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Vegas is a proper villain

Vegas hired the female assassin to attack Porsche (and Kinn) to test his skills...

BEFORE his dad asked him to follow Porsche

Vegas dated Tawan first before Kinn, but Vegas wanted Tawan to infiltrate the main family by dating Kinn, something Tawan looked miserable over because he loved Vegas so much.

Vegas has a solid villain motive for doing this - he wanted to prove himself to his abusive homophobic father

The way his dad killed Ken makes me think the dad believed something was happening between them ("What the hell are you and Vegas doing?!") which only made him more violent towards Ken. And the only reason his dad demanded he follow Porsche is because he is using what he hates about his son to his advantage.

In both of the examples, Vegas does not have a true attachment to either Porsche or Tawan. He doesn't care about Porsche's attractiveness, and looks at himself in the mirror rather than Tawan. He doesn't see them, only what they can do for him, so he is a step ahead of his dad each time; before his dad can truly use him, he'll use others first. He has talked often about the main family's treatment of his family (that is a different post!), but it reinforces his rationalization. His family has been used many times by the main family to clean up the dirty messes, so they aren't family. They are employees. Can't care if everyone is a pawn and disposable in the main family's game of chess including himself.

Like Disney, moms are dead here, which supports Vegas being distant from people. Love is a weakness that Kinn has shown, and Vegas noted ("Kinn's got his heart broken again because he gets fooled again by the ones he trusts most and the main family will get weaker and weaker"). Can't get hurt if you don't get attached. Can't be fooled if you don't trust anyone. We see this trust/distrust motif throughout the series with all the characters, except one...

Pete.

Who is loyal to the main family.

Who is fine with being a pawn.

Who volunteers to be disposable.

Who trusts unconditionally.

Vegas isn't an antagonist for Kinn. When we really look at it, Kinn and Vegas are parallels. They are on different ends of the same spectrum and battle with the same vices. Vegas needs a foil, a Dr. Jekyll to his Mr. Hyde, and Kinn isn't it. Kinn didn't save Porsche by battling Vegas. Kinn isn't playing a cat-and-mouse game with Vegas. It's Pete, which means Pete is the true hero of this arch.

Vegas is a proper villain...for Pete.

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i have too much joie de vivre for this

vegas: you ruined all my plans 😡 i'm gonna make you regret it. get ready for 500 volts straight to the balls.

pete, a masochist:

Instead of apologizing for liking "trashy" media, consider: what is it doing well? If you like it, if it's making you feel pleasure and interest, then it must be succeeding at something. Is it shaping a set of emotional beats that you find satisfying to watch play out? Did it craft a character you find really compelling? Is something in the styling and aesthetics speaking to you? Did it unexpectedly resonate with a mood or experience you needed to see reflected right then?

However shallow or flawed a piece of media is, if you like it, it's because of something it did well - at least well enough to affect you, on the day that you encountered it.

There are a lot of good reasons to acknowledge this. One is about gratitude and manners: someone worked hard on that thing, and if they provided something that gave you happiness and pleasure, it's nice to honor that. Another is about breaking down the insidious habit of sorting everything into simple good/bad boxes. A piece of media, like a person, can do a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right, and the things on one side do not magically erase the other.

But the most important reason, I believe, is to get in the habit of celebrating what brings you pleasure and happiness. All your life there have been and there will be people telling you that you find joy in the wrong things, that if a particular thing makes you feel good it shows that there's something wrong with you. I reject that utterly. If a particular thing makes you feel good then there's something right, about you and about that thing. I'm not saying that pleasure is the only important thing or that every pleasure should be indulged indiscriminately. All I'm saying is that pleasure is in and of itself a good thing, and deserves notice.

Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.