#enough for all of vanders bottled up emotions to turn into blinding rage at the slightest provocation

[tskumoyuuma]

ok silco vander timeline according to me

-violet & powder are born. vander visits often cause he loves kids but silco spends most of his time on the cause so never formally meets them

-bridge fight. silco flees & vander picks up the girls. vander is devastated but holds it in for the girls' sake

-silco eventually meets vander at the new bridge memorial. he tries to get vander to continue the fight, but vander wont stop bringing up the kids. silco says the cause is more important. he wants to improve everyones lives in zaun, not just take care of 2 children. they argue. silco says something in the heat of the moment that dismisses the importance of felicias death in the grand scheme of things, maybe even suggests it was good the girls saw what the enforcers did so they can have motivation to join their fight. everything vander has been holding inside bursts out and he attacks silco

-river fight happens

-once the adrenaline fades vander immediately regrets what he did but silcos already gone into hiding. vander writes that letter, but silco never reads it

-silco hates vander for attacking him, but has faith he might still come back around, especially w the increase in enforcers and brutality in response to the bridge attack

-vander sees the violence, remembers what happened on the bridge, remembers what he did to silco, thinks about the girls, and knows more violence is not the answer. he makes the deal w grayson

-silco finds out about the deal, and he realizes vander has truly given up their dream. he sticks to the shadows, inciting violence w anyone who gets in his way as he gains power and works towards his plans w shimmer

-vander gets word of what silcos been doing and how easily he kills people, even people from the undercity. he thinks his old friend has finally gone too far and begins to hate silco as much as he hates vander

-meanwhile silco keeps an eye on the last drop as a way to find something he can exploit to get vander out of the picture, since he has too much respect from the majority of the underground to simply deal w outright

-insert silco getting guys to follow vi and the others when they go topside, which becomes the domino that causes everything in the rest of the show to happen