#misguided by fiona sometimes but never evil
We gotta talk about Baz vampire strength and speed like the boy could rip off and throw away a fucking tree and could snap a gun (can’t be bothered to remember what kind) in half and then he could run and catch up with a moving truck in the highway to rip off a monster from it!!
I know his struggles with his own “monsterhood” makes him repress his vampire powers, especially in battle, where he refuses to fight as anything other than a mage. Only Simon getting hurt makes him “go berserk” in a way. His friends being in danger has made him rely on his vampire powers too, but he still holds back then (hence Penny being like “you really forget how scary Baz can be” when he runs alongside the truck and Simon “Mr I will kill a bitch first and ask questions later” being like “Baz never learned how to fight with his fists” and when they were cornered by the monsters in the desert “Baz is the stronger person here so why the fuck isn’t he snapping these fuckers in half”).
Bazcould snap a bitch in half, but he doesn’t want to. I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t want to learn how to “properly fight” with his fists in the first place (even though he finds Simon, who knows how to fight, beautiful in battle, but that’s because it’s Simon) because he most likely spend his entire life repressing his super strength, scared as hell of what could happen and how monstrous he could be if he didn’t hold back and bad shit happened. I keep thinking about dumb teenage Simon and Baz getting into physical fights, and it would have been so easy for Baz “I can rip off trees” to lose control and accidentally kill Simon with a punch, meaning that even when he “hated” Simon, even when Simon broke his fucking nose, he was under unbelievable repression and self-control, especially for his age. Which farther proves how Baz was never really evil: he could’ve caused serious damage, but instead was getting into stupid shoving contests with a human boy while clearly using just normal human strength (otherwise we would have learned of Simon fucking flying into another room and getting srly hurt whenever Baz pushed him!)
Anyway, I wish this could’ve been explored more, and that Baz got comfortable enough to unleash his vampire powers in a fight too because honestly they’re cool as fuck! (especially given that the person who has them genuinely cares about not hurting others, so when he does use it, you know it’s cuz a bitch has it coming)
“I huddle close to Baz, half in his lap, while the shock of still being alive passes. He holds me there, a little too tightly. Usually I forget Baz is so much stronger than me. He doesn’t carry himself like he’s that strong. He doesn’t touch me that way. He never pulls or pushes me, not like that. Not any harder than I can push back. I push in a little closer.” Ch. 30, WS
