American Television after 5 years of pushing for queer representation: I hope you wanted unnecessary drama, angst with a maybe resolution, and three unfulfilling seasons of questionably written flirtation. And that all comes before anything is half-confirmed with a singular lukewarm kissing scene between two conventionally attractive, white bisexual women!
Thai Television .3 seconds after they figured out queer content is marketable: Did you want something kinky, soft, or stupid? Did you want cat ears? We’ve got cat ears! We’ve got safe/sane/consensual OR off-the-charts bad etiquette BDSM. We’ve got college students out the ass! As long as they’re an engineer or architect, choose your flavor. Do you want an age gap or classmates? Something for adults? Teens? Everyone was childhood besties, how about that??? This is a short order restaurant and I will flip you some gays like they’re hotcakes, just tell me what you want.
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People: nandor’s a piece of shit and i hate him
Meanwhile nandor:
Loves animals
Tells guillermo to take care of spider houses
Loves glitter and made guillermo a beautiful glitter portrait that must have taken him hours to make
And in secret!!!
CREEPY PAPER !!!
Sacrificed his life to save guillermo at the vampires council
Didn’t let guillermo be the bait and decided to face the Sire himself
He took full responsibility for the Sire’s escape (it was nadja’s fault. She never told him the truth)
Jumped right after guillermo into the hole in the floor to save him (right after guillermo told him he’s dead to him because nadja and laszlo had kept him in a box for weeks)
Came up with a plan to save guillermo’s life at the night market
Called guillermo ‘always my friend’ and ‘closest companion of 13 years’ and ‘my best…man’
Told guillermo ‘despite my dead cold heart i have grown some affection for you.’ And that vampirism is a curse and I don’t want to burden you with it. (And guillermo told him to turn him before he leaves so that both can be happy. Guillermo told him he’s ok with nandor going away as long as nandor turns him.)
Is so depressed and lonely and sad he almost committed vampire suicide
Is so depressed and lonely and sad that he joined a cult and another vampire took advantage of him sexually and emotionally. He also let them cut his hair and pull out his fangs every night. He starved for a whole month. He waited for guillermo or any of his housemates to come get him for a whole month.
Just wants people to love him but doesn’t know how. He makes mistakes but he just wants to be loved. And to belong.
Has been alive and alone and away from everyone he knew for so long he has forgotten his mother tongue.
He misses his horse so much.
You say he’s shit at hypnosis but he says you can’t hypnotize people to do things they don’t want to do. He cares about consent, in a weird way. (Nadja never asks about others’ consent when she turns them. She also thinks child exploitation is fun)
He tries to solve things through diplomacy
He cares about hygiene
He told nadja there should be more to life than violence and bloodshed. Nadja who always chooses violence and bloodshed screamed at him and mocked him.
He told nadja and laszlo he had missed them. They didn’t give a shit.
He brought his dead wives (or a version of them) to life because he thought they loved him. And he loved them. Neither case was true. He loved guillermo. (Guillermo loved someone else)
The reason why people think nandor’s a piece of shit:
He cloned guillermo’s freddie because he didn’t want to hurt guillermo by actually having a relationship with the real freddie (this coming from someone who sleeps with laszlo who’s in a very dedicated relationship with nadja.)
(He also offered his fake freddie to guillermo to make him happy. He let go of his fake freddie to make guillermo happy. He acknowledged that he might’ve hurt guillermo after all. He didn’t want to hurt guillermo.)
All i’m saying is , there is so much more to nandor than people keep labeling him as. He’s stupid but not just stupid. He’s not a piece of shit. He’s just been a monster for 7 centuries and has been a war criminal before that and is now trying so hard to have human feelings and compassion. He’s not perfect but show me a character on this show who is? And it’s all his imperfections that make him a lovable character.
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