One thing I find really interesting is the patterns that Armand falls into over and over again (like most of the vampires in the show, they're stuck in their trauma).
But Armand has a very specific PATTERN.
He is with a group, and/or leading the group. This group has hard rules, expectations. He chafes at the bit but does not have the confidence or drive to actually break out of the system himself. Instead, he seeks out and welcomes the rules breaker who comes in like a wrecking ball. Then, he latches onto that person, and establishes a new system - usually built on the template of rules and control (the very things that he was feeling tied by in the previous incarnation). Then that too eventually becomes constrictive, and repeat... repeat.
Just from what we've seen, we've had Lestat comes in and break apart his Children of Darkness coven. Then, he re-establishes the same cult/coven system but with a more modern set dressing, but still hard and immutable rules. Then Louis comes in, breaking the rules, offering him a glimmer of a different life. He latches onto Louis, and methodically wraps the pair of them up in routine and control systems. It's not the cult, not a coven, but everything about the Dubai penthouse screams control and isolation.
Then Daniel comes in, and breaks apart the lie that the relationship has been built on, and then he latches onto Daniel....