Anti-Hero☆

[armandlastnamemarius]

The Vampire Lestat 3.05 New York

[kinkydorah]

SHEILA ATIM as Akasha

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

[asliceofoceanmist]

58 billion loustat hydrogen bombs next episode

[lexdelioncourt]

I think this fandom got spoiled by seeing a meet-cute, kiss, courting, sex, turning, and marriage all in the pilot, because now, a whole bunch of DM fans are freaking out because we still don't have the full picture of their relationship. It's been two episodes so far and imo everything is still looking great for them.

Armand was not planning to confess his love until he'd made great amends. He let that slip because he got cornered. Obviously the love declaration didn't go well, so why would he immediately turn around and hit Daniel with a "hey actually you were in love with me too and we had a relationship" right off the bat? Why would Daniel believe him?

You can see in that park scene the ways Armand keeps changing tack, doing everything he can do to convince Daniel to listen and to stay. And Daniel wants to, I really believe that. His faces throughout that whole interaction are so tormented. He's feeling all these feelings he doesn't understand. I think he really does want Armand to prove that he loves him, otherwise he'd just leave. He wants to be loved. Yeah, he throws the "I'll never love—" out there, but he seems genuinely disappointed when he realises Armand isn't talking about them anymore (even though he totally is).

The scene was short and quick but there was actually so much meat in there. I still haven't even fully processed it, but damn.

[whitewolf-the-unforgiven]

I don't like a lot of the changes the show made but HER... they nailed it. They managed to make her both horrifying and mesmerising and beautiful! Those scenes with her are my fave.

[penandinkprincess]

the way lestat initially puts his hood down after first seeing regina but then puts it back up after having enough time to process that she isn't claudia after the initial gut punch of the surprise fucking KILLS ME

like there is a SECOND in which she is claudia to him and he takes the hood down in a silent "it's me" to see if she responds at all

like he is looking at his daughter's face and no matter how rational he might be about the impossibility of it, like! this is claudia's face! he knows this face! he looked at this face for years! he wiped blood off of this face when she was learning to eat neatly! he sang happy birthday to this face! he watched this face laugh and scream and tease and burn to ash right in front of him. but here it is again! his DAUGHTER in front of him! and consciously or not, he has a moment of, "i'm here, see?"

but then she looks out to louis in the car and lestat remembers that this is impossible and this isn't claudia.

and the spell is broken.

even if part of him wishes it wasn't.

[armandlastnamemarius]

The Vampire Lestat 3.05 New York

[psychicfacestarlight]

Only the big boss gets to decide who dies and who stays alive...

[reticent-vampire]

it took him three (3) seconds and no death sales pitch to fold larry. that is indeed his fascinating boy.

[psychicfacestarlight]

Love?

​This last episode left me super, super sad. I felt a bit weird with the previous episode; when Daniel called Armand out during his "apology tour," I felt like he was exaggerating, that it was an uncalled-for attack and that Armand didn't deserve it. ​I want to open a parenthesis here: today I confronted a close family member about a few things with a level of fury that made me perfectly understand Daniel. My perspective completely shifted; I realized his reaction was totally justified and I truly understood how he felt. He hadn't exaggerated at all. ​But now, with this new episode, everything just got worse. When Armand confesses that he was watching him for 52 years, that he intervened in his life, and then ran to tell Louis everything... it made me realize that Daniel should be even angrier. I should have never minimized his fury the first time I watched that episode. It makes me so incredibly sad because, what kind of fucked-up love is that, Armand? You watch my life, you "intervene" supposedly to comfort me, and then you go and tell your partner of the moment so he can gloat over my grief for 52 fucking years... You call that love? Screw you. ​You are horrible, Armand. The damage you've caused Daniel is immense and I hate you for it. You have every right to feel awful and I hope you pay for it, because Daniel didn't deserve this. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you... and yet, the thing I hate most about you is that I don't hate you (to quote that famous movie). So now, in the midst of this sadness, all I can do is sit in that church just like Daniel and cry my eyes out.

[ladypaperwriterson]

We've all been babbling about Armand's love confession in the last episode (as we should), but can we also take a moment to appreciate how utterly mesmerized Daniel was with him throughout it all?? 😭👀

Armand was like "Lestat is about to get us all killed!!😥🥺" but Daniel barely heard any of that shiiiiit 😭 He was too busy just longingly gazing at him all like "okay but how do I get you in my lap babygirl 👀😍👄🤤"

[slayermoon92]

"The music in The Vampire Lestat sucks!"

Yea no duh, it's supposed to. Personally, I like most of the songs but in show universe they are not supposed to be very good. Both Daniel and Lestat make fun of the songs or just straight up say they suck (see ep. 1-3) and it is pretty well established that the band isn't as popular as Lestat would like it to be. Daniel even pokes fun at Lestat by saying Jello Roll and Post Molone are selling more tickets than Lestat's band is in the first episode.

Personally, I prefer this to the book where Lestat is an actual big hit rock star from the jump which makes more sense in the 80s but wouldn't really be realistic in 2025 let's be real here.

We deadass haven't had a popular rock band on the charts in DECADES and trying to make a genuinely good rock band that would somehow get popular enough with today's youths would be a way harder feat to accomplish then to just make them a mediocre underground rock band trying to make it big.

And no, your favorite obscure rock band no one but you and your friends online know of counts. If they haven't been on the Top 40 charts and you're out of touch parents have never heard of them then they aren't considered mainstream or popular. Sorry I didn't make the rules.

[reputayswift]

I think he's in a really good place <3

[psychicfacestarlight]

Armand 💜💜🟠🟠

Its creator's purple and red-orange colors predominate.

[hansoeii]

feeling totally normal and cool about them

Uncensored on Patreon!

[psychicfacestarlight]

[ladypaperwriterson]

"You simply cannot trust Louis, he's a completely unreliable narrator and every single thing he ever said should be put to question! It's so good that we finally have Lestat's version, which is obviously the only true one - so good to finally have a reliable narrator!"

The reliable narrator:

[darcymolloy]

Can't stop thinking about Lestat asking Armand to help him.

And Armand, knowing from the start that Nikki was too fragile for the dark gift doing what had to be done.

He cleans up Lestat's mess.

Lestat asks Armand to be the "monster," and Armand does what his lover asks of him. Because that's all he's ever known.

He serves.

Because in Armand’s traumatised mind, love has to be earned.

But whatever he does, it's never enough.

Lestat.

Louis.

They make the mess, and he cleans it up.

Then they resent and hate him for it.

He's seen too much.

Then along comes Daniel.

He sees Armand and loves him, not in spite of his monstrosity, but because of it.

DM is the most romantic pairing in the entire Vampire Chronicles canon, and nothing will ever change my mind about that.

[psychicfacestarlight]

[professional-rat-eater]

I am going to need at least one other person to call Armand attractive in the next episode because it’s getting weird. You can’t cast the most beautiful man anyone has ever seen to play the infamously beautiful character whose beauty people cannot stop commenting on in the books and just not have anyone say anything.

The point isn’t that Daniel is the only one to find him appealing. It’s that everyone else only sees the surface beauty, whereas Daniel sees the surface beauty and the horrors beneath and loves him for all of it.