I think that Guillermo, at the end of Laszlo's 'Roast' party in episode 7, will reveal his secret.
The party will most certainly devolve into a roast of him instead, because of course it will. Because Nandor won't be able to make clever jokes or get anyone to laugh and in order to save his ego he'll do what he always does in those situations and sacrifice Guillermo in its place. He'll say unnecessarily cruel things because he thinks no one person can be more important to him than the fear of his own weakness. He'll pile it on too. One thing after the other. Maybe the other vampires invited to the roast will laugh along because familiars are easy marks. And the heat will build. There's only so many lashes Guillermo can take on behalf of Nandor's pride. And Laszlo, Nadja, and Colin are starting to grimace and wince.
And that's when Guillermo will do it.
He will stand up, with the chair he was sitting in making a horrible noise across the wood floor like a record scratch. To let you know that the party has been violently cut short.
And Laszlo will do a panicked head shake, maybe try to salvage the situation from the precipice that Nandor has unknowingly brought them to. That Guillermo is about to jump off of. With all of them helplessly attached.
Guillermo was put in the audience on the other side of the room. Already segregated from the rest of the group. He's in a room filled with vampires who were just laughing at him but now look. Nandor's peers. The whole vampire community is here, watching him.
Guillermo's vampires sit across from him at a long table with a podium, like a panel of judges. Like he's a prisoner standing before the pulpit awaiting a verdict. He's got one last moment to either swallow the pride he just started to embrace on a float earlier that year and sit back down, let himself be ridiculed like always but live to see another day ... or burn it all down like it deserves to be, with his plea of guilt.
Holding a struck match, Guillermo will finally speak the truth to Nandor. To everyone. The real truth. The one he hasn't spoken out loud yet. The one nobody knows.
He will say, "I have a joke." And everyone will listen.
"I paid to have some barely-turned, low-rank, nothing of a vampire. Who hasn't even been one longer than I have been a familiar…to bite me. And turn me. In the back room of a gas station where he works. And he did it."
"I've been turned by a vampire that wasn't my master. That wasn't you."
Guillermo's jittered, bitchy energy tapers. He no longer fidgets or looks around at the faces slack-jawed at him. He's gone cold.
Like a killer, he delivers the next blow straight at his master's heart, sitting across the room at the podium, similarly frozen in place.
"But that's not the joke."
"The joke is, I may not have known how taboo it was…that it would be such a big deal to everyone else…but I did know…" (he licks his lips and despite his unshakable intent the uncontrollable emotion he always carries inside him threatens to undo his composure. Still, he keeps his voice loud and steady. Mostly. His attention is focused. His eyes start getting a little wet, but he hardly notices. He's going to follow through.)
"I didn't even really do it because I wanted to. Not then, or like that. (Not with him). Not for the same reason I had wanted to do it before. Or the reason I told Laszlo and Nadja I did it."
"See…the joke is…"
(His voice has become softer. It still carries across the room easily. There is no one else in the whole house but Guillermo and Nandor.)
"I did it because I knew how it would make you feel."
"I did it because I wanted to hurt you."
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So I want to talk about Tai for a second.
Specifically I want to talk about this moment right here:
Tai says point blank that he’s wanted to get rid of his hearing loss but he doesn’t feel any better now that it’s gone.
Of course I think he hates the way it happened, no one wants to go through anything even remotely similar to what he is going through right now. The emotional pain of having argued with someone important to you, the mental pain of knowing you fucked up in so many situations that you can’t figure your way out of. But this is something he’s wanted for at least the last 2 years. But by his own admission, he doesn’t feel better and I don’t think that’s going to chance any time soon.
It’s been talked about by everyone that Tai’s conflict resolution style is to clam up, to go silence and refuse to communicate. This is why this moment and the ensuing arguement with Patts is so painful. I agree with @bengiyo when he said that Tai is someone who reads too much romance. He has a skewed view of the way relationships are supposed to work. I also think though, that as time as gone on Tai has become more aware of that. He is still naive and fucks up so badly it’s completely understand why Patts reacts the way he does, but I don’t think he’s unaware of his fault. However he lacks the ability to convey the way he feels ( @lurkingshan and @ginnymoonbeam both have great posts here and here in which they discuss his conflict style and lack of ability to communicate) and now he has lost the best tool he had for making Patts believe that Tai finally knows that he will always choose Patts.
For all of Tai’s hang ups about the soulmate bond, I think he also recognizes that Patts doesn’t have those hang ups and that he does hold the believe that it means that they were meant to chose each other. It’s why Patts gets anxious, angry and upset when Lomfon acts the way he does. Why he is so frantic when he tries to confront Tai about it. Sure Tai might not have talked to him for 2 years, but he was still there and they still found their way to each other and that had to meant something, right?
But now it’s gone and Tai doesn’t know how to tell Patts that he does choose Patts because not only should Patts have already known that but the connection was also always there to prove it. Tai shouldn’t have to say it out loud because he shouldn’t have too. Again he thinks Patts should already know that. It’s horribly naive and shows Tai’s lack of dating experience but it’s what he believes in that moment.
The show is of course trying to point out that they don’t need it to have a successful relationship. They need hard work and good communication, but within the internal logic of the universe, I get why Tai would think this. Why should Patts doubt that Tai would choose him. They’ve already said they choose each other and they have (had) that connection.
But now that connection is gone. It’s gone because of Tai and he already regrets that it’s gone and that he took it away. I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out later that he wants it back. A classic case of don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.
Hopefully before that happens (if it does), Patts and Tai will finally communicate with each other and get on the same page and learn how to work around their conflicts in way that both are able to do. Tai needs to grow up a bit more and learn that life’s not a romance novel (even though we might want it to be sometimes) and that it’s hard but worth it to try and make the best of it.
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So... they had to have known, right? The people who live in Rivendell, I mean. Like, even if you're not particularly invested in the Doings of Mortals, Elladan and Elrohir were there when Arathorn died, and Elrond is close with all of them. It's good manners to at least know about it. It's also good manners, I imagine, to not comment on it when a woman and her son move in and Elrond insists that the boy's name is Estel. Like, you know, and he knows that you know, after all, Rivendell has been a safe haven for the families of Arnor's kings since the kingdom was founded, almost, but the one person that Elrond insists should not know is the child himself.
And that goes on for twenty years, which isn't so long, not by your reckoning, and to be fair for most of that time there's not really any call to discuss it with him, but maybe when he's 13 and starting to throw a tantrum the thought rises to your mind -- "Is this how an heir of Elendil comports himself?" And maybe you say it out loud, once, and he says, "What?" and you quickly correct yourself: "ward of Elrond." And he gives you a Look, one that says he Knows you're full of it, and he Knows it's important, but he doesn't pursue it, and you wonder if that's how an heir of Elendil comports himself, and wonder if maybe Elrond was on to something when he decided the kid could go for a while without knowing.
And then he starts going out with Elladan and Elrohir, just like his father, and maybe he knows that that's what happened to his father, but it doesn't keep him, and the twins -- time passes, for the twins, more like it does for Men than for you, and the memory of Arathorn's death before their very eyes has faded already -- the twins praise his accomplishments and part of you wonders if he knows too, and has simply chosen not to mention it.
Then an old friend who lives out of town comes to visit, and you ask for news of Lothlórien, but unfortunately the only thing on her mind is the world's worst pickup line and how she heard said pickup line this morning, right after arriving here, and how he tried to pick himself up by saying he was the heir to the throne of Gondor and Arnor, and... yeah he definitely didn't know.
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You know I've been reading fanfiction for yrs. It was my one reprieve, and umm i just realized I need psychological help LMFAO I found out that there's a movie about an alien giving sexual pleasure to a girl, and then other people but it's becoming violent, and like I'm talking tentacles.
You know what happened? Didn't even think twice, nor was I saying what the fuck. Nah, I just saw the clip where they were talking about the movie, and all I could say was damn, she looks like she's getting the time of her life, and then I read the comments, and people were being deep about the symbolism, and what lust does to us, all that Yada Yada, and I was SEVERELY thrown off like the complete pervert I've become due to fanfiction.
... yeah, that's all I wanted to admit.
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