also on the subject of vscott being manipulative, gaslight-y, and victimblame-y, although there is a level of truth to it, despite his claims of being evil, scott legitamently trusts anyone who comes along and says they're on his side.
I maintain his lack of empathy for humans and gaslight-y behavior comes from his millenia-plus gap from humanity, and a lack of human morals.
A great example of this is Apo. Apo killed Scott four times. From his POV, he kept his cool at the woman who murdered him four times and offered her the gift, which she then took of her own accord. He was incredibly generous. From Apo's perspective, however, this almighty being threatened to end her and turn others if she didn't take this curse. Legitimately, Scott's responses to Apo in the future aren't victimblaming on purpose. He just actually believes his response was not only justified but generous.
Later, his response to a betrayal from Pyro stem from him trusting Pyro COMPLETELY and feeling utterly betrayed.
To 1000+ y/o scott, he cannot comphrend why Pyro would be even looking for a cure, he's taken well to vampire life, and I think, in some messed up corner of scotts brain, he thinks the terrified defferance is a friendship with Pyro.
Scott doesn't seem to actively care whether the others look for a cure, as long as it doesn't affect him. He also, notably, waited until Pyro gave them information that could be possibly dangerous to other vampires (the mineshaft is safe) to confront him at all. When he does confront him, Scott follows up with "I won't hurt you" and while from Pyros pov this is textbook manipulation, but I legitimately think Scott meant it.
To Scott, Pyro is more of an unruly teenager, going through a rebellious phase. I think deep down he feels some sort of care for Pyro, at the very least he trusted him, so his betrayal stings. But, he legitimately doesn't want to hurt Pyro, and can't see the fact that Pyro's loyalty doesn't come from any returned care, but absolute terror.
Or perhaps scott does recognize the absolute terror, and simply prefers it.
However, despite being betrayed twice this episode, scott also IMMEDIATELY welcomes Apo back. Now, perhaps in ep.6 we will see more nuance from his opinion of Apo, but atm, he seems okay to trust her again.
I think this is because of another telling line we got from scott this episode,
It's not that scott is stupid, it's that he is so confident I'm his ability and power that he knows he can survive. He cares about traitors on more of a personal betrayal level, rather than a fear of the damage they could do.
Scott is a wolf amongst the sheep and he knows it, even other vampires are leagues below him in his eyes, he doesn't have to be fearful, he has to be prepared.
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