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They/Them I LOVE THE VAMPIRE ARMAND😽

[macylovesfilms]

wow he’s the prettiest man alive

[danielxarmand]

IWTV 2x05 — "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start The Tape" TVL 3x07 — "The Failures"

[reticent-vampire]

you were sold by who you were sold by. sold into what you were sold into.

[pinimi]

armand… when you said you would teach your fledgling to walk in the sun did you ever consider he might need a little easing into it? maybe wait till he’s a bit older? Armand your baby is fucking burned

[winnie-the-monster]

[collegeboysam]

next thing you know they're gonna say armand also paid ghost claudia to say all that to louis

[reticent-vampire]

[agoodflyting]

Thinking so hard about that, "Prove it," in the park scene and why Daniel reacts so strongly to Armand's fucked up little love confession.

Daniel Molloy has driven away everyone who ever loved him, and he knows it.

By the time we see him in S1, he's been divorced twice, he's estranged from his children, and he has no friends to speak of. All he has is his career, which he holds onto as the one thing he did right in his life. He even tells Louis: I was bad at everything else, but I was a good journalist. He has accepted this about himself. He knows he was the problem in all his relationships - the choices he made and the hurt he caused are the reason he's alone. That is a HEAVY pill to swallow, especially when you're in your 70s and staring down the barrel of a terminal illness.

Then suddenly, he's a vampire. He's not dying anymore. Now he's going to live forever. What's he gonna do with all that time? The only thing he knows how to do is be a journalist, so that's what he does. He throws himself into making his documentary because it's literally all he has. He's not like Louis, whose mortal family still loved him and wanted him around even after he turned, or Lestat, who quickly made fledglings of the people he loved so they could spend eternity with him.

Daniel tells Louis: "Vampire loneliness - I get it now."

Daniel doesn't have people who love him. He ruined all that. All he's got is his career as a journalist. So that's what he spends his eternity on - he's gonna make his documentary and wring some truth out of Lestat, because it's a distraction from facing down eternity as an immortal who is not just alone, but who has lived a long life and come out if it with the conclusion that they are fundamentally unlovable and its their own damn fault.

And now here's his maker again. Fuck this guy, right? Armand is the one who gave him this immortality, which he's now going to have to spend alone and unloved. And to top it all off, Armand left Daniel too. At least this one time, Daniel can say that it wasn't his fault, and he can pour all his anger and frustration out on the one person who left him when he didn't deserve it.

And then Armand says, "By the way, I love you."

"I've been here the whole time. You thought you pushed everyone away? You didn't. I'm here. I've always been here."

"Do you remember all the times you were a bad husband? I was there and I still love you."

"Do you remember all the times you were a bad father? I know about that. I still love you."

"Those awful, shitty things you've done? I know about those too and I'm fine with them. You aren't repulsive to me. I still love you."

"I've cared for you at your worst, and I still love you."

"I know you need your career to give your life meaning. I'll even support you in that if you let me. Because I love you."

"You're tattered, and you're broken, but I still want you to be mine."

[battleaxepixie]

[professional-rat-eater]

TVA should be required reading before anyone in this fandom is allowed to even have Armand’s name in their mouth. At least skim the wiki page.

[schusseltier]

release the moan cut

[armandstinkydihcheese]

Brat tamer Armand if you can hear me please put Daniel in subspace again his old ass is starting to annoy me.

[idontthinkaboutmuch]

Showing you all my favorite DM video of all time during these dark times

[abliafina-18782]

Whoever put Assad’s hair in a messy bun deserves to get their ass eaten monday through sunday

[loving-the-world-since-00]

[professional-rat-eater]

Never considered that maybe Armand carving the A over Louis’ heart was kind of an act of love.

Yes, very fucked up. I know. But it kind of feels like an end point. Acceptance that it’s over but they’ve left their mark on each other forever. A sign that, actually he was lying and he did love Louis. And he can see that Louis loved him, just not in the way he needed. So he writes his name over his heart and lets him go.

And hopefully walks straight to the nearest vampire therapist because holy shit.

I honestly thought it was some cult shit, and maybe that A will show up on the bodies of beheaded fledglings in the future to mark his movement against the great conversion, but I think with Louis, considering it’ll heal quickly and it followed that huge moment of compassion from him, it’s something just for the two of them. No one else will ever know, but Louis will and he understands Armand. A silent scar for the two of them. He knows what it means. The summation of all the harm they inflicted on each other.

Or maybe I’m way off.

[treasurecryland]

God Armand’s “we didn’t talk about it much” was so good. I mean the whole thing was so good. But it showed the familiarity he has with Louis after 70 plus years. Where the earlier speech is very performative