#the real rashid

[losingbenni]

ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2024) | An Extended Look at Season 2

[okaytosave]

Real Rashid in the finale:

(Credit to @i-used-to-wear-the-fedora ‘s brilliance.)

[azamansource]

Assad Zaman and Bally Gill (+ Rober Ginty via his IG), RSC Coriolanus (2017) rehearsals

[ninjacat1515]

The real Rashid driving Armand to meet with clients for a sale. He senses a sharp gaze and gulps as Armand tries to poke around his mind.

"I have some concerns."

"As do I! Crazy weather we're having, eh?"

"I am referring to your loyalty. To Louis and I."

A stretch of short but painful silence, Rashid working overtime to keep his mind and pulse disciplined.

"I am always and forever loyal to you two." He wipes his sweaty brow despite the ac blasting away.

"Are you?"

"Yes, and I say this with complete confidence."

Rashid turns on the radio and "Secret Agent Man" starts playing. He toggles to another station and "Don't Be Suspicious" immediately assaults his ears. He chooses a public radio station instead, and the host is enthusiastically reviewing a book. He breathes out.

"It is exhilarating! I seriously cannot recommend "A Traitor Is in Our Midst, In This Very Car" enough!"

Rashid dies a lot inside and the car enters a tunnel, casting Armand in so much shadow all the human can see is a pair of demonic eyes. He turns up his collar and starts whistling.

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

My favourite underrated thing about Louis de Point du Lac is that he truly is the least curious vampire to ever be made and he does not give fuck about vampires despite being one.

Its Claudia who goes to libraries, reads the folklore, tries to learn as much as she can and pushes Lestat for answers about who made him and where the others are. Claudia says Vampire Pride and Louis says hmmm Vampire Tolerance.

And Louis...truly does not care about vampire history,law, culture. He's never even thought to ask. There are vampire laws?...ok...Lestat never cared about them and he's not going to either, lol. He's broken a few and he will continue to do so. Oh you have a coven? he's not gonna join it, he's gonna do his own thing. but good for you good for you.

the 500+ year old Coven Leader, he's gonna call Louis, Maitre, actually.

He has fire powers? thats kinda cool. he'll learn that but only cause it lets him vent his feelings about Lestat.

Lestat and Armand say the name of the vampire queen in front of him and Lestat straight up says, "Louis has no idea who that is" and do you think Louis cares, outside of the fact that for some reason it means he can't kill Lestat? No! Do you think in the 77 years he's been with Armand he ever took 5 minutes to ask a follow up question? No!

Do you think he will care about Akasha in season 3? Doubt it! Outside of her obsession with Lestat, who is the only person left on the planet he seems to be able to filter Caring About This Shit through

He blatantly breaks the 3rd law and publishes a book about being a vampire and when the other vampires get pissed not only does he not apologise he literally sends them his location and says 'you wanna fight? lmao don't miss'

I love him. Daniel Molloy is gonna need to bring his A game because Louis will not be solving a single mystery next season, nor would it even occur to him to try.

[and-fishing-equipment]

imagine being real rashid and you work for these weird gay vampires and one day they come to you like hey rashid we're gonna give you a little holiday! armand will take over your duties for the time being, for a cool disguise during my interview, not a kink thing :) and you're like okay these are my weird gay vampire bosses so it probably is a kink thing but who am i to judge. and then you find out they are roleplaying this weird exhibitionist slash master/servant scene with your own real actual government name. fuck interview with the vampire, interview with rashid WHEN??

[prisonhannibal]

[notgilderoylockhart]

real rashid spinoff when??? 🥺👉👈

[queenoftheimps]

Daniel: Listen, all I want to do is get out of here alive. Daniel, walking back to the deadly vampire penthouse: WHATSUP, ARMAND, YOU LITTLE BITCH

[radiocurrency]

"You fear Armand, you should fear the other one."

Broke: "Armand may be older and more powerful but Louis is a loose fucking canon who can not be brought under heel"

Woke: "We know everything about what you and Armand got up to in the 70s and 80s. He's so in love with you. He'd never let Louis hurt you. Yeah, we all ship it here at the Talamasca. We have Fanfiction Fridays- Yeah Real Rashid is the current champion and beat 74 others for the chance to do field work on this. No, I can't give you his AO3 tag you'll have to ask him yourself.

[okaytosave]

Playing “Where’s Waldo” in season one right now. Looking for the Real guy right now.

[kneedeepinthecoffin]

you're all weaker than me because you're not yet shipping these two, guy who had to hold a prop scythe during a fake trial so a guy could murder his boyfriend instead of just breaking up, and guy who had to go on holiday while a guy cosplayed him for three weeks which was absolutely not a sub/dom kink honest

and it was the SAME guy they were working for by the way

Vampire Sam / Real Rashid coffee date WHEN

[mari-lwyd-cryptid-blog]

Daniel when he saw Louis was going to forgive Armand:

( This is probably only funny to me 😅 )

[brian-kinney-apologist]

can't stop thinking about rashid constantly having to rearrange the furniture in the dubai penthouse depending on loumand's stage of marriage of the day

[wizardpink]

Honestly I believe Real Rashid is 100% straight and Louis and Armand have known he's working for the Talamasca since he was hired. They just can't bring themselves to fire or kill him until they fuck him. The flirting is shamefully obvious and neverending and he's just like 🕴will that be all sirs? And Armand just buttons his shirt back up with a defeated sigh. He's been begging to be transferred to another assignment for like three years but he's survived longer than 90% of all undercover agents, he's a legend. It's why he dropped that newspaper and fucking booked it. He was free at last.

[hobermallowed]

iwtv + text post part 56