#Armand is seeing things that I like

[asaemoryfanclub]

Lestat De Lioncourt, my darling little creejure!!! 🫰🫰😺😺 He's one of my favorite little dolls to play with and I loved the look that Armand allowed him to wear on his play pretend vision (that's how me and Armand are similar)

[fascinationstreetmp3]

i need daniel to be overcompensating for his insecurities so bad. 100 times more cocky and rude and aggressive and insensitive than he was as a human, falling back into old dangerous habits and vices, not just because now he has new energy and power and wealth to flaunt but because it's ALL he has, and he needs to cling onto it. play it up and revel in it so no one sees that underneath, he feels like a botched fledgling in the body of a sick, faded old man who maybe has no real idea why he was even made. that armand might think he failed in making him. that his maker didn't even really want him.

[dysfunctionalcreature]

obviously all the characters in Interview With The Vampire have such tragic pasts, and they each have so many good lines of dialogue that beautifully capture that trauma, but the one I just keep coming back to is Armand saying, voice shaking, "No one has painted me in over 400 years". It's the sadness and resentment in his voice, the implications of it, partly he just misses Marius I'm sure, but I really think that it's more than that, Armand is so deeply insecure, I can't help but think that maybe he doesn't consider himself worthy to be painted, he says "No one has painted me in over 400 years" and I can't help but hear "It has been 400 years since I was worth painting"

[reinvent-and-believe]

[island-in-the-shadows]

Not for nothing but what's the damage with people being so negative about people who ship Armand and Daniel going a little nutty?

"Armand thinks of other things." Yeah no shit. Obviously. He's a complex character with an equally complex backstory. He's 514 years old, obviously there's more to him than how he's looking at one mortal man.

But also...Devil's Minion shippers get nothing. CONSISTENTLY. If you were in it from before the show (like I was) we got a chapter in the third book of a 13 book series. Daniel practically ceased to exist after book 3. Armand gets his own book and Daniel was literally a footnote in it and a negative one at that. And there's no real contact between them except maybe two passing sentences in two of the later books. Daniel isn't even mentioned in the last book of the series. We literally got a single chapter and after that, nothing.

We don't even have anything from the show except what's the equivalent of sucking on an ice cube to not totally dehydrate. That and the actors having fun about it in promo stuff. Hell, even if (and I hope the if is a when) they do ANYTHING with this pairing it likely won't be until S4 at the earliest, but realistically not until S5 (you know in 3-4 years if things are speedy).

This is the Louis and Lestat show. Obviously. They come first and that's how it should be. After that we have Armand and where he's concerned it's largely a character study that encompasses more than just his relationships. Obviously.

But ffs, leave people alone when all they have to go off of is some eye glaring. Eye glaring, mini little detail crumbs that could actually mean nothing, actors having fun, and a book chapter from 1988. I have my own Pepe Silvia crazy board and entertain myself based on practically nothing and I am aware that the likelihood of getting anything any time soon is slim at best. But I'm also gonna have fun with it on this the liking stuff and shipping stuff website. The hypothetical fun might literally be the only thing I get.

[thevtuberlestat]

thinking about armand, whose core trauma revolves around missing pieces -- memories he has lost, a language he no longer speaks, a name he isn't certain of -- taking memories from other people. is that about control? catharsis? if he thinks they're happier without them, what does that say about him?

[mmelolabelle]

“This time I won’t save your life”

100% Armand spent the entire time leading up to and during Daniel’s time in Dubai speed-reading any and all literature on Parkinson’s he can get his claws on, he and Louis have canonically highjacked his medical care, Armand-as-Rashid has probs personally signed off on every single meal Daniel has eaten, he materialises out of thin fucking air every time Louis twitches in Daniel’s general direction and I would not put it past him to be monitoring the guy’s heart-rate 24/7 via super-vampire-hearing alone.

But sure dude, whatever helps you not-sleep I guess

[randomfandomss]

[softloustat]

it never occurred to me before but did louis say to armand does he want to lick my boots or chop my hands off because he knows he’s done it to nicki??? 😧

[beneath-the-willow-tree]

Adore Devil's Minion. Hate the idea that Daniel has to "save" or "fix" Armand. First of all, boring. Second of all, that's what Marius thought he was doing. Third — of all characters to attribute a savior complex to, Daniel "Poke the Bear" Molloy is by far the most laughable option.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

i can see 1980/1981 (around the time daniel turns 27/28) as being the catalyst for his relationship with armand starting to splinter, his resentment over armand withholding the gift coming to a head, the occasional running off and wandering starting before it starts ramping up in frequency. because it's when it really hits him that's where armand is frozen — 27 forever — and daniel's past that now. he's always been younger than armand both physically and mentally but now daniel's the one who's older physically. suddenly it's way more real that one day he'll be turning grey and armand won't and it fucks with him badly

[kindaorangey]

also in the same way you have to see armand choosing the coven over louis as him deciding between two options he sees as bad, believing one is not viable, and committing to the other wholeheartedly (hence him directing the trial and just generally playing an active role in madeleine claudia and louis's executions) so too must you view his decision to stay with louis after the trial as him realising the coven is not a viable option for him anymore (because louis kills them all) and committing to louis wholeheartedly instead because he's his only other option.

[girlivealwaysbean]

loumand argument in full (along with subtitles) !!!!!!

[raven-undergrove]

It's kind of annoying how whenever Armand fans talk about enjoying him, we are forced to justify it and acknowledge that we understand he's evil and did bad things, meanwhile, the fans of all the other characters never do any such thing despite their favorites committing just as many atrocities as Armand, if not more.

Louis killed innocent people, became a serial killer of young queer men in the 70s, failed his daughter time and again after cursing her into darkness, was a pimp, and took advantage of his partner's sexual trauma to feel powerful.

Claudia was a serial killer who kept souvenirs of her victims' bodies and wrote their last words in a diary that functioned as her kill list. She took to vampirism the moment she was turned and never seemed to express remorse for killing. She loved the plays put on by the Theatre of Vampires when it was humans being killed at the end.

Lestat killed countless innocent people, (because for some reason, the writers decided to forget he tries to only kill evildoers in the books), punched a hole through the head of a priest who hadn't done anything to warrant it except take Louis's confession, was abusive toward Louis and Claudia, forced Claudia to watch Charlie burn, dropped Louis out of the sky, cheated on Louis with Antoinette, used a man's head to say "tickets please!" in a really grotesque scene, and participated in the trial that ended with Claudia being burned alive.

Daniel told a girl he would only have sex with her if she put a paper bag over her head, and he actually did it when she agreed, even after she started crying and probably wanted to withdraw consent.

Why don't ya'll ever feel the need to acknowledge that you understand your favorites are evil and have done bad things they need to atone for the way you push Armand fans to? Especially considering out of all these characters, Armand has been through the most horrors and therefore, is actually objectively the most sympathetic? Armand does evil things, but it's debatable if he understands just how evil they are considering the abuse and downright torture he has endured that honestly makes the plight of every other character on this show look like a sunny afternoon.

[the-woman-upstairs]

Armand on a post-divorce bender while Daniel is partying it up on tour with Lestat

[winepresswrath]

I genuinely like this. Armand noticing that Louis is just not that into him and being unwilling to go all in himself because he genuinely cares about the coven is such a fascinating reversal of the situation in the books but it is still undeniably peak Armand to transition seamlessly between "I want you more than anything in the world" and "You don't want me so maybe die" like what was the trial if not Armand pushing Louis off the tower because he still wasn't ready to love him?