Imagine if show! Armand had found liberation in Louis, the black man who seemed both free and trapped by an unknown past. Imagine if their love felt revolutionary to them both because they could see the possibilities of existing outside a racist/colonialist romantic and sexual framework. Imagine if it had been beautiful for a short, blazing moment- before the betrayal, before the trial, before Lestat. And Armand stayed with Louis despite the monstrosity of his lie, because he was desperate to continue that feeling of freedom (before it all curdled and he and Louis self harm by throwing the same painful racialised barbs at each other that had been inflicted on them.)
Imagine if Armand had finally turned his fury on Lestat, the white man who first upended his life in Paris, who reminded him so much of Marius, his rapist, his groomer, his maker. Marius, the imperialist collector who spent centuries collecting black and brown people for his own paternalistic enjoyment. Who left him alone when Armand was stolen yet again, and forced to learn a new doctrine and religion yet again, and forced to lose his mother tongue, his name, his purpose, save for exalting the purity of Christian whiteness by being its opposite. The same supremacist doctrine that inevitably destroyed not only his life, but Louis’s.
Imagine if through the Devil’s Minion, Armand forced Daniel to learn about him, about what he lost, about the culture he’s forever alienated from, not just through Marius, but through colonialism, violence, the Partition, time itself. If he showed him the horror of loneliness through being stolen from your own people and never able to come home. Of not even being able to know the proper ways in which to mourn. Not even having the language to state the enormity of his loss. Imagine if he broke Daniel down to reshape him in his image, to make him into the worshipper he so craves, to tell him that he’s good and pure (always as a form of self harm, he knows what he is).
Imagine if the show for a moment cared about Armand in a way that mattered.
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