Some ppl are saying that doesn't make sense to like Louis but defend Lestat but for me it makes even less sense to defend Claudia and Armand at the same time, man it's canonical that he killed and tortured her, why would you love the character who killed your favorite character?
They're all monsters.
Raping, killing, maiming monsters.
In the case of Louis and Armand that will be very hard to accept for some, I bet, though I think that Louis himself already says it best:
‘Yes,’ I said softly to him, ‘that is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.’
Also: love is nothing we choose. Sometimes it is helpless.
I've never seen more seriously disturbing taste in men than that of Louis de Point du Lac. He would treat true crime documentaries like grindr. He would not notice you're breathing in his presence unless you're covered in blood plotting genoc*de. His dick won't get hard unless you're full of mental illness yet unknown to the psychiatric community. And honestly, good for her
Armand is quite desperate to receive love. He is not as well versed in the language of romance, I think. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t want it. He really, really does want it. - Assad Zaman, The AMC+ Interview with the Vampire Podcast (x)