#Armand losing his shit

[rocketrouquine]

Excuse me ? What ? WHAT ?!!! Common ground ? WHAT ????!!!

[sauronism]

ep 5 ( don't be afraid, just start the tape ) : ` louis, thinks i'm boring. do you find me boring?

[randomfandomss]

Once again I'm thinking...Raglan James was right.

Daniel needs to be more afraid of Louis. He doesn't manipulate or play games. He erupts.

Daniel might become a mere casualty in Armand and Louis fight.

[thequeenofsastiel]

LOUIS WOULD A BORING PERSON PHYSICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY TORTURE A 20 YEAR OLD BOY FOR SIX DAYS? WOULD HE???? LOUIS!!!!!

[pummelingbat]

Armand is sooooo cute in TVL. throwing tantrums when he gets embarrassed & his sense of control is threatened.... fussy fussy fussy.....

[neonsbian]

are vampires just unable to have healthy relationships lmao

[allegoryofthebeast]

The interpretation that Madeline was feeling Louis’ love for Lestat during their last dinner with Claudia in Paris, not love for Armand, is frying mg brain and bringing me to my knees because it makes so much sense and it’s so powerfully sad

[butchybats]

YOU’RE ARROGANT BEYOND CONTEMPT YOU BEG TO SHARE MY PRECIOUS BLOOD I’D NO SOONER YOU IN MY VEINS THAN TO SEE YOU WITH THE ONES YOU LOVE‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[dxxtruction]

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[lawyer-of-louis-de-lioncourt]

He could not prevent it because he was set in his decision.

CLAUDIA AND A SPINELESS CUNT INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022—)

[shivvytheshiv]

one thing that genuinely surprises me is how the majority of loustat fics i came across are super dark and erotic and angsty which is more than fine!!! but i’m LONGING for the comedic perspective what’s with lestat throwing tantrums and going full wizard howl and louis trying to make amends w/him and claudia/armand/whoever the fuck and slowly losing his shit? this being said i would love some fic recs

[platoapproved]

I'm still reading TVA and I gotta say for the benefit of IWTV show fans who haven't yet / aren't gonna read the books and are learning about them solely via tumblr: we GOTTA set aside some time in our busy killing Marius schedule to also kill Santino and Allesandra (from the Roman coven of the Children of Darkness that Armand mentions in the museum scene) because holy shit:

LIST OF CRIMES (some of these they don't do personally but they're sanctioning all of it)

the Roman coven kidnap all the boys from Marius' palazzo and throw them one by one onto a bonfire because they deserve to die "for their Master's sins"

Toss Armand in the fire as well but pull him out before he dies, leave him in a cell to suffer his burns.

Santino to Armand when he refuses to listen to Santino's indoctrination:

Santino again:

... then has one of the vampires in the coven dump the ashes from the other boys all over Armand's face so they get in his eyes and mouth.

Santinto to Armand (talking about Marius at first) 😒:

When Armand still resists indoctrination:

Lock Armand up in a cell and starve him for a week before tossing in Riccardo, his human best friend who he loves like a brother, who they specifically did not burn and kept aside for this purpose. Armand drains Riccardo before even realizing it is him and they refuse to remove Riccardo's body so Armand just has to be in there with it rotting.

Continue the cycle of leaving Armand starving completely alone in the dark for a week, bringing him a human victim, leaving the body there to rot. for like FIVE MONTHS while Armand loses his mind and starts seeing ghosts.

then:

[jullythevamp]

"louistat is the best lestat ship!" "no, it's lesmand" "no, it's davidstat" lestat and nicholas were each other's first best friend and first love. think about the countless hours they spent talking nonsense to each other, because they were the only ones who understood. even when they fought, it was all put behind with a kiss. nicki's violin calming lestat from a panic attack. they ran away to paris together with nothing but the will to prove their parents wrong. they lived on the streets, surviving with tips, but they didn't care. they started living in a bad house in a bad neighborhood. but they didn't care because they drank wine and slept together every night. lestat wanted distance from nicki when he became a vampire, so he wouldn't hurt him. as soon as lestat got the money from magnus castle, he gave nicki a shit ton of money, a new house, violin classes, and a new expensive violin. but nicki didn't care because all he could think of was if lestat was well or not. lestat didn't care about armand and the coven, but went there as soon as he knew nicki was being held captive. armand was jealous of the love lestat gave to nicki. lestat transformed nicki into a vampire because he was too afraid to lose him. even when they weren't in speaking terms, lestat gave nicki the theater of vampires. lestat went under the dirt when he knew nicki killed himself. he went under the dirt with the violin he gave nicki. the first reason lestat fell for louis and antoine (maybe even quinn) was because they remembered nicki, both in appearance and personality. hell, he made antoine into a nicki carbon copy. lestat never forgot nicholas. there will always be, playing in the back of his mind, the sound of nicholas violin.

[slapjacq]

just gonna hop on my soapbox again about this show but,

hot take: I actually love the colored contacts that the vampires wear because

there is an uncanny valley look to these vampires, that marks them entirely out of place as at any given time. It actually at some points, in my opinion, makes them more frightening. Their eyes tell us that whatever is going on behind them, that it’s beyond fucked up and animalistic.

I can pinpoint several moments where these stupid, gaudy looking contacts enhance the energy that the actors and the editors are going for. The moment where Madeline says Claudia has eyes like her windows, those contacts make Claudia look like so horrifically scarred, the 100 yard stare is made a million mile stare. The moment when Armand is coaxing young Daniel into accepting death, his words are gentle and honeyed, but he looks like a monster, completely inhumane. When Louis loses his shit in the last episode, the man looks absolutely deranged beyond the point of recognition of the man he was before vampirism. There are so many moments in this show where if the contacts weren’t there, we would be missing a part of the potency that lingers in those truly emotionally challenging moments.

Plus the added touch of whether it be the lighting or the costume department changing the intensity of the color of the contacts depending on whether if they want to convey a character’s theme is just such a cool touch.

Anyways serious props to the entire crew on set, in this post specifically the makeup and costume department. We talk a lot about the acting choices but I COULD KISS whoever came up with the fuckass contacts and didn’t go the traditional route of the colonized “pale/white skin”, the easily gone route of “comically prominent fangs”, or god forbid “sparkles”

[virginiaisforvampires]

The entire "You sure about that, Arun?", "Yes, maitre" really fucked me up like, specially when you're aware of Armand's entire dynamic with Marius (shooting daggers at him since The Vampire Armand) and Louis back to being "Louis The Pimp", just INSANEEEEEEE 🤯 Also, it shows how devious Louis actually is and he is far from this perfect moral victm some people try to paint him and Jacob has been warning since the s2 press tuor started.

I don’t know that I’d call Louis devious….maybe more aware of himself in that moment?

He decides to take this step after the argument with Claudia, which revealed a lot, imo. I mean, it’s been building all season, and Jacob warned that Louis would grow resentful of trying to make it up to Claudia over the fact that he fucked up her murder plans by refusing to burn Lestat.

In 2x01, we get Louis (via DreamStat) questioning if Claudia was really worth all this mess. In 2x04, Louis (via DreamStat) calls Claudia a “poor decision.”

Louis is pissed at Claudia. He’s bitter. He’s resentful. He did not want to kill Lestat. He did not want to leave NOLA. He doesn’t seem to actually care about this relationship with Armand. He’s not been paying any real attention to Armand whatsoever and refused to label their relationship. He scoffed at the idea that Armand was a sensitive soul when the art curator pointed it out. Louis’ only concern was that Lestat wasn’t in the photo and that Santiago mocked his hobby. Meanwhile Louis mocks Armand and laughs about the relationship via DreamStat. I mean, at this point, they’ve basically been fuck buddies (in Louis’ mind) for almost two years while Louis continues to carry on his imaginary relationship with DreamStat and pretending Lestat is still there with him.

As Jacob said to TV Insider:

Back to the argument with Claudia, Louis resents the fact Claudia left him all those years ago in 1x05. He’s bitter over the fact he’s had to tolerate the theater ghouls in an effort to appease Claudia all the while feeling as if she was leaving him (yet again) in favor of them. One of the reasons he finally decided to “commit” to this charade with Armand, imo, is partly for spite. He was burning the photo of Armand before Claudia came in to warn him. He brushes her off like he’s seemingly done the entire time while the coven (and Armand) treated her like shit. Louis then throws her perceived failings (and constant dissatisfaction) back at her, stops the photo from burning, and summons Armand to try and gain the upper-hand in an effort to stave off the inevitable and also to feel a sense of power and control, because he’s slowly losing his identity in Paris and trying so desperately to keep in contact with humanity via his photography hobby. He’s drifting further and further away from who he was in NOLA (and with Lestat). He’s becoming more vampiric, yet he’s still fighting against the rite of passage, and so he regresses back to Businessman Louis™, and Armand falls even more head-over-heels, because he needs someone to tell him who to be and be his new master as he’s bored with the theater and is allowing the alleged “mutiny” to happen all while still being the true coven master.

Again, as Jacob said to TV Insider:

And as Jacob said to Entertainment Weekly:

It’s complicated. Layered. Fucked up. I know I sound like a broken record, but I really am genuinely shocked at how dark and blatant the show is being with this part of the story.

[lafamilledelioncourt]

them: he manipulated them, killed their daughter, and fucked their heads. he's the villain! he's a sick twisted villain!

me: the 500+ year old vampire? with severe trauma? and zero support for his very obvious neurodivergence? the child sex slave? the dogmatically groomed prized possession? the cult victim? the 'has to figure out how to please people and blend in to survive and avoid further abuse' character? the 'regimented and desperate for order and sense of purpose so yeah he tries to do the job he is forced into to the letter' coven leader? the 'frequently abandoned, misused, and neglected so clearly he's developed frantic control issues to not lose his only sense of stability and comfort' one?

next day edit: hold on, i'm not done. i'm sitting here at lunch the next day and i really can not shake that some people do not get the point.

it's not that i'm gonna excuse villainous behavior. the tiny gremlin did all that shit, and his ass is gonna go in time out, but TO ME, the whole fucking point of the show is that no one is really the villain.

that's because they are ALL FUCKING AWFUL. all differently bad, all differently broken. the closest thing to a saint we got is madeline, so sure go off calling her the only good one im in agreement, but they are ALL A GODDAMN NIGHTMARE.

the beauty of this entire series, particularly the books for me but i do love the show, is that the nuance and wiggle room between monstrosities and man is the poetry of the story. it is beautiful that these creatures have this tiny gasps of heart and happiness and hope despite who and what they are.

i can scream into the void all week about armand and claudia and daniel bc those are the characters i most identify with bc of my own personal trauma. HOWEVER, that does not take away my ability to see that EVERYONE needs therapy.

put their asses on a vampiric SSRI, tell them to all fuck eachother and get the orgy over with, and then have an honest to god conversation about their feelings.

DAMN.

okay anyway, going back to work.