Comfortably Numb

It's twice now that they've shown us what words can really hurt armand. he's unaffected by any insults, even references to his traumas "your daddy groomed you into a little bitch" "are you a ragdoll for sale?", until it concerns his desirability. like how his famous yandere meltdown starts only when louis calls him boring, and when he has a hurt look on his face and leaves lestat's concert after he sings "he asked me 'was it good' I said comme ci, comme ça". because amadeo is supposed to have a skill, and if you remove the one thing that he thinks makes him useful to others, he's nothing. just an eager black hole

I didn't even hate Armand for orchestrating Claudia's murder and you think that him decapitating Lestat's utterly INSUFFERABLE ass and liberating us from his awful narration will do anything to turn me against him? That's cute.

if daniel molloy CRASHES OUT next episode it will be 100% JUSTIFIED because if the FREAKY ANCIENT CREATURESQUE ORANGE-BOBA-PEARL-ORBED VAMPIRE BOTTOM TWINK who PSYCHOLOGICALLY TORTURED me for SIX (6) DAYS in SAN FRANCISCO and then LARPED as a MEMBER OF THE WORKING CLASS in my VAMPIRE INTERVIEWEE/ATTEMPTED MURDERER/VERY BRIEF CRUSH'S PENTHOUSE SUITE in dubai FIFTY YEARS LATER and then REVEALED HIMSELF to be said interviewee's INSANELY POWERFUL COMPANION and then CONTINUED EYE-FUCKING me while i INTERVIEWED my SUBJECT about his SITUATIONSHIP OF DOOM AND DESPAIR and then after i REMEMBERED my REPRESSED MEMORIES of the PSYCHOSEXUAL TORTURE I SUFFERED AT HIS HANDS he looked at me and gave me a HALF ASSED APOLOGY and THEN, after i'd REVEALED that he'd ORCHESTRATED HIS ENTIRE RELATIONSHIP with my SUBJECT and MURDERED his DAUGHTER/SISTER/THROWPILLOW (which I did ENTIRELY for SHITS AND GIGS), he turned me into a VAMPIRE on a JETPLANE while the plane was flying over NEW JERSEY, FUCKED OFF into the night for TWO YEARS, and then told me he'd been IN LOVE WITH ME for the MAJORITY of my MORTAL LIFE and WIPED ALL OF MY MEMORIES of our TORRID LOVE AFFAIR -- well. I think i'd need to develop an addiction to something strong enough to keep myself from committing mass murder

imagine being called a bottom twink by the kid who moaned when you telekinesis-ed him to his knees in the 70s. armand should be worse

armand's reluctance to create a fledgling was really a reflection of how he views existence in general. trying to convince daniel to accept death in san francisco by pointing out the meaningless mundanity of everyday life, a cycle that could've been broken, would've been broken but ultimately couldn't be broken by daniel's own aspirations in life. armand throws these aspirations back at him. wanting success in his career, wanting secure attachments with a family. daniel blames armand for his familial failures because louis never said anything to counteract armand's carefully planted seed of doubt on that subject matter. so when armand meets him in the bowling alley and daniel tells him that armand failed to put him out of his misery, it's just a reflection of armand's own sense of meaninglessness coming back to haunt him. this same ennui was the reason why he interrogated madeleine at great lengths about what she'd do with eternity. he's completely aware of how tempting eternity with claudia can seem because he'd experienced that same temptation with marius. when he asks her what she'll do when claudia inevitably throws herself into the fire, he's confronting his own nihilism. he knows that wanting the gift, accepting it and embracing it doesn't mean you're saved from regretting it. the person you thought you'd spend eternity with dies and you lose yourself. and so each new person who comes into his life is molded into what gives him meaning because that's how he always imagined he'd withstand eternity. every new person molded into the shape of the original purpose.