30 Days of TVD - Day Four
I spam. I'm a spamming person. I'm also a person who really wants to do Day 5 tommorow, so here I go with Day 4. I'm not in the best shape today, so what I've written is probably a bit chaotic; it might also be murdering numerous rules of English language.
Day 4 - Your least favorite guest-star
I honestly couldn't decide, because I don't have a minor character I would actually hate. But then I decided I should write about Giuseppe Salvatore, and I can even come up with two reasons to do so:
1. He killed his children in cold blood, just because they shamed him. Even a Damon fan can have a high moral ground here...
2. I can speculate the hell out of him!
Mostly I see Giuseppe as this stern, serious man with, OMG, moral code, and his greatest fault is that he believes that rules are more important than people. Basically, the guy thinks that he's Brutus (for those who aren't history geeks: apart from the Brutus who betrayed Ceasar, there was another Brutus who lived over 400 years before the well-known one; he played a major part in establishing the Roman Republic, and when his sons were discovered to be plotting to bring back the monarchy, Brutus had them both executed; this legend was quite popular in classicism), and that it's so very noble of him. On the other hand, we see so little of his relationships with his sons that it's a wild speculation zone for me. I have a theory. Do you?
In my head!canon Giuseppe used to spend a lot of time with his children; he would teach them himself (well, obviously not as their only teacher, but I bet he kept an eye on everything), talk to them, suggest books for them to read, and generaly bring them up according to stoic ideals. I don't see him as being in a permanent conflict with Damon; as a matter of fact, I think that what we see in flashback is them arguing over Damon's war choices. Before the war the Salvatore house was probably quite peaceful; of course Giuseppe must've had a problem with Damon's impulsiveness, and it generated some tension, but I'm far from projecting their conflict from 1864 on their entire life. Generally, I'm taking Katherine's word on Damon being sweet and innocent. It makes sense. When they were young, it was Stefan who was better at putting on masks and lying to his father in order to appease him; Damon was just a good boy who wore his heart on his sleeve, and Giuseppe didn't like it, because Damon was too emotional for him. I bet Stefan used to do forbidden things in secret, raid his father's stash of alcohol or seduce girls from time to time, and Giuseppe never found out.
To sum up: I see Giuseppe Salvatore as a father whose love was always conditional; who gave his children lots of time and attention, but he also tried to shape them to be just like him, and failed miserably. Damon turned out to be far too impulsive for his father's taste, Stefan never showed Giuseppe anything but a facade of a good boy.
I wanted to mention Once Upon a Time as well, because I'm really enjoying this show, but I'm far too sleepy now to write something even remotely intelligent, so I'd better do it tommorow.
Day 4 - Your least favorite guest-star
I honestly couldn't decide, because I don't have a minor character I would actually hate. But then I decided I should write about Giuseppe Salvatore, and I can even come up with two reasons to do so:
1. He killed his children in cold blood, just because they shamed him. Even a Damon fan can have a high moral ground here...
2. I can speculate the hell out of him!
Mostly I see Giuseppe as this stern, serious man with, OMG, moral code, and his greatest fault is that he believes that rules are more important than people. Basically, the guy thinks that he's Brutus (for those who aren't history geeks: apart from the Brutus who betrayed Ceasar, there was another Brutus who lived over 400 years before the well-known one; he played a major part in establishing the Roman Republic, and when his sons were discovered to be plotting to bring back the monarchy, Brutus had them both executed; this legend was quite popular in classicism), and that it's so very noble of him. On the other hand, we see so little of his relationships with his sons that it's a wild speculation zone for me. I have a theory. Do you?
In my head!canon Giuseppe used to spend a lot of time with his children; he would teach them himself (well, obviously not as their only teacher, but I bet he kept an eye on everything), talk to them, suggest books for them to read, and generaly bring them up according to stoic ideals. I don't see him as being in a permanent conflict with Damon; as a matter of fact, I think that what we see in flashback is them arguing over Damon's war choices. Before the war the Salvatore house was probably quite peaceful; of course Giuseppe must've had a problem with Damon's impulsiveness, and it generated some tension, but I'm far from projecting their conflict from 1864 on their entire life. Generally, I'm taking Katherine's word on Damon being sweet and innocent. It makes sense. When they were young, it was Stefan who was better at putting on masks and lying to his father in order to appease him; Damon was just a good boy who wore his heart on his sleeve, and Giuseppe didn't like it, because Damon was too emotional for him. I bet Stefan used to do forbidden things in secret, raid his father's stash of alcohol or seduce girls from time to time, and Giuseppe never found out.
To sum up: I see Giuseppe Salvatore as a father whose love was always conditional; who gave his children lots of time and attention, but he also tried to shape them to be just like him, and failed miserably. Damon turned out to be far too impulsive for his father's taste, Stefan never showed Giuseppe anything but a facade of a good boy.
I wanted to mention Once Upon a Time as well, because I'm really enjoying this show, but I'm far too sleepy now to write something even remotely intelligent, so I'd better do it tommorow.