This may be my favorite Nadja scene ever!! She LOVES GUILLERMO; that's her LITTLE SHITBAG!! <333
(ID in alt and under cut)
ID: Knees up of Nadja from season 5 episode 6 in her red ruffle dress on a black background with a darker splatter pattern. She is crouched and readied in a defensive position, right hand raised with fingers curled like claws and left arm swept out to her side as if to protect something behind her. She snarls at the viewer, fangs bared and eyes glowing yellow, shouting, "Get away from him, he's mine!" /end ID
what's really smart about having this be Guillermo's arc, is it puts him up close with Vampire Angst things I don't believe he'd deal with otherwise.
because I don't agree Guillermo hasn't thought about the consequences, not with everything he's already given up and been through. he may eat crow about immortality later, when the shine of flying and cool fashion wears off, that's a problem for next century's Guillermo. but you can't tell me he's just now thinking about saying goodbye to family or becoming less human or any of that, because he's had fifteen years of living that already.
hell, he surprised me, he came right up to 'I can never see any of them again' on his own and accepted it on a dime. 'welp. that sucks. time to be Super Dramatic about it for the camera.' I think his feelings at the end of Local News are way magnified because he doesn't belong in the human world, but was just told the vampire one (and Nandor) has no use for him either.
and he has no real closure, he's saying goodbye over and over and over again because he has nowhere to leave to yet. the slow process is affording him a few more moments he can steal with people who at least openly love him (albeit imperfectly, on his part and theirs).
being a vampire would be something to celebrate if it happened the way he wanted it, with the sire and family he wanted. if he'd had a few days of hurt/comfort sick fic and then bounced out to live all his fantasies. but Guillermo isn't a vampire yet, hell he hasn't even eaten a guy. he's stuck in between worlds and unable to be present in either one. and Nandor's made it abundantly clear that Guillermo would be something to be destroyed, which would also destroy Nandor.
which means Guillermo is experiencing:
a body doing new, frightening things at unexpected times
becoming a stranger to the people you love
never knowing when you'll be found out as a Wrong Thing that needs to Die, which will make the people you care about suffer
all of which are extremely Vampire Things he wouldn't normally deal with. all of which is true for his human family, but for his vampire family hits fivefold. because that's the one he wasn't prepared for. Nandor was supposed to be who was waiting on the other side - not the price he paid for getting what he wanted.
"I have no country, I have no home, I have no people. I'm like a little lost duck, floating about in the middle of the ocean."
Guillermo's going to come out the other side of this with a new understanding of what vampires can go through. what Nandor, specifically, has been through.
but in the end, he's the one who knew the value of the vampires as a family first. remember 'these vampire pods never last long' just a few seasons ago? think of that vs Nandor rallying them all together this past episode.
in the end, when he does break through to the other side, I think Nandor will be waiting for him there. he'll surprise them both.