also this idea that armand and lestat are equally responsible for the trial is like…. wild to me.
like even if lestat somehow evaded the trial, louis, claudia and madeleine would’ve all been killed. whereas if armand didn’t direct the fuckin thing, and lied to louis to entrap them all, they would have all been alive. lestat’s participation (likely unwilling considering there were shots where he seemed to be weak but regardless) was only to save louis. he even tried to get himself killed too (“i broke the second law, when you sentence them, you sentence me too”) possibly bc he wasn’t sure he’d be able to save louis.









