#which is why Style and Kant's betrayal hit him this badly

[kennyomegasweave]

I'm prepared to be completely wrong, but I was always 98% sure Mother didn't kill Fadel's ex. I've always thought he was a hired test from her that Fadel passed and this last episode strengthened my belief on that.

This got long, oops, so behind a cut it goes. lol

Like that man was sketch as hell. He was with Fadel for twoish years but didn't know what his job was? And I don't mean hitman, but even a fake job? Fadel gave him NOTHING for two years because when he said they could finally leave he was like ...why does working with your mom mean you need permission to leave and love? And I'm supposed to believe he stayed with Fadel for two years while his only explanation for work is "I work with my Mother. My Mother you don't know and won't ever meet." Like nah. That man either didn't actually like Fadel, because he didn't give a damn about his life, or he was working for Mother the whole time.

And I'm pretty sure he was working for her as a test for Fadel. His questions about what Fadel's job was and who Mother is reminded me of Style desperately trying to get Fadel to confess at the metal show. The difference between them being that we know Style wanted to know so he could tell him to not do the hit without betraying Kant, whereas his ex just wanted to know for random reasons, I guess? After two years of not caring, he just really wanted to know? When they had concrete plans to leave so it didn't matter at that point, especially when it didn't matter for TWO YEARS already? Nah.

I think Mother hired him to test if Fadel would turn on her if he had a chance to leave (and by turn on, I mean just simply telling the truth about being his Mother's hitman). I already consider it a fact that she killed the parents of three boys to make them her personal attack and guard dogs she would emotionally beat into thinking she cared for, so hiring a dude to fool her "son" for two years wouldn't be anything, especially since he was still killing her targets during it. I think once Fadel made concrete plans to leave, the ex tried to see if Fadel would spill about not only being a hitman, but being Mother's hitman. And when he still wouldn't tell that man ANYTHING, he reported it to Lily who pulled him out because Fadel's loyalty was now never going to be in question (his ex clearly wasn't his 100% because he didn't tell him about Mother and if he didn't get told despite Fadel planning to leave with him in like a day, no one would) AND he would be emotionally shut down by getting ghosted. Which would, and did, make him the perfect loyal gun for her.

Keen also fits in on this because he would know Mother hired Fadel's boyfriend and that's why he was taunting him with it. He so desperately wants to be the favorite, but he knows he's not, so he took what little hits he could get and called Fadel a fool for thinking his ex loved him. And while Keen isn't close like Bison and Fadel (though I do wonder how close they actually are because as the show goes on and we learn more, they really don't seem that close themselves, but that's for another post), he was still raised with them in Mother's Family after his parents were murdered in front of him as well. I just don't think he would taunt Fadel with a murdered ex, especially when he himself now has a secret boyfriend he wants to leave with.

Which brings me to my belief that the hitman Mother told Keen to call from two years ago is Fadel's ex. I think the plan was to play Fadel to test his loyalty and if he failed, he would be killed. Fadel didn't fail the test after being with his boyfriend for two years, so that hitman didn't kill him but he clearly wouldn't have had an issue doing it. So now she wants to bring him back to kill Fadel (and Bison) because he is compromised now (because of Style, and Bison, and even Kant) and she wants it to hurt. Which can also explain why Keen, who should be happy with this because Bison and Fadel will be out of his way, was still clearly conflicted about everything while in bed with his own secret boyfriend. Because it would be insanely cruel for Mother to bring back Fadel's ex just to have him kill him.

But what better way to make it so your "son" knows his entire second life has meant nothing and he was just a pawn manipulated, used, and discarded then having his cherished ex that abandoned him without warning after two years come back to kill him?