the thing about devil's minion is that 'armand was daniel's single oracle; his merciless and all-loving god'. daniel becomes cut off from his friends and family. he has nowhere else to go. he's never allowed to 'see or sense the presence of another supernatural being', and he wears the amulet with armand's blood and the single 'a' to show he's been claimed. armand tells daniel that he belongs to him, and he does. he is the devil's minion... and the devil grants his every wish. armand is literally always there to come pick up daniel when he asks and sometimes when he doesn't because he's too far gone. armand waits in night island to welcome daniel back, finding more riches and wonders to give him. he bathes him, dresses him, does everything so that daniel never has to want for anything. they spend over a decade going from city to city across the globe meeting interesting strangers but none of them stick and they don't stay because the only real thing that matters is the two of them. daniel is his guide and he will follow him anywhere, ask his opinion on anything. they're always in the middle of a psychic conversation that only exists for them. armand has daniel spend his last minutes in a world where it's literally just the two of them because that's what their relationship has been, the two of them utterly consumed, each one's life and world revolving around the other - each one thinking the other is incapable of matching their true feelings, that their love is stronger and purer. it's a dread devotion that rots you from within as you lose yourself to someone else and yet parts of you that were lost are reborn. it's a selfish desire to consume and a selfless desire to be consumed or maybe it's the other way around! it destroyed and preserved daniel's life, it shattered armand's centuries long vow to himself - the one moral code he believed it. obsession is not a strong enough word.