#im halfway thru 3x08 and i just feel so bad for nandor

[buniyaad]

watching nandermo progress over three seasons, i gotta say that the only way i’ll accept it is if guillermo becomes a vampire through someone else and lives some time independently from nandor before finally ending up with him. a lot of that is really predicated on the revelation that nandor’s kinda-depression the past few seasons turned out to be ACTUAL depression, and i don’t think turning guillermo will make him any less depressed. not to say he CAN’T, because he certainly wanted to turn gail, but the difference between gail and guillermo is that gail was a fully realized person who owned herself and loved herself, while guillermo’s a sycophant and in love with his boss (and i mean this in the nicest way possible, he number one in my heart but like, he crazy). i don’t think nandor is so dumb that he doesn’t realize that part of guillermo’s desire to become a vampire stems from the fact that it’s all he’s known for eleven years, and knowing that he himself has contributed to the batshit craziness in guillermo for over a decade probably doesn’t make him feel too hot considering guillermo’s fallen in love with him.

i DO want nandermo, but it can ONLY be with a fully realized guillermo who’s NOT a sycophant or a familiar or really anything else that establishes a power dynamic between the two. whereas with gail, you could see nandor treated her as his equal even tho she was a human, he simply does not have that with guillermo at the moment, and i think guillermo himself has to do some soul-searching before deciding if the vampire route is really for him. it probably is, but not through cousin nandor.

#im halfway thru 3x08 and i just feel so bad for nandor #but i feel bad for gizmo too #for different reasons #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #nandermo #real talk