also like. idk what theyre gonna end up doing in the show re: claudia’s death but i can so easily grasp how louis and armand would be so drawn to each other and end up just staying together for over half a century even knowing theyre set up for failure from the start like they both share this immense earthshattering desperate need to be loved but w louis its this combination of masochism and hedonism the desire to be cared for and lavished w attention and also consumed and overwhelmed and ground to dust. and with armand i dont think he wants to obliterate himself so much as he wants transcendent meaning and purpose. so it is actually a very (in the most literal sense) functional relationship where louis gets attention to the point of obliteration and armand gets to exercise his tremendous capacity for giving and louis cannot be too needy and armand cannot be too smothering. Like i understand how they can exist in such perfectly stable symbiosis that theyre in a concrete box a mile above ground with only each other for company for 20 years. theyre meeting each others most essential needs and in doing so have reduced each other to those needs. most successful miserable failmarriage of all time
“I thought of how much I loved Louis, and had ever since I had become Lestat’s fledgling. I thought of how deeply I depended upon him, and what I would do for him. It was the love of Louis which had at times crippled Lestat, and enslaved Armand. Louis need have no consciousness of his own beauty, of his own obvious and natural charm.”
what if i trapped you in a flooded cellar for three days after finding you breaking into the house where my ex’s ex who i’m psychosexually obsessed with is hibernating and then i stalked you across the globe in a four year game of cat and mouse and then when you finally gave in to me i kept you dependent and delirious by my side and explored the 20th century with you as my guide and bought you everything you could ever want bc i couldn’t bear to let you go and all the while you begged me desperately to let you be with me forever but i refused because i also couldn’t bear for you to change your mind as you eventually would with eternity stretched out before you but then the state of madness and addiction i had driven you into threatened to kill you so at last i gave in and made you like me and STILL. still. i didn’t believe you loved me. and we were both boys
You’re basic if your favorite vampire chronicles character is Louis
I am basic. Shamelessly basic since book 1. Even after Louis set his husband of sixty years on fire, abandoned his family for a former cult leader, spent 200 years crying and complaining, set his plantation on fire, was basically called “lame” by the original vampire, set his apartment on fire, narrated a blatantly untrue memoir that trashed his ex, set his other apartment on fire, offered up his biographer like a coked up sex toy as a break-up gift to the former cult leader, tried to raise the demon ghost of his dead child, and inexplicably turned straight after 30 rl years of flaming it up with every male vampire he encountered in the series. I am basic for Louis.
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