I think something we’re largely failing to consider with the whole Daniel publishing the book without Louis’ permission thing is that Louis betrayed him too.
He left him to die. Daniel is dead now.
That whole vampirism thing that Louis has been struggling with for so long? Now Daniel is stuck with it too and despite what he claims, he’s obviously not handling it well. Louis left a man with a progressive neurological condition and no ability to defend himself in the company of a very angry vampire who had every reason to kill him. And he did.
It doesn’t matter if he warned Armand. Louis even says himself that he shouldn’t have left Daniel alone with him, but that’s probably of little comfort to Daniel. And if comments from the cast are anything to go by, it sounds like the transformation was violent.
I think these are two people who had an understanding of one another but were extremely neglectful of the other’s situation and what their choices might do to them and now they’re both suffering as a result. It was thoughtless of Daniel to publish the book. It was also thoughtless of Louis to leave Daniel in Dubai. They both have to face themselves now, and it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out.
