#might post a snippet of it bc godddddd he makes me crazy

[averycutesalamander]

what do you guys think boothill's gonna do once oswaldo is dead? i've heard some people suggest that he'd go out with a bang in some crazy suicide mission - that he'll leave the world content, satisfied with his revenge.

but like... for as much as people like to act like boothill is stupid, he's not. i just think he KNOWS that oswaldo is just one head of the hydra; that the real killer behind the death of his family isn't any singular man, but the system itself - a system that enables and prioritizes profit above all else. surely he KNOWS that, once oswaldo is dead, someone new will take his place. there are an infinite number of people that would be happy to take his crown, and there are an infinite number of families that they'd be willing to slaughter for pennies.

do you think personal revenge is his sole motivation? that, once his family, his people, have been avenged, he'll be content? because i don't.

despite all of his posturing as a villain to keep people at a distance, boothill isn't a bad man. it's a lot of small, cumulative things - subtle reframings of actions that are, on their surface, self-serving, but have an underlying selflessness. he's dedicated his entire existence to serving justice - and i don't think that stops at justice for his family, even if he says otherwise. "I don't give a rat's behind about people doin' good or evil." you're a goddamn LIAR, bee, and we both know it.

you want my guess for what he'll do once oswaldo is dead? he's not stopping with him.

he won't rest until the entire ipc has crumbled into rubble and blood and fire, and he doesn't care how many executives he has to kill to get there.