#but yea little boy vasquez meeting the original seven

[kirayamidemon]

Aaaahhh omg, I just watched the original 1960 The Magnificent Seven since it happened to be playing when I was browsing what to watch and fashflkjaslkf It wasn’t all that bad but definitely kept thinking of the remake during some parts hahaa Both movies definitely had it’s own charms and once again, like the 2016 version, just mY HEART AND ALL THE FEELS ldakjgaa But omg, it got me thinking and just hear me out (under a read more cause it got longer than expected haaaa)

What if tho, AU where Vasquez was from that village in Mexico and was there for the whole event. Little boy Vasquez who was there to witness the seven take down Calvera and his bandits and save his village, where he’s always only known hunger and the dirty thieves coming in to take their food. Where he wants so badly to help his family, his home but can’t do anything cause he’s only one little boy and so can only stand by and watch in hatred and anger every raid until these seven men come riding in. Where he watches the seven drive off Calvera the first time and looks up to these men, almost idolizes these heroes who saved the village. Wants to practically be just like these men when he grows up.

Even more, if he was one of the three boys who befriended Bernado. Where he wants to be brave and courageous like him but gets scolded and learns about true bravery, true courage of responsibility and taking care of another and responsibility. Where he gets his little words of wisdom from. Where he honors their promise and always leaves fresh flowers at Bernado’s grave and visits a lot up until when he leaves for the states.

And then years later, Vasquez joins up the loco warrant officer who finds him and soon finds himself in his own little misfit group of seven, saving a small town terrorized by the robber baron and he’s laughing internally at it, at the irony of it all. But even tho he’s left home and became an outlaw, he still got to be brave and courageous, just like Bernado, just like the original seven. Got to help others in need, got to save someone else’s home being terrorized by a “dirty thief,” got to use his skills in his shooting to help and protect another, got to become a hero just like the seven did in his village when he was a little boy, got to find six other men that he could call his friends, his family, his compadres to watch his back after being on his own for so long. And he wouldn’t trade it for the world.

idk justtt little boy Vasquez being there in the village where he meets the original seven and grows up to join his own little group of seven and aaaaaahhahHhhh