#i just think the breakdown of lucrezia’s trust in cesare is fascinating
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thinking about the disconnect between cesare and lucrezia in “the prince” after cesare’s failed at murdering alfonso and lucrezia has to clean up his mess, and she asks “is that all i am now, brother, borgia?” with such disgust and he just doesn’t even hear her because he’s too focused on her mixing the poison and realizing that by being with her he won’t be corrupting her because she’s already a “professional” like him, like the assassin he was ready to send in to finish the job to keep her hands free of blood. meanwhile lucrezia is ALREADY making up her mind that she wants a love outside of HIS love for her because the way he loves her is selfishly and all consuming and overly possessive and makes her feel sick because some part of her still feels like god is in the room with them when he’s near, but now i think she understands that not to be true. and he was right to ask “god or the devil?” ACTUALLY maybe the disconnect begins before this….when he’s just run alfonso through with his sword and lucrezia comes rushing down the stairs to find the aftermath and cesare thinks he’s going to convince her it was an “accident” or perhaps it begins when lucrezia tells him “i am tired of my husband, of life, the only thing that never tires me is you”. yep this is when it begins i think!! right there. because of this he underestimates how much guilt lucrezia will feel if something happens to alfonso by cesare’s hand. how much she will come to resent being born a borgia, being loved by HIM.
#text#the borgias#lucrezia x cesare#otp: we are the unholy family#mel talks#i just think the breakdown of lucrezia’s trust in cesare is fascinating#she was already beginning to see the cracks in their relationship before alfonso died btw#even BEFORE she climbs into his bed in 3x03#when she’s talking to their mother and says that ambition is what rules their family#and again when she questions if he’s on her side in that same episode#and AGAIN when he fails to fight on her behalf in 3x04#and AGAIN when she talks about wanting to leave rome with her mom giovanni and alfonso if he would come#THEY ACTUALLY SPEND ALL OF SEASON THREE DISCONNECTING#it’s like the more trust cesare gains from their father the more his relationship with lucrezia suffers#and by the end he has in his mind his father’s full trust (and his father’s forgiveness for killing juan)#so the thing that connected them (not having their father's trust) suddenly is the very thing tearing them apart#because his needs are being fulfilled by the one person he needed them fulfilled by all along#which leaves lucrezia alone in the dark gathering information from whispers in rome#yeah yeah my brain is working tonight!!
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