#and shout out to uncivilcivilservice who got me on this mental track last night

[desertfangs]

I know people are disappointed the show doesn't seem to be doing Devil's Minion, but if you have not read Queen of the Damned and you're into Armand/Daniel, I highly recommend you give it a shot! It's such a great book in its entirety (and honestly, TVL is great, too). But even if you only read the Daniel chapters, it's truly an incredible story.

Devil's Minion is not just a love story. It is that, absolutely, but it is also the story of Armand reconnecting with his humanity after 500 years. Not just by loving a human, which he does, but in getting a chance to explore and learn who he is as a person on his own terms. He was ripped out of the mortal world young, and he was messed up by it before that.

In the Devil's Minion era, Armand experiments with clothes and what they mean. He experiments with music. He discovers a part of himself that he never really had the chance to discover, all with Daniel at his side. Daniel allows him to try any number of wild and impulsive things and, despite some exasperation along the way, loves Armand's curiosity and desire to discover things about the world and about himself. He gives Armand the space to learn who he is and who he wants to be. It's really neat, is all I'm saying.