The Vampire Armand

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the vampire armand . based on amc’s interview with the vampire . written by aj (30+, he/him)

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Armand went totally still except for a gradual raising of his eyebrows. They had their roles. Armand was the one who had stayed close to guide this new vampire, to control him, where his sire had failed. Nicolas was the one who should listen, who should fear, who should obey.

There was no other kind of relationship between vampires. None that Armand had ever known. None that he could imagine. If he let loose the reins of Nicolas, he would be no better than the one who had abandoned him.

And Armand intended to be better.

Was it sentiment that didn't allow Armand to fully cut the tethers of his past? He didn't want to think so. In fact, he'd passively let so many memories become lost, like tiny keepsakes in a hoarded house. Faces, names, his own thoughts and experiences... Surely, if he were sentimental, he would hold them all close, try to mold them into something tolerable. He could tell himself he hadn't been tortured, he'd been taught. He hadn't been broken, he'd been tempered.

He'd told himself that for a long time, perhaps, but when it was no longer necessary to believe that, he'd let it all disappear from his consciousness. The bad thoughts, the good thoughts, the thoughts that kept him sane. (If he was that. He was fairly sure he was.) He kept only a few treasured things, ripped from their context but unchanged, and plucked them from the hoard when he needed them.

If there were contradictions in his thinking, he ignored them, as he always did.