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"...and Armand had been so delighted, laughing and laughing like a schoolboy as he sat watching, with folded arms. It was the first time Daniel had ever heard that soft, silky laughter. So seductive. He got drunk as fast as he could."

Armand's Guide to Stopping Lestat's Stupid Great Conversion (with Daniel Molloy)

Step 1. Ask Very Nicely (Failed)

Step 2. Break Up the Band (Failed)

Step 3. Bring in the Boyfriend (Failed)

Step 4. Deploy Public Shaming (Failed)

Perhaps that's why episode 6 felt out of place to them, as this was quite clear to me from the minute he begged lestat to turn this child without her consent to fix their marriage and continued to use her as a way to appease his own guilt over the things he'd done

She was never truly her own person to him, rather an extension of himself and she knew this too so it's crazier to me that people are shocked she hated him just as much as lestat

It seems like a lot of people in the fandom are conflating the ideas that “If the show makes decisions that you personally don’t like then that automatically equates to bad writing”.

Example:

“The monsters are acting monstrous…how dare they 🫨🫨”.

-I don’t know what else you expect a monster to do 🤨

“Claudia called Louis a slave… how dare the writers 🫨🫨”.

-Like it’s not a continuation from the first time she referred to herself and Louis as Lestat’s slaves in Season 1 Episode 6 🤨

“How dare Armand and Daniel do that to Louis and Lestat🫨🫨”

-What part of DEVIL and his MINION was unclear 🤨

“How can you still like Daniel after he used a student aggressively 🫨🫨”.

-Because it was already established that Daniel is a sexual sadist sometimes and I’m not going to act shocked that the bad person was bad and did bad things 😐 No one is obligated to have the same moral code they do in reality applied to fictional characters 🤨

Take a deep breath and say it with me:

Perhaps that's why episode 6 felt out of place to them, as this was quite clear to me from the minute he begged lestat to turn this child without her consent to fix their marriage and continued to use her as a way to appease his own guilt over the things he'd done

She was never truly her own person to him, rather an extension of himself and she knew this too so it's crazier to me that people are shocked she hated him just as much as lestat