heliza24
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One of the things I’m most excited about in Season 2 is new Daniel Hart score material. I really hope we get a musical motif associated with Armand (or maybe one for each ship?? Armandstat motif? Loumand Melody? Armandaniel music?? We already have a couple of different motifs associated with Loustat, so why not?) And I hope we get to hear a big orchestrated version of Nicki’s music box melody from season 1.
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“i have stored in my
blood the
memory of your voice”
— Sonia Sanchez
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hi hi <3
I’ve read somewhere in one of your answer-posts today (I think it was the interview with a vampire question), that you’re not completely uninterested in the possibility of bisexual August :3. As someone who has been on the bi!August ship since season 1 (and as someone who has thought the ship might have set its sail already) I screamed a bit 🥸 so I would love to know if you have any headcanons and ideas about the realisation, exploration and the how‘s and when’s of it all.
(maybe also with who he has these experiences) (it can be nsfw too)
Thank you 🩷💜💙
Hello!
This ask made me so happy, mainly because @bluedalahorse and I have a long standing agreement about August being a 2 on the Kinsey scale (aka not fully straight). It usually takes the form of one of us talking about something August did in canon and the other person going “🗣️ Kinsey! 👏🏻2!👏🏻” whether or not it makes a ton of sense and then we collapse into giggles. This is somewhere between a joke, headcanon, and serious interpretation for us I think, so it’s fun to find someone else on the bi August train.
Ok in terms of my thoughts about it here are some possible headcanons/interpretations:
1. I think it’s interesting to imagine that August, along with Nils, was one of the boys who got semi outed at the initiation. I think he would have been in the closet even to himself until then (being queer would definitely not fit into the aristocratic worldview August was raised in), and he would probably try to repress any revelation the initiation prompted in him afterwards. But canonically it’s clear that August and Nils were both really affected by the initiation, and that could be an interesting way to explain why.
2. I am personally in favor of Nils/August for this reason! I know Vincent/August is semi popular on AO3, but if Hillerska era August is gonna furtively hook up with any of the Forest Hill boys in fic, I think Nils makes much more sense, since he is already canonically queer and they have the initiation connection. I also really like the idea of August and Nils getting together in the years after Hillerska. Not in a serious romantic way, but in a “I’m having a lot of confusing feelings about missing Hillerska, maybe we should have sex about it?” way. Blue is currently working on some future fic along these lines and I am excited to read it. I do love embracing the “no gods no masters” thing in fic and creating unconventional pairings like this.
3. I think it’s SO easy to read August’s mean-spirited fascination with Simon as sublimated attraction. I mean look at those weird forehead kisses! I gotta shout out @all-things-sigust here, a blog that is usually Sargust themed (which I also love) but switched to Sigust recently and has made some very funny posts/memes about August/Simon.
4. I would also be interested to read a more serious coming out arc for August in a post-canon fic. I could see it being really hard for August to come to terms with his own queerness after what he put Wilhelm and Simon through (and it would be interesting for him to realize that maybe posting the video was motivated by internalized homophobia). How would he feel about basically copying Wilhelm’s journey? How would he handle being queer and in the royal family? Would it prompt him to leave the line of succession like Wilhelm? It’s interesting to think about.
Those are my ideas! I fully support anyone who wants to explore more unconventional pairings in fic or send August on a journey of self discovery he didn’t get to go on in the show. We have a completed canon now and the joy of that is getting to play with it. And I of course will always be in favor of Kinsey 2 August Horn 😉
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Hello!
I'd like to hear your thoughts about August's letter to himself. I was very surprised by it and frankly couldn't believe that his status could have been so low in Hillerska (since he's so close to the royal family) and then turn upside down in a short amount of time. Then again the focus of my attention has never been so keenly on August. I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts.
Also, sorry, if you have already posted about this. In that case, could you point me in the right direction?
Hello! Thank you for this question. I haven’t written about it yet, so let’s talk about it! (Also, I consulted @bluedalahorse on this one as my favorite August expert so you are getting both of us for the price of one.)
I think it’s worth remembering that the Hillerska initiation and prefect system is designed to emotionally isolate first years and make them dependent on third years. August went through a really abusive initiation first thing when he arrived at Hillerska. He was basically sexually assaulted, and part of that assault was the third years laughing at anyone who displayed difference or vulnerability (ie anyone who got turned on from the porn video, or presumably anyone who tried to protest or back out from the “test”). The initiation puts him in competition with his peers right away, and teaches him that the third years hold the key to him either being accepted or laughed at until he himself is a third year and holds the power they do now. The insidious thing about these types of initiations is that they often effectively pull people in to an abusive system. They create a trauma bond between the older and the younger students, and they create a sense of survivors bias— we survived this, it’s just the way it is, and now we must do it (at least to an extent) to the new students under us. So the initiation August went through was effective in creating a sense of inferiority within him. It was also effective in fostering competitive relationships between the Forest Hill boys that don’t have a lot of emotional intimacy. I think you can see that in August, Nils, and Vincent’s relationship as third years.
So that’s one element of it. Another is where August was coming from when he landed in this abusive system. His father had just died by suicide. That means he would’ve been in the pits of grief, but also potentially full of guilt. I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to imagine that he might have felt in someway responsible for letting his father down or felt like he had a duty to be stoic and support his mother (in the same way that Wilhelm did) instead of healthily processing his grief. All those emotions, combined with an environment where he cannot share those emotions, contributed to August feeling lonely and broken in someway.
I think it’s likely that August, Nils, and Vincent became friends early on, but August’s own insecurities kept him from realizing that those friends really liked him, and the Hillerska culture kept him from being really open with them. There’s also the fact that his closeness to the royal family might make him question the genuineness of friendships even more- do they really like me as a person or do they just like me because of my preassigned status? And that could make him more insecure.
So of course he’s going to look at Erik, who has all the power of a third year plus the absolute security of knowing that he belongs and is very valued by his family, and envy what he has. He’s going to see that Erik is well respected at school and he’s going to do everything he can to be close to Erik, in order to emulate him and also to feel like someone is filling that empty father-shaped hole in his life. I think August is clearly a very adept leader and builder of community when he puts in an effort. I think you can see that when he calls the whole room to silence during the sit in. So it’s not super surprising to me that August accomplished his goal and became a powerful player in the Hillerska system quite quickly. 
So those are my thoughts on August’s rocky early years at Hillerska. I hope it was useful!
#young royals#my meta#ask box#currently accepting silly and serious young royals questions!#august horn
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Hi! I have a Young Royals ask for you:
Which characters ending in the story was the most satisfactory for you? Is there an alternative route you could see that ending going (or having gone)?
I hope your day is lovely :)
Hello! Thank you so much for this question.
I don’t know that this is super unique, but the answer for me is absolutely Wilhelm. I have wanted Wilhelm to leave the monarchy since I first watched season one in 2021. There were a lot of reasons why-- it was the only way I could see him and Simon ever being happy together, and it was the only way I could see Wilhelm being happy as an adult. I also had a lot of personal investment in the idea of a story about how revolutionary quitting can be. I wrote a lot about that in this meta, which still kind of feels like my definitive fandom work to me. I wrote it at a time when it felt really controversial to advocate for Wilhelm to step down from the throne. But I stood by the ideas in that post and it was really gratifying to see that Lisa agreed with me. The only other way I could see Wilhelm’s story ending was if he remained in the monarchy and he and Simon broke up permanently. In that case the show would’ve been a tragedy with a hard lesson at the end rather than a story about hopeful change. (in some ways season three is actually structured like a tragedy, but it has a reversal and happy ending right at the end of episode six. I might write more about that at some point because I think it’s so interesting.) but in my mind, there was no way for Simon and Wilhelm to remain together happily while Wilhelm was still Crown Prince.
@bluedalahorse and @sillyunicorn can attest to the fact that I was stressing out hard during episode six because I even though I was so convinced Wilhelm needed to leave, I was also so nervous that it wouldn’t happen because Lisa made us wait right to the end to get our happy ending. But the relief and excitement the ultimate ending brought me was huge.
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What would make August reject the crown prince title?
This is such an interesting question! I know @bluedalahorse will have a more detailed response as the resident August expert amongst us but I will take a crack at it too.
I think there are probably three things August needs in order to feel able to leave. The first is just time. He needs to experience how onerous royal life is first hand, which he has been shielded from because he has not been the direct heir until now.
I also think he needs to continue therapy. I love how he kind of got tricked into doing some individual sessions with Boris in season 3, and I hope he’s able to continue that in the imagined future past the show. He has so much grief and family stuff to work through, which I think he needs to unpack before he could make the decision to separate himself from the monarchy. I have also always had a headcanon that August does actually have ADHD which is why he’s self medicating. So I think it would help his self esteem to get that actually diagnosed and treated, and that would help too.
The last thing he needs is some kind of community waiting for him as he leaves. He needs the equivalent of Sara, Simon, and Felice waiting for him in Sara’s car. August has always been a fundamentally lonely character who has gone about seeking connection in the wrong ways. I think part of the reason he likes being a part of the monarchy is because it means he is wanted by other people. If he was able to develop strong relationships outside the monarchy, it would cease to have such a strong grip on him.
I actually think that given enough time, Wilhelm could become a part of that community for August, if they continue to mend their relationship and August continues to put in the work over time. In some ways August will have an easier time leaving than Wilhelm, because he’ll be able to follow Wilhelm’s example as a way to leave and carve his own life path. But the things that August needs to leave aren’t unique. They’re all the same things that Wilhelm needed and got over the course of the series. So I think in an imagined future, it’s very possible that August will continue the healing and accountability we saw him tentatively start in season 3 and find his own way away from the monarchy as well.
#young royals#ask box#my meta#august horn#currently accepting silly and serious young royals questions!
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Ok I’m gonna let you pick:
Question A. Assign a character from Interview with the Vampire (no repeats!) for each of the main five YR characters to hang out with one-on-one. What activity does each duo get up to, and what do they talk about while they hang out?
Or
Question B. Tell me a NSFW headcanon you have for each of the main five.
Thank you so much for letting me apply my current vampire brain rot to Young Royals. You really do know me so well.
OK so let’s start with the easy pairings. Felice is absolutely hanging out with Claudia. They are taking down corrupt schools and even more corrupt coven together. They are trying on fabulous outfits and bonding over how difficult it is to be young Black women in stories dominated by men. Maybe they are even solving crimes together. Next, Sara and Daniel are autistic hyper focusing together. They are chasing a story and asking brutally honest questions together. (I have never really headcanoned Daniel as autistic until now or thought about journalism as a potential career for Sara in the future but I think both of those things work very well actually.) last you’ve got Simon and Louis working together on a new album. The album is about Louis’s various heartbreaks and he finds it much more cathartic than the interview with Daniel.
Now we’re left with the most deadly interview of the vampire characters left and we run into more of a conundrum. Initially, I thought to put Lestat with Wilhelm just because of the prince connection I think, but then that leaves August with Armand, which is such a bad idea because Armand will spend that time either a. Teaching August how to be the most despotic ruler of Sweden possible or B. Running an extra judicial trial in which he can condemns and then murders August for his crimes. I think ultimately this ends up with Armand drinking August regardless, and that seems like a bit of a waste. So instead, I propose Lestat and August have an aristocracy-who-can-be-brattier competition (also maybe Lestat can introduce August to the joys of bisexuality, I think it would be good for him) and I send Armand with Willhelm simply to avoid a disaster. I think that Wilhelm has enough qualities in common with Lestat that Armand would probably fall in love with him, and therefore not kill him. Maybe Armand can teach Wilhelm how to paint. That boy needs a hobby after all.
OK, now let’s do a quick NSFW round of kinky head canons below the cut just for fun:
Wilhelm and Simon discover that Wilhelm really likes to get tied up (subspace is good for him!) and Simon gets really into learning different knots and rope techniques as like a sexy artistic practice.
Felice comes out as gray/flux ace and aro so sometimes she’s into sex sometimes she’s not. Sometimes she just likes to tell her partners what to do and watch. (does this happen when Felice hooks up with Wilhelm and Simon in the poly triad of my imaginings? I think it does.)
It takes some time and maybe some work with a sex positive therapist but eventually Sara pegs August and it really works for him actually.
(Do I just want the Eriksson siblings to dom their respective nobles? SO WHAT IF I DO 🙈)
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Darcy!Wilhelm is my fave to write! Thanks for loving him too @margotdanslebois 😊
Our conversations about books and reading are always so fun. What book would you recommend to each of the main five YR characters?
Well well well ! What an interesting and tricky question ! 💜
📚 Simon : some of those iconic books that forge your young mind and your awarness : 1984, Fahrenheit 9/11 or Brave New World. (Even if I don't think he is unaware of the hard reality.)
And I'm sure he would enjoy some sassy Jane Austen (he is soooo Elisabeth Bennet !!!)
📚Wilhelm : Lorenzacio of Alfred de Musset, because (as much as I remember...) the protagonist is becoming more and more "evil" by spending time with bad people and adopting their ways, even if it is with a greater goal.
And also, some romantic and gothic stories or poetry, because he likes big feelings : Frankenstein and Les fleurs du mal of Baudelaire.
And how didn't I think about Lord of the rings ! It's perfect for him !!!
📚 Sara : The little prince, because I think she could both like the stories in form of tales and fables, and because of the illustrations. And some mythology.
📚 Felice : some empowering adventure stories like Wild from Cheryl Strayed
📚 August : Oh, let him read A story of ice and fire (Game of thrones) ! He will enjoy the schemes and the darkness (he is such a mix between Jon Snow and Jaime !).
(Yes it took me forever to answer this but I had a lot of fun, thank you Blue 💜💜💜)
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Reblog if you want random YR-related asks in your inbox
#young royals#if people want to ask I will attempt to answer!#headcanons or analysis type questions allowed
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Hello there! Could you share some post-s3 Sara & Felice friendship headcanons?
What a lovely ask! Glad to share some ideas that pop into my head:
Sara is the first person Felice comes out to as asexual. (Specifically gray ace.)
Whether Hillerska re-opens or not, Felice refuses to go back and ends up at a school in the city somewhere. She and Sara send one another post cards. Felice’s tend to be cutely decorated. Simon buys Sara fun pens she can use to write Felice, though she tends to write only in one color. She still doodles, though.
They’re actually pretty good at keeping up a distance friendship. At one point Sara’s working a job in either Malmö or Copenhagen, and she and Felice still stay in touch and have a weekly phone call time.
At the same time, once Sara moves back to Stockholm, she and Felice are… kind of living together for a time? This is based on a headcanon @heliza24 and I discussed together, but essentially, Felice’s parents have bought her a nice townhouse in Stockholm. Felice ends up sleeping at work a lot though because she’s so devoted to her restaurant. So she invites Sara to come live in her townhouse, because Sara needs a place to live, and Felice needs her townhouse to look lived in. They’re better at being roommates than they were at Hillerska.
Felice gives Sara advice for whatever her love life is doing for the moment based on her horoscope. The advice is inconsistent in how helpful it is, so it’s sort of a joke at this point.
Felice likes to drag Sara along on random road trips related to her cooking goals. Like she’ll hear that a particular farm has phenomenal rhubarb and she’ll convince Sara to drive her there. They have set playlists they’ll sing along the way.
Hope that’s a good start! What are some of your headcanons?
#young royals#i love these headcanons that we've devised so much#there will be a future fic from us eventually#and I'm excited to write it!#sara and felice as friends is so important actually
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Let’s talk about parallels between Wilhelm and Sara in Season 3 of Young Royals
Because there are so many! This is a continuation of sorts of this meta that I wrote about them being A and B plot protagonists in season 1 and 2. I don’t know that I would describe them exactly that way in season 3, but I do think their plots, character arcs, and themes are meant to mirror each other very closely this season.
One of my favorite things about the parallels between Wilhelm and Sara this season is that comparing them really makes you hold Sara’s friendship with Felice on the same level as Wilhelm’s romantic relationship with Simon (and Sara’s with August) which I think is so important. Both Wilhelm and Sara go through breakups over the course of the season (I think Felice’s reaction especially frames her friendship breakup with Sara similarly to a romantic breakup, which I love). And both of their arcs are about mending those relationships.
Sara and Wilhelm both need to experience the world outside of Hillerska before they can mend those relationships. Sara is able to glimpse some independence, even just through getting her license. The whole world is open to her now, as Felice says in ep 6. I don’t know that she would have been able to make her decision not to go back to August without experiencing that freedom. And Wilhelm also needs to experience the full force of what life in the monarchy would be like before he is able to decide to leave it. Because of this they also act as our window into the two different worlds outside of Hillerska, the palace and Bjarstad. They create the larger context in which we understand Hillerska this season.
I love that both of their journeys of personal growth are symbolized through cars. Wilhelm is always getting trapped with his mom or a member of the court in a fancy car; it’s where almost all of the monarchy’s most onerous instructions on how to live are delivered to him. So it’s huge when he leaves his parents in the chauffeured car at the end of episode 6 and goes to find Simon, Felice and Sara in Sara’s beat up used car. Meanwhile, Sara has traded in horses for the car. This is stated pretty explicitly when her dad asks her if she would like to work with horses and she declines, saying that she has come to realize that horses are simply traded by rich people as status symbols, and her dad suggests she get her drivers license since it will help with any job she wants. In seasons 1 and 2 Rousseau is pretty heavily associated with August, along with the pressures put on August and the other elite kids at Hillerska to conform to expectations (@bluedalahorse has written the Bible on that here), so the fact that Sara swaps out the horse for a car that can take her anywhere feels like a step away from both August and the prescriptive norms of Hillerska.
Sara and Wilhelm both reject what they saw as their destined future. This is obviously really clear for Wilhelm; he assumed he would be prince and then king after Erik died, and his greatest moment of character growth is when he decides he doesn’t have to fulfill that assigned role if it will keep him from being happy and living authentically. I love the scene where Sara talks with her dad about her fears that she will fail in the same ways that he did because she also has autism and adhd. This is a less clear-cut assigned destiny, but that fear of becoming a self fulfilling prophecy is equally overwhelming, especially because Sara has already let down someone she cares about in a way that’s not dissimilar to how her father breaks promises. The fact that she’s able to come to terms with her dad’s influence in her life, but realize she really is in charge of her own future, is really powerful. (I also think it’s such smart writing about the way disability and internalized ableism can really affect your self image).
In order to break free of those predetermined destinies, both Sara and Wilhelm need to see a father/mentor figure as more than black and white. Wilhelm needs to acknowledge that Erik wasn’t perfect, and did help contribute to some of the abusive traditions of Hillerska. Sara needs to recognize that even though her dad isn’t a perfect parent, she still loves him for the care he is able to show to her and wants to have him in her life. I love that both Wilhelm and Sara learn to hold multiple conflicting emotions about their loved ones. They can be disappointed by some of Micke and Erik’s actions, but they can still value their relationships with those family members and recognize them as complex, complete people.
They also both go on a similar journey with how they see August. Wilhelm comes to recognize that August is both a perpetrator and victim of the class system and Hillerska’s systemized abuse. Sara similarly realizes that August is an adult who needs to be responsible for his own emotions. She’s no longer interested in saving him from his complex feelings of guilt, and recognizes his potential to find self healing. Both of those new assessments of August grant him more maturity and complexity than earlier in the show. (They also reflect the way that August grows, in fits and starts, over the course of season 3. If there was a season 4 of the show, I think we would really see August respond to Sara and Wilhelm’s new attitudes towards him in a way that would fuel future character growth).
Viewing Erik, Micke, and August more complexly also allows Sara and Wilhelm to forgive themselves for the ways they are similar to those people. They are able to acknowledge the shame they feel around their actions, but also forgive themselves in the same way that they forgive others.
Both Sara and Wilhelm have specifically let down Simon in pretty big ways (Sara by secretly dating August, Wilhelm by perpetuating the royal family restrictions onto Simon). But they are able to recognize those mistakes and reconcile with Simon.
Wilhelm and Sara both leave the monarchy (Wilhelm literally, Sara by refusing a relationship with August), but they also leave a kind of prescriptive romance behind. Wilhelm says no to having to monitor Simon, to having to roll out his relationship in a certain way to please the court, and to having their future together mapped out and their decision around children made for them. Sara says no to a smaller set of requirements, but the traditional ways that August sees romance are so influenced by the monarchy (which is in turn so influenced patriarchy) that they are similar in some ways. Sara says no to having to do August’s emotional labor, to managing him so that he will fit the image of a good heir. She says no to waiting for him to visit on weekends while he does military service. She says no to this grand plan that he has. (This was @bluedalahorse’s point originally that she shared with me, and honestly I think it's so smart). Wilhelm chooses a romantic relationship that he and Simon are free to create together without rules; Sara chooses a friendship based on honesty and support. Both are valid options that give the characters a sense of peace and freedom. And they would not have been able to make those choices without all of the growth they went through over the course of the season.
I think Sara and Wilhelm's arcs compliment each other so well, and it was one of my favorite things about season 3. I loved watching both of them get to grow so much and end up in such a happy place.
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(Plus Claudia/Madeline (🙏) and Nicki/Lestat). I am LIVING for it.
it's incredible that in s2 of IWTV, of the four leads and six possible relationship configurations we are definitely going to see 5/6 of them (ArmandLouis, ArmandDaniel, ArmandLestat, LouisDaniel, LouisLestat) explored in what I imagine will be overwhelming, viscerally upsetting, disorientingly sexual, very gay emotional detail. and this is saying nothing of all their little polycules! god what an incredible premise. what a feverish little web of connections. a living breathing cacophony of unbalanced men that all want to fuck and kill and marry each other. I have never felt so invigorated in my fucking life I swear to fucking god
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Seeing the bts pics is such a testament to the production design and cinematography of this show. Like!!! So freaking talented.
Some scenes and places (Prague edition).
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"Old Daniel comforting Armand hits different" -my partner
#this is just!!!#so tender and so good#I’m obsessed#interview with the vampire#other peoples fan art
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And then I eat the bagel.
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Who can love us, you and I, as we can love each other
#interview with the vampire#I fully expect to be incapacitated by whatever is happening with Daniel/devils minion in season 2 but in terms of things that might kill me#something about it feels SO transgressive#I think it’s the way that it really messes with the tropes we have around soulmates and love triangles#and also is just way more poly than most things are allowed to be#any other show would have simply left the two sides of Louis’s triangle not touching#because it would be too complex and messy#but this show is all about artfully presenting the mess#I just love it#also Sam looks like he’s having the time of his life in those theatre shots#and Assad looks incredible#in general I love the latter half of the 18th cent too#really just tailored for me in all the ways
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A few Armand thoughts that currently have me in a chokehold:
1. The building in Dubai only “groans” when Armand is around, and specifically when Armand is mad. Some of my favorite times I’ve noticed it include when Louis tells him to go take care of Daniel’s room in ep 1, after Daniel slaps Louis in episode 5, when Daniel tries to put Dr Fareed “on the record” in episode 6, and when he declares “this session is over” after Daniel starts pressing Louis about the rats in episode 7.
2. This, along with the fact that Armand is literally controlling the windows and balcony doors with his iPad, really adds to the feeling that he’s holding both Louis and Daniel hostage in a trap of his own design. When he mentions the interior designer that pitied Louis and his separation from the natural world and added the tree to compensate? That was definitely Armand’s idea, to make the captivity a little more bearable.
3. I’ve always wondered why I find the Beethoven Sonata 14 to be such effective scoring at the end of episode 7. There are a lot of contributing factors I think— it’s dramatic, it’s recognizable and therefore builds suspense, it’s used in the beginning and end of the episode as bookends. But it feels so *right*— even though I LOVE all of Daniel Hart’s original score. But here’s the thing. Armand controls the diegetic music being played in the penthouse. That’s established in ep 2 when he turns it on before Daniel and Louis have dinner. And when the sonata is first playing at the beginning of episode 7, Daniel and Louis are back in the dining room (being served by Armand/Rashid). So we can assume that the music is diegetic in that scene, and that Armand is controlling it. When it comes back in the moment of conflict and reveal at the end of the episode 7, the music is nondiagetic. It’s not playing literally in the room for the characters, but is part of the score. But we’ve already established that Armand is controlling it. It’s like his control has suddenly spread to the entire narrative that we’re witnessing. He’s in control of the whole show.
4. This is kind of a separate thought and more oriented towards season 2, but Armand is always styled— costume but also especially hair— to match whoever he’s romancing at the time.
I kind of assume the Dubai aesthetic is what he has chosen, and Louis is more matching him (see above points for my reasoning on that I guess).
But when Louis meets him in Paris, he’s perfectly positioned aesthetically to be attractive to Louis (especially coming off his experience with Lestat). He looks mature, capable of leading the coven. He’s suave, with his well fitted suits and slicked back hair.
In the 18th century flashbacks (god I can’t believe we are getting to go back to the 18th century, my favorite of all historical eras) he is matching Lestat like, down to the color palette.
But in San Francisco (and forgive the bad quality screen grab for these, I don’t think we have any high quality stills of this yet) his hair is light and curly, and he looks a fully 5-10 years younger than the Paris or Dubai scenes.
Because he’s matching a 20-something Daniel.
*proceeds to internally combust*
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