“You’re Mine”
Villanelle 2x04 & 2x08
Okay so on twitter a few of my friends and I discovered something really fucking soft okay so,,,
2x04 Desperate Times
When Villanelle is writing her postcard to Eve “Darling Eve, I hope you haven’t forgotten about me!!”, when she’s so clearly yearning and missing her, she is wearing a very specific ring.
The ring is a two part gold and silver ring. The parts can be joined or separated to be given to a lover, and within the inner circle on one ring it reads an engraved “yours” and on the other “mine”. And when they are joined together they read “I ❤️ U”
The way they were made especially for S2 makes this even more painful. Villanelle definitely had the intentions of giving the other half to Eve, a declaration of love, even when apart they would still have a reminder they were each others.
When thinking that Eve refuses to come to Amsterdam to see her Villanelle truly thinks Eve is choosing to “forget” about her (referencing the postcard) and goes on a massive drug trip, attempts to choke the girl in the toilet to death, and then has a extreme breakdown the following morning. She believed that they were inseparable and was clearly so hurt that eve “didn’t come” to see her.
2x08 Youre Mine
Keeping this, the ring, & it’s meaning in mind when Villanelle sees Eve slipping away for her once more in 2x08, Villanelle panics.
The abrupt declaration of love? The possessive beg that “You’re mine” ? It’s easy to assume Villanelles mind had fantastised up a picturesque, uninterrupted future alone with Eve. And my guess is the burning engraved words of love on her ring had helped inspired this.
Which makes it that extra bit more painful that each time Villanelle did something just for eve (pig costume kill & declaration of love) Eve was unable to reciprocate them the way Villanelle wanted.
Attempt at normality
I also wonder if this is to do with her lack of conventionality and inability to express that “normality”. Perhaps she saw the rings advertised by two lovers in a magazine or by the store, and in an attempt to find that sense of the norm, she purchased it; hoping to prove to Eve she can be “normal”.
(Even if it has taken three seasons for Eve to accept she doesn’t want, nor is, normal either”)
And in Villanelles panic after Eve denied her love in the roman ruins, Villanelles mind simply raced back to the hypothetical lovers advertising the ring and clung onto that concept of normality, hence the abrupt “I love you” and- remembering the inner engravings of the ring- “you’re mine”.
The last bit is simply speculation but I think it’s a fun concept to explore; Villanelle attempting to pursue normality in her own way, the best she can.
