Thread by @pompomchan7

#vegaspete

okay that scene where pete knocks out vegas before leaving, we see vegas agreeing to undo his cuffs and say, “promise me you won't leave me”.

throughout the whole safe house ordeal, the only other companion vegas has is his hedgehog. which he keeps in a birdcage. >>

it is quite telling that when vegas pleads with pete to not leave him if he were to unlock his cuffs, it shows how deathly scared he is of abandonment. probably the only form of love he has experienced before this was his own towards his pet. and even so, regardless of how >>

much he cared for them, they died. his hedgehogs were probably the only thing tying him to his self and humanity.

when he meets pete and falls for him, he experiences love for the first time in the form of genuine interest and care. of course he is hungering for it. >>

he wants to keep it close and guard it.

relating this to the death of his hedgehog, I'm sure he probably thought the pet died because he didn't take good care of him (he tried his best, we know, but not in the way it needed), as he must have been told by gun countless times >>

before.

so even when he agrees to free pete, he doesn't really mean freeing him in true sense of the word. there is a certain control that he needs to make sure that pete doesn't leave him.

in this case, it's his love. he undoes the handcuffs but binds him with a promise. >>

with his love. an offer to start anew. just the two of them.

there's that saying how too much love can kill something.

so when pete actually walks out, it's very much fueled by vegas's own mistake. he tries to love and care harder so pete stays and by harder, it only >>

means caging him more into something he doesn't want.

so like the hedgehogs that died, pete too, leaves him.