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[series]: Reservoir Dogs
[character]: Mr. Blonde (Vic Vega)
[character history / background]:
Not a lot is known about Vic’s early life. What is known is that he has a brother, Vince Vega (who shows up in Pulp Fiction and is played by John Travolta). Prior to the main events of the movie, Vic Vega was caught and arrested inside a warehouse full of “hot items” while working for Joe Cabot. Instead of selling out the Cabots, Vic served four years in prison and never once took a deal. Joe even sent him packages while he was in prison. After he got out, he was put on parole under a man named Seymour Scagnetti, who he described as “a fucking asshole”. Scagnetti was strict when it came to coming and going from the halfway house and required that he had a job if he was going to be out after 10 pm. After being released from prison, he went to meet with Joe Cabot. They talk about the business, which has apparently gone downhill, at least partially thanks to Joe’s son, Nice Guy Eddie. This leads to the two of them wrestling on the floor. Eddie then offers to fix him up with a job so he could leave and do some real work. Vic would be listed as a dock worker, his timecard would be punched out, and he would get a paycheck - but he wouldn’t actually be working. If his parole officer came by, he would be out to pick something up or would have just left for lunch. This was a good deal, but Vic wants to get back into doing real work. Things were apparently a mess, but Eddie has an idea - using Vic, despite being ‘one of the boys’, on the diamond heist his father was planning. Vic agreed and, upon meeting up with the rest of the team to hear about the job, was given the code name Mr. Blonde. It is here that he meets the others: Mr. Brown, Mr. Blue, Mr. Pink, Mr. White, and Mr. Orange.
On the day of the heist, the team, Joe, and Eddie meet up at a diner for breakfast. Vic ends up sitting between Mr. Blue and Mr. Brown, and is the first to argue with Mr. Brown’s idea that the Madonna song “Like A Virgin” is about big dicks. He says it’s about a girl who was vulnerable and has been fucked over a few times, but then she meets a different guy. Mr. Brown interrupts, says it’s bullshit, and continues to extrapolate on his theory. As the conversation continues, Mr. Blonde looks amused. However, Mr. White then takes Joe Cabot’s address book and refuses to give it back. He doesn’t look so amused then, though he’s not mad -- he does, however, calmly ask if Joe would like him to shoot Mr. White. However, everyone laughs, and he lets out a slight chuckle and grins. The conversation movies on to seventies music, in which Mr. Blonde makes fun of Eddie for not realizing the details of a song. Joe offers to pay for breakfast and says the rest have to cover the tip. Mr. White jokingly says, when asked, that the address book is his now, and Joe says he’s changed his mind and that Blonde should shoot him. Mr. Blonde grins and mimics shooting White with his finger, complete with a “pew!” sound effect, to more laughter. He also laughs after Mr. Pink starts on his tirade about tipping, asking what happens if the waitress is too busy to fill his coffee cup six times. Afterward, they all leave to perform the heist.
The heist, of course, goes terribly. It was a setup, though none of them realize it, by a mole in their midst - Mr. Orange. Mr. Blonde was on crowd control, but when the alarm went off despite him warning them not to set it off, his idea of crowd control was to start shooting to kill. He nearly hit Mr. White as he did it, and his shooting spree is what prompted the police into making their move, something that prompts Mr. Pink into believing they were setup. How Blonde got out is unknown, though it likely involved shooting his way through people. He did, however, manage to take a police officer named Marvin Nash hostage and stashed him in his trunk, presumably before stopping at a fast food place to get fries and a soda. Blonde also calls Nice Guy Eddie, explaining to him that the heist went bad and telling him that he has a cop in his trunk. Eddie says he’ll be coming to the designated meet up place, which is where Blonde then goes. He arrives in time to see Mr. White and Mr. Pink fighting and shouting about how White told Orange his name and where he was from, though he doesn’t make his presence known for a while, instead leaning on a post with his soda and watching. Mr. Orange is nearby, passed out due to the pain of being shot in the stomach while he and Mr. White were escaping and getting his blood all over the floor.
Pink and White start asking him questions, but Blonde doesn’t say anything, looking at them over his sunglasses before taking them off. Mr. Pink fills him in on the fact that Brown is dead, they don’t know what happened to Blue, and Orange was shot in the stomach. Mr. White then interrupts, saying that Mr. Blonde better start talking because they’re already freaked out and Blonde is “acting freaky”, to which Mr. Blonde replies with “Okay. Let’s talk.” When the other two men say they think there’s a rat, he doesn’t seem too concerned. Likewise, he takes charge, saying that no one is leaving and calmly telling Mr. White not to take another step when he goes to leave. He asks what White’s problem is and he starts calling Blonde a madman. White keeps shouting, and Blonde rolls his eyes. Pink has to break up a fight before it starts, but once he does, Blonde reveals that he has something outside. It’s Marvin Nash, stashed in the trunk of his car.
The boys (minus Orange, who’s still passed out) pull Nash out of the trunk and begin to beat him. Perhaps surprisingly, Blonde holds back, watching, letting White and Pink do the work until it’s time to duct tape Nash to a chair. He then takes a seat in the warehouse while White and Pink try to get information out of the cop. Nice Guy Eddie then shows up and asks what the hell is going on. They fill him in, with Pink sharing the setup theory (loudly) and Eddie and White shouting at each other. Blonde speaks up and asks where Joe is and what he said, though Eddie didn’t talk to him - he just knows he’s mad. Eddie says he’ll call a doctor for Orange and asks what happens to Brown and Blue. He then gets mad because beating Nash probably won’t result in any actual true information, and then orders White and Pink to come with him to get rid of the cars and pick up the diamonds, as well as get a doctor. White says Eddie can’t leave Blonde with Nash and Orange because he’s “a fucking psycho”, and Blonde appeals to Eddie. He doesn’t deny that he shot the people in the store, though, but Eddie sticks to his plan, since they won’t be letting the cop go after he’s seen their faces. He then gets mad, saying they shouldn’t have taken the cop out of the trunk in the first place, and orders White and Pink to go with him to take care of the cars.
Left alone with Nash, Mr. Blonde jumps down from his perch and takes his jacket off. Now it’s time to make up for letting White and Pink beat on the cop he caught. He makes jokes, laughing to himself, and then tells Nash that torturing him is a good idea and that he doesn’t have a boss. He hits him and wipes the blood off on Nash’s coat before going to get more duct tape to cover Nash’s mouth. Blonde tells him that he’s going to torture him, not to get information (he doesn’t care), but because torturing cops is amusing to him. He informs him that he’s not going to get a quick death and pulls out his gun, making Nash writhe, but he doesn’t shoot; he just laughs and goes to the table. He pulls his razor out of his cowboy boots, asking if Nash has ever listened to K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies, and turns on the radio. He tests the sharpness of the blade on his stubble before double-checking on Orange, who is still passed out… and then he starts dancing and singing. Suddenly he slashes Nash’s face and carves his ear off. Once it’s off, he proceeds to make jokes into the ear before tossing it away, wiping the blood off on Nash again, and heading out to his car, where he has a can of gasoline. Once he’s back in the warehouse, he continues his dance, now with the can of gasoline in his hands, before he starts splashing it on Nash. He pulls the duct tape off to hear what Nash has to say, but he doesn’t care about his pleas for help, pouring more gasoline on and then creating a trail. Blonde pulls out his lighter-and suddenly Mr. Orange is awake and shoots him approximately 12 times in the chest. Blonde stumbles back across the warehouse and dies.
[character abilities]: He’s just a normal human, though he’s a career criminal. He’s great with a gun and a knife, well-versed in how to torture people, and knows how to be a charming bastard. Nice Guy Eddie says he’s been nothing but good luck for the Cabots, which implies that he’s excellent at what he does.
[character personality]:
At first glance, Mr. Blonde comes off as fairly quiet, though charming. He’s calm at all times, not one to show much emotion. Smiling and hugging Eddie is maybe the most emotion he shows throughout the whole movie, and it looks like he actually means it. Even when Mr. White has a gun pointed at him, Blonde barely reacts. He’s not easily flustered in most situations. He isn’t talkative, either. If he has information, he waits for you to ask for it. If he has a cop in his car, he just says he has a surprise and that you’ll like it. If he’s serious, though, it’s clear - even if he’s utterly relaxed. “Don’t take another step, Mr. White,” he says, but he’s still leaning against a pole and drinking a soda. He says he doesn’t know what White is talking about and then says the people who set off the alarm, the people he killed in the store, deserved it - all while eerily, hideously calm. Even his invitation to fight, one of his most famous lines (“Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?”) is delivered completely deadpan, as if he’s bored and just wants to get it over with.
After this altercation, however, Blonde laughs, saying he thought he was going to have a heart attack and asking White if he likes Lee Marvin. Humor is easily the emotion Blonde expresses the most, even if it’s often at completely inappropriate times. Even his jokes, however, have a little bit of a threat behind them. Not everyone can see it, though; Nice Guy Eddie, for example, doesn’t seem to realize that Blonde isn’t just joking around about hitting him. There’s tension and danger behind his calm face and his charming smiles; maybe that’s why he works crowd control, because he can go from suave and manipulative to someone who has his fist in your face in two seconds.
While we aren’t given much information as to what Mr. Blonde was like before his stay in prison, it’s very likely that his stay there messed him up mentally. A man like Joe Cabot wouldn’t put someone as homicidal as Mr. Blonde is revealed to be on a job like this, but because Joe and Eddie knew and trusted Mr. Blonde, he is placed on the job anyway. Outside of the mole, his involvement is what makes the heist go downward so quickly and badly; as soon as someone hit the alarm, he started shooting, later saying they all deserved it because he doesn’t like alarms. He is described as being psychotic, and to a “real person” like you or me, that is clear with his lack of remorse. To another criminal, perhaps it isn’t so clear, though it is clear that he wasn’t acting like a professional. White calls him a psychopath more than once, and Pink says that Blonde is too homicidal to be the mole. He’s definitely sadistic, watching White and Pink beat up Nash before he goes in to torture him even more. It’s interesting to note that he waits until the others leave to do this. He doesn’t care about what information the man might have about a mole. The others are looking for information from Nash - he’s just torturing him for fun.
Despite being sadistic and possibly psychotic, Vic is both intelligent and loyal. He knew to call Eddie after the job went south and he knew that he couldn’t go back to working for the Cabots with Scagnetti hanging over his shoulder. He’s loyal to the Cabots, having spent four years in prison instead of selling them out. Eddie even calls him good luck. Despite telling Eddie that he’s ruining the business after speaking with Joe, the Cabots forgive him quickly, with Eddie and Vic only having a short wrestling match that ends in jokes about butt cowboys. Jokes are easy for Mr. Blonde, as are questions he doesn’t really care about the answers to. He even gives fair warning before doing things, warning Eddie that he’ll slap him like a bitch if he keeps acting like one, and warning Nash that he’s going to torture him and that he won’t get a quick death. Honestly, if he weren’t homicidal, he’d be easy to get along with.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: After being shot the first time, but before Orange empties his clip into him and he dies.
[journal post]:
audio;
Hey. Hey, is this thing on? [ There’s a sound like the device is being shaken, then slapped by a large hand. ] It’s on? The light is on. All right, good.
[ A pause. ]
There any good radio stations around here? I’m new in town. [ The speaker chuckles, like he’s just made an amusing sort of joke. ] I was out having breakfast and then suddenly, here I am. What a rush, right?
[ He’s a big fucking liar, but only whoever scraped him off the street and pulled the bullet out of his chest will know that - unless they thought it was a really violent breakfast. ]
Maybe something with the seventies?
[third person / log sample]:
He knows who the rat is.
He fucking knows, sure as he knows he’s been shot, because only a fucking rat would shoot a guy who was torturing a cop. He should have known since breakfast, should have figured it out when Orange snitched on Pink, but he didn’t give a shit. He’d chuckled and smoked his cigarette, and now he’s paying for it, isn’t he? He’s been fucking shot in the chest, he’s got blood running down his shirt, and he’s damn sure he would have been shot again if his surroundings hadn’t suddenly changed and he’d ended up face-down in an alley.
Shit, that hurts. Shit.
He’s pretty sure he’s not dead, though if he doesn’t get checked out, he might be soon. Dead back in the warehouse, maybe, but not… wherever this is. It’s not heaven, he doesn’t believe in that shit. Not hell either. Not prison.
Come on, Vic. Get up. Get out of the fucking dirt and fix yourself up. Focus.
He can still feel the familiar weight of his gun in its holster and the firm press of his razor in his boot. He’s not unarmed; if some punk kid comes by trying to rob him, they’ll regret it. Orange’ll regret it, too, wherever he is - he doesn’t know how, but if he can’t do it himself, Eddie will figure it out. Maybe. Eddie’s got his head up his ass. Joe, then. Definitely Joe. Joe’ll square things away, if-
Fuck. The old man, White, all pissed because he shot the fuckers who set off the alarm. Pink’s not so bad, but White could be a problem. Joe’ll figure it out, though. He doesn’t need to worry about it right now.
Just get up, Vic. Nice and easy. Hold onto the brick and find some light. You didn't just get out of prison to die like a dog.