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statement of blorbo, regarding being from my shows

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was in a painting mood

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love is

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Trigun panel redraw

Joined the Trigun bookclub this week and decided to join others in redrawing our fav panels of this weeks chapters!

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Toph Beifong

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quiet mornings

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That other Wolfwood is about to miss out

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Part of why I love Trimax so much is how it reframes Vash's relationship with Rem and deepens his reasoning on why he doesn't kill people.

In 98 anime his motivation for that is largely centered around grief. If he kills a person, then the last thing of Rem he has would be lost. And the way Rem didn't even talk to him directly about her personal convictions back in his childhood, Vash saw her pacify a violent crew member (presented as a rather unpleasant guy in fact) and internalised it as the ultimate essence of her.

In Trimax the flashback goes quite differently. There's no violent crew members present - the source of violence in that scene is Vash himself, and I think this shift of perspective is vital to understand the entire framework of the manga. Rem talks directly to him, and the final decision on whether he would actually commit murder is ultimately left to him. And then he doesn't. And him and Rem actually talk, have a heart to heart, Rem explains to him her own trauma and motivation for joining the SEEDS crew. It is very raw, intimate, and Vash comes out of it with an understanding of why killing a person is wrong - because all that interiority, all that potential to live again, it will be lost forever if a death occurs. And having been the one who lashed out, attacked another person (and himself!) out of his own anger, fear and grief, he also gains a perspective on how violence is perpetuated between people. His pacifism in Trimax is no longer about Rem, but about his own experience with facing violence and perpetuating it in turn.

Man, I love Trimax.

graham--folger

i think it’s important to remember vash’s pacifism and no-kill code aren’t things he subscribes to out of a sense of it being the “morally right” thing to do. he refuses to kill because of rem. his pacifism is born out of grief and guilt and a need to immortalize someone deeply important to him. and in doing so he displaces his own desires. his own choices. even his pursuit of knives is born out of a sense of obligation to rem. he has made himself a living memorial to a dead woman.

which in turn makes it hit that much harder when you realize in trimax when he breaks that no-kill code, when he makes that active choice to kill a human being, he does so again out of grief and guilt and a need to honor another sacrifice. to make sure that sacrifice doesn’t go to waste. but this time he is forgetting rem, he is throwing away 150 years of closely-held ideals and stubborn ideas of atonement. he is remaking himself. a memorial in the image of someone new. and he does it for wolfwood

dimiart

ITS A GOOOOD DAAAYY TODAAAYYY! Super happy to finally have the approval to post my first zine piece ever, this one was for the wonderful project of the For our tomorrows trigun wedding fanzine. The team were always lovely and I adore working on zines such as this one that help me challenge my skills more and more often. In any case, this is a bit of an old piece but it was a lot of fun!