#intentionally acting betrayed and hurt and talking about 'this prison of empathy i've trapped you in' because he thinks that'll get louis | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kindaorangey · 2 months ago

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something i think is funny to do is to try and think of the differences between armand and lestat. zero emotional regulation? both of them have that. absolutely kill themselves in devotion to their companion? check check. fraught relationship with god? convinced they're going to hell so they refuse to let themselves die? lie and manipulate others and commit horrific acts of violence because they believe they know what's best for the other person? ding ding ding! genuinely the only thing i've come up with that's different between the two of them is that lestat acts with no filter whereas armand feels the need to launder his own emotions through his various façades and belief systems in order to express them at all. (until the gremlin comes out).

#lestat de lioncourt #armand iwtv #iwtv #iwtv amc #interview with the vampire #and also the nuances of their relationship to religion separate them quite firmly & armand's devotion to stuff like the great laws #is just not a behaviour lestat exhibits. AND i think lestat has a more heightened sense of injustice committed against himself and so he'll #act out if he feels he's been slighted #and i guess you could say armand does that in 2x05 but the key difference i think is that it's feigned. he is genuinely angry but he's #intentionally acting betrayed and hurt and talking about 'this prison of empathy i've trapped you in' because he thinks that'll get louis #to stay.#same thing with when he's playing up the guilt he feels while they're talking about the trial. he's acting so that his behaviour fits with #the cover story that he saves louis in the end #and i do think he feels genuine guilt over it but it's the cavern between his feelings and his actions that i'm talking about #like i said. he launders his emotions fdsjhfdjk #i legit just made that post to use that phrase im ngl

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