[anxious spiralling in french accent]

"Are you sure this is what you want, Arun?" is THE most romantic Loumand line to me because this is Louis, knowing that Armand has suffered a life of abuse, of being bent and broken and reshaped to his captors' will, knowing that he has a complicated relationship with his own sense of self from the history he has shared, taking care to ask I want to know if you actually want this as yourself, not as Amadeo, the Maestro's perfect muse, not as Armand, the fearsome coven leader, but as Arun, the real you, before you were forced into those roles against your will. Arun, who did not have a choice then, you are free to make the choice now. Are you sure that you want this?

In reference to Armand singing his sad away, the soundtrack has the melody listed as "in nomine magni" and what Armand is singing is "in nomine magni dei nostri satanas" or “in the name of our great god satan” because in addition to the everything else about him he’s still got religious trauma we’ve barely scratched the surface of