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This is going to make this:

Armand is a person who’s obsessed with Lestat in all ways possible, especially in ways that are vengeful and vindictive. When he wrongs him, he never forgets.

Regarding why Armand had killed Larry at the end of the episode, this is what Rolin had to say:

“It’s Armand. Armand is 4 or 5 levels of haunting than most of us. There is like a 7 layer burrito reason for why he thinks that will get into Lestat’s head and haunt him more than anything instead of way easier and direct hits”

And the thing is it will. Larry represents the frailty of Lestat’s being and all of his failures. His mediocre guitar playing is actually crucial to his overall music because it allows it to stay rooted in something human. It’s why Lestat actually loves Larry, but ultimately let him go when he wanted to drive his music into a more transcendental territory. You can see why his death is going to really fuck him up.

Now that being said, Larry’s murder is not only symbolic of another one of Lestat’s growing list of failures, but also destroying a pillar of what’s maintaining his fragile stability. Whether Lestat believes it or not, his mortal bandmates are what is keeping him together and losing them would only further break him. And since they all participated in his humiliation, Armand will annihilate them and leave Lestat alive to be haunted in solitude.

Now apart from this whole vengeance against Lestat, it’s also true that Armand is a maker now and he must provide for his fledgling accordingly. He does genuinely want to help Daniel and he wants to free him from Lestat’s wretched claws. And so he’ll do his part to make it happen; One, by outing Lestat’s incestuous relationship with his own mother as ammo for Daniel and two, by beginning to kill off the bandmates to isolate him.

Did he jump off the band wagon? Absofuckinglutely. He calls Louis and Lestat “methodically cruel”, but he is something so far beyond that and is willing to showcase it. He’s not following any rules or order other than to be a haunting menace. This time he intends to get his cake and eat it too. Granted, that is if Daniel sees this as amusing instead of horrific.

It just goes to show you that you should not piss off Armand and/or mess with his fledgling. Hell hath no fury like a mother gremlin who is locked in.

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