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Narrator: "Everything is in motion - all within these walls are doomed to destruction unless you act."

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Has anyone paid attention to how Astarion's tent reflect on his personality?

The exteriour side is clean and elegant. There are pillows, a carpet, an expensive mirror, even a fucking plant (headcanon - Astarion is into gardening). His tent is probably the most well-maintained in the whole camp.

But take a look inside (it's difficult since he blocks the entrance) - it's a mess.

There are empty bottles with blood (as if he is an alcoholic who doesn't bother to take out the garbage). There is no bed (Halsin is also an Elf but he has a bedrol in his tent) - it's just wooden plank, a piece of rag for a blanket and some sorry excuse for a pillow. His tent is a mess like this room who belongs to an addict or a depressed person. It's dirty, full of garbage. And he doesn't have a comfortable place for sleep!

We all know at this point that the name Astarion is connected to the word "star" (starry or little star).

But Larian decided that they wanted to go all in with the details and they delivered!

The flower you can place on his tomb in the final romance scene (which I think is such a cute and tender gesture and I love his reaction to it), seems to be an Ornithogalum umbellatum, a star-shaped white flower with six petals. Among the plant's many common names, there are summer snowflake, starflower, and star-of-Bethlehem.

Moreover, in the language of flowers, its meanings are related to trauma, mourning, and welcoming pain without repressing it.

According to Doctor Edward Bach (1886 – 1936), these flowers are "For those who find themselves in a state of great anguish due to situations that, in a given period, have caused so much unhappiness", and can be used to help with the aftermath of a trauma, the alleviation of pain and the mourning process.

In case of Loumand we have the second case of the definition imho:

2: the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage

Now, Armand tells Louis he is the oldest vampire:

’And as far as I know today, after four hundred years, I am the oldest living vampire in the world.’

Mh hmm. He influences him to turn Madeleine:

’No. I mean, directly. I made you do it! I was near you the night you did it. I exerted my strongest power to persuade you to do it. Didn’t you know this?’

He spell-binds him to leave the theater:

And Armand’s eye said, Sleep. I wanted to say something about Madeleine and Claudia, that we could not leave them there, and I felt that cry again rising inside of me, that cry that pushed everything else out of its way, my teeth clenched to keep it in, because it was so loud and so full it would destroy me if I let it go.

He also lies to him about Lestat’s death.

Just a few examples off the top of my hat. The into loving him is more in regards to what he tells him beforehand, to make him fall for him. Teasing with knowledge and affection while telling Claudia to leave Louis. Louis is infatuated then… but that is not love. The Loumand love is later, at Trinity Gate.

Now, as said before, in regards to the movie poster reference… they pulled all the implied abuse up for Loustat - I would absolutely expect they do the same for Loumand.

And, given they referenced that movie… I bet they will put their fingers deeply into the wounds 😈 I could totally see them make it worse, maybe even fit definition 1, like as with the abuse. It would… fit the show, imho.