like the thing about marimand is that you actually and i mean this very seriously cannot analyze the relationship based solely on armand’s perceptions of it, because he was a successfully groomed child whose idea of their dynamic and the power differential was seriously skewed and barely had anything in common with the way marius was treating their relationship, even in armand’s own memory. like, armand alludes to marius being his father or teacher and calls him his master obviously, but you can tell that the throughline within all of his memories is that him and marius were basically equals and that what frustrated amadeo about their romantic/sexual relationship was that marius would seemingly irrationally deny amadeo’s maturity, adulthood, manhood. like its difficult to not wince when people say see, it was consensual, amadeo thought it was fine, amadeo loved him and didnt feel exploited or abused. marius very clearly sees amadeo as a child, as HIS child, as a fundamentally immature kid who has not finished cooking yet, which he IS, and this is true of the people around them as well, who see amadeo as marius’s son, who see him as a child, always a CHILD. amadeo is frustrated to be seen this way because marius is molesting him and, to his eyes, treating him as an equal in keeping him as his lover, which to him means that he is a mature adult man, but this isnt how anyone else sees it. bianca, who is only a few years older than amadeo and IS an adult woman, calls marius on it too, how amadeo is not only a child but also essentially marius’s son, despite ALSO willingly having sex with amadeo and later on begging for a threesome with amadeo and marius. like marius just does not see amadeo as an equal or an adult, it is very clear to him that amadeo is a child, and its not something he avoids acknowledging either when it comes to how he treats him, which is like a father treating his son. sexual, familial, romantic, possessive, condescending, paternal, marius does it all, he sees amadeo as all these things at once, but never as an adult man.
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