I find it so funny how they keep trying to fight each other but like Victor is genuinely no match for Eli. He keeps throwing himself into these fights and it's literally 0-3. He went to get revenge on Eli and ended up shot 3 times and stuck in jail for 10 years. He goes to get his revenge Again and Eli kills him. He's 100% about lose the third fight before Sydney got there. Man refuses to admit he's outmatched. He'll probably try to go for a round 4 if Eli comes back to life. He'll probably either lose again or tie. He's such a loser. I love him

the “best friends who had plans of changing the world together but then one of them betrayed the other and now they’re on opposite sides and the one who betrayed the other is now morally grey and kills people but they still can’t bring themselves to kill the other because deep down they’re still in love with them” trope>>>>

The phrase ‘and they were roommates’ finally finds its origin as two men enacting scientific war crimes rather than fuck one another, encounter a pair of sisters who need therapy, a dog that really just needs to go to a better home, and the most innocent cyber criminal slash hired muscle you’ll ever encounter. Watch as this group of people burn through a city that might as well be New York but possibly isn’t for legal reasons, and murder a bunch of innocent people who probably had it coming anyway because they were possessed by the devil- or at least that’s what the traumatised religious man keeps telling himself- anyway, join in on the rom com of the century as these two crazy kids prove you need a lot more than good chemistry to make a relationship work- you also need a defibrillator!

I still find it funny that victor killed two of out of three of Eli's gfs kjj

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Victor Vale- Vicious by VE Schwab

August Landry- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Daja Kisubo- The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce

Neil Josten- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

villains duology is crazy bc one scene its victor killing some guy and maybe dying for a few minutes and the next scene is him coming to his hotel room of the week where his adoptive daughter who can raise the dead, a dog who was raised from the dead a bunch of times and a random hacker guy are like it's a normal tuesday night bc it genuinely is for him

"He doesn't know how patient you are," he said. "Doesn't know you like I do." Eli cleaned the blood from his hand. "No," he said softly. "No one ever has."

Vengeful, V. E. Schwab

“you can’t kill me, victor,” said eli. “you know that.”
victor’s smile widened as he buried his knife between eli’s ribs.
“i know,” he said loudly. he had to speak up over the screams. “but you’ll have to indulge me. i’ve waited so long to try.”

“Victor Vale was not a fucking sidekick.” "For. Ever."

Villains Series | V. E. Schwab

“sydney healing era” this and “sydney deserves a happy ending” that

i need sydney clarke to go batshit crazy. i need her to rage. i need her to let herself grieve and be angry and destroy everything in her path - until she ultimately finds peace.

Has V. E. Schwab ever written a straight character?? All her characters are bisexual…RIGHT???

wanted murderer + strange little girl

Dark Academia Book Stack

Pictured from top to bottom: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Never Let Me Go, The Secret History, These Violent Delights, The Wicker King, If We Were Villains, Vicious, Vengeful, Ninth House, Maurice, Catherine House, The Ravens, The Goldfinch

my favorite ship dynamic is two gay people trying to kill each other that are constantly bordering the line between obsession and love

fellas is it gay to have hallucinations of your mortal enemy where they tell you they're the only person who really knows you and you agree while you're literally in a prison that said mortal enemy put you in