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Lady I know you're probably evil, but come on.

Standards.

You cheat at a one player game, Lex. Good for you.

Can we PLEASE talk about how some people in the fandom keep trying to sort the interview with the vampire characters into "hero" and "villain" boxes when the entire SHOW is screaming at us not to do that

was it deeply, unforgivably fucked up of Armand to help orchestrate the murder of claudia and trying to kill louis?? YES. obviously. no notes.

is it ALSO messed up that claudia killed an enormous number of people?? also yes!! she's a victim of monstrous violence AND a perpetrator of it, and the show wants both of those things to be true at once

is lestat's treatment of louis (and then later armand) a whole TRAUMA SPIRAL of control YES. is it complicated by the fact that it is way more about him and his own trauma than them and he is projecting a lot??? also yes!!

and daniel — daniel "i'm just a journalist, i'm just asking questions" molloy — is so much more of a haunted, conflicted person than he performs for the camera. In my opinion, Daniel isn’t always a good journalist. He’s more interested in the story than in the characters, and he’d do absolutely ANYTHING for the sake of the story. Does that make him EVIL? No!

none of these characters are GOOD. none of them are simply EVIL either. the show is not interested in giving you a clean answer, and i think that's the whole point

louis says it himself: every vampire is born from trauma, and that trauma doesn't just disappear, it metastasizes into all these different shapes depending on who's carrying it.

so maybe instead of asking "is this character good or bad" we should be asking "what does this specific action, in this specific moment, reveal about what this person survived" — and THEN zooming out to look at the whole pattern of who they are across the entire story

This whole idea of wanting to take sides – with one side being ‘good’ and the other ‘bad’ – and then, on that basis, making fun of the ‘bad’ side, for example Armand, only distracts from enjoying these complex characters in their entirety. 

basically: stop trying to make them fit on a hero/villain chart. they will not fit. that is the point. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT.

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