thanatos? really for sure “dead” and gone and old news. “origiMel”/eMel? technically still around but definitively locked away inside the mind of someone who has mind-manipulating-brothers, she’s totally harmless now. eris? imprisoned and also tbh neutralized without any allies around. Ker? was never an actual Villain For Real since she didn’t (doesn’t) give a malicious shit about any of the Elysium folks except like… Chal, maybe vryk. fUck, cHAL?????? wAs Supposed to be the Replacement Villain once upon a time bUT UH WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT WORKED OUT.,,,,!!!!

our latest “new” “villains” hav just been like, cameos by sporadic olympians but they’re so…….. 🙄🙄🙄 also old news anyways

I mean gOd!!! we need someone truly NEW! Don’t get me wrong I truly absolutely love the fluff and babies and relationships and petty soap opera drama we’ve got goin on currently,,, but ALSO god do I miss the supervillain nightmares who would come in and MAIM PEOPLE,, it has been sO long….. and all our old threats are REALLY harmless nowadays

like in lw Daniel is very clearly capable of disposing of all three dickheads in a heartbeat, but he forces the one with the gun to experience the helplessness of losing total control, something lw Daniel knows all too well. and then instead of forcing him to pull the trigger, he does the arguably more ruthless thing of letting the guy live, leaving him with the psychological trauma (something Daniel also knows very well) of almost being forced to fucking kill himself. notable, he also leaves the guy physically capable of getting up and shooting him, showing off his unprotected back--he's arrogant enough to think/know he's untouchable, yes, but he also doesn't seem to care that much if the guy actually manages to turn on him and grab the advantage, or come back later for revenge later on

but in bb it's the exact opposite, Daniel doesn't waste (much) time fucking around with any of the attackers and prefers to physically fuck up the guy's gun arm in a way that looks very painful and quite possibly permanent. he prefers to focus on stopping the bullet when it comes to showing off, rather than employing a more violating body control--it's about proving power, not cruelty. He watches the attackers leave instead of the other way around, maintaining the security of their base. Their base, because Sean is still alive, because Daniel has something to really fight for, which makes him much more effectively brutal than his lw counterpart. his focus is all on maintaining his and Sean's survival and that makes him at once less sadistic and far more physically destructive.