#jupiteryaps

at the start of vsmp, owen is feeling this huge loss for louis. he never really gets over it, but he finds someone to fill that space for him. legs. he views the entirety of humanity as cruel and evil, and louis as the exception to that. because, at least according to cc!luanne’s tweets, louis was an “all-good” / martyr to owen. so, when owen sees legs being nice to him, he starts to put the mold of his last love atop legs.

however, as we know, legs is not a good person. when owen learns about legs’ past, he not only is hurt and disgusted by it, but is also betrayed. because even though legs has claimed to be a monster from the start, he still idolized him to the position of his “perfect” love. so, not only did he let himself love a monster, someone like himself, but he also tarnished louis by comparing him to a monster like legs.

on the other side, legs views owen like he views his young self. maybe not exactly, because he hates himself WAY more but ykwim. owen is really violent, struck on killing the opposing humans. i think this would remind legs of his time in the war, when he stopped at nothing to eliminate the opposing force.

so, in his mind, he thinks “well, owen is the most violent of them all. and if owen can be fixed, can be redeemed, then maybe i can too.” he very much views owen as something to be mended in order to both 1) do as much good as possible, and 2) prove that all people can be redeemed.

and of course, legs views that redemption for owen looks like humanity. but since like… ep 3 owen has said he doesn’t want to be cured.

so owen is trying to fix legs (remove him of humanity, the one thing that makes him different from louis (at least until he learns of The Horrors)) and legs is trying to fix owen (cure him of vampirism as a way to fix himself)

“Love hang herself

With the bedsheets in her cell

Threw myself on fires for you

Ten good reasons to stay alive

Ten good reasons that I can’t find”

Both Louis and Legs doom themselves, to some extent, in their own deaths. Louis stays in a town as discontent and suspicion grows. He LITERALLY threw himself on fire for Owen. But in the end, his love for Owen wasn’t enough to break his own morals to fight back. Legs, on the other hand, quite literally killed himself with a third party. The third line instead refers for the humans in town, who he died for.

“Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful

So sick in his body so sick in his soul

Oh, give me one reason to be beautiful

Oh and everything I am”

The first line of the chorus is about Louis. The sick and lowly lumberjack finds somebody, somebody, and it’s beautiful and a reason to move forward. The second is about his vampirism, and his personhood. He’s ill as a human, and then he’s turned and (especially in his case) has to deal with this curse. But more than that, his grief makes him a twisted person. He’s cruel and mean and sick in the soul. The third line is that continued search for Louis, post massacre, where he can truly find no reason to move on. In his horrible, beautiful suffering.

“Love hates you

I lived my life in ruins for you

And for all your secrets kept

I squashed the blossom and the blossoms dead”

After his crash out, Owen vows to become Louis’ teeth and claws. Even though he knew that Louis was nonviolent, he still carries out violence in his name. In Legundo’s case, it describes the episode 6 divorce. Owen continuously makes decisions that harm the humans, despite caring about at least one of them. But Legs, who was supposed to be trusted about Louis, squished their blossoming relationship by utilizing his name. So the attachments gone, and Owen makes sure it’s dead.

“Miles and miles of perfect skin

I swear, I said, I fit right in

I fit right in your perfect skin

I cannot breathe”

Owen fails to become the person he dreamed about being with Louis after his death, and Louis’ legacy suffocates him. These lyrics also work for The Constant Bloodletting Struggle (TM) of trying to get the other to flip sides. You could fit in, you could be perfect. And your path is your undoing.

“Oh and everything I am will be bought and sold

Oh and everything I am will turn hard and cold.”

The first line is about the promise for a better life. Both Louis and Legs promise Owen the idea of happiness, through either vampirism or trying to be a better person. And that idea is planted in Owen’s head, it’s believed. But Louis dies, and so does that happy life. And Legs breaks his trust, so why bother with redemption?

“And they say in the end

You’ll get bitter just like them

And they steal your heart away

When the fire goes out you better learn to fake

It’s better to rise the fade away”

OKOK STAY WITH ME this verse is about how Owen’s behavior evolved and grows cruel to be no better than the townsfolk that killed Louis. They hurt him and he sours, he grows violent. And then he proceeds to lie to himself about this fact until he dies. Also works beautifully with bloodletting. Legs gets turned and gets so close to becoming the man he once was, but chooses to give up instead. Lose the leg, yadayadayada.

“Hey, you were right

Named a star for your eyes

Did you freeze did you weep

Turn to gold baby, sleep

Hey, honey mine

I was there all the time”

With all the ways Owen puts Louis/Legs on a pedestal, he never really tried to follow their preachings (albeit, Louis never spoke once, but we can assume he valued kindness, open mindedness, and nonviolence). So when they see each other in the afterlife, heaven or hell, he freezes, cries maybe. But Louis never left. Legs didn’t give up on him until the bitter end.

“And I weep at your feet

And it rains and rains”

Apologizing to Louis does nothing. He’s dragged to hell anyways. (Same w Legs. He can apologies all he wants in hell, but it won’t bring Louis back :) )