Okay, when? When would he have had time? During the 400 years he was in the clutches of a cult and therefore all he could think about was their programming? Is that when he should’ve worked though it?

And how? Where would he have learned to do that? Who was challenging him? Mind you the nature of his abuse both through Marius and the cult were examples of grooming. Even if he worked through everything at the brothels, which he hasn’t, that’s still hundreds of years he’s got left to sift through and it was all things he was instructed and manipulated into not questioning.

It’s not as if Lestat broke up the cult and handed Armand a series of leaflets about cult deprogramming and recommended a therapist. He just guided him into the leadership position at the theatre where he was just enforcing the very same things the cult was having him do. He has never worked through any of it because he’s never been able to have time or perspective. He is frozen. That’s his entire thing. Trapped in victimhood. Never able to move on.

Not to mention that the extent of his abuse is utterly incomprehensible to the human mind. If we endure too much, we just die. He has to continue. Centuries of damage being done so someone so young.

Quit forcing 21st century standards onto someone from the 16th century. It just doesn’t work. When could he have done any of this? With Louis? Louis who infamously is in deep denial about his own trauma? Who is from the 20th century?

Even comparing the mindsets of Lestat and Armand is absurd. They’re both from a long time ago but Armand has several centuries on Lestat. Do you understand how much change the world can go through in a couple of hundred years?

Armand has commented on having physical relations with far less people than any other main character on screen. So why is the fandom so eager to make him sexualized? Why is he always desperate... for sex? Not for non-sexual intimacy, or attention, or safety? Hypersexuality isn't really in Armand's character, but it's what everyone sees when they look at him. Why?

Armand wants to be loved. He has a toxic relationship with love, sex, and desire because of his past, but why are you projecting that onto Armand?

Why do you read "Armand's ability to seduce was almost beyond his control," and then you look at Assad's Armand, and decide he's always eager for it?

Exoticism and orientalism are two themes directly associated with the character, and the way people lean into it genuinely alarms me, sometimes.

- admitted he had a problem

- sought professional help

- made armends with those he’s wronged

- took responsibility for the fledgling he abandoned

- helped daniel start a youtube channel and supported his career

- tried to prevent the apocalypse

Did you know that if you compile a video of all the times Armand is mentioned in S3 (while not present) you will also be filled with murderous rage.

supernatural really said, “witness this man discover his monstrosity by looking at his own reflection,” and then ended the episode like this