ooc; one time it was 3am and I livestreamed making graphics for faceofabotticelliangel and somehow I ended up jokingly doing this and deleting it but I found it again
This Armand is a vintage drawing by Dany&Dany, who are seriously (combined as one entity here) one of my favorite VC fanartists. They’ve only gotten better with time!
No u don’t understand Armand is so touchy over Marius because of the whole Sybelle and Benji thing and it just draws up 500 years of abandonment and having to realize that what Marius and him once had was not a relationship and what happened since that night he brought him home from the brothels can never be fixed and trying to bestow him with “gifts” to woo Armand back into it only broke that tender last straw. Sybelle and Benji were not Armand’s Bianca and Riccardo 2.0 They were his saviors and he merely wanted to see them grow, not be stuck like he was or be strung along like he did Daniel and Marius foiled that. But lord is Armand trying. Keeping his distance but trying with Marius.)
// Ooooo gurl Armand and Marius need to have some words.
The United States have always fascinated Armand in some way. It is constantly changing, the people rising with their voices against the government or worming their way around it to live their ideal life. Vaguely, it reminds him of their old world France. Louis doesn’t agree.
He believes that America will never hold a candle to France, his homeland and therefore his treasure. Or it was.
But through the smoky alleyway and past the guarded bookcase, they sit listening to the roaring jazz of the band and clopping of the dancer’s heels on stage while men and women gamble and drink in their finest dresses and not caring for the Prohibition. And Louis, sitting beside him, buzzed from the fount of the once drunk and now deceased flapper beside him, looks at him in that way that looks guilty because he always longs for him when he’s like this, and he always seems to feel bad about it.
“You’re wrong, mon cher” Armand murmurs when he reaches over and smooths back Louis’ short,gelled back hair, “I think this country will become more than just powerful in due time."
Louis’ practically pouting at that, or the product in his hair, and Armand can’t help but kiss those lips when no one is looking, cradling his companion’s head and sucking the remaining blood on his bottom lip away with a gentle little tug.
Basically Denis came into the theatre a year prior to Louis and Claudia arriving there
Armand stumbled upon Denis on the streets, an orphan whose mind held macabre images of his untold past
That shit intrigued Armand, and made him wonder if this kid could work well then in a vampire infested environment…where there’s bound to lots of blood
Denis was absolutely devoted to Armand, who saw him as a savior
Armand tried to pull a very similar relationship between Denis and him as he had with Marius and himself…except he played role of the Master now, and Denis was his dutiful acolyte
He gave Denis a ring as a means to mark his territory (much like the locket he gave Daniel)
He still has it to this day
He hoped to find an escape in Denis in that he was “caged” just as this mortal boy was at the Theatre
Denis always tried to please Armand
Armand’s interest waned when Armand found that Denis began to lust after him in a pretty masochistic manner for his “love”
Santiago absolutely abhorred Denis in that he captured Armand’s attention more still than that of HIS of the theatre’s
He killed him gently…without pain or suffering
He did it the night Louis turned Madeleine, because he knew Louis would be the one to take him away from Paris (also he “in lahv” with his beautiful butt so)
Once Daniel found that ring
Armand still claims he doesn’t know why he’s kept it after all this time
I-want-my-IWTV 