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astrarche-x · 1 year

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back to obsessing over Richard

at first he doesn't seem to have any obvious fatal flaws - no hubris, no hunger for power etc

but his fatal flaw is this little voice in his head that whispers sometimes ''maybe violence IS the answer tho"

it's not like he believes that it's a good solution; but sometimes it's the more reliable solution. more efficient solution. faster solution.

and oh how he wants to speedrun his way back to being respectable citizen

(which is, of course, very ironic given the methods. but deep down he believes that he's so good at killing he can afford being immoral. he tries to get rid of this belief but to no avail.)

#like. sometimes he wants to do a good thing but the more violent way to get that is the way he prefers despite everything #like getting Tommy out in s3 finale. he could have broken into the house and try to do it stealthily #but no. he went in and started blasting guns in a very ''either i succeed or i'll die trying'' kinda way #then with proving Gilian guilty #he could have just waited for the final trial in the custody case #Julia's arguments were strong after their marriage and with Gilian accused of murder they were practically winners #but Richard had to make sure. and he thought he could only achieve that by using his killing skills #ugh. the complexity of this character #esp his character arc #the writers were like ''oh see how broken he is''#''just kidding! he started to heal; not so broken now! just a guy who wants to be loved!''#''anyway look how deeply broken he is. more so that you realized''#it's like a reverse matrioshka #where the surface-level angst covers the deeper abandoned dreams which in turn cover an ocean of angst of much much bigger scoop #* scope #anyway his fatal flaw is deep-seated belief of ''i'm so good at killing that i don't have to be moral'' which persists despite him trying #to fight it #boardwalk empire #richard harrow

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