#trigunalysis

[moodysnowflake]

Something caught my attention while watching Vash launching the rock upward in episode 1.

His arm flashes neon green from shoulder to wrist while he's swinging it up; likely, a power surge to assure the rock would have gone in position quickly.

But then, when the shot widens and focuses on him pointing the gun, he has only his right arm raised.

In fact, for a brief moment, you can see him looking down at his left limb, which is kinda flopping dead, like on...cool-down? Sort of?

It seems he waited (or had to wait) some seconds to hold it up again to stabilise the shot.

I wonder if the arm overheated. If it did, boy that would have felt not comfortable on both the nerves and the arm-lock.

[moodysnowflake]

The fact that this scene is so fluid and seems so flowy should be testament enough of the awesome job Studio Orange is doing.

Animating stuff which is supposed to be floating in water is MAYHEM.

Also, to everybody keep telling that Tristamp Vash is a twink... I'm so glad we got him into this tank, so the liquid makes the clothes STICK to his skin.

Naï might be a huge beefcake, but Vash is still a freaking brick wall.

We know Vash is likely self conscious not only of his scars, but also of his height and his size. Very likely. Black is not just for radiation absorption, injury coverage, and hiding (when he doesn't have his brightass coat).

Black slims.

And a loose-ish fit doesn't only allow for comfortable movement, but also helps him to appear less menacing (he should be around 180-188 cm [5'11-6'2], depending on the source).

I mean, have you seen his shoulders? This man has the wingspan of a flippin' Andean condor.

[moodysnowflake]

I was squinting my overexcited eyes, and I saw something.

The first reload seemed to be a normal bullet

But on the others, I spotted something that looked very much like a plant pattern.

Either those were a secret stash of very fancy bullets...

Or he generated those mid-fight.

[moodysnowflake]

Throughout the journey, he has been slowing down his pace

But I think it's here, at the very end, that he's the most stunning.

You might say resignation is guiding him at this point, but I don't think so.

Fear turned into acceptance. And bloomed into grace.

[moodysnowflake]

I think that this was the moment.

This is when Millions Knives was born.

Not after the Big Fall. Not on Gunsmoke. Here.

[moodysnowflake]

I refuse to think this visuals were not somewhat intentional. Considering how the concept of reality is treated in Stampede.

One above all, the idea that Vash is striving to have a peaceful world full of love, exhausting himself to the brim to help people, even if the reality of Gunsmoke proves him otherwise time and time again. Questioning himself if his desire is gonna remain just a dream, because the violence, the misery, and the agony are spread like a very real web.

If you didn't think about the reference...it's okay, you might be just too young.

Now go watch The Matrix.

N O W

Shoutout to @tombiwidgeon for triggering this association chain!

Also, I couldn't stop my dumbass to make this dumbass connection:

The only difference is that Nick cuss and hollers like a truck driver.

[moodysnowflake]

My brain went off

I heard this.

We all have. Multiple times.

This is part of the tune Naï's playing. The tune that used to sooth his brother.

This might have been what he was trying to learn on the piano, to be able to play it to Vash.

This is a lullaby.

GODDAMN Naï...

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Track 18 of the OST "Memory of Piano"

[moodysnowflake]

Nice lower eyelashes reference right there, Elendira.

Also, I just realised now she has heterochromia.

Which might bug her in some way, or make her uneasy, as she's sort of hiding the golden iris. Maybe because she'd want to have them both blue, like Naï.

Good old sense of inadequacy, unworthiness, self-consciousness, and expectation issues, lurking rigth there.