#i feel so normal about trigun. so so normal

[tarteggs]

vash and wolfwood argue about ghosts, and absolutely nothing else.

a comic i made for the fic lots of people, lots of sides have been taken by procrastinatingbookworm on ao3! i really enjoyed reading it and liked the imagery a lot, so i thought it would be fun to draw something based on it!! ^^

#vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood #trigun stampede #trigun #my art #this took. so long. my god #gradient maps r my bff…… #but it was so fun planning it and drawing it :D #i definitelyyyy wanna make more comics in the future RAHHH #i also wanna draw a lot more fic art bc there’s sooo many good stories out there that would be fun to draw AHHH #trigun writers go CRAZYYYY <33 #i feel so normal about trigun. so so normal

[ruporas]

kiss (ID in alt text)

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #this is also from a while ago... *kicks rocks* i keep on forgeting to upload stuff. also as u can see... my numerous kisses from before #but stampede vs maximum in my brain basically #ultimately they are both screwed in every versions but at different paces(?) #stampede im so screwed (trying to be normal) #maximum im so screwed (already resigned that they cant be normal about it) #doomed for tragedy but kiss kiss while they can #i very much enjoy drawing stampede vs max schtuff bc i have a hard time verbalizing What exactly their differences are #but i guess w stampede - to me - they feel more impulsive while simultaneously capable of being in deep denial #and with max its the opposite - hesitant and slow but the acceptance is already there........ my brain is mush so im not going to #elaborate more than that but i think this is also why i find stamp vw x max vw interactions fun to think about #ruporas art

[varilien]

vash, you haven't changed

#trigun #trigun fanart #trigun stampede #trigun 2023 #vash #vash the stampede #OUHHHHH YOU DON'T KNOW HOW FAST I RAN AND GRABBED MY TABLET I CRIED FOR LIKE THIRTY MINUTES LMAOOOOOO #I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM SO MUCH BABY LOOKS SO COOOOOOOOL I'M SO EMO ABOUT HIM UUUUUUUU #i feel SO fucking normal my fucking god (pretending i'm not like. shaking with excitment dfhgkjd) #as a side note i'm fucking PISSED he has the one hair style i do not fucking know how to make look good. seriously i'm already suffering. #i guess i'll have to learn it SOMETIME #(casually changes the colors on this after 200+ ppl have already reblogged it dfhgkjdf) #screencap redraw

[beaulesbian]

ep. 1 || ep. 10

#vash the stampede #trigun #trigun stampede #he can decide to dodge like anything until he feels the guilt and let himself be shot ;-; this is fine #also funny that among those guards is that guy from ep 1 so he knows what vash is capable of #trigun stampede spoilers #vash #trigunedit #nicholas d wolfwood #wolfwood #vashwood #mine #gif:trigun #trigun spoilers #flashing gifs // #flashing gif // #guns // #blood // #i care about him a normal amount

[galaxyprince]

My Vash ❤️

#Knives sooooo sane and normal about his brother #millions knives #vash the stampede #plantcest #trigun #my art #trigun fanart #I didn’t draw for like 2 weeks and I feel like I’ve forgotten how head in hands #also I’m in love with shading with cross hatching anymore it’s just so fun!!! #I tried to glaze this piece but it wasn’t letting me 😔 also idk how to make glaze not make my art look like ass bc I don’t use a lot of #texture/color in my works and ik those are supposed to help?? idk #im trusting that yall have opted out of any ai shit tho bc this is tumblr

[ryanthel0ser]

Star ~ Colde

#this song is a Vash song to me and since I cant make animatics or edits this is what I did #I had to make SOMETHING for this song so i compromised and did just the chorus but listen to the whole song if you can #feel free to make the gifset version of this #i would've done gifs if I knew how to get high quality gifs and edit them #im normal about Vash the Stampede #<- literally goes into a weeping session everytime she watches episode 12 #trigun #trigun stampede #tristamp #vash the stampede #vash #trigun vash #might do another one if im feeling silly #Tek It has been blasting in my brain with a Trigun animatic that'll never be

[nanomooselet]

Episode Eleven: To a New World

Deep breaths. Uh, pre-emptive apologies; I keep the tightest grip I can over my tone, but this ep sliced me off at the knees. There's a lot of anger in it.

I like Wolfwood. Lots of people do. And I like Knives. Besides Vash himself they pop up on my dash more frequently than any other character. Maybe I like Knives more than Wolfwood because I enjoy poking his horrible trash brain with a stick, but Nick's certainly got his charms.

But I can't get around it. This is the episode where Knives... violates Vash. And this is the episode where Wolfwood turns his back as Vash is screaming in pain and despair, reliving all the worst moments of his life. For reasons (I'M WORKING ON IT and they're not that Meryl is The Girl), Wolfwood was never going to be the one to save Vash from his agony. Back in the initial watch, before I knew anything else, I knew it just wasn't going to happen.

So, sorry, Nick - you’ve had a rough time, but I still giggled when Meryl kicked you in the shin as you tried to pretend you didn't give a shit. I needed the levity. Off you go, brood over your sins and the whatnot. I'm sure Vash is gonna be just fine.

And you, Millions Knives. Today it's the tire iron.

This is the first time we finally see him fully revealed - full face, cloak discarded, even his thoughts themselves laid bare. (By the way, he's not actually naked; that's just a very, very tight bodysuit. I think he wears it so he looks like his idea of what a Masculine Plant is, like an Italian Renaissance sculpture. Also pretty sure he made it himself. Without it, he'd look just as human as Vash does.) Knives spends a lot of time talking, often very passionately... but you still cannot trust anything he says to be the truth; not about himself, not about Vash. At best, there might be a tiny sprinkle of truth prettying up a great big lie. Or he genuinely believes what he's saying; it's just that he's confidently wrong. I don't doubt, for instance, that Vash really is motivated by a lot of guilt over the Fall, not least because Knives was the one who put that guilt on Vash and left it to slowly consume him. Nonetheless I always think back to the line, "Does their praise cure it? The loneliness?" because, well, no? It doesn't? Because that’s not the point. Vash doesn't do what he does for praise or to avoid loneliness. If you try and tell him he's good at something he brushes you off - "just lucky!" and then he's vanished through the backdoor before you can thank him.

Similarly, we see a moment where Knives just straight up changes reality to suit his narrative - when poor Rollo called for Vash, he said that he wanted to live. In Knives's world, he begs Vash for death.

When Knives says these things, it's not accurate criticism of Vash, or of his philosophy, or even anything to do with the Plants. It's not the truth. It's not an argument. It's a probe.

Especially in this episode. Knives is trying to rip Vash open. He’s searching for the points where he can apply pressure - the most efficient means to break him down. How true his words are is not relevant. Only whether or not they hurt Vash, weaken his resolve, undermine his ego and confidence - which he already barely has anyway because of Knives.

Why the hell would he do this? I mean, as much as I can be sure of anything with this guy, I’m sure that Knives loves Vash very much. His brother might well be all that he loves - all that he has left. We can argue about what kind of love (though it's really not a debate I want to get into, so I’ll capitalise the words Very Normal and leave it at that). But it is love. Forget about the higher plane and the dependent Plants (which is to say I'll try and find a way to get down my thoughts on them, but not at this time). Knives is doing what he’s doing because he loves Vash.

Specifically, he’s doing it so that Vash won't leave him.

Imagine how the moments before the crash must have felt for Rem. Every second counts in an emergency, and yet she took the time, perhaps selfishly, to ensure her children escaped before anyone else. I think she'd already decided to go back for the sleepers, but the longer she went without doing so the less possible it became and the harder it got to keep her resolve. Still she took those precious moments, the last they ever had together, for the love of her boys. A chance was all she had to give them, but her work was done too soon.

And Nai. With the knowledge of the rest of the series he was acting so calm because he planned this, and it went just the way he expected it would – until the moment he reached out his hand, and Rem said no. We don't see his face, but we do see Vash, pleading desperately, thrown hard back into his seat, and it was Nai who did that when Rem refused him.

Remember? Nai offered Rem a choice.

So to Knives, that left Vash to be only thing in the world that matters as much completing his crusade. I suspect he views the two as the same goal – having Vash back means killing the humans, and killing the humans means Vash is his. His and Vash's safety, togetherness, and freedom means there must be absolutely nothing left of humanity.

Even if it's the intrinsic humanity of his brother. (And of him. But he's not going to acknowledge that. Nope.)

So Knives didn't simply want Vash without his memories. Knives is a perfectionist - he hates to even admit to the possibility that he might have made a mistake, to the point where he assigns all blame for his actions to Vash. Vash's emotional development under his total control would be too unpredictable, too likely to fail. If given a choice, Vash could make the same choice that Rem did (again), and that risk is simply unacceptable.

So what Knives wants is for Vash to be without autonomy, devoid of independence - a shadow that he casts, empty of agency save that which Knives enacts through him. A graven image. Depending only upon him. Needing only him. If it means he'll finally be first before humanity, rather than alongside or behind them, he won't be all alone. It's only together that they can be perfect, because it's obviously what Vash is for.

After all, they're twins. Vash was born to be with Knives.

I'm sure he's just happy to be useful.

#trigun stampede #tristampparty #meta: tristampparty episodes #trigun meta #yet no matter how comfortable chains are still chains #so many layers to his hypocrisy!! #he says rem built a silly fantasy #as he is creating a fantasy to stick vash in to keep him pacified #i never yell at the screen but i did when That happened to the other plants #already in tears over vash begging for rem #but by the end i saw the shape of rem and knew #knives DID make vash a better plant and it was the second biggest mistake of his entire life #tesla also looks like vash! i don't have time to unpack that but hooooo boy #tw incest #just to be safe #this man is incredibly normal about his brother #also feel like the english dub leaned into the evangelion vibes? #“i need you” says vash #these are too many tags #let me off kenji muto's wild ride #mother is the name of god

[ohitslen]

Hm. Uncanny valley Vash. Thoughts.

#have I been drawing for the uni au? yea. did I loose the files in an unfortunate incident I won’t elaborate on? also yea #it made me really sad because it was a funny bit. and I could recreate it but mm I don’t feel like it rn #so it’ll take some time. however ☝️ #I do feel like drawing. and I have! but for myself like I always do. sharing some stuff here is a courtesy 🤨 #OQNENWK JK well. half kidding. I entirely draw for myself and I’m happy it reaches ppl who like it too! and now #I’m hoping to reach cryptic Vash enjoyers because my god YES. #it’s the best thing ever because honestly. same I also am an uncanny creature (idk what is socially okay sometimes without being too weird #about it. I know you get it. you’re in tumblr) #and actually wouldn’t it be funny if at some point the people who know Vash just brush it off eventually as #“oh is Vash just staring into the void and suddenly went walking away?? haha oh yeah typical Vash’’ #like it’s the most normal thing ever. but it still puts people a little off #I love me some weird Vash :) #trigun #vash the stampede #trigun stampede #vash #lenssi rambles

[blooisasleep]

my personal, exponentially growing collection of vash doodles

#these are only the ones i feel are presentable #anyway look at him #vash the stampede #trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #trigun vash #bloo:art #the pink one he is so skrunkly to me ok #the sneezing one is from a really rough mashwood comic #THE LIL PLUSHIE IS NEAR MICROSCOPIC #ABOUT YHE SIZE OF 3 ANTS MAYBE #i dont think i need to comment on biblically accurate vash you agree. #my handsome boy #the really confused one is smaller than my thumb and i have small hands #THE ONE W THE LITTLE GIRL ON HIS SHOULDERS #LISTEN WE DIDNT GET ENOUGH VASH INTERACTING W KIDS IN TRISTAMP IT IS NOW MY MISSION #he is so adorable #yeah i like him a normal amount #tristamp #trigun fanart

[rigels-nigels]

just finished trimax

#op #trigun #trimax #if this doesn't post i'm gonna lose my marbles #well yknow what they don't say; 4th time's the charm #anyway uh. knives is so fucked up & he cares so much about his brother but he's just so fucked up about it and i get it i get why but lordy #that's the tldr from all of my other rants #i'm. not doing it again. not this late. tomorrow maybe i have so many thoughts #the tldr did not mention how much i'm thinkin about what happened at the end like. while the two were at that docs place #like what was knives thinking and feeling and doing and behaving and- #i'm so normal about it #clearly

[wytchsbrew]

#Trigun #trigun stampede #vash #vash the stampede #I feel so normal about this

[ruporas]

feast (ID in alt)

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #tw blood #im posting this so late because october escaped me Suddenly.. hello.... #i wanted to make it a photoset with this other vampire vw wip but i don't think i'm finishing it any time soon and the mood of it is #completely different anyway. also i don't think i ever shared anything about my vampire au on here !!! it's all old art by now so im shy lo #but maybe i'll do a photodump of it. long story short vash is a vampire since birth and ww is a human vampire hunter that turns during thei #travels together due to EoM experiments + getting vash to drink from him at some point. #humans turn once they get bitten but bc ww has been experimented on #& got bitten by a bunch of human turned vampires thruout his hunts he thought it wouldn't be a problem for vash to drink from him but alas. #theyre both ok though theyre traveling together definitely not hating themselves for what theyve become and feeling guilty for what theyve #done to each other. theyre completely normal about it. the biting part is really appealing to me in vampire aus so i draw it a lot but #in reality vash only drank from ww once and ww mightve done it twice under the realization he might actually die otherwise #since he wont drink from humans after being turned.... he's combatting the 5 stages of grief at all times #if this is all nonsense im sorry DMGKSDF I'M NOT good at explaining and this au came from nowhere in the depths of my mind its a mess #ruporas art

[longhands]

I know this is silly but like. There’s something about Trigun. Vash is just so… trans. Seeing him actively rebel against what everyone makes him out to be is. Something. He feels so real to me. “When did we become so different?” is something I think about a lot in my own life.

I guess the finale of stampede just gives me this rush I can’t stop thinking about. I felt seen. The person he should be able to trust, be able to talk to, be able to relate to, sees him as misguided. Foolish. More importantly though, Vash is an object instead of a person in that to them, and he says “fuck that” all while holding empathy for them. It’s ugly and sad and self destructive and so real.

Anyway, what i’m saying is if he can do it. Maybe, maybe I can start being brave about my gender. I’m sick of stuffing myself back in the closet for family that thinks I’m a Poor Little Girl. I’m 21. I have been out to my parents for 7 years. I’m going to say what I need to say and I’m gonna start defending myself.

#here’s to scraping together funds for T lol. #in all seriousness he’s fucking. GOD LOOK AT HIM HE’S TRANS #there’s enough canon basis for it that I like. genuinely feel represented. i’m insane about him #nobody is doing it like his queer ass. nobody. #we’re not even breaking into the aroace reading here like. he’s so much you guys #if you’re reading these tags i am BEGGING please give trigun a shot it’s life changing #(do i think vash is Normal Human Variety trans? probably not. however i looked/sounded like kid vash and nobody can take that from me.) #(HE’S SO WEIRD LITTLE GIRL TO DEMIBOY PIPELINE) #longhands rant

[luvevee]

It's pretty annoying having to scan basically every artist for i/cest shit in any media that has siblings because most of them hide it on alt accounts/platforms/sly tags and that's a big reason why I'm too burnt out on reblogging art

#literally the word 'pr/ship' feels so dumb to me like it's just gross shit #it's why i fell hard out of submas since if that wasn't the case the 'neutral' artists supported it/stayed quiet #like holy shit I've found a good few artists here on twitter being into that nasty shit just by scrolling #like i shouldn't have to find out on another app on accident to see the person I'm supporting caters to that garbage #'we want to be left alone and ship what we want btw we're gonna violate everyone's boundaries because fuck the purists' #imagine thinking you're a victim because you make art of i/cest and make it your entire personality to consume that media- #and then purposely get into spaces where people are uncomfortable with it/getting joy out of that #'why not reblog stuff without doing it' cuz i don't want someone's shit on my page when they're actually a garbage person #i really don't understand 'lol the purists are upset' -> 'omg they're so mean to us' just because most people aren't on their side with it #literally an anon came into my partner's inbox taunting him about touching his stuff like a 6 year old #imagine preaching 'don't like don't look' but when normal people say 'don't touch my stuff' you reverse and cry 'it's not fair' #or saying how you're proud about the gross shit you make but you have alts to hide it/lie about it like 🤨 thought you were proud of it #it's just annoying when im looking for good trigun/submas/dmc/etc art and see the person who made it ships the twins #like cool #and it ends up becoming a long list and it becomes annoying to look for art to reblog #idk I'm bitching and it's something that's gross #rosebud posting 💐

[johnmalevolent]

im thinking about trigun and suikoden 2 and damn... there are parallels in there

#brb replaying suikoden 2 so i can get screencaps #suikoden 2 #trigun #krispeaks #difference is suikoden 2 has 3 sibling while trigun only has 2 (alive ones) #and um if i talk about riou and jowy to vash and knives first. both of them were always together growing up #until they separate ways to pursue what they believe is the best for the world #they climbed their ways to becoming important people either willingly (jowy & knives) or not (vash & riou) #and of course the legendary rune the chosen ones etc #now nanami is the difficult part because she fits some characters at the same time #yes she's aggresive but she also has vash's reluctance to fight and his pacifism (mostly) #she's like the younger vash and they act (somewhat) more mature than their brothers but also easily swept away #by the nature of the world that required them to fight #BUT. she's also rem. she means something to both jowy and riou although she mostly stays by riou's side #ans she's the biggest influence riou has. he talks to her before making any big decisions and every single time nanami asks him to stop #because theyre kids. they should be able to live normally as children instead of leading an army #which just reminds me of shu what the heck was going on in his mind. these kids were like 16 #so before doing anything riou (and the player) must consider how nanami feels which is why we've got the alt ending of them running away #if you choose to keep fighting tho? nanami dies. something something 'if i killed this man she'll die'? #and even after that she still haunts the narrative. everyone is at loss and even jowy #jowy who was willing to become a villain fighting against siblings to create a better world (eden) for the three of them #ALSO JOWY AND KNIVES LITERALLY HAVE BLADES/KNIVES AS THEIR POWER LOL #vash & riou has healing powers which could burst an attack but they use their physical weapons mostly (ignoring the player attached runes) #also about merilly & ww. they can come together as rina ellie and bolgan #wolfwood offers fortune reading and he still has his cross #meryl is ellie. both of them have too much weapons #millie is bolgan she's just having fun :^) #idk if theyre travelling together but these trio were prob the closest to riou and nanami as cameos in a lot of main quests #also i probably should say ftr i like riou/jowy as a ship but i mostly see their relationship as brotherly #which is to say no k/v here. begone

[orcelito]

Formal Apology to my persona 5 followers

Yeah.

#speculation nation #i did not mean to switch fandoms but like... my brain has entirely switched gears lmao #i do still love p5 & akeshu of course but like. god i hate the fandom so fucking much. #no fandom is without faults but ive been enjoying my time in trigun fandom SO much more than p5 fandom #enough to take my blog out of hiding from search results. which is honestly kinda wild. #i dont plan on permanently giving up on writing discacc. but like. lol. #im having a lot more fun with itnl & interacting with trigun fandom. so this is just how it is rn. #i keep losing some followers (tho slower than im gaining trigun followers) and i Assume it's my p5 followers jumping ship #which like. Fair. hfkshfj if ur not interested in trigun & dont wanna see it. well. uh. sorry. #in the end it's my blog & writing fanfic is supposed to be fun. i hate temporarily putting discacc on hiatus #but i HAAAATED the p5 fandom & especially akeshu fandom. which is not a great feeling for the fandom im supposed to be in. #turns out it's not quite normal to have a great number of big names in the fandom that make my blood just fucking Boil #just upon seeing their names. it's that Dust shit & all involved. for those that know lol. #for any who r willing to stick it out with me. thanks ❤. tho im not judging anyone who ends up unfollowing #this is less of an apology for switching fandoms and more an apology for letting down discacc fans #maybe i should put a note on it or smth idk. i'll think about it. #for now imma just keep doing as i do. Happily. i have been having a lot of fun.