Shouldn't you be sleeping?

louis was sitting there at the trial watching lestat say the most disgusting shit about him and he still couldn’t stop loving him. and we agreed he was insane for that, and we wanted more. louis couldn't stop loving lestat and longing for him even when he thought lestat wanted to kill him. when he was angry at him. when he was scared of him. but in s3 i simply can't feel anything anymore.

i know more great loustat scenes are coming soon but i really just... i think i'll have troubles in believing the sincerity of it after these 4 episodes. one, two, five great scenes won't replace the ever-present yearning in s1&2 and the devastating nature of it.

armand as that one norman rockwell painting

"a pictorial history of the talkies" by daniel blum, published 1958. it covers the history of sound films from the late 1920s to 1958

well...... who do we know who has a fascination with cinema & projections....

Armand does not remember his past! He doesn’t even remember if Arun is his actual real name!!!

If there’s any inconsistencies about his past is because he literally can’t remember!

Being fuzzy with details about long past traumas is normal. ✨He’s 500 years old✨ Give grandpa a break okay?

🗣️This does not mean he was not abused.🗣️

Quite the opposite it’s a clear indication that he had a really fucked up childhood and that’s why Armand is the way he is.

Armand is not a good guy, he’s also a fictional character so PLEASE let’s use common sense and not jump to unnecessary conclusions to the point we might harm REAL PEOPLE by spreading harmful rhetoric like ❌ Lestat told the truth about his abuse but Armand is lying because he has been inconsistent!❌

So this whole “Armand Told The Truth” campaign is nothing but unwelcome worship. It doesn’t serve him any purpose and it only gives him unwanted attention. He’s not like Lestat who wants millions and billions of people to love him.

This would seem like a joke and/or callback to the season 3 non-canon teaser except that shortly after, when Sam enters, Lestat confirms that Armand did, partially, tell the truth. The shot used to show Lestat recognizing Sam is Sam next to Armand in the box, where he was shown throughout Season 2 Episode 7 (left is season 2, right is TVL episode 1).

So if Lestat saw this, Sam was by the box for at least part of the trial. Episode 8 showed Armand alone in the box when Lestat saves Louis, so sometime before the verdicts, Sam left the box.

What does this mean?

But he has to let him know in that moment. No, it wasn't that I was manipulating you. I was under your spell. I was under your spell and I didn't even know it. I thought I had messed this up because I was so in love with Louis. But actually, no. It was you. – Assad Zaman

Anne makes him to be a villain, is informed by fans that he is baby, concedes and makes him the multi layered individual we know today.

Daniel writes the book and arguably Armand is the villain, but he pours so much love into his descriptions that in universe fans agree he is baby.

The Show is made and now any time they try to short change Armand fans try to haunt the producer’s dreams.

It is so clear that Daniel and Armand are PAINFULLY yearning for each other rn and there are so, SO many layers to it:

turning your first fledgling in 500 years of life and keeping yourself completely OUT of said fledgling's life out of fear for your influence on him, yet still wishing so desperately to be there for him and to be different than every other maker you've seen and not knowing how

entering vampirism being completely isolated from your community because of a book you wrote basically exposing it to the human world, all while the person who is supposed to be your mentor has COMPLETELY skipped town, and wishing that one person would come back and teach you about your existence and your powers

"Loneliness is the worst pain a vampire can experience" while Armand is the MOST lonely vamp in the whole show and wants nothing more than to be loved and not abandoned and the ONE person who still wanted him gave a speech telling him to fuck off and get out of his life

"Loneliness is the worst pain a vampire can experience" while Daniel doesn't mean a single WORD of his fuck off speech and all he wants is his maker back but he is so lost and rejected and hurt after being abandoned that it's all he can say to Armand

their bond being so UNIQUELY strong that other people literally disappear when they are close, and having to experience that without the comfort the other's presence WOULD bring. They're just alone.

your eyes being the same color as your maker's as a permanent reminder that you are his and both parties being in immense pain over that because they are not TOGETHER THEY ARE NEVER TOGETHER FOR YEARS THEY HAVE BEEN APART AND ALL THEY WANT IS TO BE WITH EACH OTHER

He’s crass and blunt but he’s also good at his job, and at his core he was, by his own admission, looking for people in the cracks. That’s who he was when he starting out. That’s the purest view of he’s aspirations we’ve seen, and returning to that after struggling so much with Lestat doesn’t feel unrealistic to me. I don’t know if there is someone who has slipped further into the cracks than Armand.

And unlike Lestat, who is intentionally winding Daniel up and has no desire to tell the whole truth, Armand on two separate occasions has demonstrated willingness to volunteer information about his past. He wants to be known more than anything, even if his view of his abuse isn’t super clear to him.

Considering the nature of the things Daniel’s discussed researching before, I find it nearly impossible to believe human trafficking hasn’t come up. He’s interviewed sex workers and frankly it’s not too much of a leap. He’s mentioned being held captive while doing an interview (that wasn’t in San Francisco) and seems to have met some really bad people so it’s not hard to believe that he’s spoken to victims like this before, or at least come across them.

And it’s not like it’s a stranger or someone he knows is trying to deceive him as Armand was during the Dubai interview. This is Armand, the lost love of his life. His maker. Daniel visibly felt bad for him after the concert and he probably doesn’t know why yet. He should still hate him and yet he couldn’t hide the concern on his face. Imagine him when he’s actually trying to help him piece together the many broken pieces of his life. Imagine him when he knows he’s in love with him.

I’m not expecting Gen Z therapy speak from this seventy year old man. He’ll probably be blunt and unhelpful at times and impatient and trigger the hell out of Armand, but he called Magnus Lestat’s abuser and he doesn’t tolerate bullshitters, which was the very reason he was so rude to Armand in Dubai. He ought to see Marius for the manipulative, obfuscating, condescending monster he really is. Armand wants the truth, Marius refuses to tell it. It’s also doubtful the Talamasca has much on Marius regarding his abuse of Armand aside from the basic facts, and Armand has disclosed very little. You’d need Armand’s account for that.