#the valentino of half a decade earlier or later would at least initially be a lot less brutal in how he manages this rivalry | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

batsplat · 3 months ago

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literally nobody ever mentions that in uccio's crazy 2016 interview, you all know the one, he randomly brings in casey. like, marc he's got a feud with, maverick is valentino's next teammate, both those guys are in the question, what's casey got to do with it?

#baby jorge might not have had a poster on his wall but he was definitely weirder about valentino than baby casey was #and he's crucially also a lot more relevant in 2016 #do need to state for the record that casey having a valentino poster is in the category of 'technically possible but zero mention of it'#i mean not to put too fine a point on it but i don't think in a lot of the prime poster hanging years casey really *had* a bedroom #i know the literal poster isn't the point #//#brr brr #heretic tag #i do think that there's ofc some truth to the idea that casey's prior admiration for valentino made him ultra disillusioned #like the rivalry with marc is in no way comparable from valentino's pov b/c of the dramatically different levels of emotional investment #but it IS a little bit comparable from casey's pov. so there's something interesting that the proxy of uccio is drawing that line #something kinda fun if valentino was a bit more aware than casey thought he was of just how badly he was twisting in the knife #i think what's really neat and juicy about valentino as a foil for casey #is that casey also manages to run into the most dispassionate and calculating version of valentino. like it's all deeply unfortunate #the valentino of half a decade earlier or later would at least initially be a lot less brutal in how he manages this rivalry #a big theme with casey is all these little and big injustices. how everything and everyone seemed to conspire against him #and ofc a lot of that comes back to valentino in one way or another. it's fun to think that this even extends to the timing of the rivalry

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