That scene really could have been good if it was just the two of them in a room talking. If Armand didn’t torture the apology out of him. Maybe he goes into the conversation with bad intentions. He wants to manipulate Louis into saying sorry. Twist the knife of the divorce a bit. And then Louis actually does apologize to him, genuinely, and it disarms Armand completely. All the illusions of their life together are finally stripped back and they are just two damaged people looking at one another for the very first time.
Can you imagine how good that scene could have been if they were just sitting in a room together? No body horror, no weird fish eye filter, just Jacob and Assad delivering the performances we know they can deliver with the chemistry of the s2e5 fight???
But of course this would require a level of sincerity that the writers seem incapable of this season.
Ok I’ve been thinking about this for days so here’s a fic I wrote using this concept :
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
