we keep odd hours

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fuck it

We don't know enough about jesse for me to have any kind of hard opinion but funny enough given the backstory he got in my long fic...i guess thats kind of where I went with him too? Spoiler free being he just....didnt care much? He had a family as a human and a couple women who had already been turned when he met them, maybe prey once or twice that he thought twice on but ultimately killed, then Diamondback who we canonically know was human when he met, and [per writer, director, and iirc the actors] he then turned. Fine enough on his own but has this one exception who is somehow wildly different than him but also exactly the same.

Diamondback might not have been a bully but she strikes me as having demanded not only respect, but to be the authority amongst a group and taken offense when that wasn't followed. All the boys in her class were afraid of her until they were teenagers and she was suddenly shorter than all of them. Thats when she started carrying a knife. Before the knife though she fought dirty and probably had a penchant for biting as a small child.

i just kind of came up with the diamondback hc solely on her conversation with jesse on how they first met, i felt like she’s lived through dealing with a ton of men that would heckle her and just think they can push her around, with the “i saw you and knew you were trouble” line

i actually think she just helped him and let him on his way and that the only reason jesse turned her was that she coincidentally happened to be at the bar/motel/other building he decided to choose to go hunt for the night

but I can also see her carrying a knife around at a younger age. hey wait. SHE STILL DOES

.....if Jesse really was stranded. It kills me that we don't know if he actually needed a ride/help with the tire or if it was a hunting strategy. I LOVE the idea that he just happened to run in to her a second time! Yeah she has a butterfly knife and a larger one she keeps in a back holster, and possibly a third (I THINK the knife she's playing with when she introduces herself in the RV is a different one than the butterfly, and that's the one she keeps in the sheath on her wrist. Waltzing around the desert in a vintage army jacket over a back-lacing corset-style* bustier with jean harlow hair and more knives than anyone can even see.....I both want her and want to be her.

and PLEASE. like I am obsessed with their dynamic and extremely bisexual about the fact that the actors who played the characters I was bisexual about in Aliens play a married couple AND they're evil vampires but .....Nobody talks about Diamondback? She's such a fascinating character and full of contradictions---she's a femme fatale, she's also the maternal presence in the group; she's the first to scream in fear when the sun's coming in near the end, but she's also right up against the window without goggles on**. She's a background character in a 40 year old movie written by people who aren't known for their nuanced female characters, she gets the least lines out of the vampire cast, but while so many female characters are stuck even in modern movies as "mom" "hot wife" "dead wife" "daughter" "cold badass" "eye candy", as maid or mother or crone, she was able to be her own person???? She's Homer's mom, she's a cut-throat (LITERALLY) killer, she's a no-nonsense take charge leader (again, snapping at Jesse before the motel shoot out, also threatening Caleb on the train), AND she gets to be soft and have her little date night, AND gets to be silly too, laughing with Severen as they burn the bar down. Hell, her first words in the film are ''let the good times roll'' and her last are ''fun times"--truly, here for a good time for however long that will last.

NOT TO MENTION....nobody FUCKIN' NOBODY. Not even the hijacker who threatens to assault her before (we can safely assume) the vampires ripped his face off, made one single comment about her outfit. The hijacker made a remark about her appearance (though he's meant for the viewer to see as gross***), but no one else is making a fuss over it. Hottest woman alive walking around in a corset and a leather harness/holster throwing knives and yet she still isn't treated like a "sexy lamp." She's still a character, and within the story world she's respected by her little family--Severen backs her up, and she's the only character Jesse interacts with that he doesn't give an order to.****

*the fact that she wears a back-lacing top and is sleeping with a guy who's old enough to definitely have learned how to lace up and lace down a woman's corset is [big eyes emoji]

**I don't think they did it on purpose, but looking at the damage that the vampires take, it almost looks like the longer you've been a vampire the faster the sun will kill you. Homer fucking explodes--Jesse was on fire even mostly covered (while Diamondback was nearly in full light and only smoking) the car exploded because the fire hit the gas, meanwhile Homer just did that. Then Mae presumably made it with only hers and Caleb's jackets covering her.

***I am FASCINATED by the writers' decision to make this kill seem less-bad than the others, seem like it could reasonably be seen as self defense, where we are a little less skeeved than by Homer preying on a good samaritan, Severen on the two young women, or Caleb and Mae on the truck driver who thought he was helping two kids run away from a "bad" home.