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Vox seems like the workaholic type to me so sometimes his “business” partner has to force him to sleep <3
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I SWEAR I HAVE NOT SEEN A SINGLE PERSON TALK ABOUT THIS SCENE THE WAY I SAW IT AND I’M LOSING MY MIND SO HERE’S MY RANT.
This was THE moment where Valentino’s entire character snapped into focus. NOT because of violence, NOT because of dominance, but because of BOUNDARIES.
Everyone spent the whole first half of the season painting Valentino as “the weak one,” the “scared one,” the one “under Vox’s thumb,” like he was just this pathetic wet cat clinging to his terrifying TV boyfriend, and this episode proved beyond doubt that Valentino was never physically powerless, “too scared to fight back,” or physically beneath Vox. HE COULD HAVE DESTROYED VOX AT ANY TIME. He is terrifying when he wants to be. He rips the man’s HEAD off like he’s removing a stubborn jar lid. This is not someone who is “too weak” to defend himself.
The gag is this: He didn’t. BECAUSE. HE. LOVED. HIM. That was the line he wouldn’t cross. Hurting Vox (seriously) was the one thing he would not do. Until this scene.
Because THIS, AND THIS ALONE, was the thing that finally crossed Valentino’s boundary. Not Vox yelling. Not Vox controlling him. Not Vox being arrogant or cruel or bigoted or insufferably smug. No. Valentino doesn’t freak out over any of that, because that’s just “Vox being Vox.” He’s lived with that for years. He knows that version of Vox. He’s built his life around that version.
What he cannot handle, what cracks him open, is Vox finally admitting, out loud, that he does not care if he lives or dies, essentially saying “I don’t care if I die as long as Alastor goes down with me.”
Do people understand what a HORROR that is for Valentino?
That is the exact moment he realizes: “Oh. You don’t care if YOU survive. You don’t care if WE survive. You would trade your own life—AND MINE, AND VELVETTE’S—just to settle a seven-year grudge.”
THAT is the betrayal. The betrayal is Vox giving up on EXISTENCE. The betrayal is Vox saying “You don’t matter enough to keep me alive.” The betrayal is Vox saying “WE don’t matter enough to keep me alive.”
And THAT is when Valentino stops being gentle. He tries, obviously, he reaches out softly, and it is the softest this man has ever been, and Vox SHOVES HIM AWAY, and that’s it. The moment Vox rejects the olive branch, the moment Vox chooses oblivion over their bond, Valentino flips from heartbroken to survival mode.
Not because he stopped loving him, but because loving him is EXACTLY why he refuses to let Vox kill them all.
So he does the one thing he’s never done before: he hurts him. He yanks his entire head off, violently and decisively, not out of anger, but out of sheer terror that the man he loves is trying to die.
This whole time, he wasn’t restrained because he was weak. He was restrained because he cared.
And the ONLY thing that finally pushed him past that restraint was the realization that Vox would rather annihilate himself—and everyone around him—than let go of the stupid deer vendetta.
This is not “Vox being Vox.” This is Valentino realizing: “Oh. You stopped choosing life. And if you stop choosing life, I have to choose it for you.”
Valentino’s not naïve. He didn’t “miss the red flags.” He walked into the field, collected the flags, waved them around like parade banners, and kissed the man holding them. He knew EXACTLY who Vox was, and he still said yes.
Valentino doesn’t rip Vox’s head off to win. He’s not trying to dominate him. He’s not trying to “put him in his place.” It’s literally the opposite. He takes Vox’s head because he has NO OTHER WAY to keep him alive.
Also let’s talk about the symbolism because YES, IT’S SYMBOLIC.
Vox loses his HEAD. The part he thinks with. The part he plots with. The part he obsesses with. The part that is STUCK on Alastor like a looping broadcast. And Valentino literally rips off the part of Vox that wants to die. Valentino and Velvette are left holding the part of Vox that matters most to them: the part that thinks, schemes, talks, curses, teases, obsessively obsesses over them. The part that defines him as Vox. The body, all the posturing, the brute force, the physical dominance? Not necessary. Gone.
The audacity of this scene is unreal. This is love distilled to pure preservation of the self he cannot lose, and it hits harder than any overtly romantic scene ever could.
its been years and i still think what the magicians syfy did to quentin was one of the worst instances of kill your gays ever put on television. destiel has nothing on queliot, not even fucking close.
you ever think about how pilot Eliot had to have rolled up on pilot Margo like “oh my god let me tell you about this cute new boy, SO cute”
Spoilers for the Old Guard 2 below the break
How did Nile NOT accidentally injure one of them in six months time? She supposedly has this power to take away immortality from the beginning and they would be training her with weapons aggressively. She got Andy straight out of the gate.
It doesn't work. Sorry Rucka. Its not feasible that she wouldn't land a blow in all that time.
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Somebody give Quentin Coldwater a hug. And a bump of ketamine. It wouldn't fix him and it might make him worse but he looks like he needs it. I need both of those things after the season 4 finale
Because I've really gone down the rabbit hole, I was reading a Wiki to see which villains have kids in the Descendants, and some of them really make the whole thing downright dystopian. Like apparently in one of the books, there is Eddie Balthazar, the son of Edgar the butler from the Aristocats. "Yeah, I grew up on a garbage criminal island trapped in a magic barrier because my father.....tried to get rid of some cats. He didn't even try to kill them, he just tried to send them away." C'mon now, good guys, that's harsh.
A Descendants fic idea, beware for here there be angst.
I'm typing this on my break, so excuse that its a fast unelaborate posting.
In a future where the Ilse of the Lost was completely shut off from Aurodon forever, no contact, no supplies restocks, ect....
Eventually most of the population dies right? Except for Hades who is a god, with a domain over death.
It's not really that different from his life in the underworld, it's a return to form of sorts. It's something Hades is intimately familiar with running and shepherding.
Yes he's cut off from most of his power, but the more people who die, with each new soul he gains he gets a little more powerful.
If he ever gets out there will be hell to pay, but meanwhile he bids his time. He oversees burials, makes sure the dead receive the courtesy they didn't in life.
I might write a piece or two of this, but at the very least I needed to share the idea of it.
God, rewatching The Magicians makes me feel for Eliot SO MUCH. I LOVE HIM! HE'S BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH! Having to snap the neck of the only man you have been comfortable enough to open up to about your past that you try so hard to hide? And then losing the man you never got the chance to tell you loved because he died while saving you and the world? YOU'RE KIDDING!
Why... just why?
Premise--> an angst AU, so not out of the ordinary for me.
Plot--> Both Quentin and Eliot survive the monster, but Quentin still gets together with Alice before they manage to save Eliot with the axe.
Eliot is... bereft to put it nicely. He heads back to Fillory with Margo and season 5 unfolds but Eliot just isn't there for it.
I want him to take on the mountain of ghosts subplot as a way to put his new reality into perspective. He isn't grieving Q's death so much as he is his personal failures. He's grieving the death of the person he could have been, the love he could have had, he's mourning the loss of possibility. If he'd been brave in the throne room then maybe....
And I want Seb to be there as this temptation, as a distraction, as this unhealthy possibility that Eliot embraces because why not? He's already ruined the best thing to ever happen to him.
Margo is clueless. She has no idea why Eliot is acting like his strings are cut. She doesn't have the context because Eliot hasn't told her the truth. She's not mad at him, per say, but she's frustrated and fed up.
Quentin meanwhile is struggling with a relationship he shouldn't have started. He and Alice are disfunctional as ever.
I think it all eventually ends happy, but there's so many dynamics to unpack!!
Im reblogging this, but to flesh out a little bit that wont leave my brain.
I want Eliot to be diligently waiting for Quentin to wake up. He and Julia are bedside besties, and Julia leaves to get them food, takes a specific order for Eliot and everything.
Alice shows up while Julia's gone and reads him like a book. She sees what he plans to do, and makes it clear that he shouldn't wait, that Margo is eager to head back to Fillory and Eliot should go with her. Alice makes it clear in not so many words that she's The Girlfriend and we cue the Eliot bereft portion of this idea.
Alice tells him they'll be sure to send a bunny as soon as Quentin is awake and out of the hospital.
He leaves. Julia comes back, specific food order in hand, is very confused, and subsequently very very angry.
Alice knows she's been caught at her own game, and realizes its going to end badly.
When Q wakes up, naturally asking FOR Eliot Julia is going to rub the salt in the wound so hard that Alice is the reason he's not there. Angry Julia is vindictive protective Julia.
I'm adding more.
Quentin doesn't take the news that Alice encouraged Eliot to return to Fillory well at all, and low and behold when they try to send bunnies to Fillory they refuse to go because Fillory has jumped ahead 300 years and they can't make the transition.
Quentin is confused, understandably worried, and unfortunately, not yet well enough to go through the clock after Eliot and Margo.
Alice knows she's messed up, how was she supposed to know bunnies wouldn't work?
When Quentin wants an explanation Alice doesn't really have one to give. Because she could see that Eliot is in love with Quentin seems too obvious, it's petty on her part. It paints her as obviously jealous.
She'd try to turn the blame back on Eliot as much as she can. If Eliot thought it was important that he be there when Quentin woke up he would have stayed. That deflates Quentin anger a little and dials his emotions more toward hurt, because why wouldn't Eliot want to see him?
Maybe it's because of the monster and all the times it had hurt him. If Eliot is dealing with those memories then Quentin rationalize that he needs to give Eliot space.
When Quentin is released from the hospital they all end up back at the penthouse.
Julia's magical powers are slowly returning, and Quentin throws his energy and time into helping her recover her magic. Julia is pretty sure that the only reason Eliot left is because of Alice and she makes every effort to convince Quentin that something doesn't add up.
Unfortunately, the longer Eliot stays gone and out of contact the more uneasy Quentin becomes. He decides to go to Fillory to find his friends, and when he does he realizes the truth that Eliot and Margo are already dealing with. Fillory has jumped forward hundreds of years, is under the control of a dark king.
Time for a new addition, Eliot and Margo update:
When Eliot returns from the hospital and tells Margo he's ready to go back to Fillory Margo's kinda floored, Eliot had been dead-set on waiting for Quentin to wake up and recover before they went back, so what changed ? When all Eliot tells her is that Q and Alice was back together it makes her a little furious, because she doesn't have the context of the mosaic to really understand why Eliot is so dejected and hurt.
She knows ElIot loves him. She's known that much since Eliot refused to let Quentin stay at Blackspire. What she doesn't understand is why Quentin doesn't seem to realize the same thing. She tries to talk Eliot into staying, but Eliot is insistent that they go, so they do, and find themselves in a future Fillory where Josh and Fen are dead.
The change only seems to make Eliot's mood worse. He's not 100% fully healed from the axe wound, they abruptly find themselves without allies and the safe-haven of Whitespire. To make matters worse bunnies won't take their messages back to Earth. The pair are left unsure if they can safely use the clocktree because of the time-jump.
It doesn't take them long to figure out what happened to Josh and Fen. When they break into Whitespire they manage to meet the dwarf who controls time before Margo is captured and locked in the dungeons.
Eliot is... he's struggling, he angry at Margo for bravenly taking risks, and frustrated with how nothing seems to work in their favor. He's grappling with a deep well of self inflicted guilt, pain, and frustration. The memories of the mosaic and the happy place are all mixed in his head and compounded by a feeling of unrealized bravery. He'd survived the monster by leaning hard on the hope that he'd have the chance to set things right with Q, but the one thing that had supported him has now been ripped right from under him.
Out of obligation to Margo he's goes to Jane, and the talk they have, well, it doesn't do much to calm the storm. In an effort to save Josh, Fen, and Margo he steals Jane's supply of time altering materials.
He and Margo douse each other in Permanance and find the stamps. When Margo keeps failing to send a letter to Josh that has a positive impact and eventually gives up it breaks what little emotional control Eliot has left.
He's furious at her for giving up, for being so blase about her feelings for Josh and her willingness to just let him go. He calls her on it, on her insensitivity, and her coldness, calls her out for the shell she's built around herself. He does it partially because he cares, and doesn't want to see Margo make the same mistakes he has made with Quentin. Needing to clear his head and figure out a plan he leaves, and after a short deliberation decides to send a final letter urging Josh and Fen to find the time dwarf.
When Josh and Fen are successful, Eliot is waiting for them. He explains Margo's location to Josh and tells them that he needs some space to try and clear his head. Blowing up at Margo hadn't made anything better, and until he deals with his shit he's not really helping anyone.
Margo is still missing the context of the mosaic, and that Eliot turned down Quentin's offer of a potential relationship. She's frustrated from being trapped, Eliot getting angry with her, and storming off without a clear plan to free her scares her. When Josh shows up, thanking her for her last letter, she's both confused and even more frustrated because Eliot has disappeared.
i love the part in every magicians episode when they pick a piece of paper from a hat and it decides which character gets to trauma dump this time
everytime i rewatch the magicians my penny x alice shipper heart grows three sizes
Why... just why?
Premise--> an angst AU, so not out of the ordinary for me.
Plot--> Both Quentin and Eliot survive the monster, but Quentin still gets together with Alice before they manage to save Eliot with the axe.
Eliot is... bereft to put it nicely. He heads back to Fillory with Margo and season 5 unfolds but Eliot just isn't there for it.
I want him to take on the mountain of ghosts subplot as a way to put his new reality into perspective. He isn't grieving Q's death so much as he is his personal failures. He's grieving the death of the person he could have been, the love he could have had, he's mourning the loss of possibility. If he'd been brave in the throne room then maybe....
And I want Seb to be there as this temptation, as a distraction, as this unhealthy possibility that Eliot embraces because why not? He's already ruined the best thing to ever happen to him.
Margo is clueless. She has no idea why Eliot is acting like his strings are cut. She doesn't have the context because Eliot hasn't told her the truth. She's not mad at him, per say, but she's frustrated and fed up.
Quentin meanwhile is struggling with a relationship he shouldn't have started. He and Alice are disfunctional as ever.
I think it all eventually ends happy, but there's so many dynamics to unpack!!
Im reblogging this, but to flesh out a little bit that wont leave my brain.
I want Eliot to be diligently waiting for Quentin to wake up. He and Julia are bedside besties, and Julia leaves to get them food, takes a specific order for Eliot and everything.
Alice shows up while Julia's gone and reads him like a book. She sees what he plans to do, and makes it clear that he shouldn't wait, that Margo is eager to head back to Fillory and Eliot should go with her. Alice makes it clear in not so many words that she's The Girlfriend and we cue the Eliot bereft portion of this idea.
Alice tells him they'll be sure to send a bunny as soon as Quentin is awake and out of the hospital.
He leaves. Julia comes back, specific food order in hand, is very confused, and subsequently very very angry.
Alice knows she's been caught at her own game, and realizes its going to end badly.
When Q wakes up, naturally asking FOR Eliot Julia is going to rub the salt in the wound so hard that Alice is the reason he's not there. Angry Julia is vindictive protective Julia.
I'm adding more.
Quentin doesn't take the news that Alice encouraged Eliot to return to Fillory well at all, and low and behold when they try to send bunnies to Fillory they refuse to go because Fillory has jumped ahead 300 years and they can't make the transition.
Quentin is confused, understandably worried, and unfortunately, not yet well enough to go through the clock after Eliot and Margo.
Alice knows she's messed up, how was she supposed to know bunnies wouldn't work?
When Quentin wants an explanation Alice doesn't really have one to give. Because she could see that Eliot is in love with Quentin seems too obvious, it's petty on her part. It paints her as obviously jealous.
She'd try to turn the blame back on Eliot as much as she can. If Eliot thought it was important that he be there when Quentin woke up he would have stayed. That deflates Quentin anger a little and dials his emotions more toward hurt, because why wouldn't Eliot want to see him?
Maybe it's because of the monster and all the times it had hurt him. If Eliot is dealing with those memories then Quentin rationalize that he needs to give Eliot space.
When Quentin is released from the hospital they all end up back at the penthouse.
Julia's magical powers are slowly returning, and Quentin throws his energy and time into helping her recover her magic. Julia is pretty sure that the only reason Eliot left is because of Alice and she makes every effort to convince Quentin that something doesn't add up.
Unfortunately, the longer Eliot stays gone and out of contact the more uneasy Quentin becomes. He decides to go to Fillory to find his friends, and when he does he realizes the truth that Eliot and Margo are already dealing with. Fillory has jumped forward hundreds of years, is under the control of a dark king.
Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.
Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.
Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭
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