to those who keep claiming that armand’s diabolically low screen time is justifiable, since he is not in any way the main protagonist: have you read the vampire lestat? armand plays an immensely important role in flashbacks to paris, where he is at his most desperate and unhinged self. it is a crime that they did not adapt the complexity of armand and lestat’s relationship, how armand begged for the other to love him (“what can i do to make you love me? what can i give? the knowledge of all i have witnessed, the secrets of our powers, the mystery of what i am?”), how lestat hovered between desire (finding him unspeakably beautiful) and fear (seeing how mad he was), how he saw that scared little boy in him (“in this broken child were centuries of evil and centuries of knowledge, and out of him there came no ignominious entreaty but merely the soft and bruised sense of what he was”) and how in depth he understood armand despite being utterly afraid of him. they did not show us the tower scene. no depth to armand. “love me. you have destroyed everything! but if you love me, it all can be restored in a few form”. armand shared with him his own story and the story of marius. later, as lestat met marius in person, they had a long conversation about armand and how marius perceived him as a bitter regret. where is the depth? where is that context? this is not about us getting all angry about not seeing assad’s pretty face, but he is one of the most important characters in the chronicles, a crucial part to tvl itself, and he has been completely erased from it. not even just erased, but also reduced: reduced to something laughed at and humiliated at every possibility, while being called, respectively: “a rag doll for sale”, “cruising the streets”, “tart”, “rotten”, “piece of mold”, “pussy”, “bottom twink sociopath”, and “boring to death”. hey so. uh. what the fuck?
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