#which made me feel v suicidal 🙃🙃

[permanentreverie]

Would like to respectfully throw my uterus into the sun

[villanesus]

Another KE edition:

V's kills:

1. Favorite kill, be it the most memorable, the ugliest, bloodiest, most ruthless, most deserved...that one kill you liked best for whatever reason.

2. A kill most unlike her?

3. A kill that shocked you the most?

4. How do you think she killed her mother?

This is a fun one! Thank you, beloved Pistachio.

Favorite Kill

(source)

Inga in the Hole. The entire sequence from the introduction of Inga to their actual fight is a favorite of mine. Vil doing her little tests and jump scares, waiting for Inga to do something—anything. And when it finally happens, the fight is just scrappy as hell and the audience (or at least I) was really kind of worried for Vil. And she goes fucking feral, which I adore. The brutality, the blood, the way she kind of dissolves back into Oksana at the end. <3<3<3 

(source 1, source 2)

Runner-up is when she kills Kasia in the first episode. This is based entirely on my headcanon that Villanelle was intending to follow Konstantine’s instructions and make her death look like a suicide. But she sees Eve and she’s so thrown off that she loses focus and kills half a dozen people. The fact that she even bothered with the nurse’s disguise and her reaction in the next episode when she figures out who Eve is are the selling points for me.

Most Unlike Vil

(source 1, source 2)

Guns. The couple of gun deaths are so… lackluster. The first one in Bulgaria is used to highlight her dissatisfaction and waning enthusiasm for her job. Later on, when she shoots the accountant guy, the show tries to make it super dramatic with the framing making it look like it’s going to be Carolyn who dies. But the reality is Vil just pulls them over, walks up, shoots a guy, and walks away. Yawn. Not creative, not clever, not emotional (from Vil’s perspective). I know there are other times (Anton, shooting [but not {killing] Eve}), but the couple I mentioned are the ones I'm thinking of.

Shocking Kill

I’m gonna cheat and give two answers (again). For me, the kill where I personally was most shocked was Bill. He was super interesting and the story had established so much about him. We knew he was a dad, saw his kid, heard about his wife, knew he had some history with Eve, and learned about his various adventures. Such a fun dude, definitely recurring character material! It made sense when it happened—I really shouldn’t have been surprised. In the early episodes, we have a Villanelle who likes shock value and gets a thrill out of murder. We see her intentionally luring Bill. The audience’s whole lens on her is violence and playfulness. But I was still just… no way! Why Bill? Why Bill?

(source)

The kill where I was shocked because it felt out of character was when she murdered May and the pastor. I’m counting this as different from “unlike her” because I feel like a character can still be “in character” but execute an action that reads as “out of character.” This felt like a completely different person to me. Season four, so, eh. I know Vil was hurting from multiple rejections (her family in the previous season, Eve, the church group, God?) and obviously in some very chaotic headspace to be having the Jesus-Nelle vision, but it didn’t play right for me. The shock of "why bother"? Sloppy and weirdly personal for people whose opinion Vil really wouldn’t have given two shits about.      

Killing Tatiana

You know, I wondered about this when the camera pans past her body before the explosion, but never really considered it. I’m gonna say she strangled Tatiana. We’ve seen some indicators that strangling comes out when she’s emotional. The bathroom at the club in Amsterdam. Rhian later on. I also think she wanted to watch Tatiana die. She wouldn’t have done something sweet and quick like she did for Gabriel in the hospital. Vil perceived her mother as a monster and I think she would have wanted to experience that suffering as she killed her.

And, after all, she likes the breathy ones. 🙃