Anonymous asked:
What do you think Lalo had planned for the rest of Nacho’s visit? 👀
krokonoko answered:
Well he said he was gonna show him around. So. There’s shared breakfast made by the one and only Yolanda. I bet Lalo has a car pool, which means they could drive races! There was gonna be romantic evenings horseback riding, and at night makeouts on the porch by the fire with Lalo’s best liquor… sigh it was gonna be so romantic, but then Nacho had to go and ruin it all :c
Ignacio Varga, you are badass.
#they really went from a meet cute #(in which nacho was confronted by a powerful cartel member who’s uncle and cousin he tried to kill. but there was meat and lalo was cute) #to a grand romantic gesture #(or a desperate & reckless attempt to win lalo’s trust so he can better betray him to the man threatening to kill his dad) #to lalo trying to find his way to nacho’s heart thru is stomach #(so he could manipulate his into offering to kill his oldest friend as a test of loyalty) #to late night phone calls#(from prison to order the commission of an arson) #to long romantic drives #(to mexico so lalo could dodge a murder charge) #to meeting the family #(slash cartel) #to the classic third act betrayal #clearly this is a romantic comedy and in rom-coms never end with one of the leads brutally murdering the other #so we have nothing to worry about!
we finally got the Lalo-Nacho-Jo-Amber dinner scene.
and I am REELING from the implications. Honestly it feels like reading a really intense Lacho fic with 50 words.
- Jo and Amber ask Nacho how Lalo likes his food. What are they, married??
- LALO SHOWERS AT NACHO’S PLACE.
- Lalo casually demands Nacho to bring him clothes to the bathroom??? like. the boundaries? between these two? are nonexistent??
- Nacho is ready to. Lend Lalo his clothes? What is it with these two and clothes swapping??
- “Lalo in door w gun”, there is no reason to point this out except to show that Lalo just. Got Nacho’s gun. Which would make sense. In the scene where he confronts Jimmy and Kim, he doesn’t have his old gun, but a black one that could v well be Nacho’s SIG-Sauer.
- it also means that while Nacho was busy with the girls, Lalo just went to Nacho’s closet and got the clothes himself, and Nacho’s gun, too, which he usually keeps on the nightstand.
- which means that Lalo, after his shower, walked half naked (or possibly naked???) through Nacho’s apartment??? Casually entered Nacho’s bedroom and closet, where he apparently knows his way around??? Idk it’s just. Baffling to me, that’s all.
- and then the implication is that Lalo and Nacho just. spend the rest of the evening together?
Look. I’m not saying Lalo and Nacho are canonically fucking. I’m not saying that was the authorial intent here.
But the thing is that there is absolutely nothing contradicting a queer reading. And if that wasn’t enough, the queer reading is so ridiculously strong, it’s not even funny anymore.
Like, when Nacho throws out the girls and Lalo says “there are only so many ppl you can trust”? That’s drawing a direct narrative parallel between the Nacho-Amber-Jo and the Nacho-Lalo relationship…!!
I. I’m sorry. I need to lie down.
Consider: Possessive Nacho. He only gets that way after the meeting with Eladio and the assassination attempt that he foils because he can no longer handle the thought of losing Lalo.
He’s already spoken to the twins about watching out for his dad, and Nacho is halfway to being a Salamanca, remember? Of course they agree to it. None of Fring’s men are getting past them.
It’s all in the open from there. Lalo’s queerness was never a secret, exactly, but there’s no subtlety now. Nacho has an arm around him at all times. He glares at any of the pretty girls who come near Lalo at parties. There’s even an occasional inappropriate touch between them. He’s a tiny, vicious guard dog, just like he’s always been, but he’s never biting this owner, unless it’s asked of him.
Lalo, being Lalo, absolutely loves it 🖤




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