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eshtaresht · 1 year

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guys how are we feeling? in pain, devastated, or screaming crying throwing up, what's the consensus here? spoilers for ep 11 under the cut (and minor spoiler for manga)

first things first, my theory from the last week is proven wrong. still don't know what the red plants were for (safekeeping? protecting from the last run?), but nai ain't gonna exploit them to "fix" vash. instead he EXPLOITS HIM AND SUBJECTS TO MENTAL TURTURE AND WIPES HIS MEMORIES CLEAN TO ACCES A HIGHER DIMENSION and create more independent babies ig

(yep the plant mpreg moment is sure a thing... for the next week, get ready for mass abortion)

finally, a gate that's an actual GATE. I think the plants lore was pretty self explanatory, but I'm so happy we're getting it and it's much more comprehensive that the manga, even(and 98' anime basically didn't explain anything and I had to spoil myself through fandom wiki to understand who vash and knives were). like, it's changed A LOT but it's in the same lane

this knives is so capable, holy shit!! everyone was already joking that he would put kniveses of the past to shame, and it's so true... he knows what he wants and how he wants it done and when he just goes ahead and does it. what a giga chad, honestly

I'm a bit disappointed they didn't keep the manga version of knives pre-tessla (that was softer than vash and wanted humans to like him), but it's definetely better than the old anime. like, he's colder due to him being the stronger twin, but he's still playful and doesn't hate ppl. he kinda distrusts rem, but they fucked around out of curiosity rather than malice. also, and I can't be the only one who noticed, his file name said "kni"? mmm ok interesting I'll have to think about it

that probably was the sequence code knives was talking about in ep 8, he used it again for the great fall. I wonder what it said, had to be something important to rem that vash could guess. geranium? their birthday?

the tessla sequence was quite short, but DAMN. status: alive. after all they've done to her. they put her on ice in this condition so they can keep studying her later. and the twins made her come alive. I'm gonna be sick it's so much worse..... no comas or suicide attempts this time, but these kids were still traumatized as hell (vash looks worse, like he haven't slept or probably eaten in a couple of days)

it was a serious moment but when nai revealed he was reading THE BIBLE I can't ahajakahajajahah... like, NO WONDER HE STARTED A RELIGION omg... pls put that book down you've got the message wrong

and or birthday boy vash... oh babygirl I'm so sorry. when I said I wanted to see him going through this I didn't mean a literal mental torture gaslight dimension!!! like, it's SO crucial to his character to REMEMBER all the good and terrible things he went through.... to have it taken away while he can't do anything, even when he clings to the memories as hard as he can, knives still takes EVERYTHING away from him, until he's the only thing tying vash to this world.

again, any other knives could never! and even before tearing apart all those memories, he gaslights vash even further, saying that he did the fall for him (which is true) and so it's basically his fault (which is very much not true)... and this BREAKS him quite literally... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

on a brighter note, loved that goofy meryl & nico interaction, remember, when we could still laugh? now it seems like meryl is gonna manage to reach vash in his infinite soup of despair, and that breaks his gate?? I'm so thrilled for the finale it's not at all like I imagined already said this in my previous post, but the flowers are a consistent theme for stampede instead of angels and, like... it's just makes sense for a plant to be a plant, yk. also it's pretty. july is already being destroyed by the roots, I wonder if that's gonna be it or there'll be a big kaboom (in this case it would be hard for meryl to survive, but potentially vash could make a root cacoon to protect her)

also this ep gets bonus points for showing what's going on in the city with the police guys and civilians, 'cause usually stampede isn't great at background and side characters

now making theories about the (potential) second season. amnesia aspect is getting established rlly hard rn! the only question is whether vash gets to remember key moments (like rem, meryl, wolfwood) or if he only retains the vibes of "someone important who said I shoud protect ppl". because it's gonna be interesting if he forgets everyone completely and when nico and meryl (and milly, fingers crossed) eventially find him, he''s like "hi, have we met?"

oh, the POTENTIAL! I think he's gonna get his 98' characterization as super goofy, borderline annoying, because he just doesn't remember all the pain! at least, he doesn't remember the details and fills the blanks with astonishing amounts of cope. and when he's finally able to remember, oh boy, he's gonna crumble.......

#I can't believe it's almost over what do I do when where's no more stampede saturdays....#trigun stampede #trigun #trigun spoilers #trigun stampede spoilers #nicholas d wolfwood #meryl stryfe #vash the stampede

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triplesilverstar · 5 months

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Confessions of a different sort

Rating: 18+

Pairing: Vash X F!Reader

CW: Body dysmorphia, Pre-Canon, Illnesses, Major Illness, Major Character Injury, Medical Inaccuracies, Medical Experimentation, Medical Examination, Dreams and Nightmares, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Feels, Heavy Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Trauma, Fever, Running Away, Communication Failure, Soft Vash the Stampede, Mild Smut, Not Beta Read, Heartbreaking, Imprisonment, Dark Past, Murder, Cartoon Physics, Vashs' Coat as a blanket, Needles, Nightmares

Word count: Roughly 2.7K

A/N: Chapter six of Even sand can't hide all the skeletons in your closet. I made myself cry with this one, it was wonderful

You aren’t sure how much time passed from when Luida left and he showed up, just felt as he sat around you, curving his own body to wrap around you. You don’t need to look to know it’s Vash, the smell of arid sand and gunpowder invading your senses.

With his chest pressed to your back, his arms slotting over yours easily folding over your form and encompassing you in his embrace. You’ve been thinking, thinking about a lot of things. You’ll always be a monster, never able to forgive yourself for what you’ve done, but maybe.

Just maybe it’s time to start standing at that edge of the darkness you think you deserve to be in and slowly move into the light.

“I’ve spent over half my life running Vash. More than enough running for a lifetime, I’m just.” Pausing as you feel the tears running down your face at the admission, using the heel of your hand to try and dry your face. “I’m so tired of it. Tired of not belonging anywhere. I don’t deserve to even walk behind you, let alone beside you or be with you.” As much as you want to reach for that light, Vash is still too far past where your arm can stretch. You’re far too afraid to reach out and touch that beacon gleaming in front of you.

“I know that feeling of running your whole life.” He’s shifting his arms, wrapping you tighter in his embrace, voice whispered low beside your ear. “That's all that I've done. Running away from my problems since the fall. But if you’ll let me, then I'll run alongside you and neither of us has to be alone anymore.”

You laugh, long and low, an echo of sorrowing tainting what should be a happy sound in the sea of green. “Vash. Did you miss what I said? I don’t deserve to stand beside you, why would you say it like that? That it would be me letting you run with me? I’m the unworthy one here.” The words make you swallow in discomfort a lump forming in your throat from the harshness.

Another tightening of his grip, the sound of him swallowing clear in your ear. “Because Mayfly. I caused the big fall.” It’s like a bomb being dropped, you might not have been there for it, but you had gleaned enough information to know the big fall was the main reason for the plight of the humans on this planet. How, how could Vash of all people be responsible for the fall? It just didn’t make sense to you! Trying to twist in his embrace to see his face and finding yourself unable to as his nose buries itself in the side of your neck. “My brother and I had been on Ship Five, my brother changed all the navigational data using a passcode I knew. The fleet crash landed here because of me. If I hadn’t of given Kni that data, they all would have made it to a new world. A new home, where they wouldn’t need to use the plants to the extent the humans have to, to survive.” The long he speaks the softer his words grow, the pain lacing his voice, his very speech patterns eating at your heart. “An independent will make up for what an independent has done. My atonement.”

Struggling you break from his hold on you at last, twisting around to face him, the utter heartbreak you see there tears at your heartstrings. The look on his face, one you’ve seen often before, wore it yourself more than once. The face of someone waiting for the strike of being told they’re a monster. “Vash!” Both of your hands grasping his face, closing the distance to press your forehead against his, body shaking “You were a child! You told me yourself you were just over a year old!” The day you learned he was a plant, the day you told him you thought you loved him after almost losing him and so many of his secrets had come out into the open. “You didn’t cause the fall!”

Gripping your wrists but not making your pull away he sighs, almost like he expected you to try and argue with him. “I did, I made millions of people lose their lives in an instant. I have to make it right, I have to atone.”

“You were a child!” Twisting more of your body around until you’re essentially sitting in his lap “You couldn’t have known he was going to crash the ships! Vash you can’t carry that burden, you need to let it go. A child can’t be held responsible for the weight of the world. I know what atonement is, what it takes to stride towards it, I’ve killed people. You made the innocent mistake of a child!”

“You killed people because they warped your sense of justice, they made you think no one cared about what happened to your colony. Mayfly” hearing him swallow thickly as your heart sinks, he’s about to throw your sins at your feet. “That company picked you, they planned for your home to be attacked, they wanted you angry. It just backfired on them, you weren’t supposed to get injured. But that resentment grew and they found a new way to use your pain, to make you a tool to use.”

“You think I don’t know that! Vash that doesn’t take away the fact I ended lives like they were a nuisance! I knew better than to do what I did” your heart is beating like a drum inside of your chest. “You might have looked like a seven-year-old but you weren’t, you couldn’t have seen what your brother would do with a code.”

“Did you know better? Or are you seeing it because of hindsight!” A tremor racking your frame at his words. Pain radiating along your chest as the two of you argue and it strikes you like lightning.

“Are. Are we really fighting over who the bigger monster is?” The tiredness from running and being sick is back in your bones full force. You want to fight him, want to argue, but you’re too tired. The realization settling in, you don’t just love the ideals Vash holds. You love all the broken pieces of his soul, because he makes you want to be better, to fill in those cracks. Feeling your body slump. “I. Will never hold the fall against you, I have no right too. Because I was never here for their hardships, to suffer as the rest of the inhabitants of this world. All I do know. Is you’re the kindness in the world I wish I was.”

Letting your wrists go, to wrap his arms around you once more, a tangle of fabric and limbs breathing the same space. “We were.” Somber words that carry more than a ring of truth as the facts sink in about what the two of you had been doing. “And you have the courage I wish I did. To walk in the light.” You aren’t courageous, not by a long shot.

“I don’t walk in the light Vash.” This time, it’s your voice cracking, closing your eyes, unable to take the reflection of love for you shining in his blue orbs.

“Then. Will you let me walk beside you? As we both try to stand at the edge?” His question breaks your heart, you still think you don’t deserve him. That you bring him down, that you’re slowing him on his path. But fuck if you aren’t going to be selfish.

“Only if you’ll do the same.” Nodding in agreement at your words, and both of you finally realize the way you’re sitting together, almost as if you’re straddling him. Both of you are slowly turning pink. Instead of getting off his lap, you adjust so your face is tucked against his neck, and letting your hands drop between both of your bodies. “Do you. Do you maybe want to take a step back, relationship-wise?” You’re still giving him an out, well aware it might spark another fight.

“No.” Breathed against your hair, almost as if he’s annoyed. “I’ve told you before, you’re not that person anymore. I know who you are, you’ve changed Mayfly.”

“And I know who you are, even if you don’t want to accept it. You’re an amazing person, Vash the Stampede, a good man.” Whispered against his skin, starting to trace an unknown pattern against the fabric of his turtleneck.

Both of you remain seated there, until the twin suns set, breaking and trying to put the other back together with soft words, consoling the pain of what you both see as sins that can never be forgiven. Until Brad shows up to drag the two of you to eat something, stating he’s going to force-feed the two of you if necessary.

As you stand, feeling Vash slip his hand down to grasp yours, interlacing your fingers together, a wave of calm seems to wash over you. The tightness in your shoulders easing, another baby step. Maybe, just maybe with Vash by your side, you’ll find trusting these two strangers that know more about you than you’d care for anyone to know just a bit easier.

Following behind Brad as the two of you head towards some sort of cafeteria, over half the space having been repurposed for something else. Luida sitting at a table with three other trays, hidden away from a few other tables in the area that are in the area. Prompting a question to percolate in your brain. It’s a large ship, why aren’t there more people around?

The curious thoughts in your head must be reflecting on your face, or the way your eyes are darting around the area. “Do you have a question, young lady?” Luida is watching you, a smile on her face and resting her chin on her folded hands. Taking a seat beside Vash biting your lip, would it be rude to ask?

“Go ahead Mayfly. They won’t bite.” A brief reassurance before Vash is digging into his own meal on the tray.

“This ship is huge, but so far I’ve only seen you two? What happened to everyone?” Assuming the worst, your confusion only grows as Luida grins at you.

“It’s a good question. Most people on this ship are still in cold sleep, we’ve been running the ship with a skeleton crew while waiting for the terraforming of the plant to happen.” The terra-forming part makes sense to you, why send more people than the plant could support and while it’s fuzzy you can remember your mother saying once upon a time how long a process like that can take. But you’re still curious about something else now.

“What’s cold sleep?” Taking a forkful of food from the tray in front of you and watching all three of them look at you like you're crazy.

“You don’t know what cold sleep is?” Shaking your head as Brad launched into an elaborate explanation of cold sleep and the mechanics behind it. As you eat and listen you find that last bit of tightness floating away as the two of you discuss it.

“Ah, so that’s why the cells don’t rupture when they freeze. It’s fascinating really” finishing your plate. “It also makes sense why you can use it to rotate the ship's crew, you don’t have to worry about cellular breakdown from the freezing and thawing processes.”

“Exactly. You’re pretty smart kid.” You snort at that, but you’ll take the praise from the gruff older man that seems to be taking a shine to you the longer you discuss. You know that what they call cold sleep where you had been from was a dead end because for lack of a better term, people ended up being freezer burnt.

“Maybe. Just don’t ask me to solve for ‘X’ and you’ll keep thinking that.” Taking a drink of water from your glass, while Brad chortles, head jerking back.

“Well, that was an interesting dinner time conversation,” Luida interjects and you notice Vash is on his second helping of food. Making you wonder if he had put off his own well-being in favor of yours. “How are you feeling young lady? And please be honest.”

The ‘please be honest’ tells you, she’s already onto your habit of lying about how you're feeling, probably Vash letting her in on that little secret. And his own bad habit.

“Honestly. Tired? Still pretty warm I guess now that I think about it.” As you do think about how you feel it’s true, focusing on the tissue in your inner elbow you can tell it’s almost healed. Surprised though that you don’t feel the usual drain of your body fighting an infection around the surrounding tissue. “Did. Did you do something to me?” It comes out as a tumble of words, a twinge of panic lacing your voice.

“In a way. After reading your file and learning about your compromised immune system I came up with a bit of a low-tech solution. The IV in your arm contained a culture of your own lab-grown white blood cells. So your body could fight off what was making you ill.” If Luida picked up on your growing panic, her voice doesn’t reflect that, speaking in a soothing tone while explaining what she did.

A weight in your stomach disappearing as quickly as it appeared, here you’d been afraid they just wanted to slice you open, instead they did something to help you. “Thank you.” Feeling a wetness forming on your eyes again. “You. Didn’t have to go through the trouble.”

“Of course we did. The brat brought you here because he knew you needed help. Besides, how could we say no when Vash was looking like a mopey puppy dog the entire time.” Brad seems to have no trouble breaking the tension and removing the attention at the table from you, causing you to raise your head from your lap to look at him.

“More of a love-sick puppy, hard to tell the two apart.” Luida piling on, and when you look at Vash he’s gone a rather pretty shade of pink.

“Come on you two! You’re embarrassing me!” Wiping the dampness from your eyes, you reach over to grab one of his hands in yours.

“I think it’s sweet Sunshine.” Smiling at him through the remaining tears, watching him give you a shy one in return.

“They both have pet names for each other.” Brad deadpanned, rolling his eyes before standing.

“Well. I think it might be a good idea to give you another shot of white blood cells, if that's alright with you?” Luida is back to being gentle with you after that round of teasing. Returning your trays to be cleaned, you find your hand in Vash’s once again as the three of you make your way back to the infirmary.

A quick needle in your uninjured arm, and Vash is leading you to what Luida said was his room. Stepping into the room, you almost laugh, it reminds you of most rooms you had while living on different spacecraft, small, a bit of storage space. Tucked in the corner you see both of your bags and your rifle, as well as your boots and coat.

A twin bed set in the center, attached to the wall. “I know it’s not much, but figured you’d be more comfortable sleeping in here than the infirmary.” Rubbing the back of his head and that sheepish smile back in place.

“Well, we know we can both fit on one of those beds.” You whisper, moving closer to it the exhaustion from the day starting to catch up to you, between running, crying, and having a spat with Vash. You’re ready to rest.

“Oh. Umm” Turning towards Vash again before you get ready to crawl into the bed frowning. “I was gonna sleep somewhere else.” What? No. A few sure steps and you’re standing directly in front of him again.

“But, it’s your room. And I like sharing a bed with you, Vash.” Voice soft, after your fight earlier, you want to sleep knowing he’s beside you. “Please Vash. Stay with me?”

A look on his face as if he’s waring with himself, eyes flicking back and forth, frowning then a neutral look, before a quick nod. “Alright then. I mean, I would rather sleep with you than by myself.”

In short order, you’re both curled up together on the small bed, spooning on your sides, and you find yourself falling asleep in almost no time. Eased into slumber by the steady sound of Vash’s breathing, your own matching his.

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spectre-writes · 1 year

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Okay, so… Trigun Stampede thoughts. All 3.3k of them. Goes without saying this will include stampede spoilers, but there will also be some spoilers for trimax and the og anime too. And there will be some critique, but understand that’s coming from a place of love (because I do love the show), but if you’re someone who just can’t deal with people critiquing things you like then uh maybe pass?

I’ll preface this by saying that I never watched the og anime back in the day. I think I tried to watch the first episode a few years back because everyone went on about it being a classic, but I just didn’t vibe with it so I gave up. So for me, there was never any nostalgia involved in my perspective on the show and on stampede as an adaptation. I watched stampede first… well, the episodes that were out at the time, and for some reason my brain just latched onto it. I then watched the og anime in its entirety, read the whole manga, and then watched the remaining stampede episodes as they came out.

Visually, stampede is stunning. I know a lot of people are ‘eh’ about CG but it was pulled off really well, the action is so fluid and the characters are still very expressive. The og anime was a product of its time - it felt very static by comparison, and the fight scenes just weren’t as intense. Some of the wacky faces and things were cool but overall I feel like stampede was a glow up in the visual department.

The tone is definitely darker than the og anime, but I think it’s still not as dark as the manga gets… whether that will change in season 2 we’ll have to see. It did strike me as odd that stampede seems to pulls its punches in some places? Like when Knives makes his grand appearance, at the end of that episode we get a shot where Gofsef and his dad are both bandaged and alive, which was weird? Because Nebraska was screaming about how EG killed his son? Like… did he just never bother to go check? Narratively it’s a strange choice considering they’ve both served their purpose by the end of episode and it feels like the writers both want to punish Vash emotionally for those he failed to save, but also leave them alive?

Same goes for Tonis to a degree… it would have been even more heart wrenching if they had died (especially for Meryl), and it’s not like the show doesn’t do horrible things to children at other points… Knives was just cutting a lot of arms off that episode I guess. But overall, the darker tone works for me - I like that sort of thing, though I get why fans of the old show might miss many of the more lighthearted elements.

There are quite a few changes from the manga/og anime to stampede, some of which I really like, some I’m less sure about. Guess I'll use bulletpoints for this.

Removing the whole 'Vash creeping on women' thing was absolutely needed, that trope can go die, thank you.

I love how they really leaned into the whole ‘millions knives’ thing and just… gave him a million knives. Made him feel so much more threatening as a villain than he did in the og anime, and fits with the abilities he shows off later in the manga.

Changing his original name from Knives to Nai (Kni?) makes way more sense than calling a child Knives too.

I’m personally fine with them changing Merly to a reporter and adding Roberto - the insurance girl thing seems a bit silly for the tone they’re going for in stampede, and as it’s also a prequel it gives her room to grow into the character she is after the events of July. And since we know we’re getting Milly in season two I don’t consider ‘no Milly’ a valid complaint.

I don’t mind the changes to Elendira, it’s a way to explain her powers and I think with the timeskip there’s a very real chance we’ll see her more like her manga counterpart in season 2, and I appreciate what they’re trying to do with the whole plant experimentation thing. Like… Knives wanting to wipe out all humans and start a paradise kind of falls flat on its face as a concept when you consider that he and Vash are the only independent plants, and also no one seems to know how to make new plants. Like… their sisters are still going to have to live in containers and as a species they’re a dead end. Him and Conrad looking into solutions to this (for different reasons since Conrad thinks it’s possibly a way for humans to continue as hybrids and Knives only cares about plants) gives the impression that he’s thought things through a bit harder.

I think some of the changes to Vash and Knives’s relationship are good - I love how in this version, Knives cuts his arm off not just because he’s angry and being a dick about it, but because Vash opened his gate with no control and could accidentally kill them all. He’s trying to save him. You get a real sense that he still cares about Vash… you can see the pain on his face when Vash points his gun at him.

The choice to split them up earlier too rather than have Vash follow him around for years before they split allows them time to build up their own lives, and when they clash it’s because they have both been pulled in different directions.

I’m fine with them giving Vash and Knives more distinct personalities as children, with Knives being more quiet and withdrawn and Vash being more outgoing and boisterous… but I do wish they’d left in stuff about how Knives was initially just as hopeful about humanity as Vash was? Like… in the manga, at least, he really wanted humans to be their friends, he wanted to be loved and accepted by them too… part of the tragedy of him is that he wasn’t always the way he is. So it would have been cool to see that.

As for ship 3… I think them first picking up Vash works fine, as again, it gives him a chance to grow apart from Knives and see something good worth protecting again. I’m less sure about Brad and Luida being there? And then also being there 150 years later? Like I get that they want to give Vash a sense of family, but I think what stood out to me about ship 3 was that Vash’s attachment to it isn’t just because of two parental figures… Vash is old. He’s not human. He’s watched generations of these people grow old and die, and he’s loved and cared for their children, and their children’s children. They’re this big community that he loves, and he knows all their names and remembers them all, but he’s never… quite one of them in the same way. Which is kind of the tragedy of being Vash. I would have loved if after the sand steamer episodes, when Vash wakes up there’s a couple of people who look like Brad and Luida there to greet him… but no one mentions their names, and there’s something just… a little off about it, little quirks that aren’t the same… and then it clicks. We get dropped the truth - that that’s not Brad and Luida, that’s their grandchildren. Vash outlived them. He’s 150 years old, he’s always going to outlive humans and that’s just something he has to accept. It also would have been nice to see more of the other people living on ship 3, especially to set up a part from the manga/og anime which I really, really hope will be adapted. Like… Vash has to see these people that he loves so much just… fall apart in his arms. Families, adults he’s watched grow from infancy, children, everyone… For stampede they now either have the option of killing Brad and Luida that way, or trying to squeeze in some time with the ship 3 peeps in the second season so that their deaths have an impact, when they could have just done the leg work in this season. But hey that’s probably a problem with the limited number of episodes.

Back to other changes… I think introducing Livio that early was a good call, so he doesn’t come out of nowhere later.

But I do feel like we should have seen more of Legato given the big part he’s supposed to play later (if they follow the manga). He kinda just disappeared after the sand steamer episodes.

I’m… still not sure how I feel about them revealing the whole SEEDs ship thing and Knives part in the crash so early on. I think it was done with intent - stampede (the first season at least) only has 12 episodes to make things happen, so they need to cover stuff fast. For me… while maintaining the mystery for longer was cool, the og anime was too slow. There was a lot of filler and stuff before we even got to the main plot points and honestly if I hadn’t seen stampede I would have given up on it. I think what I would have liked would be some kind of middle ground? Like… something between the two which lets you uncover the mystery but still feeds you enough that you know there’s something there and can begin piecing it together.

Getting to see the July incident as it happens was obviously a change, and I’m on the side about that one too… like… Vash kind of knowing that he completely destroyed a city but having no memory of it and trying to figure out what happened and that being part of his journey? I feel like we won’t get that, because Meryl and Wolfwood can just tell him what happened. It’s not going to hang over him in the same way.

And on that subject, I think they really, really needed to dedicate some time to just… showing people living in July? In the manga, when Vash regains his memory of destroying July, part of why it’s so traumatic is because he spent several days living there, talking to the people there… seeing their kindness, glimpsing that community, getting to be a part of that briefly… and he just erases all those smiling faces in the blink of an eye. In stampede we only see some military police who shot Vash and tried to capture him, and one noodle seller who none of the main gang interacts with. I just… think July would have so much more impact if we’d had an episode dedicated to them spending time there first… This also means we probably won’t get Vash accidentally mindblasting the event into Meryl’s brain (because she was there anyway and Vash never connected with the people in the city), which personally I think is a shame…

Last change that stands out to me is that Vash's use of the angel arm is fully intentional in this adaptation. I’m on the fence on this? On one hand, it’s needed, because Vash has been fairly passive for a lot of this show, and horrible things just happen to him, so for him to have some agency and sort of win a fight makes for a more satisfying climax? On the other hand, the horror of Kives forcing him to manifest the arm against his will and him not being able to control that part of himself is sort of gone? We do still get the creepy sort-of-rape buisness with Knives making him uhh… do that to the other plants and go all black and viney, but it’s different? It’s… yeah, I dunno. Makes me wonder if they’re going to do anything with the 5th moon incident and all that, seeing as it’s strange for Vash to seemingly have so much more control over his abilities and still get made to basically cause the same catastrophe twice… It would feel less satisfying happening a second time around if he just does the same thing we saw during July and tries to blast the energy into space? So on one hand I like it and on the other hand I don’t, if that makes sense?

Moving on from changes, I think the show could have also benefited from some stuff that was skipped/missing. Some of this would have resulted in better pacing, better characterisation, or fill a few plot holes that go ignored. I guess the best way for me to cover this is to go in order of episodes?

So, I’m fine with the start, but maybe there should have been one more episode between Wolfwood’s introduction and the sand steamer episodes. We get the one with Rollo, but I think one more to cement his place in the group would have been nice. I also think the sand steamer event should have had one more episode. A lot of the two we get is filled with flashbacks, and while I love those (and the style they’re done in) it means that there’s less time to cover events happening in the present. The badlads gang just… kind of shows up, gets punched down by Vash, and disappears again… they don’t serve much of a purpose. Having an extra episode for them to be more of a threat, and Vash (and maybe Roberto and Meryl) having to deal with that would be more satisfying (for me at least). And if we want to stick a little closer to the source material, then Vash dealing with the badlad’s gang leader could result in him helping them (maybe with the canon this time? Because two people pushing it up is silly, not gonna lie I had to suspend my disbelief for that). So yeah, that would be my first major change.

Then I still have an issue with how it’s never explained how Vash gets from the plant room on the sand steamer to ship 3. Did he call them? Do they have some kind of ‘Vash is in danger’ sensor that alerted them he was in trouble? How did they convince Meryl and Wolfwood and Roberto to let them take him?

I would, if I could, add another episode after the flashback one which shows Vash getting picked up, and then gives us a little more time on ship 3. Time to see the people there, get a sense of the community that lives there… I also think we could have actually seen Meryl and Roberto getting kidnapped, because that happening offscreen was weird.

As I mentioned before, another episode to better flesh out July is needed. And I think I would maybe add another episode so that we could have some more time on flashbacks… specifically, there’s events from the manga that I feel were too briefly touched upon in stampede to have their full effect.

I am, of course, talking mostly about Tesla… In a lot of ways, she’s the turning point for the twins. Before then, they were both hopeful about humanity and wanted to be accepted by them. But after Tesla… they break down.

Following the manga, Knives and Vash lock themselves away for days. When Rem finally gets to them, Knives ends up in a coma. Vash wakes up first, and faced with the reality of what humans did to his older sister… he tries to kill himself. Just grabs the knife and goes for it. Rem stops him by grabbing the blade, and Vash ends up stabbing her. And there’s this moment… a brief moment, when Vash seems happy with what he’s done… before it all comes crashing down and he realizes what he’s done, how that’s not what he wants, and he drops the knife and patches Rem up.

When she wakes up again, they have a conversation. She tells him about her depression following her partner’s death, and how she had a dream where she was handed a blank train ticket. And she was happy because it could take her anywhere. And after that, she joined the SEEDS project, which led her to meeting Vash and Knives. She tells Vash that everyone deserves that blank ticket.

This is a really important moment for him, because I think that’s where he solidifies his ideals. The idea that people all deserve the chance to start fresh. The idea that killing isn’t okay because it robs people of that chance, and also dying isn’t okay because of his promise to her…

Stampede touches on it briefly with Vash telling Luida and Brad that he wanted them to leave him there to die, but I think the manga touches on it much more closely. Vash has… tried to kill himself as a child. And I think, at times, he would quite like to die as an adult too (because he goes through so much suffering). But he doesn’t, because he has so much to do and people to protect and he promised Rem… and ugh, it hurts, but he still has that blank ticket. And sometimes, he still finds joy in the world, and those little moments mean a lot…

And we’ve seen that Vash is capable of lashing out too. He stabbed Rem. But in the same way that Knives used to be as loving of humanity as Vash, Vash had the same capacity to strike as his brother…

Now, Knives… when he wakes up, he says he remembers nothing (idk if that’s actually true it’s very possible he was lying). They tell him about Tesla. He pretends everything is fine, but he quietly plots to take down the ships, and we get a panel of him biting at his hand while he works… you get an idea that he’s super anxious. He’s afraid. He’s so afraid of what humans could do to him and his brother, and that’s what motivates him. Not just hate or betrayal, but a deep, visceral fear he won’t admit to. I feel like stampede didn’t quite hit the mark there…

We might get a closer look at the events around Tesla in a season 2… it’s implied (?) in stampede that Knives might have absorbed what was left of her (which is a departure from the source, but also sets up/hints at later major plot points). But we’ll see.

On the whole I think the pacing of the very last episode was fine. And they’ve set some stuff up for season two (Milly confirmed)!

Moving into season two there’s going to be changes to the source again, but I am super glad we’ll be getting to stuff that the og anime never had a chance to adapt. One thing I am curious about is Wolfwood… seeing as in stampede, he’s already betrayed Vash and handed him over to Knives and cut his ties (?) to the Eye of Michael. So, this time around, I’m guessing his motive for tracking down Vash is going to be either personal, or he is invested in stopping Knives or the Eye of Michael and wants to find Vash because Vash could help…

I also wonder how much of his memory Vash has lost… and are we going to get the darkening hair effect? Please say we still get the 5th moon incident? Can we have more body horror pretty please? Are they aiming for a different ending from the manga or are they going to play that the same? I… kind of, really want a scene of Vash and Knives actually reconciling this time and maybe playing piano together…

So yeah… that’s… kind of my thoughts for the moment, as best I can put them. I really enjoyed stampede! I think it has some flaws but I’m so glad to have been pulled into the Trigun universe and experience these characters and I am very excited for what comes next.

#trigun #trigun stampede #just pouring my thoughts out in an essay I guess #I'm sorry this is so long

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azurexsnake · 10 months

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Hawnestly, there’s a million-and-one points that I’d love to punch Knives in the face over, but I can’t get over, “What are you talking about, Vash? Kni is dead. You killed him.”

I’ll never not get furious over it ever time how Knives uses his hurt to hurt Vash, even in his “dying” moments. How he holds onto his resentment that Vash didn’t choose him. Didn’t pick his side. How Vash didn’t deny himself- his hopes, his wants, his ideals, his beliefs, and his LOVE- to help him, and treats that refusal to abandon himself as betrayal.

I get that to Knives, it is. It feels like it. But he equally as much betrayed Vash. Drove him to hurt and act in ways he never would have otherwise. Gave him an impossible mission to take on alone- the same ways Knives took his on in solitude. But Knives acted first. He started it. Which sounds deeply ironic and trivial since he is the elder sibling (I am one myself, I’m allowed to say this). But, truly, Vash was only reacting to Knives pushing forwards towards a future he didn’t want. That he was uniquely capable of correcting when given the chance. And it benefitted plants and humans both.

Vash would have helped Knives. He wanted to save him- to find a way that they could move forward towards happiness together. But it would always include a happiness with humans that Knives couldn’t abide by because he never wanted to see past his own hurt. He took his trauma, made it his reality, and took measure to force it onto the rest of the world as well, his brother included.

To say that Vash killed him is ludicrous projection. Kni killed his own connection with the baby brother he cared so much about. It wasn’t Vash’s lack of want. It wasn’t humanity’s mistakes/misdeeds. Kni chose to do that himself and “killed” himself for his own dedication to a self-serving future.

And I’m not going to sit here and act like he wasn’t justified to an extent, in seeing what became of Tesla and the plants undergoing a Last Run. But it’s for those same reasons that I wish he had done things differently when Vash could have helped. Even in their dying moments, the plants still cried and reached out, hoping to be heard. Understood. Connected with. Saved. They wanted to be saved. Just like Knives. And Vash could have done it. Maybe not in the Last Run scene, but if Knives had just given him a chance to prove what could be when you don’t hold on so tight to the pain of yesterday… doomed by the narrative fr 🫠

#nightow really knows how to tear your heart out with what could have been huh?#MAN #but why’d he have to bring the mfing bible into it????#catholic/christian themes are cool and all yea #but I can’t take half of what kni says or does serious knowing how he views humanity through a religious lense #like it makes his character even MORE unreasonable to me #but maybe that’s the point #like how he also referenced fictitious westerns #maybe it’s supposed to show how deluded he is #IDK #trigun stampede #tristamp #vash the stampede #millions knives

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rewatching stampede and yeah glad to see that in every trigun iteration time isn't real. Elendira was there as a child when rolo began being experimented on which was 25 years ish before the present. Vash and knives grew like 10 years in a year but elendira has been stuck as a child for decades. Nico-chan gained years in months and idk about his lifespan now. And roll is plausibly his chronological age he's chronologically at least 35.

Info on vash is above luida's clearance level. And to her knowledge plants are clones from an original cell. Independants are birthed from other plants. Its like f2 hybrids

i still hold by that Plants were probably a result of human experimentation (Luida comments that vash's dna is mostly human though that's not saying much since most of human dna is the exact same as banana dna), but conrad at least doesn't seem to know how plants were created from humans given he's spent all the time since the crash trying to recreate independent plants, or give humans Plants' self sustainability.

Forgot elendira is from the study of clones, one in a series. So the one that met Rolo might have been a different clone/experiment than the one met at the end on season 1. That said conrad implies that the surgical experiments to modify existing humans preceded (to some extent, again rolo and the elendira look alike) the clone series so who knows how old livio and nico-chan are. Once again time is fake.

Ah back to the impregnation imagery. In maximum this was largely centered around knives, him burst from a Plant's primary abdomen in his "revival" the way the earth fleet independent was colonized by tendrils. In Stampede that imagery in centered around Vash instead. Knives and Conrad want to inject souls inside of plants. This is done by Knives connecting/stabbing Vash which sends out roots/tentacles which pierce the other plants abdomens and cause them to swell up like a pregnant person. Also the whole vaginal penetration and egg and sperm imagery with the gate and core while flowers bloom on a giant woman made of their combined powers.

Knives was searching the ship logs because he had a suspicion Rem was hiding something and found Tesl but given Rem was a navigator I wonder when she found out about Tesla. In Maximum I think it's likely Conrad told her when he found out about the twins.

Kni is so stupid all he had to do was pet vash on the head a bit and say he did a god job and vash would have been eating out of the palm of his hand.

Also I was paying attention to the gun shots this time and yeah Vash shoots his gun like 4 times at non-Knives targets and then is emptying barrel after barrel on Knives the few times they meet.

Millions knives, thousands forks, hundreds spoons. Conrad picks up teen(?) kni like a stray kitten off the street. Kid proceeds to name himself millions knives and vow genocide and then starts a cult. Conrad deals with so much.

Thinking about how (to him at least) knives was betrayed and abandoned by the two people he loved most

#Trigun

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I just think Kni is self-aware enough to connect the dots in his head; raising his child and leading a sadistic genocidal syndicate cult is not something you can do at exactly the same time, you technically could if you wanted to raise your baby in that type of environment, but there are plenty of things to consider.

As fucking terrible Kni is at any sort of emotional relationship and genuine connections over all, that doesn't mean he can't hold some layer of common sense, no ideal father human or otherwise who holds their beloved baby's best interest at heart would ever agree to raise them in coalition with mass punishment and genocide.

And that's not to even mention the incredible fucking responsibility a baby requires. All natural organisms begin as the most weakest lifeforms around, a baby. And delicately take into account all the tender, life-saving care the surrogate will need right after.

Having a baby is not sunshine and rainbows. Not as easy as anime or television puts it, Heavens no. It's the longest, most difficult trip any parent will drive across.

It's going to act like a fucking baby. It will drain your patience, test your general tolerance, your every little action and decision made around your baby will impact its future one way or another. Because a baby is the purest, most absolute test of moral responsibility and basic commitment.

( It may start out way too fucking young to remember really anything you did to properly build it to journey across the world, especially a dying one such as Gunsmoke, but it doesn't decrease the inevitable importance of taking the right steps to ensuring your child grows healthy; walking with an aural acceptance of themselves and how to eventually educate themselves if you can't be there to lend a guiding hand. Time is not refundable. It is a fleeting plane of existence for mortal humans. Every minute, every thought, every memory, every single decision is of critical importance because we can not simply wait out the consequences.)

And Kni's entire character trait is his disregard for others and their morality, but this child isn't some random child picked off a whim from the street. From the filthy dunes of ruined towns and suck churches.

This child is Kni's, spurred from a union between an Independent Plant and a simple, solitary human. His own blood and flesh, of his eyes and fingers, half of his own original genes float inside that tiny, fragile vessel that he helped create. It sprouted from a natural seed swimming inside him and then blossomed, taking such beautiful root inside his most dearest bride-to-be.

You will not convince me that child is not one of the very few things still alive that can drag a vulnerability out of Kni, which while is a fucking miracle, proves Kni has and will never be completely devoid of emotion no matter how hard he pushes himself off the fucking line.

And 98' Kni is cunning enough to question himself about this, about you, about raising this child while pursuing the end of his wife's own species. He will be questioned about it from that child, and it won't matter how manipulative Kni is, how deeply he attempts to cover up the truth once the child matures. He will be pryed open, seen, heard, listened to by that child because he will be raising it, as it's literal father aside the mother.

'Would they hate me if I did it?' Kni denies it, but he fears loneliness just as deeply as Vash does, though that fear may not be big enough to overthrow his hatred of Humanity his love for family is for just a moment, as last minute as it maybe in canon, a moment is all it takes.

He can live with Vash rejecting him, with his wife resenting him, but his child?

Does he put his child above his selfish hypocrisy? How far would he go to prove that he loves his little one, peacefully raise them happy and energetic in a filthless world devoid of human greed and fear? After everything he suffered?

Could he bear the burden his own child despises him?

SDgauj0s- Sorry this took me so long to get back to! XD You just kinda activated my baby fever and I had to take a little bit like fuck. Now I really wanna write about him interacting with a baby. Damnit! Aaaaa- Omg. You put me into 'want to write Knives being a dad but not sure which fic or start new fic' and I still haven't figured it out so I'm a little frustrated rn. But see, I originally wanted to address this sort of thing with him from the uncle perspective for a specific fic (well, two actually. One is just a different canon), but it's not gonna happen for a while. Because I really do think, depending on the situation, he'd have the same reservations about the whole human extinction perspective if he had niece(s)/nephew(s) to now think about who are half human, especially being able to interact with them in a manner where they're reaching their little pudgy hands up towards him and blowing raspberries at him. Fuuuccck.. This has me so soft rn hhhhh-

What I wanna do though is probably going to take place in the distant future. Like, maybe even two years (or more?) from now, who knows? But I cannot post it at this point in time. XD It's not there yet! I still have so much more plot and world building before I can and I just--- Ugh! So much I wanna do with these particular fics and I just can't yet! I've been holding onto these ideas for years now! It's driving me nuts! I can pre-write as much as I want but I just cannot share until the story gets there and I!!!! Augh! XD And I really did hope to address how fucking tough it is to be pregnant and actually have a baby in one (or a few? One in particular in mind rn, but I might do more, who knows?) of my fics because hoooo boy, even though I have not had one myself, this right here is why. There's just sooo much that goes on during pregnancy and so many things that can go wrong for both the mother and the baby. And seeing what my sister had to put up with, not only with her husband, but the constant crying and midnight feedings, pregnancy recovery, baby illnesses and constant care and supervision, whew.

I like to joke she had enough for the both of us and that I don't intend to have any because boy howdy! Have I not found a man I'd be willing to go through all of that for. Nope. He better fucking put in his 50% that's all I'm saying or I might just be driven to commit a crime. But fictional babies? Fictional men holding fictional babies?!?!? I go feral! I lose my mind! I'll read and write fictional baby fics all day! hell yeah! Give me that domestic cute shit! Love it! Love reading about fictional men being good husbands and dads. Fuck yes. It just really sucks that rn all my ideas for these are for longer, on-going fics and I'm not there yet!!! XD But I'm also really weak for doesn't know what to do husband/dad but is trying his best and willing to learn. Like fuck yes. 10/10 Would read and write that all day. And this part right here!!!: "your every little action and decision made around your baby will impact its future one way or another. Because a baby is the purest, most absolute test of moral responsibility and basic commitment." This is what scares me most about having a baby. This. That is a tiny person upon which your every word and action, they will be taking in, learning from you, and they need you there to shape and mold their life, their choices, their experiences. And I just- That scares me.

I honestly think the internet is a little too harsh on parents sometimes. Like yes, there are terrible people out there who should have never been parents. And maybe they fucked you up horribly, maybe they were awful, but my parents, doubtlessly there are people out there who have my experiences where it's like, yes, they fucked me up. Some of the things they've said or done cannot be undone, but at the end of the day, no matter what, I have to realize that they had no fucking clue what they were doing. There's absolutely no way you can be 100% prepared to raise a child. None. No matter how many books you read, how much advice you're given, you're going to run across something you have no idea how to deal with in your kid's life. There's gonna be those times where all your current choices do not seem like the right choice, and they're all gonna have their own unique consequences. Sometimes you just gotta acknowledge that depending on your parents, some of them did the best they could with the best they had. Some of them did not mean to fuck you up like that (though I know there are some out there who just… Are awful period. Literally locking their kids in a room to not have to deal with them or even attempting to murder them or hurting them on purpose), some of them just had no idea that that decision would do what it did to you.

And sometimes, I've come to realize, as a parent, sometimes the choices are between your kids hating you and you saving your kid's life or preventing them from making choices they might regret later in life. Your job as a parent is not to be their friend, it is to be their guidance, discipline, role model. Your job is to give them all the tools in life they need to survive and teach them how to act in the outside world, raise and care for them until they're old enough to make their own decisions, not make them like you and cater to their every desire and whim. Yes, maybe you really like playing in the road, it's a big open space and big loud fast things go by on it, but no, you cannot play there no matter how much you scream and squall and think it's unfair. And yes, maybe you hate your parents for not letting you have sleepovers or go to prom by yourself, but there are a lot of things that could go wrong. My mom was always afraid of me being mistreated or raped or molested. And while it felt unfair, having a friend's older brother touch me inappropriately not a year or so ago as an adult made me realize just how scary and real that situation is. And worse for a child to go through! And I was disallowed to go to prom because my parents did not trust my friends (for good reason!) Sure, I cried, but I'm really thankful they didn't let me go now, because while back then it felt really unfair and I felt cheated, that it was a once in a lifetime thing that I was missing out on, I don't trust now that those people wouldn't have embarrassed me horribly or something worse.

Being a parent isn't easy. And while you might cry I was abused by being switched (hit with a flexible branch for discipline. Mostly flower tree branches as they're tender. Because they have give, they're more likely to leave stripes of red on your skin than like, cause bone or organ injury like a sturdy branch would and we were usually thwapped on the thigh near the rear. XD That shit hurt but hey, I wasn't a brat who screamed and threw a tantrum in the store when I didn't get what I wanted, didn't hit my parents or other people, and didn't steal or spill or break things on purpose in stores or anywhere else) as a kid, it kept me from doing stupid shit and I'm not dead or severely injured because I didn't listen when they told me not to get too close to a high ledge on the unfinished house. I didn't end up dead or severely injured from falling into the high creek water from rain, and I learned my lesson of not running in the gravel by scraping up my knee reeaaall good to figure out that, 'Hey, maybe they were right to yell at me not to run. Even if it hurt my feelings and made me cry.' To them, me being unharmed and alive and safe was better than whatever I was feeling at the moment. Yeah, maybe I got issues, but I'm still thankful for them (my parents, I mean), and I'd argue the people around me fucked me up more than they ever did.

I know that's not the case for all parents, but there are some who are really just trying, and you don't really know what you're getting into until it's far too late when it comes to having kids. And hey, I'm just thankful they had me at all. I wouldn't be here, talking to you, or writing fanfiction if they hadn't had me. Parenthood isn't perfect, ever. And sometimes, parents just really do need some slack cut for them. Not all of them are evil, awful people. They're just as damaged as everyone else, trying to get by with what they were taught, and trying to raise you as best they can. Sorry to go off on this tangent, but this is something I really hope to tackle in the future. Might not be anytime soon, but eventually. And I know I can't really give a perfect or at least somewhat realistic depiction without having experienced it. So it'll be through a lens that I can only imagine, taking in as much outside information as possible in hopes I can somehow get at least some of it right. And even then, not every parenthood experience and child will be the same between people.

Awww, man, though, I just--- XD I keep looking at what you wrote and keep wanting to write something soft and I- Can't decide what project to put this into! I'm kinda internally grumbling because no matter how I tackle it, it's gonna be slightly different and I can't decide which or both. I'm starting to realize maybe my readers want more baby/soft pregnancy fics than I realize… I keep looking at all these comments for certain fics, like PROJECT ZERO, Shattered, my Creatures of the Forest fics,... and I notice I keep cutting it short of or skipping the actual pregnancy or child rearing experience, and I just… I'm caught between going back and adding more onto some of these fics, or just tackling this part in separate fic(s). Dang it…

#Sfw #Ask #someweirdoreblogger

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This is my plant oc, Maya! she sleeps a lot and has the ability to make people fall asleep and give them any dreams. she can see their memories and what they dream/hope for in life. she doesn't work for Knives exactly, but stays in tower hanging out with the plants he's gotten. despite sleeping a lot, Maya is very aware of her surroundings when asleep!

backstory and more under cut. not proofread and death (not graphic) warning. hope this makes sense lol

scientists had found out she was an independent on the seeds ship, realizing she never produced power like other plants. they tried everything to wake her up, however when nothing worked, they decided they'd just do what they did to Tesla, but once she realizes their intentions she puts all of the scientists there into a deep sleep. (she has those tendrils like Knives does in stampede, however they look and spread out more like roots.) when those scientists don't return, more more come to investigate and soon enough, the room Maya is in becomes off limits to anyone.

Maya was very aware that the fall ends up happening and luckily survives, but decides to stay asleep with her dreams rather than explore the new planet. many try to get into her room but again, they're put into a deep sleep, bodies laying as a warning to leave her alone.

it's not until Knives comes across her room decades later does Maya finally wake up. after failing to put him to sleep and realizing he's also a plant, she wants to know what he wants. Knives explains that he's gathering all the plants and wants to make a world solely for them. while she doesn't quite agree with the eradication of humanity (despite ultimately killing everyone she put to sleep) she does go with Knives. Maya rather adores humans, having seen beautiful dreams of family and life from them, its just, if they wish to bring harm to her, she's not afraid to use her powers.

she mainly stays at the tower, sleeping, unless Knives absolutely needs her. Maya likes being in her dreams rather than the coldness of the tower. part of her wishes to go and be with humanity but she's also come to like Knives despite his intentions with humanity.

she meets Vash when she's asked to put a town to sleep that was overworking their plant, Knives wanting them killed for what they're doing as he deals with another town. vash is investigating why this town is so quiet when Maya puts him to sleep. Vash figures out that he's dreaming, snapping out of it only to find himself in a grassy field with bubbles floating everywhere. Maya and the plant are sitting under a tree. she isn't surprised that he snapped out of his dream, however he still hasn't waked up, only in the area where everyone else's dreams float around. think of her like taking care of their dreams if that makes sense. Vash demands she free everyone from this sleep, but she refuses, Knives asked her to do this and the plant is tired of this. Maya argues, besides, they'll die a happy death, dreaming of what they've wanted in life. Vash ends up waking up and searches for Maya, however she just does not want to physically fight. Maya compromises, saying getthe people out of the town, so Knives can only get the plant. Vash reluctantly agrees, knowing this town will die without a plant, but this is his best outcome. so Maya implants nightmares into the people, telling them they need to leave town, hoping they'll just that when they wake up. when Knives gets to town he's furious that she saved the humans. she responds, what can I say? your brother is convincing.

despite her fondness for Knives, she's quite troublesome, never quite listening or giving him grief. she's the same way with Legato when he arrives, just bullying (although with no real harm intended) him more.

Maya also meets Wolfwood and Livio when they arrive, and while she can't interfere with what Conrad is doing, she does sneak a root in to put their mind to rest and try to give them pleasant dreams from the constant torture. Legato and Knives find out, telling her to stop, and Maya only responds threatening to put them to sleep, making sure they, especially Knives won't wake up, that Wolfwood and Livio are only kids, they don't deserve this. they begrudgingly back away, knowing they can't really change her mind. later on, Wolfwood ends up respecting her, thankful for the small escapes from reality

Elendira ends up being like a little sister, they gossip a lot. both of them are happy to have someone to talk to that isn't just work or experiments.

#trigun oc #trigun original character #nickels oc #if anyone wants to ask questions or anything feel free to!#plan to write some stories of her www

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