Interview with the Vampire poster commission, by Matt Ryan Tobin. Click through for an interview, and the glow-in-the-dark version!
Woah! Look at how he even sneaked in that part when Lestat first noms on Louis:
…and the fact that he flew was never once questioned like yes ask about “Is there a God/Devil?” but also “Hey Lestat remember that time you bit me and we FLEW what was up w/ that? Can you fly??”
We have to look at those words first. “Because the language of gender is still evolving, a lack of consensus on terms and definitions means it is up to the individual person to decide how to define themselves.” [X] My personal understanding of ‘agender’ is someone who is neither masculine nor feminine internally, and, to a variable extent, neither masculine nor feminine externally, either. A lack of the gender binary altogether.
‘Androgynous,’ however, I understand as being “partly male and partly female in appearance.” – more external. I see ‘androgynous’ as someone who may be perceived as both externally, or able to pass for either gender to a variable extent.
In TVA, David tells Armand “You’re sweet, boylike and pretty as a girl.” Mortal Armand is amused that potential buyers thought he was a girl, but then it pisses him off when Allesandra admires his beauty: “ ‘…a fairy’s child planted by moonlight in a milkmaid’s cradle to thrall the
world with his girlish gazeand manly whisper.’ Her flattery enraged me…”
So #your headcanon may vary, but I headcanon Armand as being capable of passing as a girl (and sometimes pushing at that envelope for his own purposes), but he’s very satisfied in his own masculinity. It doesn’t seem to be something he ever addressed or was ever confused about in canon, other than the fact that sometimes it angers him when he’s perceived as feminine, and at other times, he’s used it to his advantage.
^I guess that counts as Armand being androgynous, but not agender.
I haven’t done my Armand headcanon yet, still thinking about it!
Young Hugh Dancy, no. Hugh looks more like a Nicolas to me, but even then, not really my headcanon. For me, physically and emotionally, he’s too manly to be Armand, too earnest and soft to be Nicolas. He is adorable tho, just look at him! And he does look perfectly believable in period costume. I’d take him as another VC character.
[^X by @oruczadesolmaz and they have more in their post, please reblog their photoset from them!]
What if Amadeo returned to Russia, when he was alive? Or maybe it was not long before the last meeting with his parents when he only became a vampire? Cold and beautiful russian winter and Botticelli angel.
Series: “Vampire Armand” by Anne Rice. Vampire Chronicles.
//and another Armand (this time from the Theatre), because I got so much positive review that suddenly I felt like sketching, which I haven’t in a long time.
“Forget me now, Father,” I said. “Forget me, as if the monks had sent me away. But remember this, on account of you, I shall never be buried in the muddy graves of the Monastery. No, other things may befall me. But that, I won’t suffer. Because of you, that you wouldn’t have it, that you came that day and demanded I ride out with you, that I be your son.”
I turned to go. He shot forward, clasping the bottle by the neck in his left hand and clamping his powerful right hand over my wrist. He pulled me down to him, as if I were a mere mortal, with his old strength and he pressed his lips against my bowed head.
….
"Andrei, my angel child, my gifted and golden son!“
[textmeme by armandromanus, who deactivated so I can’t link to it]
Noone says you have to like all the characters, some are in fact antagonists in some stories and protagonists in others, and everything in between, and they can change over time. What AR is telling us is that labeling someone “bad” or “good” or “crazy” is a limitation. Life is not so black and white.
You don’t know why you despise Armand, but you say “everyone in the fandom seems to like him…” Consider this: some ppl dislike a character just because so many other ppl like them. I didn’t like the Beatles at all for a long time just bc so many other ppl liked them, and I wanted to feel like I had my own special taste. I listened to some of their hits, then some more, really gave them a chance… and well… turns out, I like the Beatles.
Give him more of a chance or don’t. Not everyone loves him but he has plenty of fandom love.
I-want-my-IWTV 
