#I like to think that buried behind Daniel's two sentences in the PL trilogy they worked it out
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I can't think about armand's age/gender dysphoria without wanting to scream for a thousand years. how he's constantly seen as a young boy because he was turned at 17 but by that point even before he's lived a minute as a vampire he already hasn't felt like a boy for years. and all the men who see him this way want to use him like a man without treating him as one. he's constantly saying to their faces that he is a man with wants and desires and feelings and they're like hmm that's nice. not to me though. but not in a way that protects any of the child in him. they're not like, you're a boy and that means you should be kept safe. they're like, you're a boy and that means whatever I do to you is not real. because you're not real and now you're so frozen that no matter what you do you never will be. literally no wonder he has every problem.
#also literally no wonder he's in love with lestat and daniel#both of whom he meets when the other is around 20#and both of whom never see him as a boy#they still see him as beautiful but also as a powerful monster. which is at least part of what he is#but he doesn't get all the way with either of them at least on page and it makes me sad forever#I like to think that buried behind Daniel's two sentences in the PL trilogy they worked it out#but also if they did that means Marius's reaction is to leave Daniel out of the mural of the vampires#LITERALLY trying to erase him from armand's history lol#CANNOT have a guy who sees him as an equal in here. that just ruins everything
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