The Story of Armand

Note: First of all, I expect you to think that I love him because he is a vampire and he is hot. But I now see that there is more to it than that, and I'm not as shallow as thought. I love him for who he is and of course, being a vampire enhanced his uniqueness. But it doesn't define who he is, it is merely a part of him for if he isn't a vampire, then he won't be who he is. However I will get back to that in the next post. To truly understand him, I'll give a very brief account of his biography - life, death and afterlife.

Armand was seventeen when he was brought into the Dark World. His earlier years were a fountain of misfortune as he was kidnapped by slave traders and sold to a brothel in Venice. I saw these men and knew what they wanted, that this was vice, and despicable and the price of it was Hell. He refused to eat and drink and on the brink of death by starvation, he was rescued by Marius.

He came to love Marius as a lover and they had a clandestine relationship. But one day, he got mortally wounded by an ex-lover with whom he had a brief affair and did not reciprocate his love. Desperate to save Armand, Marius did the only thing he could which was to turn him into a Child of Darkness. As quoted, I wouldn't allow death to take him away from me, so I took him from death. 


Soon later, a coven of Satanic vampires who believed that being a vampire meant an eternity of serving Satan destroyed Marius' home and took Armand away. Marius was supposedly burned to death but later revealed to be still alive. Armand, heart crushed to a pulp by the death of his beloved Marius, joined the cult itself and later went to Paris as a coven leader.

After a long reign in Paris as the coven leader, he met Lestat who was a newborn. Though discarding it as nonsensical gobbledygook, Armand had taught his fledglings that if they were to set foot in the church, God would strike them into dust. Then, Lestat came along, striding arrogantly amongst humans, dressed in the finest garments had shattered the fledglings' beliefs. All faith was destroyed and Armand was left all alone, bound by centuries of abiding the old rules and the Satanic cult was no more.

Taking pity on the now detached Armand, Lestat had given him a theater, the Theatre des Vampires, where Armand created a new coven of vampires who acted and danced and sang on stage while the mortals all thought that the vampiric movements, attire and features were merely brilliant acting on their part.

In the later years, he fell in love with Daniel Molloy, who after becoming a vampire went into a catatonic state. And when Armand tried to immolate himself by throwing himself into the sun, he got burnt very badly but nevertheless survived. Benji and Sybelle, two humans, took care of him and nursed him back to health. He had since then been with them and the story then ends.