About Nikki being cruel with Lestat....
Armand did something to his mind after kidnapping him, making him hateful towards Lestat. (Honestly, it could be. But it’s the least deep take, and maybe Lestat would have noticed that when drinking from him? I don’t know.)
Armand and everyone else were right: the gift should only be given carefully because some people go crazy, and Nikki represents that.
Like all other vampires, the last days of your humanity mark your eternity.
The weeks before transforming, Nicholas must have felt confusion, loss, and betrayal non stop.
He was sure Lestat wouldn’t leave him but he did and just after ranting about an entity, and the window was shattered, as if someone had kidnapped him. So Nikki’s last human days were filled with fear and superstition. Then Lestat comes back, and instead of seeing him, he keeps him at a distance and just sends gifts. He sees him again and sees how Lestat gets fucking shot and he probably feels his soul leaving his body bc he is dying infront of him and he sees the blood but Lestat is ok. I´m sorry I would also become fucking mad, insane, cuckoo, craaazy af. Then Gabrielle arrives, sick and dying, and he respects her so much, bc he knows how important she is for Lestat, so he goes to see her in his best clothes. And sees that Lestat isn’t there, his mother is dying and the the biggest mamma's boy in the whole France isnt there. Does he even know who Lestat is anymore? He is confused, angry idk probably offended.
Then both Lestat and Gabrielle disappear. More confusion, spiraling, abandonment, and then boom, that’s how you feel for eternity. All while becoming a blood-sucking demon whose emotions are amplified beyond anything a human could stand.
Is Armand cutting his hands and leaving him without food, making him more unstable, absolutely fucking cruel and connected to his suicide? YES, Armand you fucking monster.
But Nikki got broken by Lestat imo. And that just makes it more tragic. As a human his last weeks were shit, bc of Lestat dissaperence , thats on Magnus, but, everything after? Lestat sees his mother, and she is dying sure but wastes no time in telling her everything and transforming her. Now that is on Lestat. And then after Nikki is transformed and its experiencing all the worst emotions possible, since his creation is not what he expected Lestat doesn't care about him anymore and does a fucking Victor Frankenstein on him instead of stepping up? he litteraly says that he falls inlove with Armand, Nikki was in the room next door while he was having vampire calls with Armand and thinking how he had never been more in love with someone. WITH ARMAAAAND, the fucking Lesmand fanfic of S02 was true.