#lenipez

[concretecritter]

These things that happen to me, they are not like in stories, tragedy cocks the hammer whether the poignant words are said or not- Does that make it less of a love story? Does it make it hurt any less?

I reread Becoming Eden once again & had to get some Vash Feelings out of my system. Thank you to @madnessmadness for writing the Trigun fic of all time <3

[finalfrontierzine]

🪐 contributor intro #40 🚀

Sci-fi legend @madnessmadness is among us 👽 Words alone aren't enough for Leni. Ze wields HTML and ASCII art as masterfully as ze does raw emotion. What's more: Leni masterminded many a popular headcanon in this fandom!

Read the Trigun classic "Becoming Eden" on AO3!

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[madnessmadness]

Printable pdfs and html files for the trigun fic Becoming Eden are here!

As you may be aware the ao3 download for the fic is mostly illegible due to the amount of formatting involved. I intend to keep this document archived on google drive for as long as that is possible.

These files are for your personal printing and archiving desires!

The pdf marked with an e is best suited for ereaders and computer reading, it has links intact.

The pdfs marked with a P are for printing and you have my full permission and blessing to bind this fic if you so choose. Please remember that selling bound fic is a copyright no no under the law, both against me and the parent IP. Gifts and trades are always okay tho!

The html files preserve the original formatting and digital interactivity of reading the fic on ao3, but lets you do so offline in your browser! Download the html files and open them with the browser just like you would a pdf.

This pdf versions also includes some of my sketches as well as amazing fic art by others! Special thanks to @valorsometimes who made the workskin and coding of this story possible at all, thank you for enabling me! And to @viviantimmet for figuring out how to get the work skin to cooperate with the downloadable html files!

If you enjoy please leave a kudo or a comment on ao3 <3

[viviantimmet]

Becoming Eden [It’s me I’m trees] by Lenipez

Do you know what a Salmon is?

Sometimes being a plant means doing nuclear fission through reverse photosynthesis.

Sometimes it means tasting colors and reading minds.

Sometimes its about realizing your old flame's son is a journalist now.

Sometimes its about drinking vanilla extract and wanting to claw out of your skin.

Vash doesn't have the words exactly for what starts happening to him after Knives played a frequency into his Gun at Jenora's rock. He can feel the math of it, the shape of it, but the words escape him for the next 300k. This Fic is about psychically conjoined twins, nuclear fusion, falling in love with the sun, becoming a salmon and discovering what Ao3 can do with ascii art. It's a Stampede canon divergent fic that crashes off the rails at episode 4 with plant head canons I came up with while watching 98 years ago...and some how I caught a lot of dodge balls. Its also a time loop story that incorporates elements of Trimax and 98, but that's a spoiler for part 2.

19 chapters (and some appendices), ~81,000 words, Complete w three sequels (the latest still being regularly updated. Don’t know why it’s still marked incomplete.)

This fic is great! Really weird alien biology, experimental style, really impressive use of the medium (which only escalates in the sequels). Also Lenipez is great at unfolding characterization.

If this fic is too much commitment, you should also check out the works in zir Vashwoodweek23 series, for some shorter (and less experimental) samples.

You probably do need to be familiar with at least one iteration of Trigun canon to understand this. It cleaves most closely to the world of Stampede, but even then its relationship to the timeline is pretty vague.