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notafckingsidekick · 3 days

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Sketch for my Uni final project Illustration! I picked the scene from the final chapter of Vicious!! I’m wrapping up the project soon so will be posting the rest of my character studies and things here soon :)

If you’re interested in my other work it’s over at @thechatster

#victor vale #vicious ve schwab #vicious #eli ever #villains series #eli cardale #ve schwab #mitch turner #sydney clarke

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discountsoysauce · 2 days

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I don't understand the idea that Victor has no backstory. Like- yeah, his backstory isn't as horrifically tragic and detailed as Eli's is, but we do know a good bit about him from what he's said so far.

His parents are pretty successful, so we can assume he grew up rich. Victor states that they write all of these books about family but have never taken time out of their day for him, even saying something along the lines of the last time they put aside time for him was his birth (not exact quotes, I don't have the energy to look back through the books rn), so we can assume that they were incredibly neglectful, most likely leaving him at home for days, weeks, maybe months at a time and probably not paying much attention to him even in times when they were home. Whether they paid someone to take care of him in that time or he had to learn to be self-sufficient is debatable.

I personally don't think they were physically abusive, and there doesn't seem to be any evidence at present that supports that idea. Verbal abuse is more likely, but I still don't think it was the case. It doesn't seem like they were around him long enough to do either. I don't think those things really need to be a part of his backstory to make it interesting or compelling. His parents were neglectful, and it shaped pretty much everything about who he is.

The biggest and most obvious one is Victor's obsession with attention. There are multiple references throughout the books of Victor craving attention from those around him, namely Angie and Eli. More than anything, Victor wants to be seen. He wants to be a part of something. He wants to be remembered and acknowledged and thought about. He craves the attention his parents never gave him. He doesn't want to be left behind or forgotten.

Being left behind is another big fear for him (I'm mostly speaking about Lockland here, as he becomes a bit less dependent after he becomes an EO, though there can still be an argument made about him latching onto Mitch and Sydney and Dol and Dominic in a kind of makeshift family he never had). He hates seeing Eli succeed because it feels like he's being left behind. He wants to be so intertwined with another person that they can't possibly forget him. He wants to form a connection so deep that it's impossible to sever. To Victor, there's a connection between 'success' and being left behind. He doesn't want to just be an expendable sidekick or an accessory. He wants to be an integral part of someone. Victor's life revolving around Eli is a symptom of his upbringing.

His social skills and general demeanor are also something that can be analyzed. From the beginning, he's set up as the antithesis to Eli, from social class to backstory to appearance to demeanor. They're the same at their core, but opposites in nearly everything else. Compared to Eli, Victor is a total recluse. He hates being around people, he avoids parties, and we barely see him interact with or pay attention to anyone except the people he genuinely cares about unless he absolutely needs to. His demeanor is off-putting, and he doesn't really make an effort to hide that, although he does just enough to make sure he isn't a complete social outcast. Victor grew up in one home with no siblings and parents who were hardly around. Compared to Eli, who was carted from home to home, meeting new people and learning how to blend in all the time, Victor likely doesn't have much in the way of social experience. He didn't have to hide who he was nearly as much as Eli did because there was no one there to see it anyway.

This being said, he is described as being a good liar and able to fool those around him, although notably worse at it than Eli. This one is more of a longshot, but I don't think it's improbable. Victor's parents were successful published authors who garnered their success based on the books they wrote about family. It's possible that Victor had to make press appearances at some point when he was younger, and learned how to lie for the cameras, or he just spent so long out of the company of others that he started seeing other people as more objects to use and less real living people, making it easier to learn the motions of manipulating them. Either way, Victor learns how to do or say the right thing to get someone to believe him, but he states that Eli is much better at actually faking emotions than he is. This is because while Eli spent his life following his father's death surrounded by people and thus learned how to change his entire self to appear more presentable to the general public, Victor only learned how to manipulate people through speech or actions. He can tell you exactly what you want to hear, but he can't put on a fake persona the way Eli can because he never needed to.

In conclusion, Victor does have a backstory, and it informs every aspect of his character, including his relationship to Eli.

#this isnt me defending victor this post got away from me a bit lmao #a not entirely serious mention of the idea that his skewed morality could also be a result of his upbringing #i mean #the man had no role models #and was pretty much raised on crime dramas #cmon #hopping off my soapbox now #i got tired near the end can you tell #Victor's backstory isnt explicitly outlines the way Eli's is but its There #i came up with most of this as i was typing #vicious ve schwab #vengeful ve schwab #victor vale #villains series #eli ever #eli cardale #vicious #vengeful

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ghoulorghost · 1 day

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Something fascinating I've just found out about certain numbers in the Bible.

Eli has 32 scars on his back, and the English word "God" appears 32 times in Genesis 1, the meaning of genesis being "inception."

He's accumulated 32 scars since the beginning of his life, in the name of God, until the day he had his NDE and acquired his regenerative ability.

Victor Vale died 132 times over the course of Vengeful, and the Greek word "nekros" appears 132 times in 123 verses in the Greek New Testament.

The word was used to refer to people who were dead, either literally or figuratively, and sincerely, I feel like both meanings might fit this specific situation.

#vicious #vengeful #victorious #villains #ve schwab #eli cardale #eli ever #victor vale

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dcvina-claires · 5 months

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yeah your ship may have kissed but did they try to kill each other?

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tampire · 9 months

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They're having a Vicious Gay-Off.

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moonpleaser · 1 year

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THIS IS BRUTAL

#game changer #brennan lee mulligan #sam reich #no words just qrt of how many bird species there are #vicious

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twotheleft · 3 months

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#cowboy bebop #faye valentine #spike spiegel #vicious #julia

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apoembymiria · 2 years

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normalize reading a book without caring if the spine breaks, folded cover, misspelled annotations and just ruining the book completely as a form of art

#dark academia #dark academia literature #dark acadamia quotes #chaotic academia #grey academia #dark academia books #coffee and books #books and libraries #booksbooksbooks #books #the secret history #a little life #vicious #if we were villains #the song of achilles #it makes it more personal ngl #apoembymiria

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readsbydes · 2 years

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Some penguin classic covers I made of some of my favorite books.

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shoukohime · 6 months

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dads in fiction <<< guys in fiction who see a kid in a fucked up situation without a guardian to take care of them and asks is anyone gonna look after this kid? and don't wait for an answer

#I'm gonna tag my blorbos #getou suguru #kim dokja #lan wangji #orv #jujutsu kaisen #mdzs #vicious #victor vale #last one is debatable since mitch is more of a father figure to sydney #anyway this post is mostly abt toji < geto

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romancefairy · 2 years

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girls be like "this is my comfort character" and then they're either dead or a murderer

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bvrtysbvtches · 1 year

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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>>>>

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chaoticmiserablelover · 5 months

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Two people who understand each other deeply. The power they hold over each other's hearts. the trust between them. That's why I keep reading books. It fascinates me.

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todayontumblr · 11 months

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Monday May 22.

Footage of a horrifying tiger attack.

You really don't want to see this

I mean, why would you do this to yourself?? It's horrible

Nothing good can come from watching

Look, if we give you $5, will you promise to leave? It's really for your own good

You know, the more we think about it, the more it feels a little uneasy. Are you sure you're OK? Why do you want to see it so much? It's kinda weird

Really?

This is your last chance! It's not too late to turn back

Fair enough, have it your way. But it's about to get grizzly

You didn't really think we'd put you through that, right? We're far too fond of you. After all, it's Monday, #tigers are trending, and we simply could not be happier.

#today on tumblr #tigers #big cats #big friends #danger #attack #graphic #violence #tiger attack #vicious #oh no #make it stop

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anouri · 2 years

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my favorite genre of media:

#like:#the secret history #if we were villains #hannibal #vicious #the picture of dorian gray #six of crows #could probably go on???#(also another way to say dark academia)#a decomposing dump of my thoughts

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magnoliaribs · 4 months

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the funniest part of Vicious is when Eli isn’t giving Victor enough attention so he decides to electrocute himself

#vicious ve schwab #eli ever #victor vale #vicious #ve schwab #eli cardale

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