Ok, so, I wanna talk about how it took TWENTY THREE YEARS for Armand to show himself as anything other than pristine to Louis, to the point that he came across as boring. He had bad nights with Louis too, but the time they exploded was just a one time smudge on the perfect 'painting of a couple' Armand tried to make for himself. A fantasy.
Then in this episode, he's letting Daniel push him around and actually arguing back. His mannerisms, the way he flails his arms, the way he turns around, even the way he jumps from being bitchy and pissy to being worried then desperate for Daniel to understand he was in love with him... It's the most human (and the loosest) we've ever seen Armand. He's not like that in the scene with Lestat. He's not like that in the concert (which Lestat made specifically so he could corner Armand and make him feel watched and ogled again by highlighting his desirability in his speech, which obviously pissed him off.)
Daniel already knows him, so why hide? In fact, he made his own little speech about how much he knows him, there's no reason to try to make a perfect painting of their lives, there's just... Comfort, in a way. Daniel is comfortable to tell Armand (a 500 year old vampire) that he is a bottom twink sociopath and Armand is comfortable to be pissed at Daniel for still thinking it's him doing the bond thing, because he is his maker, obviously he can't be in his head. Then Daniel feels comfortable enough to bypass all Armand's worries and ask him, with tears in his eyes, if he was just bullshitting him. Then Armand feels comfortable enough to tell him that no, of course not. I love you to the point of distraction. I love you. Believe me. Please.
Idk how they're gonna approach this going forward, tbh, as this is TVC, but this is already a good thing imho.
