#not to mention david oakes' portrayal of juan's health deterioration and paranoia increasing was phenomenal like mwah

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when i was watching the borgias for the first time i always found juan borgia to be a brat full of bravado and a goofy comic relief until i got to that scene where he started beating the shit out of his mother’s peasant husband, and then in s2 when he became hideously jealous of his sister's peasant lover and he was a feral and drunken sobbing mess over it?? that’s when it clicked for me that he'd become my favorite male character of all time like... just so pathetic, so twisted and fucked in the head with such a desperate need for love and acknowledgment from his family and he's willing to commit heinous acts to gain it, and his incestuous feelings being linked to a superiority complex that stems from his own insecurities stays the most flavorsome part about him.