If He Had Held Primo Close And Accepted Him Then He Wouldnt Have Had To Die - Tumblr Posts

primo has that weird thing in this show that while he’s dangerous and unhinged there’s a strange innocence to him at times, or maybe less innocence and more childlike in some of his mannerisms (namely this scene and the scene where he’s showing off his paper plane mastery) and it’s so telling here is a man who strives for both independence and family acceptance (he tries with salvatore, he rly does, and if salvatore hadn’t named someone else as his heir i bet primo would have been willing to share his vision with salvatore in an attempt to gain that acceptance) which causes him to b in state of limbo, caught inbetween the independence he should have as a man his age and the childish hope of being valued by a father figure that doesn’t care; in this scene, primo is basically acknowledging that he knows deep down that the path he’s going down will result in him being alone, if he jumps (becomes bigger and better) he will b doing it alone bc no one believes in him; i think he’s also scared that this will signal his true independence from salvatore, who he wants to impress and b praised by BUT that’s what makes primo’s ending so satisfying because he doesn’t go alone, his leap of faith pays off, he doesn’t need a blood relative to make his worth real, he has the whole of calabria when so many others in this show end up with nothing