#[Also y e s. This totally exploded from within me after watching Nacho's death last Monday. Mega thoughts atm.. .

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Enjoy this mega-dump on my Max and Gus thoughts because I'm dying rn💀✌🏻

There's something about Max Arciniega as a character, as a whole that I love soso S O much honestly and i don't know what it is. There is so much to him, and so much about him yet he's the character who everyone knows n o t h I n g about, and barely has any screentime. He's on screen and next to Gus in one scene, and that has been enough for years for the fandom as a whole to flesh him out more, and to talk more about him. I absolutely love everything the Breaking Bad fandom has put towards Max as a character, and I'm so glad everyone not only appreciates him more but appreciates Gus more. He is s o alive for a character that is beyond dead, and in a way that's exactly how Max is, and how he's used during and throughout the series. He's a symbol of revenge, not just Gus' but revenge in general, and he's a symbol of love [in some ways.] Devotion. There is such an amount of, well--everything that goes into him, and makes him such a character. Maximino truly, and all in all was everything Gus wasn't, and in the end he loved Gus.

The cartel took that away. If it weren't for Max, its honestly the truth that Gustavo wouldn't be where he is now, that everything wouldn't be where it all is now; both during Breaking Bad a n d Better Call Saul ss of current. Walt,,and Jesse? They're simply there and a part of a bigger, much larger plan that he's determined to do everything, and anything to accomplish, for Max. He is the reason why Gus the way he is, and in some ways, the reason why Gustavo dies. His death is the reason for everything, also. The reason for so many deaths, so much chaos. It gave Gus a motive, and in a way took away the last human bits of him that were left. I say that very loosely, because as true as it is I mean mainly the last bits of him that remained when he was with Max. The difference in his smile, t h a t photo etc. There is n o way in the end that Max would've supported Gus' revenge and all he did to get to that point, and there's also no way in the end that, anything done differently, would've changed what happened or how Gus ended up.

With Max dead, he basically became a rabid animal. A monster, consumed by agony and once again, Devotion. If you think Gus is greedy, or a psychopath even-- you're beyond wrong, and not seeing the point of him as a character. In a way-- it's haunting, just as it is tragic, with the reason behind his death at the end of the series/season and his udmost fatal being love-- and all his love for Max. Through blood and bone, thick and thin, and throughout god knows how many pounds of methamphetamine, everything he did for Max was out of love, and for the sake of making sure the Salamancas didn't harm or kill anyone without purpose ever again. No more normalized cruelty, that could ever lead to another 'Max', another tragedy happening ever again.

#breaking bad #Better call saul #Gustavo fring #Max Arciniega #gusmax #[Zoey's Ramblings] #[ABSOLUTELY IN SHAMBLES U GUYS i love Max and Gus so much #[Need more appreciation for them in this fandom p l e a s e #[includes the photo of Gus and Max bc they're so cute lmao #[Also y e s. This totally exploded from within me after watching Nacho's death last Monday. Mega thoughts atm.. .