I enjoy Lestat/Armand as much as the next girl but I gotta say I find it real weird that so many Interview fans are focusing on this idea that Armand’s pain over Louis and Lestat’s lingering relationship must be about this idea that Lestat has never loved him and not about the fact that this man he’s been with for decades, who has loved Armand (in a relationship with VERY weird power dynamics I should add) is still clearly in love with the ex who loves him back
“But in the books” yeah I know but the SHOW has focused (rightly so) on Armand’s relationship with Louis far more than his relationship with Lestat at this point and I don’t know there’s something real fucking weird about people making every character beat in Armand and Louis’s relationship not only about Lestat (because certainly, on Louis’s side Lestat is almost always there on some level, and I’m sure Lestat feels the same about Louis) but about Armand’s unrequited love for Lestat
It’s this combination of infantilizing Armand, one of the most physically powerful characters in the narrative, and kind of reveling in this idea that he’s sexually undesirable, and that Louis is an also-ran for his affections when the SHOW’S narrative has given us comparatively little about the Lestat/Armand dynamic. We know way more about Louis and Armand than we do about Lestat and Armand in the show.
Like “oh Armand can’t tell Louis that Lestat loves him because he’s always wanted to hear those words from Lestat” lol I’m sure that hearing Lestat say that was rough but perhaps it was also rough to, after listening to hours of his husband obsessing over Lestat, consider telling his husband Lestat loves him still and open that door even further??? Perhaps it was about Armand’s feelings for Louis, more so?
It looks really weird, especially in the updated context of the show.
