"I'm hoping that you don't have to continue in a fucking ping-pong game of abuse."
Vampires make it complex, but the heart of it is tragically simple. Daniel spotted it when he was a stupid kid. Louis got his heart broken over his first love. Now he knows he probably broke Lestat's heart, too. That their relationship was mutually (if still lop-sided) abusive. His relationship with Armand was, too, even though it expressed itself in a very different way.
"You didn't kill Armand. You walked away from that and towards healing. Is it childish of me to hope that can be the trajectory? For everybody?"
Daniel has ruined two marriages. He never beat the shit out of either of his wives (i dont actually know this im just choosing to trust itd have come up), but he was cruel, and unfair, and neglectful, and combative. Regular awful shit, without any nightmare supernatural shit. Maybe it's not comparable enough. But he has some real empathy here. Lessons learned much too late for his own attempts.
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Vampires make it complex, but the heart of it is tragically simple. Daniel spotted it when he was a stupid kid. Louis got his heart broken over his first love. Now he knows he probably broke Lestat's heart, too. That their relationship was mutually (if still lop-sided) abusive. His relationship with Armand was, too, even though it expressed itself in a very different way.
"You didn't kill Armand. You walked away from that and towards healing. Is it childish of me to hope that can be the trajectory? For everybody?"
Daniel has ruined two marriages. He never beat the shit out of either of his wives (i dont actually know this im just choosing to trust itd have come up), but he was cruel, and unfair, and neglectful, and combative. Regular awful shit, without any nightmare supernatural shit. Maybe it's not comparable enough. But he has some real empathy here. Lessons learned much too late for his own attempts.