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ok guys I am SO MAD so here's a rant sorry for any mistakes bc i am MAD

so I was scrolling tiktok and I saw this

SO THIS IS ACTUALLY INSANE

yes armand did wrong things I AM NOT DENYING THAT in fact IN THE BOOKS HE DID WORSE BUT he's not the evil guy the tiktok series only fans are making him out to be he's not the wolf in sheep's clothing BUT A VERY TRAUMATIZED AND EVIL SHEEP

he survived KIDNAPPING SEXUAL ABUSE SEXUAL SLAVERY PEDOPHILIA ABUSE RELATIONSHIP KIDNAPPING AGAIN BRAINWASHING AND BEING PART OF A CULT if I was him I WOULD BE WORSE

but the worst part isn't about armand IT IS ABOUT LESTAT

LESTAT THE LIONCOURT IS NOT AN ANGEL

the fact that people are FORGETTING EVERYTHING LESTAT DID TO LOUIS AND CLAUDIA IS INSANE

CRIMES HE DID ON THE SHOW

- kill many people (all of vamps do that so ignoring this one)

- domestic abuser

- toxic father

- throwing louis off the SKY

- beating the shit out of claudia

- cheating on louis MULTIPLE TIMES

- and the biggest crime for me, THE LACK OF EMPATHY FOR LOUIS AND CLAUDIAS FEELINGS

now the things ON THE BOOKS

- rape (yeah this actually happened)

- sexual harrasment

- turning a guy into a vampire against his will

- traumatizing many innocents just because

- being best friends with an pedophile and lover with another

there are more things but I am so angry I can't think

honestly the reason yall actually hate armand that much is because he isn't white. there I said it

so armand does bad things to louis and claudia and he's the villian but lestat does bad things as well and HES THE HERO? HES THE POOR MEOW MEOW????

that has a name and that's RACISM

if you only take a brown man accountable and not a white man? I will raise and eyebrow

also HAVE WE WATCHED THE SAME SHOW?

and you know that person's defense?????? "LESTAT DIDNT KILL CLAUDIA"

BUT IN THE BOOKS HES CONSTANTLY HAUNTED BY HER BECAUSE HE TOLD ARMAND THAT CLAUDIA WAS THE ONLY PERSON GUILTY OF TRYING TO ASSASSINATE HIM

THAT MAN ONLY CARED ABOUT LOUIS. YALL PUT ARMAND ON FIRE ABOUT NOT CARING ABOUT HER WHEN LESTAT DID THE SAME

I will stop because I'm so mad but anyways I think you got my point

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now and then i think of when we were together

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Trigger warning: Abuse, Csa, Grooming

I feel like people in the IWTV fandom just cannot write or even try to make an accurate description of Armand.

We know that Armand was a slave, we know that he was a CSA survivor we know that Marius groomed, beat, and lent him out to his “other friends”. We also know that Armand has this unhealthy attachment to Marius because Armand was his “favorite”. Armand was different from the others Marius bought. He gifted Armand vampirism.

We also know that because Armand suffered through this abuse and never probably healed from it, he has a shattered point of view about love. All he knows is power dynamic in his relationships. I think he’s very insecure about himself and when he loves he’s just like Lestat. They give their EVERYTHING into that relationship. They love hard and strong, they pursue, they beg, and they manipulate. The only difference is that Armand does psychological manipulation, he’s not very physical (except for when he bounced Daniel like a damn basketball. We don’t talk about it tho….)

Anyway! I think one interesting thing that I’ve seen in fanfiction and discussed is that Armand might suffer from Multiply Identity Disorder or Distinctive identity Disorder. And I find this interesting because whenever he speaks about Arun or Armando they are never ‘I’ they are always ‘them’. He detaches himself from those names, those moments in his life. He never correlates them with Armand they are all separate identities to him. I think this is an interesting topic to write in fanfiction, IF you write it correct.

Armand is a complex character, he is probably the most complex character and that’s why it’s hard to flush him out or try to narrow down a personality for him. One thing that will forever make me irate it when people make him a victim even though he doesn’t see himself as a victim.

One thing about being a victim of any abuse or serious harm is understanding that the abuse you endured was wrong, you didn’t deserve that. Armand was never taught that, he was never told he was free. He was shackled to a coven, the. Lestat, then his Coven again, then he was with Louis, and he found a form of freedom through Daniel. This is also not to bash Louis or Lestat, but to say that he shackled himself to these relationships that were never going to work out.

To conclude this little rant, stop writing Armand like he’s a continuous victim and Daniel is his white savior. Don’t do that, that’s so disingenuous to not only Armand but Daniel and Louis. Armand was a victim and an abuser, these two can be true at the same time. I just needed to say this because I cannot stand the constant debates or even fanfictions where Armand is “suffering” in his relationships and Daniel is there to be his white savior, don’t do that.

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doodles inspired by those noir danlou fics (ft tfem louis)

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"The way Daniel sits here with his arm around the back of the sofa, a conspicuously empty, person-shaped space right beside him..."

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yeah he was just grabbing a snack

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Devils minion 🩸

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Thought I was 😵 🔥🔥

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CHROMAKOPIA

“GIVE A FUCK ABOUT TRADITIONS, STOP IMPRESSING THE DEAD”

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71 year old man twirls his hair and giggles incident, dozens dead hundreds more injured

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has anyone made this joke yet

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Some cat Lestat and Louis interactions inspired by Chinxes' wonderfully adorable fic where Lestat is cursed and transformed into an orange cat!

Fic link below if you'd like to read it! It's a 3 part fic and part 3 should be uploaded soonish 🥰

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happy birthday to my louis………. kisses from all her pet freak boyfriends

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Silly modern au sketches

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made some loumand blinkies! feel free to use with credit if you want

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louis during sex with armand: no baby your fangs are perfect the big ones hurt

(redraw)

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He's out there. Watching. Looking at your fan art and memes.