i actually find it quite romantic that armand turns daniel. he has been digging inside people's heads so much: rearranging the furniture, deleting some things, creating a new sense of reality. he did that with daniel as well, in fact, but he can't anymore. because he chose to turn him, the man he loves, the man he wants as his companion. and sure, he can still manipulate in other ways, but it is not the same. the very act of manipulation will require a new mechanism, an intimate kind of knowledge of his companion, some of which he has, after his fifty-two years of study, but some of which he will have to gain through effort, through bonding, through trust, no longer being able to simply pull it out of daniel's head. and then, everything daniel says, he has no way of verifying. everything armand does, he has no way of erasing. a new kind of relationship, for the first time in centuries.