#also please tell me who came up with gilded cage Vito AU I cannot for the life of me remember

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Vito for the 4 headcanon thingy!

Yee haw! Note that I’m not a Vito expert so y’all can correct me if I fuck up

Realistic

Fucking hates his birthday. It feels like a bad omen every time it comes around— especially without Joe— and he tries to forget its existence. I’m writing a fic on this so it’s on the mind

Unrealistic, but funny

Told Sal to suck a dick within 5 days of meeting him. Sal returned the favor and Vito said “gladly”. Off to a great start fellas (I swear Sal and Vito interactions are always funny)

Heart-crushing and awful

Typically you’d imagine you could remember the first life you took, but Vito doesn’t. Not that he was drunk— he was as sober as you could be while being shot at— but it just felt like nothing. Boom, done. The ease of it all scared him so bad he puked in the middle of a battle and the medic threw an anti-emetic at him and went back to more important work. It’s the vomit that lingered more than whoever died.

Unrealistic, but fuck canon

Someone once mentioned having Vito be Leo’s “bird in a cage”, a trophy or even consolation prize for surviving Empire Bay. So instead of having Vito be shoved into the bum-ass part of town, he’s shoved into Frisco Fields, the land he always dreamed of with its manicured lawns and 3-story houses and pools in the backyard. It also means he has to deal with 1: the bigoted fucks, and 2: the unpleasant side of everything. The monotony of it all. He wanted security, but now he’s in a gilded cage that’s being melted down for its gold with him still in it. Idk, I’d have to develop it more but it’s a thought/AU