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It’s the fact that they think he’s a malicious liar. That they are so eager to call him a liar. It’s the glee with which they say it. The entire two seasons were nothing by fanfiction.

Or it’s how excited they are to degrade Armand or flatten his character or insult him. Or to insist that every lie Louis told was implanted by him and Louis is utterly helpless and by extension, less complex. Or he’s lying about being abused as a child, or about Lestat ever being attracted to him.

Or how badly they want Claudia to have made up everything bad she said about Lestat. They were so quick to assume she made everything about the train up because Lestat said she did.

It’s this desire to strip away all the complexities of the POC characters to pretend Lestat is just inherently more interesting than they are. It’s the completely different set of standards they are held to compared to him. The willingness to believe him over them. The completely different vocabulary used to analyse them. He gets grace. They do not.

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the usual stuff. it's mostly in response to louis hurting lestat's or armand's feelings, so every time the clips from s2e5 or s2e7 gain traction people start posting these kinda "jokes" in the comments and getting thousands of likes for them. anything from "i'd drop him from higher and break every bone in his body for acting like that" to "i'd resurrect his daughter and burn her to ashes again". it's always framed as edgy joke, but obviously displays a lot of hidden biases.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 01.01 | "In Throes of Increasing Wonder…"

ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand