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[fifthmooon]

god forbid vash the stampede does anything

[fifthmooon]

oh hes PISSED pissed

[fifthmooon]

*slaps trigun manga volumes* this bad boy can fit so many horrors in it

[fifthmooon]

shes everything hes just legato

[fifthmooon]

interesting, horrible, painful etc. parallel that has come to my attention, both moments from trimax vol 2

Wolfwood having a nightmare and vash living his worst nightmare, both unable to hold the people they love the most.

[fifthmooon]

how much might he be regretting now saying that to wolfwood back then. Now that the experience of killing once feels so harrowing for vash, how much worse must it have been for wolfwood. How there might have never been any hope to start with and thats why he always had to make a choice. How little of a coward wolfwood actually was, how big of a coward vash might have actually been, and how did it have to come to this for vash to make a choice. How sorry he is for everything.

[fifthmooon]

gah...the difference between these two moments..vash kind of accepting that wolfwoods time is up vs actively asking for it not to happen..

[fifthmooon]

Something about the characters that haunt the trigun narrative and how nightow (and the overhaul translation team) use the emphasized HE (hims and his' too), first in relation to knives, and then once vol 10 is over, in relation to wolfwood. Among other things it indicates who is directly present in the plot, but more than anything It creates an effect that shows whos important to the characters and the respect they have for them.

Vash speaking about knives in trigun vol 1 and speaking about wolfwood in trimax vol 11

As knives is more present he loses his mysterious aura, slowly becoming plain 'knives' and sometimes 'million knives', in contrast to wolfoods immediate change, where his name is barely spoken (if ever) again once he dies. They loom over the story in different ways but they are always reminding of the characters motivations and show how much power they have over their actions.