The Term Daniel Uses To Refer To Himself, "minion," Having A Different Modern & Archaic Definition Reflects

eric bogosian choosing to say “me and armand” over “assad and i” or “daniel and armand” says everything i need to hear

señor, por favor

dm sillies

The only reason I can get behind RDR3 being about the early days of the gang is because I would kill to see what type of menace young Arthur and Hosea were

Another Talamasca teaser has hit the pentagon:

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the moon gives me hope for the long promised werewolves

guys I’m having sort of a shitty time of it rn but I’ll have thoughts eventually but do not hesitate to be in my inbox about it if you have thoughts yourself 🫶🏻

thinking about devil's minion again #throwing up

literally wake up some nights in a cold sweat thinking about this

I love how one day Armand was chasing and tormenting Daniel, and the next he was like “alright what’s so interesting about that damn book? Let me see the cover, explain it to me!”

posting the important part separately

Thinking about how, whether he is conscious of it or not, Armand has already partially broken the cycle of abuse he was subjected to, simply by not turning Daniel when he was young.

The precise nature of Armand's very existence is a permanent reminder of what he was forced to live through, regardless of if he even has the ability to process the trauma in the first place. If he so much as catches his reflection out of the corner of his eye, he is reminded of the coveting and commodification of his youth and how the most innocent time of his life was weaponised against him. He is frozen there. His face looks so innocent because it creates a satisfying contrast with his actions narratively, but its also because he was. He was innocent. And that was stolen from him by selfish, greedy people who pretended their actions were out of love.

By letting Daniel go (assuming Devil's Minion era happened in the seventies), Armand protected him from this. Daniel experienced his entire youth and what it was like to age out of it without the fear of no longer having value like Armand did, and then came adulthood. He has lived to an age that Arun never could have dreamt of, that Amadeo was forced to realise, at one point, he would never experience, not in the human sense at least. He'll never have lines on his face like Daniel does. His worry lines and smile lines will never deepen. He won't develop crow's feet from squinting in the sun, which turned its back on him long ago anyway. His hair will never grey. Marius made certain of that.

But Daniel got to have all of that. His beloved got to live his life, fuck it up over and over and make a million mistakes. He had the freedom and the agency to do it. Armand will not see it, but he gave Daniel exactly what was taken from him so long ago. He is not just evil. He does not destroy everything. He gave Daniel the real gift, and now they get to move onto the next stage of Daniel's life together (after a couple seasons of slow burn I would imagine).

Just as he sees the tragedy of his past on his own face, he sees the potential he has to be different on Daniel's. He has immortalised true beauty in Daniel. The beauty of having lived a long life.