i genuinely regularly tear up about armand trying to warm daniel's locket in his hands before giving it to him in the devil's minion chapter. like you're fucking kidding. daniel is so unbelievably precious to armand. but it's not just that this one small gesture speaks to so much thoughtfulness and care and adoration, it's also that it's so revealing when it comes to the role vampirism plays in their relationship.
to armand, vampirism impedes his ability to care for daniel; he wants nothing more than to be more human for him. armand wants to perform this small kindness for his boy, but it's rendered ineffective by his lack of body heat. meanwhile, the gesture clearly still meant something to daniel if it stuck in his mind all those years and he thought it worth mentioning to lestat for his book. armand trying to warm the locket mattered because armand—who has also only ever been treated extremely callously himself—loved him enough to think to do it, not because it actually made a physical difference.
armand might see his own inhumanity as a barrier to loving daniel the way he thinks daniel deserves, but daniel has never seen it that way. daniel has never wanted armand to be more human, he's only ever wanted armand to love him.
