I’ve seen some people play with book! Armand and show!armand interacting and but I’ve yet to see anyone explore just how angry I think book!armand could be. First of course at show Armand for having the audacity to be allowed to have chest hair, but then for Show!Armand.
Book Armand was enslaved at the age of 15. He had a childhood, a plan to be a monk, a family he knew cared for him. Marius found him dying because he refused to work in the brothel and was being tortured to death for it.
I’m not downplaying what Andrei suffered but Show Armand objectively had a way worse start to life. Being enslaved was his first memory. Louis mentions him being 12 but even before that he was likely subjected to working non sex related jobs in the brothel and punishments for having the audacity to be a child. Then even his salvation was untrue because Marius loaned him out for a decade before he was turned.
How would book Armand and his complicated relationship with Marius not immediately want to demand to know where Marius was? Was he not in the city for the nine or so years that Show Armand was suffering in the brothel? Did show Armand not also plead for death to take him? Why was he allowed to languish and why would Marius dare share him?! This world’s Marius is obviously inferior in every way and must be dealt with.
Show Armand would have to put a child leash on the little homicidal redhead.






















