I’ve got an unpopular hot take about Vegaspete:
I don’t think “escaping the generational curse of the mafia” is a happy ending for them. Maybe for Porsche and Kinn, I can see that. Porsche never wanted this life and has experienced happiness outside of it. Kinn, while raised within the mafia world, could easily exist without it. It might be hard at first, but Kinn at least had, at one point, dreams outside the mafia world (i.e. being a singer). And even outside that, he could probably exist within an above-board business.
But Pete and Vegas? I know we like to say that they’re lucky, that after everything, they got what everyone else wanted—an escape from the mafia. But Vegas isn’t like Kinn; he, as far as we know, has had no other dream than receiving his father’s approval and receiving the credit he’s due within the family business. Between that and Vegas’ extreme interests and violent tendencies, a normal life would be miserable. He wouldn’t be able to exist within that space for long without crawling back into the Bangkok underworld.
And Pete? He was fucking born to violence. He was abused his entire life, and then became a weapon for violence. For a majority of his adult life, that’s how he perceives himself first. Tool/weapon first, and a person second. Sure, he remembers his feelings, his humanity, after finding love in Vegas, but that doesn’t erase who he is and what’s been normalized for him.
The way I see it, the only way I see them existing outside the mafia is for Macau’s safety. But after he’s grown up? After he’s moved out and distanced himself from his childhood? What’s to stop Vegas and Pete from going back to their old life??? They were made for violence. Violence brought them together, made them fall in love. I see no way they’d be able to live happily outside that for very long.
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Evil straight men in fiction are boring. I mean, there's nothing new about them. They're everywhere in real life too so like.. where's the fun in that? Evil gay men on the other hand? ohohoho chef's KISS. Let me see you with that homoerotic tension with your enemy. Watch me cheer as you try to kill him, but then turn around and murder anyone who lays a hand on him. Yeah you attic husband the shit out of him you crazy bastard you! Basically, watching men being toxic towards each other is far more fun than watching men being toxic towards women because the former is the perfect package of horny + true love + evil cat while the latter is just... reality. If I wanted reality, WHY would I even be here lol
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Look in all seriousness you can't redeem a character without showing them being pathetic, deep loser energy. There are no cool redemption arcs. They have to be in the trenches. They have to hate themselves for the mistakes they made. They have to apologize and take whatever is given be it forgiveness or a punch to the jaw. ONLY then will the redemption arc be actually good because it will be cathartic. And then they get to see the good things, they get to be touched gently and held while they sleep.
These things can overlap, even into a circle but without the pathetic loser boy saga your redemption arc will feel hollow.
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headcanon time!
i'm gonna say that Pete prefers to eat rice over noodles while Vegas prefers noodles over rice
in Pete's introduction scene, he's seen eating rice
this is food he's eating of his own will instead of what the main family gives the bodyguards in the cafeteria, because "it tastes way better".
for Vegas, my half-assed argument is that he cooked noodles for Pete in the safehouse
that means the safehouse is stocked with noodles, maybe because that's what Vegas likes to eat.
and now comes my favorite part of this headcanon. because what are Pete and Vegas eating in their respective "cry into my dinner" scenes after Pete escapes the safehouse?
Vegas has a plate of rice and Pete has a bowl of noodles. they're eating the type of food that the other person likes to eat.
they're not eating for comfort, they're not eating to fill their stomachs, they're eating to remember (each other). i might even go as far as to say they're eating for penance.
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