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Between the Sheets question.

Did Vegas intend for Porsche to connect the dots between Macau and Chay knowing each other? Because showing Porsche a photo of Macau with the same school crest Chay wears feels a bit obvious. I would have assumed Vegas was smart enough to know he was showing his hand there. Am I giving Vegas too much credit? Did Vegas forget it was there? Just curious what your thinking was. Thanks!

okay, so word of god here: vegas didn't intend to blow his operation wide open with a photograph of his brother.

one of the things i think maybe falls to the wayside a bit in sheets is that people always underestimate porsche. porsche is not entering the main family as an elite bodyguard -- he's entering it as kinn's boytoy bedwarmer. vegas forms an impression of porsche based on the facts he has available to him, which are misleading to say the least.

vegas doesn't know porsche was taekwondo champion. he doesn't know porsche has been trained by chan. he doesn't know that porsche has been briefed extensively on the major and minor families, and told explicitly just how little he should be fucking around with vegas. he doesn't know that porsche stabbed the assassin lady. (that gets covered up very effectively.) and especially: he doesn't know that porsche was the one who fought off the attackers at his house. the credit for that incident is given almost entirely to pete.

vegas knows that porsche is a university drop out (who the major family is pretending is still enrolled probably for publicity reasons) whose grades peaked at average. he knows that porsche is a bartender by trade. he knows that porsche is easy to talk to, and seems mostly unsuspecting when they interact.

to vegas, porsche is a pretty face that kinn picked up because he was cheeky and cute. he has no reason to think that porsche is dangerous, or capable of putting things together. he has no reason to believe that porsche might see that their brothers attend the same school and immediately jump to vegas orchestrated the attack against us.

throughout the fic, porsche consistently gives vegas a combination of what he wants to hear and what he's expecting. he's genial. he chooses sincerity over wit. that's why here:

“If you’re not going to drink, you can fuck off.” Vegas closes his mouth. He’s looking at Porsche like he’s never seen him before, but he sits down. Porsche slides him a glass.

vegas seems shocked. because porsche is finally doing something different to what he's been given so far.

tl;dr: vegas probably wouldn't have been as laissez-faire about showing porsche that photo if he'd had any clue about who porsche really was. but he didn't.

#fic: between the sheets #sheets dvd commentary #asked and answered #porsche lies very well in sheets #one of my least favourite things abt the fake dating genre is bad lying #so when i wrote my take on the trope i wanted to make sure that porsche would lie smoothly and easily #chan definitely drilled him on his lies btw #that's why he's so good at it

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