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Just hold my hand - 250-word drabble Rating: Mature (again, intentionally set too high, there's nothing sexual happening in this) Pairing: Louis/Lestat @vampirefest Kinktober prompt: Day 12 (Touch Starved)

Endearment? Endearment?? Armand… No ok but this is kinda insane, and it has layers too because… So, obviously it’s wild to call this…kind of disturbing title, that just screams power, an endearment. But we know Armand longs to be loved. Whether he fully admits it to himself of not, but he probably wants to be called by an endearment now and again, an expression of love and devotion that’s tangible and easily accessible, clearly expressed. But who is there to call him by an endearment? He’s got no family (as most vampires), no companion for centuries now, not even any particularly close friend(s). Given the rank difference between him and the coven members, it’s also unlikely that he would be forming those kind of intimate bonds with any of them – like, yea sure, they’re all fucking each other, but that’s surface, and they were probably still calling him Maitre then. And at the same time, the coven is the closest he’s got to family/friends. So if he can just kind of refrain Maitre as an endearment – consciously or not – it fills that hole a little. It’s a title, yes, but also a name signaling not just power dynamics but closeness and devotion, from the only people who are in any way positioned to offer him that (even if in reality they don’t). He just needs this so much, he’ll pretend.

On another layer…the fact that Armand is even capable of reframing this as an endearment at all… Seems to speak to his history and the relationship with Marius. How the last (and only?) time that he felt loved, cared for and safe was with Marius (as fucked up as that relationship was – Armand’s coping mechanisms include romanticizing the abuse). And he would have referred to Marius as Master – Maitre. Also a title, but within the context there it became something of an endearment too, and that conflation would be perpetuated by the fact that that’s what Armand called the last person who offered him at least the illusion of love and care, the closest he ever had to those things at any rate. (Like especially with show!Armand whose own parents sold him into slavery, etc.)

But then also the last layer of the dynamic with Louis and how the whole “call me Armand” thing functions as a weird double-edged sword. Like…in a normal circumstance, someone saying, “you don’t need to use my title just call me by name” would be a sign of closeness, an invitation toward intimacy. And in some ways, it still is here. Louis functions outside of Armand’s norma structures, he’s different. He’s special. But given the context that he’s just called his an endearment and the coven being the closest substitute for a family/friendship group…imagine calling someone by a nickname their family/friends use and they ask you to call them by their full name. That creates distance – we don’t have that kind of relationship yet. And as they’ve only just met, that would make sense… It’s especially interesting in relation to the bench scene, the scene where they commit (recommit in Armand’s case?) to each other, and Armand calls Louis Maitre for the first time. Agh I love them, they’re just so much.

rolin being like armandaniel is entirely about louis and the way that daniel’s turning is armand both punishing louis one last time and also making sure that louis remains tethered to him through daniel even if only indirectly… and considering how resentful armand was and is that claudia was this eternal link between loustat and how daniel’s like a little brother to louis, 1973 daniel and how louis attacks him when he says “i could be your Claudia” and how desperate he was to save daniel being informed by not being to protect claudia… much to think about and see

Today some distant relatives are visiting and honestly they talk like its a telenovela - of course Daniel appeared in my head with this take lol

and juan 🧍🏽‍♂️🧍🏽‍♂️🧍🏽‍♂️looked 👁️👁️ up ⬆️⬆️⬆️ at the painting 🖼️🖼️🖼️and saw 👀👀 that theresa’s 💃💃💃 dead 😵husband 🕺was roberto 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️he had eloped 💍with his enemy’s widow 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ it’s a telenovela 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Hot steam and percussion - 250-word Drabble

Rating: Explicit Pairing: Louis/Daniel

@vampirefest Kinktober prompt: Day 6 (Shower/Bath)