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winepresswrath · 3 months

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The thing about show!armand is that his great evil* wasn't about him obsessively doing anything he possibly could to keep Louis it was looking at Louis and thinking "maybe if you don't actually care very much about me I shouldn't burn my whole life down over you and your treasonous daughter I'm annoyed with." It didn't have to be any more vindictive than that. His baseline state is monstrous; he kills people in elaborate little plays every night for enrichment and group bonding. I definitely think he put a couple little extra vicious twists in there for the love spurned but really at the end of the day the worst of what he does to Claudia and Louis is withdrawing his protection and treating them like any other victims.

*season three pending

#contrast to episode five where absent any alternative louis is all he has and he's determined to make it work because the alternative is #sitting with the void (himself)#but the fail state of their relationship is so passive if he really had been like fine but i'm going to half ass directing it because the #material involved doesn't move me #would that have been so much better?#all he has to do is be like ok. i have standards actually and the wolves will descend #and then of course the lying and the gaslighting which is imo where the real relationship horror lives for them #press says iwtv #interview with the vampire

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