#and seriously messed up dude
What more people need to understand about Guillermo’s character is that he’s Insane. He is Not Normal. He delivers human sacrifices to vampires, he disposes of corpses HE PAYS TO LIVE THERE. he kills vampires yadda yadda bro his HUMAN body count is off the charts. He invites his virgin friend to a vampire orgy. He is not a good person, he’s literally if you found out that that one weird goth kid from high school joined a weird cult and was sacrificing your classmates he is Not Well. Like I love him he is my poor little meow meow etc but lets not pretend this guy is a victim here .. he is like if the joker was a girl if she was like a boy
Yes thank you. Like, I love Guillermo and I love that a chubby Latino guy is a sexy vampire slayer, but there is no way of looking at his situation where he comes off as a good or, indeed, mentally healthy person. Even if you agree that Nandor is at fault in their dysfunctional relationship, Guillermo is still the person who willingly became a familiar, and has spent the last twelve years delivering up victims to be killed in the hopes of one day doing the actual killing himself.
I think the reason this is easy to miss (beyond, obviously, the fact that the show works really hard to make the nonstop killing necessary to keep these people functional in the distant background) is that Guillermo may be mentally unwell, but unlike Nandor, Nadja, and Lazslo (and probably also Colin Robinson), he’s not a complete narcissist. He has self-awareness, and more importantly, he functions as the audience surrogate by commenting on the others’ insanity. Plus he’s competent and capable, which obviously looks good next to the vampires who are, literally, incapable of surviving without his support.
Which honestly feels like a part of his dysfunction. As much as he says that he wants to be a vampire, I think deep down Guillermo enjoys being the guy the vampires rely on (and, as in his conversation with Nandor at the end of S3, should maybe be afraid of). Whatever else this guy is, he isn’t some poor woobie.
