#towards the end Machete is so drenched in perpetrator trauma and moral injury I think he starts to try to distance himself from everyone

[canisalbus]

i like think about machete's death as a culmination of his paranoia and eventual cruelty and vasco as the single ray of light loving him up through the end. even through as terrible as he becomes, the thought of vasco's heart being with him even as he chokes on his own blood as the one thing that he could hold on to. what is it to love something you know is vile, and to mourn their loss regardless. i could drink the tragedy like wine

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[mayedays]

#*deflated wheeze*#you've clearly Thought About This have you#man#I was about to head to bed and in comes this curveball#Vasco's image of Machete is very different from the public one they've known each other since late teens#of course he'd be willfully blind and reluctant to believe someone you love dearly has developed this widely hated and feared work persona#even when the evidence mounts you still think surely it's not that bad you know they're going through rough time but it'll pass#they're still the same person when they're with you at least mostly#and then when things escalate you take steps to save them but they're not letting you#towards the end Machete is so drenched in perpetrator trauma and moral injury I think he starts to try to distance himself from everyone#on some level he realizes what he's become and how far beyond the saving point he is#everything's gone wrong how did it end up like this#and he can't let Vasco get dragged down with him

i like think about machete's death as a culmination of his paranoia and eventual cruelty and vasco as the single ray of light loving him up through the end. even through as terrible as he becomes, the thought of vasco's heart being with him even as he chokes on his own blood as the one thing that he could hold on to. what is it to love something you know is vile, and to mourn their loss regardless. i could drink the tragedy like wine

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