if you love armand, you need to get comfortable acknowledging how he harms others. he manipulates, coerces, overrides consent, and exerts control over others. his trauma is an explanation, not an absolution.
all louis has against these much more powerful men that want to possess and control him and have historically done harm to him and his daughter are his words. louis should be MEANER and anyone saying he deserves to be brutalized for protecting himself is just a vile human being.
@cptnsgr THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! i love louis to the moon but i do NOT blame claudia at all for choosing to manipulate the "lesser evil" to escape nola. its completely fair for her to have no love in her heart for louis or lestat bc they do not deserve love and understanding from her.
i hate when ppl rationalize what lestat and armand did to louis and claudia like yeah they have their #reasons but it doesn’t negate the abuse they did . y’all hate marius, gabrielle, and magnus but you can’t give louis & claudia some grace ???
armand planned to kill louis along with claudia for the public’s entertainment while they sat there battered and a story with racist overtone plays in the background but louis deserves to get beaten and die over a tactless comment in an argument
@cryinginasexual it sucks bc i love armand id love to go into depth about his abuse and trauma and how it's shaped exactly WHY i think he acts the way he does but you can't even start that conversation without inciting a victim blame-y, extremely racist mob against louis. no nuance allowed here
is there some way for discussions of armand’s past and his sexual trauma to not immediately invoke talking about louis in a violent and demeaning way because i like armand and i care about the ways he is discussed on here but every conversation devolves into this
considering all louis has in his relationships with characters that hold more power than him are his words and he only uses them as a response to the abuse and violence inflicted onto him first i think louis should be worse and meaner
don’t know why i’m bothering to argue with people actually when this is the same fandom that said “the floating bookshelves aren’t an abuse of power bc if louis wants a book armand can just go get it for him”
zach says he’s tired of being in a relationship with kayda that’s messy, kenzie ready to drop corbin for the new bombshell that’s messy, kc taking someone to soul ties after reassuring aniya that’s messy, melanie walking in on sincere and sol kissing THATS MESSY TOO