He thinks it’s more like… possessiveness. This little “something” is a feeling that Calderón can’t understand. Calderon is not blind and he can clearly see that Armando doesn’t want him to be the one seducing Betty, because Armando has had for a long while a little something for her. Now, it’s also important to clarify how Calderon sees Armando’s feelings towards Betty.That’s why he never accepts to switch places with Calderon, because of the shame it’d bring. This has the predictable effect that all jokes of sensitive topics canonically used to have on Armando before he fell in love with Betty: he shields away.Of course, this insistance doesn’t go unnoticed by Mario, who more than once offers to switch places with Armando, always in that half-joking tone, not because he doesn’t want to switch places (by God, he’d switch places with an inmate in death row!), but because he truly finds absolutely hilarious the way Armando is finding a hundred excuses to avoid this.He can’t let Betty go through this, she doesn’t deserve it. This plan is just absolutely ridiculous, cruel, and disgusting. During the two days between that first conversation aimed to discreetly plant the seed of doubt on Betty’s mind (part 1 of Calderón’s plan see Calderon AU post 1) and the first love card, Armando is always trying to talk Calderón out of this.Anyways, Armando doesn’t back down on his words (how can you say “you know what? I WANT to be the one seducing the ugly woman!” without being shamed and laughed at?) but he also doesn’t lose opportunity to try to talk Calderón out of this madness.This feels even more repulsive than how it would have felt if it had been him the one seducing her, although this is obviously something that he doesn’t know. In the show, Armando’s disgust came from two things: his ego and lack of physical attraction to Betty, and the way he was acting against his morals (the obvious abuse of power, the cruelty of playing with Betty’s heart, the inevitability of harm, etc.) Here, the first element is missing since he is not the one who will be dating Betty, but the second is even stronger now.
And here, just like in the show, he is very uncomfortable, but also disgusted with this turn of events.
Lol, after rereading my part 1 and comments, I noticed that I didn’t make enough emphasis on Armando and how he feels with this whole situation, so this part 2 will be mostly about him! (Sooo, basically ig this is more like a Part 1.5, since it’ll just go further into detail of the events that happened in Part 1 because I’ll give my bb Armando the attention to his emotional state that the show neglected.)
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