Head canon Vengeance with how Tommy and Alfie deal with it separately?
Tommy was calculated with his vengeance, creating airtight plans. He was quite composed for someone who was plotting a bloody revenge, but he justified it by claiming that the longer it took, the more likely it was the appropriate people suffered. Yes, at times it was difficult to remain patient, but he usually kept it under control with some whisky and enough pounds into the wall to make his knuckles bleed. So Tommy’s vengeance was calculated—a game at times—to see how far and long he could stretch the agony out for. It was some scattered, threatening letters, an ominous message written in red paint on the wall, a finger or ear of a loved one delivered in a ribboned packaged on the weekend. And it wasn’t heartless, no, Tommy argued, because they had requested this type of treatment by throwing the first punch.
Alfie on the other hand was much more reactionary, taking advantage of the first opportunity to shoot or beat someone senseless. It tended to be a myth that Solomons had all of his dirty work done for him, because there was a certain, indescribable pleasure in knowing that Alfie’s facial features would be the last ones his enemy’s beady eyes focused on—a pleasure that was oftentimes too tempting to pass on.
Yet as they spent more time in each other’s narratives and Alfie’s health slowly waned, their individual approaches became conglomerates of the two. Alfie more frequently resisted further damaging his body in pursuit of vengeance and accepted insight from Tommy on how to execute a plan, while Tommy now became addicted to impulsive decisions—his knuckles more frequently dripping in someone else’s blood. There was, in fact, no greater pleasure.
