Is it true that when armand has lestat tortured and imprisoned, during the events in Paris, that he keeps him in in Magnus’ tower? Because if so that is so psychologically fucked up
Noooootttttt quite. He keeps him in Lestat's own theater.
Armand lives in the tower.
Armand who lived still on the land I'd given him, in the very tower where I'd been made by Magnus, Armand who still commanded the thriving coven of the Theater of the Vampires in the boulevard du Temple, which still belonged to me.
Lestat goes to him, and Armand takes him to the theater and throws him there into the cellars beneath his (own!) theater, starves and tortures him with dead blood until the trial.
What was this place, this enormous building? Was this the boulevard du Temple? And then the descent into that hideous cellar full of ugly copies of the bloodiest paintings of Goya and Brueghel and Bosch.
And finally starvation as I lay on the floor of a brick-lined cell, unable even to shout curses at him, the darkness full of the vibrations of the passing omnibuses and tramcars, penetrated again and again by the distant screech of iron wheels. Sometime in the dark, I discovered a mortal victim there. But the victim was dead. Cold blood, nauseating blood. The worst kind of feeding, lying on that clammy corpse, sucking up what was left. And then Armand was there, standing motionless in the shadows, immaculate in his white linen and black wool.
After the trial Armand takes Lestat back to the tower, all the way up, and gives him Claudia's yellow dress (in which she burned).
And then we went up and up through the old tower to the roof.
Why did I hold this thing, this little dress? I looked out from Magnus's battlements and I saw the city had come to get me. It had reached out its long arms to embrace the tower, and the air stank of factory smoke.
And then Armand... throws Lestat off of Magnus' tower (in a scene that is eerily familiar to episode 5):
He was drawing closer, and in a dark flash his hand went out, and my head went back, and I saw the sky and the city of Paris upside down. I was falling through the air. And I went down and down past the windows of the tower, until the stone walkway rose up to catch me, and every bone in my body broke within its thin case of preternatural skin.
Armand ... tortures and keeps Lestat imprisoned in his own theater.
And then, after torturing him, making him testify against Claudia, then he throws him off of Magnus' tower.
So yeah. Not better imho. And very fucked up.
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PS: A note to the torture and how Armand knew it would make it possible to have Lestat testify against Claudia:
This has been noted to happen to vampires by Eleni, and employed as a punishment by Armand before, against Nicki (though noted in later books) - this is what Eleni writes to Lestat:
But N., maddened by the pain and the starvation, for this can alter the temperament completely
Armand knew that starvation and drinking dead blood would make Lestat unable to comprehend what was happening, and almost mad.
And he went and starved him on purpose.
That's Armand for you.
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🗺️ a location or time period you would have loved to see the main characters in that wasn't featured in canon? (Personally I would want to see the old vamps when the byzantineempire thrived,I think pandora would be bestie with all the emperesses)
I've done another answer for this here, but I do have second, and that's that I would love to have seen what went on in the theatre while Nicki was there and Armand was running it.
I know that Eleni does tell Lestat certain things here and there in her letters to him in TVL, but I would love to see more of what happened. Things that maybe Eleni didn't share. And I'd also want to know what Nicki's relationship was like with Armand and vice versa, as well as Nicki's relationship with Eleni herself.
I imagine there would've been some sort of tension maybe with Armand and Nicki, but I also think there were times when Armand perhaps was more thoughtful about his approach to him (even if it was in a very Armand type way 😅).
And I've always thought that Eleni acted as an older sister almost towards Nicki, or just someone who was quite caring and loving, maybe even protective over him, in general.
So yeah, like I said, I know we do get a small insight to that time, but I'd love a deeper exploration of it, because they were in that theatre for a good 10 years together, so I just know stuff happened that we don't know about. Idk if this answer's cheating a bit, but oh well 😂
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Hi all! I decided to make an Eleni playlist, this is what it looks like! (Don't ask why it's in Russian)
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