All of this can be broken

armand being canonically into roleplay and exhibitionism oh the sex must be insane

louis and armand roleplaying each other, you’ll be the victim and i’ll play you but also armand roleplaying at the real rashid who will serve him later in front of daniel and louis, the reveal of power and submission, the ancient vampire who kept his master’s painting in the dining room where he served his lover his blood bowl and served the human his 10 courses meal, armand said ‘i serve a god’, as rashid, except he wasn’t rashid and now he’s at the table and the real servant he stole the identity is the one serving the old man he might have been involved in a twisted master/slave dynamic 50 years ago 😵😵😵

what kills me about armand impersonating rashid, aka an actual real human being working for him at dubai, is that armand wasn’t supposed to be found out at all, that he had to pretend to be rashid so if daniel needed to do a quick background check on the employees he would only find the real rashid’s informations. we saw how daniel was suspicious about armand as rashid in episode 4, so we can suppose he would have tried to get more informations on the other servants. in fact it’s interesting because it would have been even easier for armand to create a fake background for his fictional rashid act, or just pick a different name! but he decided to pretend to be one of his own servants, name and all!

i also wonder if armand, after decades of being himself, might have some issues into acting as a real mortal man? maybe he did need to impersonate someone he knew because he couldn’t come up with a whole fictional character? is it also somehow the show’s way of dealing with armand playing the nuances of master and slave? by acting like an actual servant who will serve him later? is it the show’s way into working that whole dynamic with denis? anyway, delicious!

can’t believe the actual rashid armand impersonated for a whole season is a regular in s2………. what does it mean about armand and his acting? why did he pick this man’s identity for his titular role? what does it say about armand’s sense of self, does he need to impersonate and steal a mortal’s name to act accordingly?

something about armand being very picky about giving his blood to other vampires (clearly not part of the blood orgy in the s2 teaser) and letting louis drink from him in dubai, only to let a mortal get addicted to his blood in the 70s….. something about saving daniel in 1973 but clearly for louis’ sake only to give daniel an amulet to protect him from other vampires…….. we talk about louis’ helen of troy like power but it’s insane that lil old daniel had armand in the palm of his hand and didn’t realize it! no wonder armand is angry and bitter and so embarrassed by his past self when he’s around daniel now…..

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The Story of The Winter’s Tale (2020) | Royal Shakespeare Company

how could I forget that eric proclaimed himself as a ‘neck man’ qnajsjsjdnd cut to armand displaying his throat and collarbones in episode 4

funny trivia but i’ve listened to eric’s episode on of the iwtv official podcast and he said that he went to see the broadway production of count dracula with frank langella in 1977 and i really hope that somehow the show incorporates that bit in the devils minion flashback. that would be so funny to have daniel and armand watching a count dracula broadway show in 1977 lmao