#armand x louis

[thinkaboutkink]

Armand being the pass-around-slut of the season. I'm doing absolutely fine about it.

[milfromanroy]

THE BEEF THESE TWO FINNA HAVE OUUUU SEASON 2 IS BOUT TO BE MESSY AS HELL

[haflacky]

"love of my life"

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[vampmarie]

more vamp kisses<3 loumands turn

[sanctaignorantia]

armand is soooo normal when it comes to daniel, isn't he?

[andresdelugdunum]

Hi, I love your art, especially your Armand. Can I request something with Loumand?

🎶You're no good for me Baby, you're no good for me You're no good for me But baby, I want you, I want you🎶 [ Diet Mountain Dew - Lana Del Rey ]

I hope you like it !! 🫶 I'm still having a bit of trouble drawing Jacob Anderson's face but I'm going to practise

[thenamelessghosts]

a friend asked me to draw this <3

[labelle-dame-sansmerci]

There’s a new clip 🥹

[lovelandfrogmansupporter]

Maybe this time, I'll win

[xxhellonursexx]

I’m going to just drop this off here

The only way this could get any worse would be to have Claudia’s ashes in an urn on the bedside table. 

(If the show goes in a different direction here other than what the books describe, I’ll eat my words) 

[milfromanroy]

IM SORRY THAT YOU SEEM TO BE CONFUSED HE BELONGS TO ME THE BOY IS MINE

[haflacky]

“Love of my life”

Full on my patreon

[vampmarie]

what if louis was the one to light a cig for him instead....

[sanctaignorantia]

I was thinking here. Armand is a Mind Gift's master and anyone who's read the books knows it, so obviously he'll be very powerful when it comes to using it in the show too. We have them using the Cloud Gift and the Fire Gift (maybe), but the mind is the field where Armand is most skilled.

So we're discussing and thinking about the influence of this power he has over Louis and Daniel, right.

In my opinion and in the opinion of several other people, the conclusion we've come to is that Daniel probably asked Armand to erase his memories, but what if Louis asked him to do the same? Armand says he's protecting Louis from himself, so we'd not only have Daniel asking Armand to do it, but Louis as well.

And then comes another topic, if Louis and Daniel asked for it, then why the second interview? Why this theater for Daniel? Why put Louis through so much emotional pain? Why?🤔

Perhaps Armand's power and influence over Daniel and Louis' minds is so strong that he has them hooked and not even Armand could reverse the situation? So the only less painful way would be to make Louis and Daniel remember for themselves?

Does Louis in that bar, when he meets Daniel, look like someone whose memories have already been altered? Remember that Louis says that the last time he killed was in 2000 and we know how painful it is for his mind to take a life? So until 2000 Armand was "fighting" in a way to protect Louis from himself???

What was Louis and Daniel's limit? How far did they both go to tell Armand "please make this pain stop. You're the only one who can make the pain go away" - for Daniel and Louis, in a way, their greatest pains are still connected to Armand.

Armand wouldn't deny them that, Armand loves them and will serve them. Everything Armand does is for Daniel and Louis and if he's behind the second interview, then it's because it's for Daniel and Louis too.

I read someone saying that Daniel was going to use the tapes of the first interview to make Louis remember, but we know that in s1 Daniel throws the tapes away and Louis burns them, then Daniel deletes them from the computer. But if it's Armand through Louis using the Fire Gift to destroy the tapes, then what would be the point? Daniel had a backup in the drive? (I don't doubt it haha)

So I think there's a dark corner we're not seeing here, some guilt we can't reach and maybe that's the plot twist? Or maybe they don't even want to go that far and it's as simple as we've been theorizing all along.

But in my opinion Armand is also a character who carries guilt. He tries to be perfect in everything, especially in serving others, and tolerating one failure or frustration in this regard destroys him completely.

Armand dealt with Louis by being passive, cold, a rose in a vase and then he dealt with Daniel who was pure fury and rebellion, who didn't mince his words and who dealt with him head on, they are extremes and they belong to Armand whether we like it or not. But in the series it sounds a bit different, doesn't it? But the same.

(Last observation, at first I thought that Louis and Armand wanted Daniel there so that he would remember something and that something would be of value to Louis and Armand as if, suddenly, Daniel had met Lestat halfway and now Armand and Louis want to know when and how that was, but it's crazy. End of story.)

[andresdelugdunum]

Over the last few days I've been brainstorming IWTV tattoo ideas. So here's a loumand minimalist tattoo idea, I'm not a professional tattoo artist so if you want to use or modify my design you can! Send me the photo afterwards, it would be an honour to serve this fandom!

[thoughtsofacertifiedidiot]

II don't think Louis is a hostage necessarily. I think his regimented life with Armand allows him to live a vampiric existence that doesn't throw him into existential dread. There is no need to hunt, or interact a great deal with the outside world it seems. The pages of Claudia's diary that would be too much for him are carefully removed. In that penthouse, with Armand's assistance/encouragement, he can rationalize his past and maintain the veneer of detachment and strength.

I think the interview is a test of that strength and a testament to how long this has been going on. In an interview Jacob Anderson mentioned how Louis didn't expect to be so affected by talking about Claudia, and that's next level wild. He believes in the lie, he believes in this artificial strength. That's why he cowers and runs in that last scene, he's not running from Armand, he's running from Daniel. Daniel who no longer wishes to play into the artifice, Daniel who is showing him how feeble his strength is against the greater power of truth. (Sidenote: I also think it's sad-funny how he runs to ground himself in a space that is a mimic of the natural world. Grounding himself in artifice when he can't/doesn't want to face truth)

I think he means it when he says Armand is the love of his life. Not for healthy love reasons, but because Armand is his enabler. He maintains (and maybe constructed?) a world in which Louis can be the vampire Louis wants to be. He "protects" Louis from the depth of his despair and the gravity of his failures. "Mastering" the intense emotions that characterise past Louis. Contrast this with Lestat who is all about "Embrace what you are Louis!" He revels in the moments when Louis acts out, he wishes he'd act out more, because he believes those moments to be the truth of who he is.

Do I have a point? I don't think so, other than I can't wait to see where this goes, and a pretty cage is still a cage.