❛ i know what you want, but i’m not going to give it to you, no matter how hard you try. so do your best. ❜
Vega raised an eyebrow - even though it was unseen under the mask - at her words.
"Is that so, my dear Evangeline?" he cooed into her ear as he pressed his deadly blades on her cheek. Within seconds, blood began to trickle from the cut.
"I still admire that fiery personality of yours," he whispered into her ear as he slowly lowered his claws to her jugular.
"Such a pity that I would have to cut away at your lovely skin."
i will never get over this scene, it’s the way vegas laughs at pete’s misery, the way he plays with his hair and chin, the way he taunts him in english, the way pete glares at him like he wants to rain hellfire upon vegas but can’t do anything, the way pete’s body may be at vegas’ mercy but his mind is still his and is still strong, unwavering and fiercely loyal, and the way vegas ends it all by callously pushing pete’s face aside like he’s now bored of his new pet
"Multiple research studies have examined the question of whether men who abuse women tend to be survivors of childhood abuse, and the link has turned out to be weak; other predictors of which men are likely to abuse women have proven far more reliable, as we will see. Notably, men who are violent toward other men are often victims of child abuse—but the connection is much less clear for men who assault women. The one exception is that those abusers who are brutally physically violent or terrifying toward women often do have histories of having been abused as children. In other words, a bad childhood doesn’t cause a man to become an abuser, but it can contribute to making a man who is abusive especially dangerous."
— Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, ch. 2