mortal medical doctor working with her vampire companions, theorize that through an infusion of hormones, vampire males might be able to have an erection, experience the sensuality of coitus, ejaculate, and possibly reproduce like most mortals.
Sometime in the midnineties, Seth and Fareed encounter the vampire Lestat in West Hollywood, they explain to him their scientific work, and they ask him if he would test their theory of hormonal injection and vampiric reproduction. Fully recollecting his experience with Raglan James, the Body Thief, who helped him to experience sexual intimacy as a mortal in another body, Lestat readily accepts the opportunity and accompanies Seth and Fareed to their Los Angeles facility. Therein, they inject Lestat with an infusion of genetically enhanced hormones while Dr. Gilman volunteers herself as Lestat’s sexual companion and the receptive vessel of his ejaculation. Lestat thoroughly enjoys his sexual encounter with Dr. Gilman, but he leaves the medical facility unaware that he has impregnated her.
Seth and Fareed extract the fetus from her uterus and enhance it with genetic manipulation so that the fetus is not a combination of Lestat’s and Dr. Gilman’s genes but is a clone of the Brat Prince. Seth and Fareed insert the fetus back into Dr. Gilman’s uterus, and she spends the next nine months carrying the child to term. She gives birth to a boy, whom they name Viktor. As the child grows, he is identical to the vampire Lestat, but totally human. The principal difference is that while Lestat is leaner because of nutrition in eighteenth-century France, Viktor is a little thicker with muscle.
Viktor lives most of his life in the laboratory, educated by Seth, Fareed, and Flannery. Fareed turns Viktor’s mother, Flannery Gilman, into a vampire as a reward for carrying Viktor to term. By the time he is twenty years old, Viktor discovers the truth about his father, the vampire Lestat. He reads the Vampire Chronicles and learns of Lestat’s adopted daughter, Rose. Having grown up around vampires, Viktor has a keen interest in becoming an immortal also.
Around that same time, Rose is attacked and blinded by a jealous lover, and she is brought to Seth and Fareed’s medical facility, where they save her life and restore her eyesight through methods based upon their research into the nature of immortals. Viktor spends time with Rose while she recovers, and they develop a deeply personal intimacy.
Not long afterward, the vampires Rhoshamandes and Benedict break into the medical facility and kidnap Viktor for the purpose of coercing Seth and Fareed, along with Mekare and all the other vampires, to remove Amel and his Sacred Core from Mekare, the Queen of the Damned, and implant him in Rhoshamandes. Seth and Fareed inform Lestat not only of this plot, but also that he is the biological father of his clone, Viktor, the result of their experiment twenty years earlier. Lestat is both thrilled at the news of having a son and enraged at Rhoshamandes for kidnapping him. With the help of his companions, Lestat finds Rhoshamandes, tears off his left arm, and threatens to destroy him, if Rhoshamandes does not surrender Viktor.
Once Viktor is finally released, he is reunited with Rose. They pledge their undying love to each other and seek to be married. As a wedding gift, Lestat turns them both into vampires so that they can be together forever as Blood Spouses.
For more perspectives on Viktor in the Vampire Chronicles, read the Alphabettery entries Fareed Bhansali, Flannery Gilman, Lestat de Lioncourt, Mekare, Rhoshamandes, Rose, and Seth.