thinking about Armand giving in to his weakness every few years or so and returning to Daniel for a night or two, and sometimes Daniel even remembers, and when he does, he thrashes in Armand's embrace and hurls insults at him bc clearly it's Armand's fault that he's being such a shitty husband to the wife he once claimed to love and a shitty dad to the kids he never wanted, and for a night or two he can pretend that the fault lies not in him just being a shitty person sometimes who cares more about his work than the family he created; and Armand, of course, believes his words bc clearly he poisoned Daniel from the inside so irrevocably that now he can’t form any lasting bonds with other mortals, and it doesn't even occur to him that it might just be your ex lashing out at you bc he's angry and still so very, very heartbroken at being dumped bc maybe, just maybe he still loves you and has, despite being forced to forget you ever existed, not stopped loving you even once
okay so armand was torturing daniel in that room for several days. and he'd already lost a lot of blood AND had taken a lot of drugs AND was injured. this to me means that in order to keep daniel somewhat lucid armand probably gave him food/water at some point.
i know we can say that armand gave him vampire blood and this would reset some of these factors. however, consider that (a) armand seems very resistant to share his blood with humans generally and daniel specifically (b) it scratches a different itch to imagine armand had to, like, order pizza or go down to a corner store or put coins into a vending machine. then come back and try to feed daniel a snickers bar and a pepsi. to keep the torture going,
can't stop thinking about rashid constantly having to rearrange the furniture in the dubai penthouse depending on loumand's stage of marriage of the day
if there is one thing i love about book Armand (and possibly show Armand but i need to see more evidence) it is that he is a petty little hater. he practices haterism as an olympic sport. Night Island was the architectural equivalent of standing by the wall at a party with your boyfriend while both of you look judgmentally over the rims of your drinks at the rest of the guests like "ew."
the VA for dutch, benjamin byron davis, said something really interesting in that old AMA reddit thread - someone asked if dutch would have visited any of the graves of his dead gang members and he basically said “no, because it would just remind him of his mistakes” and i think that is essential to understanding why he ultimately left arthur on that cliff. i don’t think it was apathy and by that point, i don’t believe that dutch still thought arthur was the rat. even if only subconsciously, seeing arthur broken and near death was proof that he failed. at the end of the day, arthur was his boy, in a way that only applied to arthur and john. he raised them and i think he felt at least somewhat responsible for them. seeing arthur sick, dying, and brutalized by someone that dutch had let influence him to a great degree broke him. he is so ashamed he cannot bear to see his boy - his first boy - die because of him. being there for arthur in his last moments means apologizing and apologizing means admitting fault in some way.
it’s this meme but instead of running to arthur’s side he’s running away from him
every-time i rewatch the hannibal pilot im reminded of how much of an asshole will graham is and how it’s so funny that hannibal eat-the-rude lector did not immediately soufflé his ass. instead he developed a crush and had no choice but to wage psychological warfare on him.
Arthur, using his last breaths to convince Dutch that Micah is a rat, pleading with the man that raised him to listen to him.
He knew he wasn't getting off that mountain, and he still used his last moments to try and warn Dutch.
Even at the very end, in a way, Arthur was loyal to Dutch, Dutch just couldn't see it.
for april fools this big disco elysium youtuber just pulled a fucking King-ass move and instead of a prank leaked everything about the cancelled version of Disco Elysium's sequel
like the version they were thinking on before the implosion
IT WAS GONNA BE ABOUT CUNO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dde8H1YhP-U
(copied from a message a friend sent me. i thought you'd enjoy this)
hey i haven't watched the full thing but this is fuckin insane. i love this and hate this and I'm gonna rip my hair out and draw fanart about this probably. thanks for sending this.
EDIT 1: now I've watched the whole thing and holy fuck is it fascinating. fascinating and heartbreaking that regardless of it's authenticity it's not real. i was particularly and especially enthralled by the art of new characters and the hints of what would've potentially happened
EDIT 2: video got taken down a long while ago. not surprising. quite sure a good few people saved it so if you haven't seen it so i suggest seeking it out via having someone who saved it dm/pm you
kid armand and his bright young reporter doll! based on this:
He/him tired girl 🌟 Obsessed with IWTV (especially when it comes to Devil's Minion) 🌟 English isn't my first language
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