#myarmandiel

[knownoshamc]

Daniel doesn't even say anything funny and Armand is like this. Girl, can you be serious for one moment

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these two moments, but it's when Armand erases Daniel's memories of their time together (edit: armand definitely cries too)

"It's okay, my love"

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how I think want 70s-80s Devil's Minion is going to be (unpopular?). An essay, by me. (edit: apparently I do have to make it clear that these are all my own headcanons and I'm aware that they are not a healthy couple)

The "chase" lasts a couple of months instead of years

they start as the popular fucked up sex

Armand takes Daniel on a hunt, to show him how he plays with his food sometimes, how look I could be doing the same to you. But Daniel very loudly thinks fuck that's hot

Daniel starts picking up on how Armand behaves during sex (even how dissociates sometimes), since most of the time it's when and how Daniel wants (the normal thing for Armand). He starts checking on him more, like you sure, we can do something else // are you comfortable with that? // are you okay? it's just sex for them, sure, but there is this change.

but... they also start dating. once, for fun, they are curious. more dating. Dates are Armand using his mind gift so they have the restaurant by themselves. Taking Daniel to the top of a building so he can have the best view. Museums, galleries, movies...

And Armand brings him flowers, chocolates and poetry and Daniel playfully rolls his eyes and then giggles and kisses him and he even keeps the now dried flowers. Daniel returns the favour, and Armand looks at him as if he brought him the most exquisite and most expensive gift in the world.

Daniel makes Armand laugh for the first time (Armand smiles, smirks even grins, but he doesn't easily laugh) and Daniel realizes he is in love with him. He loves how Armand can be ruthless, cruel, cold with the humans he hunts before giving them an easeful death. He loves how excited with simple things like a phone, a microwave, a blender. How he lets his mask slip sometimes (more and more as time passes) and he sees the real him, the vulnerable side he rarely shows, the anger towards the world he thinks he doesn't deserve to feel.

Armand realises he is in love with Daniel earlier, in little moments, like how human Daniel is and how for the first time in centuries that is fascinating and not indifferent. And he loves Daniel because of how excited he is when he writes something or when he wants to read to Armand an interesting book/article/something he wrote, how clever he is, how he can be cold and compassionate at the same time...

And they talk about little and big things, from a good restaurant that Armand saw pass from generation to generation, to philosophy. And Armand reads Daniel's mind to see if his mind wanders and... Daniel is fully invested. Like I love getting to know you, how you think, what you think, who you are, tell me all about you. And Armand does. He tells Daniel the most.

they are in love and explore the world together and all its fascination and simplicity, and they are really happy.

but... Daniel doesn't want this to end, he wants to stay young forever, he wants to spend forever with Armand. How can't Armand see that this is not just because Daniel wants to be with him for eternity?

Armand sees how his own darkness but lure Daniel in... a bit too much. How he thinks that watching someone die and getting a life is the same thing, how he romanticises vampirism. How maybe he focuses on Armand a lot, and misses a deadline at work. A work that he loves. Maybe one day he catches a fleeting thought of Daniel wanting children someday. But he doesn't bring it up right away. He doesn't want to lose him. And he just can't understand how Daniel can love him unconditionally.

Then Daniel proposes to him in Paris. He has a ring and a romantic little speech to go along with it. But does it really mean he loves him? Or that he wants for Armand to make him a vampire? Isn't that what marriage is, after all, a promise of forever? How can Daniel just love him? So he says no.

Daniel is hurt, he is angry that Armand doesn't really trust his love and he tells him that yeah maybe he does want kids, a family, normality. And maybe a part of him does. They break up.

Daniel meets a girl, Alice. He doesn't fall in love, she doesn't really fall in love either, but they like each other. They get together. She gets pregnant.

Daniel needs Armand's blood (he needs Armand) but he can't have that, so he turns to his old comfort, drugs. It gets bad, he goes back to Armand, asking to get back together, asking for his blood, Armand says no and Daniel storms off to get his high somewhere else. He comes back a couple of days later, apologising and promising he won't ever do it again, he will really get clean this time. Again. And again. Until he comes very close to overdosing, and Armand takes care of him until he can actually go to a rehab facility, even though Daniel just begs him for his blood, to just turn him or let him die.

And this time, he knows what to do. Daniel can't have his normal life if Armand is still in his mind. So he just... erases it all. It's the only way. He couldn't see another way. And Daniel understands what Armand intends to do and he is crying, asking him not to do it, that he can get over this on his own, but Armand doesn't trust him, so he just tries to calm him down, telling him how great his life is going to be, with a brilliant career, a family... happiness. An easeful breakup.

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[knownoshamc]

No, but why does Armand refuse to call Daniel anything but "Mr Molloy"? It's funny cause when he talks to Louis about him, he's "the boy" when they are alone it's "Daniel Molloy" when Daniel is present. But when talking directly to Daniel it's "Mr Molloy"? Even when he is angry at him? Does he think that calling him "Daniel" is just a step away from calling him "my love"? Girl explain yourself

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I want Armand to do something traditionally romantic for Daniel (young or old), like just bring him flowers and read a poem to him, half expecting him to have the same reaction Louis did (dismissive at best), only for Daniel to grin like an idiot and think I love you

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You don't understand how much I love the idea of Armand being Alice in the holding hands and proposing in Paris memory because imagine being Armand and having the power to erase a decade of memories because you have to, it's for the best. And you think you are successful. You can even see it in the way he looks at you, he doesn't know who you are. But then... when he is not trying to be an asshole, the only time he is actually emotional, it's because of you. The memory of you, the memory you were sure you had erased. And perhaps for the first time you think, what if he actually loved me? What if this preservarence is what love is?

[knownoshamc]

brief reasons I think the Paris proposal was 1) with Armand and 2) an actual proposal (and to be clear, Alice exists, but this was not her in the memory)

the flashbacks

we know that Daniel mixes his memories

the ring, being so important that it was an actual surprise for Alice (extra difficult if you want to surprise someone that can literally read your mind

Daniel not having a similar reaction at ALL, when he was reminded that Alice was mad at him for dismissing her pregn. announcement

similarly, Daniel talks about the divorce(s) much more easily than talking about a rejected marriage proposal... from someone that said yes to him eventually.

holding her hand in Paris freely. In comparison to... where? Why?

why didn't Louis say ''the first time you asked her to marry you'' but said earlier "you proposed to your Alice in Paris"... didn't Louis already know she said no?

(if we go by the book) Daniel constantly asking Armand to turn him, but this one time was different and it was towards the end of their relationship to be the first time.

Armand not recognising love for what it is. She didn't trust you.

Armand knowing what Alice was thinking. Was he just stalking him (then... what about the reasons above)? Was he just lying to make him feel better? Why use that excuse specifically? Why did he even care that Daniel was hurt?

[knownoshamc]

I want more scenes in which Daniel says a silly joke and Armand is just giggling like Daniel is the funniest person on earth

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Armand's disingenuous dramatic sigh after telling Louis when he supposedly erased his memories VS Armand getting so so worked up when he was explaining himself to Daniel

Which could mean nothing

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"You felt freer to hold her hand in Paris, I wonder why that is" is something that I think about very often and dare I say, to me, it's the biggest proof that DM did happen in the past (The way Louis said it, the fact that it needed to be said at all, Daniel seeing Armand, Armand's reaction, Paris being more queer-friendly on the show... Which could mean nothing)

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Once they are together, I think Armand and Daniel regularly roleplay (?) that Armand is hunting him down across the city and when he finds him, he pushes him around a little (daniel being like do it harder) before "draining" him and having for once again, the best sex ever

[knownoshamc]

what if in s3, there is an episode called the Devil's Minion. there won't be, but what if. what then.