#armand on his freak shit

[femmecelworld]

I had this vision of a slightly different first meeting for devil’s minion, Armand as a tattoo artist in the 70s and loudmouth Daniel comes into the shop

[harbingerofsoup]

i bet the in universe daniel molloy discourse is a thing of beauty

[rhaenyra-first-of-her-name]

Idk what it says about me but the reveal has just made me like Armand more.

Yeah, go commit more crimes, my dear. His sad eyes have bewitched me. I stand with my cancelled wife.

But Armand is absolutely insane. Like he went from abandoning his og plan to rolling with Louis in a matter of days? Never say that this boy wasn't flexible. He is literally sick of everything in his life and is like, whatever 🤷‍♀️

Louis, Louis, Louis...... You are insane too for staying with him for 77 years to spite your ex. You are petty and I love this idea but you are still insane. I think this might be the first time you flabbergasted Armand and me. Love your petty ass, Louis.

Also since Armand let Louis sorta win their divorce fight, after just establishing him as the Big Bad™, for now, this man is forever scheming, 24/7. He is working overtime. Forever a stage director. (Okay, not really. He doesn't have the emotional bandwidth to be an effective manipulator, he's just an opportunist and oh boi, are the opportunities finally opportuniting after the shitstorm of his life so far.)

[indelicateink]

Hi I love reading your tags on iwtv post! What would make season 2 perfect in your eyes re: louis/armand/lestat?

thanks! (i'm taking that as in general, lmk if I misunderstood/there's one in particular that pertains to your question.)

i need s2 to be fucked-up-shit o'clock on our fucked-up-shit show (affectionate). my total emotional annihilation would make it perfect for me re: our guys.

armand has done some seriously naughty shit that's going to put a major dent in their lives for the next century, and i'm hopeful we get to explore that in a no-holds-barred dicks-out blood-tears abject-humiliation existential-horror love letter to the fans.

i want sam reid to get to have the juiciest time portraying the agonizing devastation that is visited upon lestat this season (affectionate)

i want assad zaman to seduce us utterly with armand's beauty and outrageous horror (affectionate)

i want jacob anderson to melt our fucking minds as louis goes through the most traumatizing events of his life (concerned)

that would be perfect for me, for them

[reinemichele]

This fic is thee best thing to ever happen to me .

[jorbus-mcdoorbus]

i think the reason why daniel and armand would work is because, unlike all of armand’s previous relationships, daniel is a bitch that wouldn’t lie for his benefit. daniel’s whole thing is that he’s horny for the truth and violence. and armand doesn’t really know how to be a normal guy bc he’s a severely traumatized ancient vampire that probably has a personality disorder. and they’re perfect for each other! evil bitches that are into freak shit but they’re always absolutely fascinated by each other.

[lexdelioncourt]

One thing I need SO BADLY from S3 is Armand gremlining out. I don't care if it's during past DM flashbacks or as part of his post divorce crash-out (preferably both) but I need him unhinged. I need him to have his blenders. I need him microwaving rodents. I need him interviewing people on the streets. I need him hyperfixated on Bladerunner. I need him cutting his hair and recording himself sleeping and watching it grow back. I need him in his pirate era, looting shipwrecks and stealing shit. I need him bailing Daniel out of jail while dressed like three toddlers in a trenchcoat. I need him rocking the double denim and breaking into ancient archeological sites. I need him to drive Daniel absolutely insane and for Daniel to absolutely love it. That boy has been masking way too long and it's about time he's allowed to let his freak flag fly.

[professional-rat-eater]

The Dubai apartment is depressing for so many symbolic reasons but also because Armand gives off the energy that he should have trinkets everywhere.

If he were allowed to actually relax in a relationship (or get as close as he’s physically able to) I feel like he would just have stuff everywhere. He takes up every conceivable hobby there is and either sticks with it for ages or loses interest in a week. The Devil’s Minion chapter backs this up I feel. He is both a magpie attracted to shiny objects and a crow who brings ‘gifts’ to Daniel.

I want to see Armand not worrying about meticulously curating and micromanaging the absolute fuck out of his relationship and instead collecting weird shit that he just leaves lying on every surface, and then maybe one day he snaps and throws all of it out but only to make room for his latest fixation, or maybe Daniel tries to convince him to move some of it but he can’t bear to part with any of it.

His purchase history on the app story is batshit and Daniel is answering the door every five minutes to collect another Amazon parcel. Armand leaves shit all over the floor just outside of their coffins because he swears need to have it within arm’s reach. He’s buying the same exact items in multiple colours because he needs to but he also has a serious issue with object permanence so whenever something is no longer within his line of sight, he forgets it exists. Thank god Daniel is a vampire already because the number of times he’s tripped over random things lying on the ground probably would’ve killed him already if he were still alive. I need to see Armand letting his freak flag fly but specifically regarding his weird hyperfixations.

There’s also something very sweet and uncharacteristically innocent about his childlike habits because the safety and security he would feel with Daniel, despite being much more powerful than him, would imply that he’s able to regress just a little to being the child he was never allowed to really be.

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

it is funny how Anne Rice constantly refers back to TVL via the text of TVA because she seems to have like. forgotten that she described Armand's recollection of his and Marius's first TVL meeting like this

as opposed to how she had him to describe it in TVA, like this

like I guess plot-wise it's not that big a difference because Armand ends up loving and trusting Marius regardless, but it feels pretty jarring to flip back from Andrei/Amadeo trusting Marius as a divine figure on sight to the older version of the story where he freaks out and begs not to be sold, begs to stay in the brothel, only to be more or less drained into submission.

like the most cynical version of what happened here is what I've seen described as Anne's push to make Marius a more palatable character, at least by her standards of palatable (kind of funny considering amc's full-steam-ahead push in the opposite direction twenty years later). there's also the significantly increased Christian element, which makes sense since Memnoch the Devil also deals a lot with her journey back to that faith and how she works it out in her writing. in-universe I guess you could just use the catch-all of "unreliable narrator," even theorize that TVL is less accurate because it's being conveyed by Lestat--but then again, all of TVA is being conveyed by David via transcription, so. the TVL version has the advantage of being more stream-of-consciousness, something that Armand's communicating in a mess of telepathic images instead of deliberately chosen words. Marius's return could be a factor here; Armand thought he was dead in TVL and has figured out he's alive by TVA, so his memories shift to a more positive light in response, perhaps out of fear (although he does talk shit about Marius plenty in this book) or his desire to reconnect, to present their relationship as fated and holy from the beginning. and he's committed enough to this reality that he doesn't even acknowledge the alternate version, if only to criticize it like he does with other parts of TVL elsewhere.

ntm that even if this is just because Anne forgot/retconned here, it's still an inadvertent foreshadow to the way show!Armand seems to have been deliberately written with difficulties in consistently remembering his backstory (the being sold/run down thing, as I've mentioned before). it'll be interesting (in a fucked up way) to see whether that instability extends to his memories of Marius and their relationship, especially in regards to the inevitable revelation that Marius is still alive.

[dykesynthezoid]

Do think the funniest possible reaction from Louis upon finding out Daniel and Armand are a thing is schadenfreude. I mean canonically he’s not above delighting a little in Daniel’s suffering. He’s like well well how the turn tables… had to put up with all that shit from Daniel during the interview about how his boyfriend sucked and was a liar and a control freak and Louis was a fool for staying with him, etc etc but ohhhhh look who’s the fool now. Isn’t that funny, Daniel? Isn’t it funny how things work out sometimes? Right, Daniel? And meanwhile Daniel has never regretted the whole “he and Louis can now read each other’s minds” thing more

[armandposting]

sybelle & benji primer

for those who would prefer not to put themselves through The Vampire Armand

who are sybelle and benji? the short answer is that they are two humans that armand effectively adopts after killing sybelle's abusive brother. they help armand recover after his suicide attempt and come with him when he goes to see lestat in his devil-coma (don't worry about it). armand's intent with them has always been to protect them while they live out their human lives, but he leaves them with marius while telling his life story to david talbot and marius turns them, whcih devastates armand.

but also, sybelle is a 25 year old disabled pianist and benji is a 12 year old trafficked Bedouin boy from Palestine who chainsmokes. so there's kind of a lot going on there.

[prefacing this by saying it's possible benji and sybelle were first introduced in memnoch the devil but I haven't finished my reread of that yet and I don't remember, so this all comes from the vampire armand and what i remember of the prince lestat trilogy]

to skim over a bunch of semi-relevant plot, at the end of memnoch the devil armand tries to kill himself by flying into the sun because lestat got to make out with Thee Jesus and armand didn't. as he's getting burned up he has several semi-hallucinatory side quests, one of which is sybelle and benji.

sybelle, like I said, is a concert pianist, and has some sort of developmental or neuro disability that anne doesn't specify. you could interpret it as autism or psychosis related to PTSD or depression or any number of things, but when we meet her she is fixated on the Appassionata piano sonata, and plays it constantly. she is with her abusive older brother, who took over her care after their parents died, and Benjamin Mahmoud (benji), a young boy that her brother essentially bought to help take care of her. sybelle struggles with eating, dressing herself, speaking, etc, though this is all much improved later on after the brother is dead. Armand hears benji praying for something to save sybelle from the brother, who is trying to haul her off the piano and beat her, and benji is worried will kill her. Armand steps in and kills the brother. benji celebrates, sybelle goes back to the piano, and armand basically immediately falls in love with them both, but he has a suicide attempt to finish, so he gets swept off.

armand eventually lands on a rooftop, burned to a crisp and quickly becomes stuck in the snow and ice. he continues to hear sybelle's playing and benji talking to him (benji calls him angel at first, later dybbuk-- notable funny bit is that benji, not knowing what happened to armand, tries to persuade him back by saying he has plenty of good cigarettes and then complaining that armand left them this dead body to deal with. if theres one thing about benji mahmoud it's that he is not fazed by jack or shit). eventually armand realizes that he is not going to die any time soon and calls out to benji for help.

benji and sybelle rescue armand from the rooftop- he tries to telepathically shield how terrible he looks from them, but sybelle catches on that doing so is draining for him and tells him to stop. they're not afraid of his crusty ass and set him up in their hotel room (sybelle has endless trust fund money from her parents). they have to get a guy for armand to drink so he can heal, so benji lures a guy with the promise that there's coke under the "dead body" on the bed. yes, benji does come up with this plan. armand thinks it's hilarious. made for each other. it's notable that both benji and sybelle are daniel-style weird little freaks who want to watch armand do murders; the only difference is it's not a sex thing for them.

with armand recovered, sybelle and benji accompany him to come see lestat, where as I mentioned armand leaves them with marius for safekeeping and marius turns them. the consent here is... complicated. in terms of vampire etiquette, arguably marius absolutely should not have done this, as sybelle and benji were under armands protection. also just as a guy who is aware that this option is abhorrent to armand, someone marius still considers his child (eugh yuck etc), marius should not have done this. on the human end, sybelle at least was definitely old enough to consent, older than half the main vampires are when they're turned. benji would be really really offended if you said he wasn't old enough (much like amadeo) but also... he is literally 12. he's been through some shit for sure but he is 12. personally I'm going to go with under no circumstances should marius have done that. but sybelle and benji are happy about it and see it as a way to be a family with armand forever and armand does his best to not let his anguish bring the mood down.

and that's basically what happens. benji and sybelle go with armand between trinity gate and the court in auvergne. in the PL books, sybelle continues to play music, often with the other vampire musicians that have gathered at lestat's court, and benji starts the world's first vampire podcast.

other random facts:

benji mostly wears djellabas, and when the guy he brings to armand to kill is racist to him about it he says "sure, just call me Lawrence of arabia" and promptly feeds the guy to armand

benji also is fascinated by how armand looks all shriveled up ("I could take a lesson in muscles from looking at you") and sybelle has to tell him to focus on the whole luring a drug dealer to their hotel room thing at hand

for some reason anne thought that armand should mention that sybelle has breasts at like, every opportunity. it's one of those times when you're actually glad she didn't write more women because when she does she is so weird about it

in the PL books when interacting with Marius, benji also calls him master like armand does (Jacob Anderson voice eugh yuck!)

sybelle's reaction to watching crispy armand drain a dude while saying armand-typical creepy shit is to say "magnificent" and benji's is to say "bad guy, huh?"

armand thinks of the whole of telling his story in TVA as being for benji and sybelle, but particularly sybelle. he describes it more than once as his "symphony for sybelle."

Marius has a rare moment of self reflection after armand screams at him for turning the two, where he says "You loved them selflessly. For all their strange faults, and wild evil, they were not compromised for you. You loved them perhaps more respectfully than I… than I ever loved you." not a high bar my man!

anyway I think that's it, at least as much as I can remember without doing any text searches outside of TVA. they're weird little freaks and I love them very much though as usual there are many things about them I wish anne had done just a little differently!

[nalyra-dreaming]

I find it interesting that in contrast with the books, this Daniel had a relationship with Armand in the past without knowing the full story and the events that were led by him (Hell even if Claudia's experiment will become real in the series too). How do you think Daniel will take remembering having a relationship with him?

*weighs head*

I mean... Book Daniel found it all terribly fascinating, and, despite this Daniel being older now... his younger self was very much the same. I think with the (granted very short) glimpse we saw of vampire Daniel that it still is true that he takes to vampirism like a fish to water (at least to a while, I mean, I don't know if they include his book canon madness and subsequent stint with Marius in the show?!) - and as such I would say it is safe to say that Daniel... will take it more or less in stride.

Remember, Daniel and Armand... match each other's freak - that's why they fall so hard.

And, also - THIS Daniel... this Daniel has heard a lot of shit - has heard a lot about atrocities, too, and interviewed people who have done these atrocities I would say. The books on his bookshelf tell a very interesting story there, as does his short comment in 2x05 re that operative of the KGB.

As a journalist... and a Pulitzer Price winning one(!) - he has that interest in the abyss and what it holds - that, maybe more than anything else really, will not make him flinch at the details (much). Even if he might find a few... well chosen words, let's put it that way. After all, he hasn't exactly been shy with the commentary on Louis' story so far, has he :) - and I don't see him be shy with anything else either.

[dreadfuldevotee]

we're still getting some of the worst takes on the top/bottom discourse in 2025 instead of actually paying attention to what's onscreen. did people just suddenly forget that louis and lestat canonically weren't fucking for an extended time in their marriage? lestat perceived this as louis withholding sex from him, another example of him expressing entitlement over louis' body.

but no, louis needs magical healing dick from a white french... all so he can be "put in his place" as the satisfied housewife according to some of these fans. how nauseating.

Whaaaat?!?! noooo, Loustat was totally a consistently active and healthy sexual relationship. No, don't bring up Louis' weak libido and Lestat punishing him by cheating with Antoinette in episode 3. No, also not the 7 years squirreled away in Rue Royale where Louis only acknowledged Lestat to piss him off. Or the 6 months they were apart after Lestat beat the shit out of Louis for not fucking him. No no, magical white penis is what makes the world go 'round. Heaven forbid Louis find sexual gratification from anyone else.

Let's forget about how Louis who is constantly trying to get control over his own life might be into calling the shots in his bedroom, with a partner who is not only willing, but enthusiastic to explore the depth of his still burgeoning sexuality. Louis himself describes Paris as an awakening, and while the direct context of that line is about how proximity to Armand opened him up intellectually- it's no coincidence that they meet in a cruising park. That they cruise together seemingly all through their relationship. Remember when Lestat said "You can fuck them and I'll eat them?" and exactly a season later Louis and Armand are bashfully remincent on the young men they devoured- both literally and metaphorically? Viewing, this show specifically through a lense of Ethical Monogomy is the Thesis is profoundly stupid- straight up. It makes sense that Louis, who has never been in a relationship and has no desire for his peers, is not pleased by Lestat's wandering eyes especially as they kept seeming to wander to only white women. But enjoys seeing Jonah thought it was always going to be a fling between them. Lestat ofc punishes him for this aswell, and will continue to hurt Louis by cheating or mocking him with group sex. Armand, in all his crazy- isn't threatened by Louis having sex with other men. What Loumand has is just a fuckin kink, dude. They're exhibitionist with similar tastes in men and/or prey that it is something they can sustain from Paris, to SF to Dubai. Built a sex dungeon in your crypt with an Alaskan King bed that is quote "big enough to fit more [people] than them on it", a cuck chair, and steps with cusions that bear resemblance to amphitheater seating. Oh and kinky master/servant role play including vampire sex for a straight week. incase anyone forgot about the on screen vampire sex.

They only reason there isnt a 3rd person in Loustats bed is because Les is a jealous freak and world probably set the whole house on fire

[mycenaae]

the way people love evil

rating: mature - explicit main pairing: armand/daniel molloy

description: “At some point,” Armand says, “you are going to ask a question to which you do not want the answer.” Feeling brave, Daniel shrugs. “Hasn’t happened yet.” || daniel and armand from 1973 to the future, not necessarily in chronological order. stories of memory, recovery, fifty-year situationships, learning to communicate, and matching each other's freak.

main fics + companion piece:

- with every care that i have for thee / “Stay for dinner.” It’s not a request he expected; Daniel’s eyebrows raise. It feels like locking himself in an underwater cage with the shark, agreeing to it. Armand stares him down. “You have my word that whatever I tell you, there, is the truth.” || a story of memory, change, book tours, and long-distance situationships, through the not-quite-all-seeing eyes of daniel molloy. (post-s2) - so that i might know thee / Things, as they often had before, got ugly again between them eventually, and it went pretty quickly to shit, after that. || a meandering story of survival, recovery, struggle, loss, university lectures, the world according to daniel molloy, friendship, and a continuing lack of communication. not necessarily in that order. - shaped by your hands / His story does not matter. Armand, twice-renamed, is not a creature of memory. He is a creature of … something else. || a story of manipulation, the minion's devil, a persistent past, and living despite it all, or: the world according to armand.

standalones / interludes:

- remember it is only a game / Armand’s smile widens, his teeth shining as Daniel turns out the front entry’s light. “Very simple: first to finish their hunt and return wins.” || a standalone interlude: armand and daniel hunt together; it brings back some memories. - hold very still / “What is this?” Daniel mumbles, eyes still closed, “puppetry as pain relief?” Silence above him for a moment, and then Armand, sounding a little defensive, “Dr. Bhansali suggested it might prove useful.” || a standalone interlude: still human, daniel does not pass a restful night, and armand decides to help out.

[danielmolloystits]

i might've written a song about my favorite 500 year old insect man

lyrics under cut

hey boy, you're really something although you seem a bit strange you have the big eyes of an owl and the talons of an owl and you look like you could chew and spit me up like an owl

but i am kind of into it your special brand of deranged i like your nice, polite demeanor and your boticelli curls and holy shit fuck pissing christ, are those fangs?

okay, maybe i have misjudged this situation when i said i'm into freak shit, i did not mean levitation but if you could see the other guys i've been with... honestly, you might still be the healthy choice for me

fuck it

armand, arun, amadeo if you needed to bite me, why didn't you say so? i'm in some kind of crazy, fucked up love with you wanna gnaw on my kidney? well, shit, i've got two armand, amadeo, arun let's go sacrifice an arms dealer beneath the full moon i'll let you psychic torture me all through the night cuz you're a toxic, evil gaslighter and that's just my type

and here is a list of things your eyes remind me of: pumpkins, perhaps a butternut squash a bright hi-vis vest that you can never take off a bonfire, or an emergency flare the color when somebody fucks up bleaching their hair a supernova, or maybe the glow of a blood moon a sunset on the water in the middle of june my favorite crayon in the big, expensive crayola box the very last thing i see before you rip my head off

arun, amadeo, armand i can't believe that louis left you for that hot blond so what if you had been lying for seventy years? i'll let you lie to me whenever you want my dear armand, amadeo, rashid i know that you will give me everything that i need i know that you'll take care of me, i know you know best and i think i'm getting tired and so now i must REST

[nightcolorz]

Ryan, Armand is an ancient vampire. He's the strongest vampire in the show so far. He put the whole coven to sleep with a flick of his wrist. The show EXPLICITLY framed Armand as the one who orchestrated the trial. I didn't know you were delusional holy shit.

oh my god, don’t address me by my name, I don’t know u, u absolute freak 💀. If I can’t see ur profile picture u can’t call me by my government name, general rule. If u wanna be intimate with me like that get off anon, jeez Louise. I was so caught off guard by that I couldn’t even register the rest of ur point.

anyways I’ve talked about this b4 actually! It’s extremely unclear so far in the show verse how much of a role Armand had in the trial. The only thing we know is that he let it happen, he didn’t save Louis on purpose/was planning to let him die, but he stayed in a cage, even tho he wasn’t a prisoner, per his choice. We also know, based on the timeline, that Armand was banished from the coven, and eventually decided to help with the trial, bcus he wanted to be accepted back into it. He wasn’t a mastermind from the beginning always planning to have the trial happened, that so far is not the story, but he did take control at some point. He definitely consented to it/allowed it to happen. He absolutely could have stopped it if he wanted to, that’s inarguable.

When I said in the post I assume u are addressing that Armand participated in the trial as a logistic, fawn response move bcus he felt it was the safest option since he was threatened, I said that bcus he says that in the show, multiple times. He could be lying, he could just be a completely evil villain who does everything cuz he’s crazy and doesn’t give a shit and actually doesn’t act at all from a place of perceived logic and self preservation. Maybe ur right and they are writing Armand as a one dimensional evil mastermind who doesn’t have any of the depth they have been writing him with and just lies to kill people for fun.

But personally, I think it makes more sense in context of the story and the characters, and it makes textual sense considering everything that has been told to us, that Armand chose to go along with the trial bcus he values his coven since it offers him protection (that he logically doesn’t need, bcus he’s extremely powerful, but Armand has a victim mindset that drives all of his choices) over louis, who he considers unreliable, and Madeline + Claudia, who he doesn’t care about. It’s completely unfounded in show canon that Armand is acting out of pure desire to see louis and Claudia dead, since he would have just killed louis and not stayed with him for 77 years after that, if that were the case, which was my entire point. Armand doesn’t act out of a place of hatred or pure evil, he’s doing what he genuinely believes will keep him “safe” even tho he’s the most powerful person in the room, he makes decisions as if he’s in vulnerable danger. He never logically is, but he doesn’t realize that. Did u know! That this is what ptsd does? How crazy, that someone with insane trauma would act out in a fear mindset, even tho they are in no actual danger. So crazy guys. Anyways, I guess I am delusional, holy shit. When u actually pay attention to the motivations and internal logic of characters, u can come off as pretty crazy! Thanks for the ask tho.