"Years ago," Armand interrupted, "it wouldn't have mattered to me, all this."
"What do you mean?"
"But I don't want it to end now. I don't want to continue unless you-" His face changed slightly. Faint look of surprise. "I don't want you to die."
Daniel said nothing.
Eerie the stillness of this moment. Even with the plane riding the air currents gently. Armand sitting there, so self-contained, so patient, with the words belying the smooth calm of the voice.
"I'm not afraid, because you're here," Daniel said suddenly.
it's so hard to fully survive all the parts of this chapter
So the armanlou woah it is absolutely insane how their symbiosis is quite literally symbioticing and it is the body language in both of them that makes it. I see louis with his arm around armand trying to snuggle in closer armands arm is leaned up against his space louis is quite literally on the verge of sitting on him. Like they have a whole couch and they need to be in each others vacinity like THAT (knees touching and all)
the motions as louis is hypnotic in ways of how he does move armand is hypnotic in ways he does not. Louis is oh so graceful even in his cattiness he has that type of flowy nature that you cannot stop to look at--animated in his art. Armand is very still statuesque yes hypnotic to see the small ways he moves but even more entrancing to see how he does not move--statuesque in his art. (Humanesque [as louis is the most human vampire] hypnotic attraction vs Alien hypnotic attraction)
The height in the way directed. The framing always allows for Louis to be shorter--Louis is not in the forefront of it. (Yes a blockade between Louis and Daniel) The space itself also presents us these image of two beings illuminating in the light vs daniel surrounded by greys to the point of hes gray himself (oh yes his shirt blends in with the greys around him... rather than w/ louis-armand who's colors pop out in the warm background)
also 🚨👹the groan 👹🚨 featured nearing the end of it
I feel post qotd reunion marius/armand have such a fun mutually requited kink longing going on like.
Armand absolutely wants to be Marius's boy-son-wife-sub again but thinks Marius doesn't want him as he is now, and Marius wants SO badly to step in as caregiver-daddy-husband-dom but feels he's already fucked up Armand enough for a lifetime and it just makes me froth at the mouth.
episode 7 is called “I want you more than anything in the world” ohhhhhhh my god because of the three timelines what if armand is saying it in all three of them. what if season 2 ends with armand throwing himself at lestat in the late 1700s, Louis in the late 1800s 1940s AND TO DANIEL IN 2022‼️‼️‼️
armand in ep 4 is so funny in retrospect like calling the diaries "very precious items" smiling fondly at daniel's killing machine comment why was he giving
Just saw someone on Twitter (scrolled past and then the dashboard refreshed, thanks Elon) say Loumand is way less toxic than Loustat.
And like, sweetie,
a) We haven‘t even seen Loumand yet
b) You know how they blew up the toxicity for s1…? Yeah? Just sayin‘
and
c) This is the Vampire Chronicles. They’re all messy, toxic killers.
Like if you really think the show will pass on the toxicity in Loumand because they’re a POC couple now just take another look at the interviews and posters we have already. Because this is going to be a hot, flaming mess.