#and w everything that went down this evening I Need to actively refocus the conspiratorial thinking so. gay old men. sorry

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okay I am going to be insane in your reblogs sorry. I will be answering these all out of order (sorry) (under a cut because I am. Wordy)

1- Armand saying what Alice thought. To me, there’s really only two options presented here, and the two options hinge on whether or not you believe Alice is a Real Person (not just a warped memory of Armand). However, both options, to me, imply that DM has already happened in some form, it’s just whether or not it’s ongoing at the time. Our options are a) Alice is real, and Armand knows her thoughts because he’s been stalking Daniel. He would, presumably, have had to be within a certain physical proximity to have been able to hear her, which means he’s actively choosing to follow Daniel around for whatever reason. Then we have option b) which is that Armand himself is actually Alice and that’s why he knows what she was thinking. This is admittedly a lot most simple and straightforward but also this show/canon looooooves toxic messy gays so not ruling out stalking just yet.

2- Daniel feeling safer to hold Alice’s hand in Paris. This one, admittedly, I am not quite as confident in answering. However, I believe that if we choose to operate under the belief that Alice is in fact Armand, the answer, I feel, would be that (please inform me if this is wrong this is after internet research which could easily be mistaken or flawed) Paris seems to have been a lot more LGBT friendly than plenty of places in America at the time. From what I’m seeing online, the laws that had been utilized to discriminate against homosexual couples in public were repealed in 1980, around (or shortly before) when Daniel presumably would have been there with “Alice”. Now me personally, I feel like that line in general has to be indicative of something, even if it’s not the Alice is Armand theory, because why else would Daniel not feel free to hold a woman’s hand?? As someone else on this post suggested, it’s possible Alice was black, but like. Idk it’s definitely a line that makes your ears perk up because what exactly are they trying to get across with it?? There’s no logical reason I can think of that he would feel ashamed or unsafe to be seen with a woman romantically in the States, unless of course that “woman” was actually an Indian twink who went in and photoshopped his memories for some reason we don’t know yet. My ONLY guess personally as to what this could be if Alice was in fact an actual real woman (besides for the aforementioned possible race aspect) would be like. Either she’s transgender (so there’s still that queerphobia angle at play) or if he had too much of a reputation for his habits (with both drugs and men) and was scared of someone saying something.

3- Daniel’s flashback of Armand during all this. So to me this one specifically is the most damning proof of the “Armand is Alice” theory, and I have 2 ideas for it. Either a) this is Daniel’s subconscious, somewhere deep, deep down that remembers on some level that this is Alice, Alice is Armand, and it is trying to help him piece together the puzzle and notice that the missing shape is suspiciously Armand-like. Then we have option b) Armand himself is projecting this image into Daniel’s mind to sort of test the waters during this scene. How much does he remember?? How much could he remember? How quickly can he fit the puzzle pieces into place if I gently nudge this piece towards the corner it goes in? It’s like telling g someone a story they don’t really remember and showing them photos/videos from it to try to jog their memory.

For you that don't believe Alice was actually Armand in some of Daniel's memories, how do you explain the "you felt freer to hold her hand in Paris. I wonder why that is" and Armand saying what Alice thought? And Daniel having flashbacks of Armand that very moment? I am genuinely asking! I sort of can explain 2/3 but not the hand holding.