now it’s been a week since the finale of *that* season here i am ready to share how it can all be fixed
armand being the caring considerate companion he is spent his relationship with louis making sure louis had been drinking blood laced with SSRIs and anti-psychotics
however, being the controlling manipulative person he can be he’s never told louis this
so when they break up louis is going cold turkey without realising it and after he meets lestat in nola he goes home and the withdrawal catches up with him and he ends up hallucinating a story where lestat becomes a rockstar, they go see claudia’s ghost, lestat is being abused by his mother, and louis gets beheaded by armand
when he gets past the withdrawal he’s like ‘hmn that was weird’, but remembers in his hallucination he was dating a fine as fuck lawyer he’d worked with before so he hits lemuel with a hey text who responds almost immediately.
armand, who has turned daniel and desperately is trying not to think about it, sees louis has quickly moved on with a lawyer of theirs so decides he’s going to move on to with their old doctor. him and fareed do weird biological experiments together and have even weirder biological experimental sex together.
louis tells lestat his weird hallucination and lestat is trying to show adequate concern for a mental health episode (he’s trying okay!) but is too busy being offended. why would he be in a lame band that don’t do good music?
daniel still publishes the book. this triggers armand to come and stalk him (he misses his baby) and there is eventually a confrontation. danny thinks there’s something more to it but can’t quite figure it out. the talamasca tell him they have files on him that might help and will give them to him if he records a documentary of lestat. he agrees. he gets the files. gets the memories back. he and armand have an angry tearful reunion.
eventually we get to the same point of daniel recording lestat’s tour however the band consists of larry (still played by noah reid), alex his nb sibling, TC who is a black lesbian and salamander who is a fat bisexual woman.
lestat’s lawyer is a black woman and his drug blood bag is the waspiest woman you’ve ever seen. we get to see TC fuck both of them.
gabrielle still comes but is a transmasc icon and them and lestat have a complicated relationship where the incestual element is treated as a complicated question. there is no grooming and nothing happens until they’re both adult vampires. is it different for vampires? how does consent work in this kind of paradigm? how did gabrielle’s complete disdain for motherhood and emotional neglect impact lestat and his desire for them now? as their maker and a more powerful vampire how does this change the power dynamic?
anyway we also get to see gabrielle fuck everyone on that tour bus apart from larry
daniel also fucks everyone on the bus except from TC and larry
this includes armand who has come along for the ride and he and lestat act like cats together will you find them happily cohabitating will you find them hissing who knows?
anyway this leads to the paris flashbacks being given from both of their POV which means we get to hear about all the sex they were having and the actual complicated emotional relationship
eventually the tension between them comes to a head and they start talking about 1940s Paris and about the trial. lestat actually grapples with his culpability.
tune in next week for the rest of the series
