Maybe I am giving Charles Vane a complexity he doesn't have (not as a character, because almost all the characters of this show are great, but in-universe as a person) but I am thinking about what if when he told Eleanor he didn't do it for her re: killing Ned Lowe he is neither lying nor referring to Abigail Ashes and the price she might bring, but he has understood that Ned Lowe (as theorized in the tags of this https://www.tumblr.com/thematicparallel/795657718684860416?source=share post) is a dark mirror of himself, or at least of how others people, for example Flint (pre-season 2 ending) sees him, and so he had to kill him not only for Eleanor's sake but also because characters often have to kill their distorted mirror, and exhorcise out of the story the worst version of themselves, to be able to shine in all theirs complexity, something a caticature cartoonized of evil like Ned Lowe doesn't have.

















