This is a thirst blog for this beautiful man from Better Call Saul!
(There are spoilers, just a heads up, but I'll update as I go!)
*This is a side blog, so I can't respond directly to comments, as it'll go to my main. I'll make an effort to interact as much as possible, though!
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RULES
What I write:
-Gender neutral reader, female reader, or female Y/N
-Smut, fluff, and angst!
-Oneshots, drabbles, or headcanons! No multi-chapter stuff here, but I can do two parters, if I feel I can write them.
-You can request if you'd like, but be respectful-please, thank you, all that jazz!
What I don't write:
-R***/noncon, incest, anything between an adult and a minor, blood (although I can make an exception if the reader has a period), abortion, necrophilia, Daddy kink (I'm fine with sir), foot kinks/fetish, slapping during sex, A/B/O, yandere (I don't really understand the appeal), poly relationships, piss, scat, food, emeto/vomit, age play, abuse of any kind, knife play, zoophilia.
I'm really sorry to say this, but I probably won't be coming back to this blog; I'm just not into Better Call Saul or Nacho as much as I was a few months ago.
I will leave everything up, but I won't be coming back, at least not anytime soon. I recently got into a new fandom and I'm currently struggling mentally to write and put out content.
That being said, feel free to like and reblog my posts :3
Thank you for the time we've had, the little interactions and such. I really loved each and every one of them.
heyyy guys 🫣 I know no one on here follows me for better call saul content but I hope this reaches the fandom because I am incredibly obsessed with bcs right now. nacho varga is the light of my life. I did this drawing a few months ago and desperately wanted to post it somewhere where it actually has a chance of reaching the fandom 🙏 if this gets anywhere near a decent amount of likes I'll post some old breaking bad fanart. I promise this won't be all of my posts I'm just in my brief brba/bcs era right now
Palestinian telecoms company says ‘all communications and Internet services’ with Gaza cut off, from Al Jazeera's live update (posted 39 minutes ago, 02:09 GMT)
Paltel said there is a “complete interruption” of the services with the Gaza Strip.
It said the interruption was caused by “international routes that were previously reconnected being cut off again”.
We’ll bring you more updates as soon as we get more information.
*Female reader, fluff, slight angst, s2ep9 spoilers, this is ridiculously short
The door creaked open, closing with a click as Nacho made his way into your house.
'Hey, babe!' He yelled, taking off his shoes and hanging his jacket on a peg near the door. 'Hi, Nacho!' You replied back. He grinned at your voice.
Nacho found you on the couch, snacking on a few chopped apples. You wore a plain shirt and sweatpants, but he thought you looked beautiful.
He'd been so tense and tired from the cleanup and confrontation with Mike about the hit on Ximenez. And Mike's insistence that he'd left nothing for the man to see, and the fact that Hector shot an innocent man who helped Ximenez.
Sometimes Nacho wondered if any of this- being in the cartel- was worth it. Sure, the money was great, but everything else was beginning to take a toll on him.
The warmth of your skin welcomed him as you brought him down for a hug that melted the coldness around his heart.
He allowed himself to hide his face into your neck, not trusting his eyes to hide the turmoil he still felt. Then he cursed himself silently.
You were one of the few people he hadn't told of the cartel, the other being his father. Why should he still think about it when he's around you?
'Thank you, love.' He murmured.
You hummed and set the plate aside, laying back and pulling him on top of you. He let you.
Resting his head in your neck, he felt your knees bend as you cradled him close. 'You're so tense, are you okay, Nacho?'
Of course.
If the set of his shoulders was any indication that he was worked up, then his poker face was top notch, right?
'Yeah, it was busy at work, is all.' He sighed, 'But I'm glad it's done for today.'
'Do you wanna do anything?' You asked. 'I don't feel like making anything, are noodles okay for tonight?'
He smiled at the thought of the huge box of cup noodles in your basement. You didn't eat them very often, mainly cooking something instead, but who could resist a good cup of noodles?
'Noodles are fine, thank you, babe.' Nacho lifted his head, staring at you. He couldn't believe how stunning you looked, and how sweet you were.
'How about we just sit here, for a few moments? I missed you.'
You giggled, cupping his cheek. The slight stubble on his jaw is rough on your palm, but you welcome the sensation. It's Nacho, after all.
'You saw me this morning, love. But that's so sweet of you.' You reply, and his heart cracks slightly. He feels so guilty for not telling you, but he wants to keep you out of the cartel as long as possible.
The less you know, the better.
He can't risk you being in the game too.
'What, I can't miss my girlfriend?' He chuckles, leaning down. Your lips are honey, soft like pillows on his. It's like time stops and it's you and him, him and you, just bathing in each other's presence.
'Just like this.' Nacho sighed, nuzzling your neck. 'That's fine, babe. For as long as we want.' You assured him, rubbing his arms.
It was moments like these that Nacho allowed himself to feel hopeful about his future with you.
He closed his eyes, letting you run your fingers on his bald head. Maybe, just maybe, he could run away with you and never look back.
But your honor, Kim and Nacho would be best friends. Both have a hatred love of Jimmy's crazy ass self, both like being little slimeballs when they're bored, both find Jimmy to be the most irritating, annoying, dumbass man in the world but they love him ofc.
Kim being bored, needing something fun to do, turning to Nacho for crazy "let's ruin a cartel boss' day" fun. Because as she said in the one episode, her and Jimmy are too chaotic to do fun pranks together because they take it too far. But her and Nacho? Nacho who has a sense of self control unlike Jimmy. Hell yeah. Kim and Jimmy could still be married for shits n' giggles and she could still have her fun with Nacho without going crazy and killing someone not saying any names.
They would have so much fun together you don't understand!! They'd be the tag team of pranksters! + Jimmy! The justice dealing duo! + Jimmy!
Kim and Nacho at the diner planning what asshole cartel leader they're gonna tactically plant cocaine on in broad daylight while Jimmy sits across from them eating pancakes and hash browns and a strawberry milkshake with an extra cherry. No Jimmy, you cannot get involved, focus on your pancakes.
They'd be such a good duo because both have self control and the ability to keep the other in check, while Jimmy and Kim don't have that relationship and work better as a silly husband and wife duo. I'm sure Nacho would work to keep Jimmy out of trouble, and since he's "friends" with Mike, the two would likely both make sure Jimmy doesn't get back into cartel stuff for his own good.
Honestly I found it really slow, and I kinda zoned out a few times 😅
I didn't start getting really into it till maybe the third season, but Chuck's point was already established haha! Same with Howard, I felt bad for him later on, but I hated him at first. And Price I just totally forgot about until I rewatched the episode
To me the big difference between Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is the sense of inevitably in the latter. Almost every thing Walter White did, I always thought "well, he didn't have to do that." Starting with the beginning when he decided to make drugs to make money for his family. But that's pretty much the point of the show that he didn't do any of this for his family. He just wanted power.
With Jimmy, I know he didn't have to do certain things like paying someone to fall off a Billboard sign so he could save him and get more clients, but there's just more of a feeling that 1. That's just who he is. He's a little corrupt. Unlike Walter, we never get to see him as a boring, regular law-abiding citizen. We learn about Slippin' Jimmy pretty early in the show so as far as we know, there is no other Jimmy McGill than this one. 2. He needed clients and, sure, this is a very unconventional way of getting them and it's wrong but it's also pretty harmless 🤷🏻♀️
And you do feel sorry for both, early on, but with Saul, I feel like towards the end, you either hate him or you love him, whereas with Walter, most people ended up hating him.
Saul actually redeemed himself at the very end, whereas Walter just wanted power, as you said. Saul did it to punish himself, and to reclaim the McGill name that he always had. Walter did redeem himself, by admitting why he did everything, but it was too late.
Okay uh I just saw a gif set of the scene where Nacho gets rescued by the twins, and I had a revelation but I have no idea if this has been pointed out before. I gave myself like 1 hour of research through tags to see if it was and I didn't find anything. But if it has been, sorry! Anyway here is another very long post about BCS because I have no self control anymore.
! TW blood and heavy spoilers !
So the thing is after all that time spent looking for Nacho and Lalo's outfits yesterday combined to the gif set, I just got hit by the fact that in the scene he's shot and found by the cousins, Nacho is wearing the same kind of shirt as in the very first time we see him.
I even thought at first it was the same shirt, but they are different. And it's a very interesting choice to make considering the scene.
It would have been awesome if it was the exact same shirt. Why?
Because Nacho gets badly hurt in this scene, right after being caught up by all his choices. He takes a bullet in the shoulder and in the side, which can be compared to many christian representations.
@seraphtrevs already did a splendid analysis of Nacho being a Christlike figure, so I wont be too long on that parallel, you can check out her post about it here .
So here Nacho is left to die in the desert, covered in blood, and between all the blood and the shirt pattern itself he looks like he's been torn apart by hell hounds and he just came back from the Purgatory. He's caught up by his actions, his choices, he's suffering for it.
It even goes further than just him being badly hurt in this outfit tho. The shirt even gets shredded by the hands of the cousins, the previous version of himself symbolically destroyed by the hands of a Salamanca. And when Leonel removes it with the help of the vet, it even looks hard to get rid of it, like the second skin of a snake if I push the comparison to an extreme.
And of course we have Marco giving him the Salamanca blood afterward, which is still an insane thing in terms of symbolism, I can't believe it happened. It's just plain "you've been torn apart, stripped of a part of you, and now we fill the emptiness of it with a part of us". Wild.
But still, why is it so interesting that Nacho has the same kind of outfit?
Because this exact scene happens when his traitorous side is revealed to one of the character that has a lot of power, Fring, and he's now to serve as a double agent. And so, putting him in a look alike outfit from the first apparence tells us that the Nacho we knew before has been killed. There is no way back. There is no healing from this. It's a permanent change. A permanent consequence to his actions. And after all this, Nacho's desire for power and money starts to disappear (and he's been going down this road for a while once his dad is threatened, but this whole situation seals it I believe).
So Nacho doesn't wear the exact same shirt. It would have been great for the blatant symbolism of it all, BUT the fact that it's slightly different gives us the opportunity to actually see something more.
We have 3 scenes with Nacho that happens in the desert and that kind of echoes each other with their similarities (multiple people gathered, all there to solve a problem, and there is at least one Salamanca in each one). And if we take a look at his outfits in the 3 scenes, that's where it becomes even more interesting than just the first comparison.
So let's take a look at the 3 outfits during those 3 key scenes.
We have the first scene we meet Nacho. The pattern is blotchy, black and white (or maybe blue/green/grey something like that, it depends of the light). It's messy, a bit wild looking.
It fits Nacho's personality at the beginning of the series. He's got more wit to him, he makes reckless decisions/have reckless ideas (Selling his own stuff on a cartel territory with the pills, terrible planning of a robbery, plotting Tuco's death, hiding his illegal activities to his dad, planning Hector's death, etc)
Also black and white suits his personality and his double agent role pretty well. Nacho is stubborn, he has a strong personality. The heavy contrast of black and white fits the way he's capable to strike with his words as well as his fists. He's a sharp thing. He's also in a grey place when it comes to morals, like most of the characters in the show.
Then we have the scene where he's shot and found by the cousins. Like we said we still have a shirt that have some similarities with the first one.
It's still a heavy black and white pattern, blotchy, it's irregular BUT there is more structure to it already. We can discern horizontal and vertical lines creating something like a grid pattern.
Compared to the first shirt we could assume it represent his change of direction in life. At this moment he got scared of Hector killing his dad, so he acted to get rid of this menace. Nacho isn't looking for more money and power. He's trying to survive and keep his dad safe. He can't be as reckless as before, he has to think things through. So, more planification for survival, more restrain, more care into what he does.
But then, we get to his last scene.
The pattern isn't blotchy at all anymore. Still black and white. We have the horizontal and vertical lines still present from the precedent shirt, and of course they look like crosses. But there is still a bit of wildness/irregularity to this pattern, with the way the lines doesn't all connect, it isn't just crosses all over it.
Nacho has drastically changed. He's still himself deep down, but there is all the things that changed in him too. At this point he went through everything, and finds himself in a dead-end. He's been obeying orders but also staying alert to not fall into another manipulation, he's more sharp than ever in his perception, still playing his last cards thoughtfully. He's been stripped of so much, all his hopes for a new life, no more desire for power and money at all, he's even sick of all this cartel thing. There is almost no more wildness to him, he was forced to become more calculating and cold in order to survive and protect. And his last moments are spent to surviving long enough to make sure his dad will be safe, to punish the Salamanca once more by revealing what he did to Hector (and there we can see his wild side exploding, it's raw but controlled), and keeping the choice to take his own life instead of letting others have that power over him.
To me, these 3 shirts, using them for desert scenes, it just screams morphing patterns, and so his mind morphing too.
