#2023 vash

[cindyaquiart]

Vash and Vash!

[snow-flake-writes]

Kiss My Booboos

Literally love this boy so much. I love a good confident but shy 2023 Vash. I think it suits him so well. Let your minds go wild😏

Relationship: Vash x Female Reader

Fandom: Trigun Stampede(2023)

Warnings: fluff :), Vash has some confidence, a little spicy(nothing explicit), kisses

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I sigh for the thousandth time in the whole of ten minutes. I was trying to focus purely on my book while Vash took care of a minor wound behind me. The hotel room was a bit luxurious, giving us a chance of privacy with my sitting on a couch a few feet away from the bed that Vash was sitting on. The back of the couch was facing him.

Vash The Stampede really doesn’t live up to his name, especially now of all times. Speaking of the devil, the blond groans in pain once again.

“Would you stop complaining?” I grumble, “it’s just a scratch!”

“A scratch from a bullet!” He whines, “it hurts like hell…”

“Awe, the poor baby,” my voice is high in pitch to perfect my mother impression, “want me to kiss all your booboos?”

I have seen most of his scars before, but he doesn’t like when people look at them, the reason why I’m sitting on this couch facing away from him in the first place. And since we’ve known each other for a long time, none of my jokes faze him.

“Actually, that would be nice.”

I chuckle, turning a page in my book, “well too bad-“ my eyes are away from the words on the page and over the side of the couch, looking at the half naked man in shock, “What?!”

“Y-you know I was just joking…right?” I mumble, almost falling off of the armrest of the couch. A pool of heat rushes to my cheeks at his sudden confession.

Of course, he had to have a shit eating grin on his face as he rested his chin on his hand. This was a rare side of Vash The Stampede. Overly shy with other woman and in public, but once he’s alone with someone that he knows well he’s quite confident. I’ve only see this a handful of times….nothing I can get used to though.

From what I can see on my spot from the couch, he’s sitting on the end of the bed with his daily sweatpants and isn’t wearing a shirt. All kinds of scars litter his upper body.

“Sure, but I think it’d make me feel better,” he says, voice somehow deeper than usual. He stands up, taking his time to walk around the couch and stand in front of me. My wide eyes followed him the whole time.

What in gods name was he doing?!

Within seconds, my hand is in his warm one as he brings it closer to his lips. He leaves a chaste kiss in the palm of my hand, his smirk still gracing his lips.

“What do you say?”

[baby-goat-noises]

Vash adores newborns, we see it with the picture of Rolo and how he chats with Rosa in episode 1, I bet he was there when Tonis was born too, or at least shortly after he was born, still swaddled in blankets. But I think that Vash holds a special place in his heart and high respect for people who have children in such a harsh environment, how they would do anything for their children, I think he loves new parents because they remind him of Rem. I like to imagine he returns for their first birthdays whenever he can, he probably has a little book full of birthdays and names and towns they are in just so he can go back. I wonder if he continues to go back long after those kids hes seen have become adults, i wonder how many families hes trusted with the knowledge that he doesnt age the same as the rest. I wonder how many families have told him not to come back because of it.

[baby-goat-noises]

So my friend made a LOVELY request and who am I to deny them anything? Also outfit inspired by CoCo Jones - Double Back music video

[baby-goat-noises]

Something I noticed on my multiple watches of Trigun Stampede, (I dont have a problem you have a problem) is how often everyone throws around calling Vash/Wolfwood/Knives ect. A monster, and like, Knives I get it, he's literally trying to exterminate the remaining human race on No Mans Land, but Vash and Wolfwood arguably pose the last threat to humanity. But they get called monster the most? To me it feels like Stampede is really trying to drive home an "us or them" narrative for humans, there is a very intense fear of the unfamiliar, anything different gets pegged in a "dangerous" category (going back and editing this now that I think about it, that makes so much sense, everything we are unfamiliar with or is new we treat with some sort of disdain, all new trends, new technology, or even new ways of thinking about things is pegged as dangerous and a threat to the standard before eventually being accepted 3-10years later). That's kind of why I enjoy the way studio orange went about portraying Meryl, she doesn't shy away from the knowledge Vash is different, yes she's still cautious, it would be even more strange of her if she wasnt considering the environment she's grown up in, but she's never called Vash a monster, infact, in the very first episode she says "People aren't such caricatures, he's a man not a monster" despite Vash later on being proven to be very much not human, he still isn't a monster in her eyes.

Also on the topic of episode 1 and the final episode, I'm surprised that the July officer hunting Vash down still has his job and doesn't get called a monster, DESPITE literally almost destroying the town himself, the man literally sets off a cluster bomb over the town and him and his crew get sent home running. Vash saves the town 4 separate times and his brother comes over to fuck shit up and VASH gets shamed and shunned from town. Because KNIVES was different, because Knives was the worst threat that could happen to Jenoras Rock, Vash is the one that suffers the consequences. Plants have been stolen all over No Mans Land, everyone is complaining about plants being targeted or taken, knives would have come for those plants eventually regardless of if Vash was there or not. Despite Vash repairing the plant previously, despite saving the town from the cluster bomb, despite him saving the plant(and town) from the Nebraska family, and despite tracking down EG the Mime and stopping him from killing more people, Vash is the sole reason they were targeted in Rosa's eyes, everything that happened was Vash's fault.

I'm not ignorant that an argument could be made that if Vash wasn't there the Nebraska family wouldn't have targeted the town, but that's also fairly thin, let's say he wasn't there, they had just broken out of jail, had no money to their name, and were looking for a quick buck. Shortly after they had given up the chase on Vash their next thought was the plant, if Vash wasnt there to begin with it's pretty likely they would have targeted the plant first, AND gotten away with it! EG the Mime would probably have not shown up as he was sent there to deal with Vash by Knives but his other priority was to bring the plant to Knives too. And finally Knives, I'm fairly certain he only showed up himself for Vash, I think after they had been doing this song and dance for so long, he knew how the people in the area were going to view Vash, how quickly their tune would change from "our hero" or "monster". Personally I think Knives does it to prove some sort of fucked up "all humans are the same" ideal Vash refuses to acknowledge.

Sorry this was allot more rambly than I intended, I just have so many thoughts and the more I keep them inside the more psychic damage I take, I just enjoy talking about it so much and I'm already annoying my very limited friends with it 😭 forgive me