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the-unofficial-village-idiot · 5 months ago

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We know so little about Max, but I can't imagine him wanting the man he loved to live with this pain for almost two decades

I don't think this is what Max would've wanted it's what Gus wants but the guilt of letting go, the pain of coming to terms with the things he can't change/his past mistakes, and the anger that would no longer have a 'righteous' target without Salamanca&co are too much and Gus doesn't know how to deal with such emotions in any way other than he is right now (suppression and taking it out on the Salamancas). It's not what Max would've wanted but the guilt of moving on would eat Gus alive and the longer he waits the harder it would've been to let go (sunk cost fallacy).

If he had survived killing Héctor, he wouldn't have moved on. Again, the one release he had (taking it out on the Salamancas) would've been removed from the equation, it would all become internalized without a 'deserving' target. He would've killed himself not long after. Killing Héctor wouldn't have been as cathartic as he hoped, the guilt and the pain and the regret would be just as strong as before. It wouldn't have been showy--it almost certainly would've been listed as 'inconclusive' in the in-universe media--but he would've killed himself

#pspsps people who are weird about gus and max come over here #i have 4 paragraphs to write on christianity but im too busy feeling like im gonna cry in my dormroom #🧪💎#and people say that gus is completely unfeeling but hes been devoted to max for At Least 23 years #(4 years of college + 19 years after maxs death + possible aditional years together)#did you not see him cry when they forced him to the ground to stare into maxs dead eye #he named a scolarship after max and dedicated a fountain to him (so ive heard im not there yet)#hes spent NINETEEN YEARS devoted to regaining the cartels trust so he can systematically Destroy them #i just keep rrpeating myself but still im insane about all of this #like everything gus does he does for max (even if its not necissarily what max would want its in the name of max and his memory)#hes not unfeeling hes just severely repressed (<- my thesis statement)

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