#* ˖ armand ╱ muse ⊹

[erebus0dora]

i can't choose one, so let's have both, i guess..?

«I am the Devil's Minion, and he grants my every wish.»

brb here when i get some proper sleep for i still have a wish to rant on Eric Bogosian being actually a scary smart researcher in my bloodstream

[lafamilledelioncourt]

The heartbreaking thing about a lot of viewers who haven't consumed the books is they don't completely see is WHY Lestat is near sobbing when he asks "Did you hurt yourself?"

Yes, for general reasons like he loves him and what not. But, don't forget, he also said, "I gave you to Armand. You tell me if that is saving."

In TVL, you get ALOT more of the Lestat/Nicky relationship. You see them bond, fall in love, and then Lestat have to contend with that love once he's kidnapped and turned.

Nicky does not take the vampirism very well. Nicky is a very desolate sort of character. Religious trauma to the max, and then throw in family trauma, gay repression, and then vampirism.

When Lestat leaves Paris with Gabrielle in TVL, he essentially leaves Nicky with Armand. He entrusts him into his care in a way, and Nicky chooses the fire. He can't endure as they call it. Naturally, it breaks Lestat's heart.

One of Armand's jobs as coven leader was to cull weak vampires who can't survive on their own or endure. So there is definitely room for S3 for them to show Armand pushing for Nicky to accept the flame.

With Louis, Lestat doesn't fight back in Paris and lets Louis go with Armand. Once again, he's entrusting someone he loves to Armand. Even if it's very much unwilling, but I'll give it to him for once for respecting a choice.

When Armand calls out to him in San Francisco, it's Lestat's worst nightmare. Louis is hurt, Lestat can't get to him. Armand either has allowed him to be hurt, hurt him himself, or did not protect him as Lestat wants him protected.

It is heavily implied Lestat thinks Louis died in San Francisco. In the books, Armand tells both of them the other died to keep them apart. Once again, the person Lestat loves is dead because of Armand.

Lestat, in his mind, has ultimately failed Louis, and so he falls apart as we see him do in 2x08. When Louis shows up, he cannot believe he's there initially. It's very clear he's only half there mentally. He has to ask him if it was all real and if he'd really been hurt because he has to know if it is really Louis. It's a question you'd ask the ghost of the person you love, but Louis CAN answer him.

Needless to say, please read the books if you're up for it. They are a riot.

[gvnchyno2]

Andrei | Amadeo | Armand

[chuck-the-goon]

The Vampire Armand

[longingquiet]

thinking about armand being a whisper in the wind throughout daniel’s life. a reflection in a window at a bar. a hazy face in the crowd of students leaving his guest lecture. a passing stranger he can’t escape but can never quite remember either.

[johannestevans]

armand is so funny because obviously he wants daniel to top him but he's aware that daniel is not going to move a MUSCLE and will just sit back and make armand work himself up and down on his prick the entire time and that's Hot and armand Hates That

when a lot of your sexual power comes from the sense of being Used and Of Service, that's great but it's also easy. they're putting in the physical work and effort, and there is a distraction from the sense of being observed

vampires consume one another, consume the flesh of others, and they are hungry with all their senses - their vision augmented, their taste and scent heightened, able to feast from someone's very thoughts, scoop inside their head

and armand as a slave for so long was a model as well? he was simultaneously unheard and unseen, a servant, in tune with others needs and having none of his own except TO serve - and yet was also observed and devoured with the eyes, modelling for art

those two being separate and discrete are crucial. he is not an actor on the stage: he is the director and the producer. even the art he puts on stage himself must not be a physical and corporeal thing but a fleeting projection, an ephemeral ghost, witnessed then hidden again

so to be in a position where he's bottoming and pleasing a top, but where there's not a frenetic movement on the top's part at all? where his partner is leaning back and watching him, the lights on, spotlighting his skin? not even touching, except a glancing touch of his thigh?

in that moment he is not just providing pleasure or service, he is not being used - he is doing that /whilst also being art/. whilst the other person is consuming him with their eyes, studying him, watching him, as he likes to study and watch others

and distracted, too - concentrating on his rhythm, on the sink of daniel's cock inside him, gripping at his own and arching his back. concentrating on the pleasure and on the act and on the strain on his muscles and also on being something worth looking at

a sight worthy of being committed to memory - and knowing that even were he to reach into daniel's mind to tamper with that memory, to scoop it out like a fish from a pond, he would have to touch it and feel it and examine it himself

and what could be more fucking excruciating? what could be more agonising than that - the terror of himself in daniel's eyes, himself from daniel's perspective? not young and drug-addled and stupid, but daniel NOW, frighteningly incisive, desiring, old?

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Armand Cambon (1819-1885) "Too Late or The Letter" Oil on canvas Located in the Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban, France

[platoapproved]

After the first night, I thought I would die of this thirst. After the second, I thought I would perish screaming. After the third, I only dreamed of it in weeping and in desperation, licking at my own blood tears on my fingertips. After six nights of this when I could bear the thirst no longer, they brought a struggling victim to me.

At the end of seven more nights, when I was starved to the point where even the scent of the blood didn't rouse me, they laid the victim-a small boy child of the streets crying for pity-directly in my arms.

Some twenty weeks were passed in this misery. I didn't even believe anymore that the bright and fantastical world of Venice had ever existed. And I knew my Master was dead. I knew it. I knew that all I loved was dead. I was dead.

2X08 "AND THAT'S THE END OF IT. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE." || The Vampire Armand

[theatrevampire]

something something the parallel between armand lurking in the corner of the room the entire time while louis talks about his relationship with lestat in season 1 vs louis letting a vision of lestat haunt the narrative while he and armand begin their own relationship in season 2... walk with me...

[funtheysaid]

IWTV 2x02 Initial Thoughts (Stream Of Consciousness)

- ooh the title card changed! I’ve been wanting to see the Eiffel Tower as a “fang” since season two was announced. WE IN PARIS BABY!

- ayooo three-way (interview) incoming

- Daniel’s “Paris sucks” aka “Paris is where my ex-bf is from and he sucks (dick), but not mine anymore, and no, I’m not bitter abt that, his city just fucking stinks (literally)”

- not two minutes in and Devil’s Minion is already flirting bickering

- ALICE MENTION alice!armand truthers are gon love that shit i just know

- “I’ll tell you what a woman is” That’s my sapphic-coded queen!!! 🕯️ pls S2 give me claudeleine 🕯️

- “Gauche” well, yes.

- Loumand: 🥰🥰 Daniel: 🙄 he‘s so second-hand embarrassed for them I can’t

- I mean, it’s crazy. What? We finish each other’s- I WAS WITH HIM FOR LONGER THAN LESTAT WAS WITH HIM WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN DANIEL PUT IT ON RECORD WEVE BEEN FUCKING FOR LIKE DOUBLE THE TIME …that’s what i…was….gonna say?

- Louis would be that faux-intellectual hipster who has his own darkroom full of overexposed and blurry, unfocused photos that are his “art” bc he took them on film (affectionate)

- Not claudia calling him out on it in the next scene “let me think I’m deeper than I am” okay honey you do you

- “She’s miserable but she doesn’t want to fuck with your too delusional left bank dilettante vibes” ahh the narrative foils are foiling, I see

- The show: Alice was pregnant, My dumb ass: OMEGAVERSE DEVILS MINION !?!?

- “joyfully joyless” MOOD.

- Claudia looking at Madeleine like “I don’t know if I want to be her or be with her” Dw babe it’s a rite of passage for all of us you’ll figure it out

- “Your French is ugly” 🥹👉👈 weally?

- “the dress for my body” LOOK I know what she meant, but I can’t help it that my mind is perverted

- LMFAO NOT GLORYHOLE PARK

- okay why Loumand playing with my heart “I will never harm you. And I never have” wtf wtf wtf

-Oh no the ole business card trick! we all know that’s Louis’ kryptonite he loves a man with credentials

- i like girls, but why is santiago kinda…

- Woah the Annika scene was really hard to watch which I think was the point but goddamn idk if I’ll be able to rewatch that part

- Estelle is my self-insert. I’m claiming her.

- “You both fucked Lestat!?!” HOW DID THEY KNOW WE WANTED HIM TO SAY THAT!?

- “He tasted of vermouth and annihilation” We both know you have no earthly idea what that man tastes like, Armand. Be so fucking fr right now.

- Did Armand just casually drop that he had a threesome with a father and son? I’m sorry, sir????

- “Now I know what two blood fat cocks slapping hands feel like” When I tell you my spirit left my body

- oh shit here we go. I’m a caged animal and it’s time for my weekly enrichment. give me my loustat.

- there’s a letter !?!? Wait wait I wasn’t ready for something like this wait stop stop please

- “all my love belongs to you. you are its keeper” just take me out back and shoot me at this point

- “it is a thin veil” fucking fuck why was that so romantic??

- the blood tears welling up in Lestat’s eyes I’m-

- “Rebound of my life” and in that moment, he spoke for the people

- WHAT IS HAPPENING???? Jesus Christ, they were talking about Alice and then it cuts to FUCKING ARMAND!?! This is not a drill. Everyone to your stations, this is not a drill.

- “You sold your Dad’s playboy magazines at recess” Hmmm? You’re telling me a “straight” teenage boy sold porno mags instead of keeping them for himself??? Yeah, I call gay on that one

- “she wanted to say yes” you motherfuckers.

- Oh shit Louis is pissy tonight rawr kitty got claws

- Devils minion girlies are thriving, skin glowing, hair silky, breath minty, pillow cold, stomach full, dreams sweet, and by Jove, we fucking deserve it !!!!

- daniel’s shaky “um- gulp” …….guys this is gonna sound crazy but i think there might actually be a god

- ooh the camera/photography being like a divide or barrier between Louis and his present situation. Like he wants to capture the moments, but only as if an onlooker and not a participant… interesting!

- “Who?” will never not be funny

- “Mon ami” in the same episode as “Mon Cher” FUCK ME GENTLY WITH A CHAINSAW

- “Armand for you” nah nah nah i changed my mind, you can do like Leatherface and shove that chainsaw in rough and hard

- Close up on Louis’ conflicted face, fire blazing behind him…. That’s not foreboding in any way. I’m sure they’ll all live happily ever after from now on :D

What a ride! Until next week! 🧛‍♂️🩸

[lafamilledelioncourt]

we joke about louis being helen of troy, but guys, he got lestat and armand in a singular look down bad crying at the gym.

these ancient vampires who were feral about each other took one look at his bright ass eyes and his cocky little half smile and just lost their fucking minds.

their asses 404 errored the second he batted his eyes in their direction. there is no recovery.

[noirve]

love how armand was all "like someone got sick on the canvas?" about a modern artwork yet his own plays at that time were completely niche and experimental and just straight-up absurd

[thequeenofsastiel]

Intellectually I understand that it almost certainly won't go like this, but I can't deny that I'd be disappointed to find out that Armand didn't stay in Dubai to look after Louis. He was clearly very protective of Louis and still in love with him. I find it unlikely that he'd be the one feeling put upon in the breakup, given the reason for it. So he's probably continuing to feel protective of and in love with Louis. Personally, if I was in his situation, I would hide myself from Louis but still guard him as best I could. I can't imagine just abandoning him knowing that he was likely about to get attacked by a fuckton of vampires. And I hope dearly that for Armand it's the same.

Unlikely, since the show wants to push Loustat and Devil's Minion and leave Loumand behind, but I still personally feel like that would make the most sense for Armand to do.

[maleficusbonum]

Me: Smol boy. Baby. So pure.

Everyone else: he’s literally the most evil character in the series.

Me: Adorable. Tiny kitten. Sweetling.

[wuntrum]

this pic is soooo lilah and aster its making me feel insane. injecting their story with whatever the hell these two have going on

[jaggedjot]

When wounded by the past, Lestat will force his way through the initial pain and then refuse to acknowledge the untreated injury, letting it turn septic and rotten, all the while insisting that there is nothing wrong. Armand meanwhile wants to examine every inch of an injury, yet upon determining that it will likely heal in time if never work quite the same, he decides to amputate the limb anyhow.