Trigun Celebration 2k25

A month-long event dedicated to celebrating each iteration of Trigun, though especially the manga for its 30th anniversary this year! Taking place during the entirety of July 2025. Carrd

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Welcome to #TrigunCelebration!

This event takes place the entire month of July to celebrate every version of Trigun. And this is NOT just for artists/writers! Write meta threads, posts promoting your favorite fanwork, etc. Pick any prompt--or don't! Whatever goes so long as it's Trigun.

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Day 31!

Character Prompt: Kuroneko

"Favorite" Prompt: Screenshot/Panel

Themed Prompt: Hope

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Day 30!

Character Prompt: Dependant Plants

"Favorite" Prompt: Weapon

Themed Prompt: Sandstorm

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Day 29!

Character Prompt: The Nebraska Family

"Favorite" Prompt: Meme

Themed Prompt: Doughnuts

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Day 24

Character Prompt: Brilliant Dynamites Neon.

One of my favorite characters in Trigun.B.D.N., badass oh yeah!😎👈

Boss of the Bad Lads.

I would have loved to see him in Trigun Stampede, and I hope he clashes with Vash in season 2.💓

Under my lovely Vash and B.D.N. 🙌💕

drawing made me

@spizzaza ✨️

First time I draw BDN and after a long time I drew Vash anime version 98✨️👀✨️

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Day 28!

Character Prompt: Miss Melanie & the Orphanage

"Favorite" Prompt: Symbolism

Themed Prompt: Photograph

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Day 27!

Character Prompt: William Conrad

"Favorite" Prompt: Outfit

Themed Prompt: Drink

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Day 26!

Character Prompt: Lina & Sheryl

"Favorite" Prompt: Gag/Joke

Themed Prompt: Suns

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Day 25!

Character Prompt: Brad, Luida, & Ship Three

"Favorite" Prompt: Merch

Themed Prompt: Wings

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Ignore the hour that I'm posting this. Just. Ignore it, shhh. Happy Birthday, Vash <3 Here's one for @triguncelebration (might do more than one update throughout the day but we'll see how much I lock in after having multiple donuts, because I plan on having at least 2).

the song of humanity | trigun celebration 2025 day fifteen: insects

Meryl had already resigned herself to being the outcast of Bernadelli. Her behavior after July, especially her wild stories about how the now $$60,000,000,000 man Vash the Stampede wasn’t what everyone thought, had almost gotten her fired more than once. Social ostracization was inevitable.

Zazie the Beast showing up at her lunch breaks only sealed the deal.

It started with one or two worms that would sit on the wall that surrounded the main office and watch her. The Beast itself (themselves? Meryl honestly still wasn’t sure how much of an individual Zazie was) showed up maybe a few months after, sitting down across the table from Meryl and resting their (its?) chin on the table to stare up at her.

“What?” Meryl asked.

Zazie blinked at her and said nothing.

Well, if that’s how it’s going to be, Meryl thought, and started playing the silent game in response. Lunch breaks turned into Zazie staring her down as Meryl ate her food and worked on whatever third-rate story she’d been asked to cover this week. It was unnerving, but Meryl held fast. If the Beast wanted something from her, it was going to have to use its words and ask.

Over time, Meryl noticed a change in Zazie’s behavior. It started sitting up straighter, moving around in less, for lack of a better word, animalistic ways. It started bringing regular human food over (though where they had gotten the food from, Meryl had no idea) and eating along with Meryl. At first it was just random meals, but over time…

Is that my lunch?

Meryl was pretty predictable when it came to food, usually cycling through one of three work lunches. At some point, Zazie started eating the same thing as her…and, she realized, in the same way as her. Same posture, too. And was its hair always that short…?

Hold on. “Are you imitating me?!” she hissed.

Zazie smiled cheerfully. “It’s been a while since I’ve observed regular human behavior,” they said. “I thought my performance could use an upgrade. What do you think?”

Meryl wasn’t sure what to think. She was torn between fascination and repulsion. Ultimately, though, resignation won out. “I think you picked the wrong human to imitate,” she said bitterly. “Unless you were trying to go for raging social outcast.”

“Well, I can’t draw too much attention to myself, can I? I’m here to observe, not be the center of attention. I think you and I are similar in that way.”

Meryl guessed so; that was part of the job description for a reporter. That hadn’t stopped her from getting caught up in the thick of the action with Vash, though. “Have you made a decision about humanity?” she asked, genuinely curious. Being imitated by the amalgam of worms that formed their leader…spokesperson? Whatever Zazie was, might be worth it if it gave the worm(s) a more complete view of humanity. One that was maybe more favorable than whatever they had been hearing from Millions Knives.

“Still trying to decide. But…” Zazie nodded solemnly. “…we have decided to make a case for you to be spared, should we decide to eliminate humanity with Millions Knives.”

Meryl stared at Zazie for a long moment, decided that it didn’t really matter one way or another if the Beast was joking, and sighed heavily. “Thanks,” she said. “I think.”

At least she’d live on in the worm hivemind’s mannerisms if Knives said no.

[big-flat-cabbage]

took 30 mins break to draw the brothers havin a birthday - Cheers!

[screechthemighty]

I did not lock in as much as planned lol. But I did lock in enough to get at least this done for @triguncelebration! Happy birthday, twins!!!!

the song of humanity | trigun celebration 2025 day sixteen: dreams

sources quoted/referenced: the radio sermon from trigun stampede ep. 5

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The floor was dappled with colored light. It was all shades of blue, making him feel like he was floating underwater, or maybe in a Plant bulb. His footsteps were soundless as he walked across the surface, staring down in distant fascination at the patterns in the tile. Natural stone from outside, polished to glossy shades of light gray, laid out in a checkerboard.

Eventually, his feet reached the edge of a more elaborate design: a circle that contained one single, wide eye, surrounded by three pairs of wings. It was flanked on each side by two other circles containing two human figures. One was more upright, militant, his circle framed by sharp shapes, long tendrils made of those same sharp shapes trailing from his back like tentacles. The other was penitent, kneeling, pierced through with spears, one hand reaching up, a spiraling hole in the center of the palm.

It felt familiar, though in this hazy state he wasn’t quite able to put the pieces together.

Vash kept walking forward, passing through the three figures and moving towards the end of the room. The pipes of an organ stretched up to the ceiling. A figure hovered among them, twisted in agony. A Plant in her death throes. Vash couldn’t tell if it was a statue, or a calcified body. With how realistic it looked, Vash wasn’t sure which option was worse. Either someone had hung a corpse up there, or someone had gotten close enough to a dying Plant to sculpt her so accurately. A figure sat at the organ, fingers tracing over the keys without playing.

The Sinners were cast upon this land when the ark crashed.

The voice seemed to come from everywhere around him, familiar but at the same time…not. Vash spun in place, trying to place its origins, failing.

Now pray, and God shall send the angel of salvation our way.

The room filled with the ghosts of dozens on dozens of people, kneeling directly on the hard tiled ground, falling prostrate in front of the figure at the organ.

Praise the angel. Honor the angel. Become the angel’s eyes.

As Vash turned to face the figure again, it started to turn. He saw a flash of blond hair, and familiar blue eyes.

May God bless you.

Vash shuddered awake.

It was still dark out; the sun wouldn’t rise for at least another hour. The stars and the moons watched him coldly as he sat up and looked around.

He was shaking still, but it wasn’t just from the cold of the night. He stared down at the sand, because some of the stars reminded him a bit too much of the eyes that had fixed on him at the end of that dream. When he did finally glance up, it was only long enough to roughly determine where he was, then confirm it on the map.

Vash hadn’t realized he was so close to July.

He broke camp and started heading west again. No sense in waiting around. There was no way he was going back to sleep tonight.

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The lambs

For day 21 of #triguncelebration: siblings.

Happy (belated) birthday to the twins!

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Day 22, trigun Celebration

"Favorite" Prompt: Song/OST

Rem sang a song in the old '98 anime, and Vash often dreamed of her.In this new version, Vash, behind a song—his own—dreams of an (alternative) world where the three of them, after various arguments, still make peace and live together as a family.❤️‍🩹

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How Livio and Razlo test the audience

(Psst! You should probably read the preamble to this first. It gives some background into how the audience should be interacting with the manga at this stage of the narrative)

It's somewhat overshadowed by the... various other things going on in volumes, 8, 9 and 10, but in terms of the ethical dilemma being debated throughout the text, things are actually looking rather good - Wolfwood has been the biggest argument against Vash's pacifism (side note: take a shot every time I use something resembling those last two words in this essay) and now not only has he proven himself a loyal ally, but is going out and sparing people's lives himself, it's easy to see how the narrative is ramping up to 'potential redemption of Millions Knives'.

But that's still a pretty big jump, isn't it? We're going right from 'guy who is actually pretty nice, actually and just in a bad situation' to 'mass-murdering genocidal extremist whose only potential option for redeeming is the sad backstory that radicalized him in the first place'. Maybe you could suspension of disbelief it, but ideally we need something in the middle. A stepping stone, to push Vash's ideology even further.

Enter these goobers.

(Yes there are much clearer panels of Razlo. But they're not the best like this one is.)

I've gone over Livio's deal before, but to sum it up - this is a man who does not care to be someone anymore. He has his few loyalties, gives his body to them, and probably spends most of that time as nothing more then a husk.

This is probably in my top ten favorite panels because of how clearly it communicates Livio's character without Livio himself saying a word. It's your 'evil bad guy glare', but it's so so pained and yet so so hollow at the same time. This is what chronic depression looks like.

Razlo on the other hand is introduced to us via the 'evil alter ego' trope, which I'm typically not very fond of, but I think for him it works. Specifically because it works with the audience's expectations in a way that is so very Trigun - a story that has told us, over and over, that people don't just do evil for shits and giggles. At this stage in the narrative, our expectation as an audience - the way we've been positioned, should be that there is something more to this.

For one, there are very few things that can match the utter mic drop moment that I had reading this for the first time and going from 'oh goddamit not the evil alter ego trope again' to 'holy fucking shit the Eye of Michael groomed a child, like probably only 13-or-so child, specifically by taking his own disability that he barely even knew existed at the time and used it against him just so they could use him as their personal murder servant.

Think of them, then as a sort of 'practbice run' for Knives. Deeper in the murder cult hole than Wolfwood, but not in control like Knives - still under the controlling hand of Chapel, and once you get rid of Chapel, their attitudes start to shift. The fact that it's Wolfwood specifically appealing to Livio is also significant to mark this as a stepping stone - it's Vash's ideals becoming power for others, a 'passing of the torch' if you will.

Look, they even mirror the twins through personality! You have a more distant and reserved side of the duo, a more gentle (but by no means not dangerous!) person and known crybaby.

Then you have the angry side, a gaping wound of an unhealed inner child, over-protective, paranoid and emotionally-driven to a fault.

But then there's the question of designs. After all, if Livio mirrors Vash and Razlo mirrors Knives, then each should associated with the same side of the face as the twins with their moles - and yet the visual shorthand used to show when Livio is fronting is focus on his left eye - the same place Knives has his mole.

But then of course there's the fact that if you look at the panel with Knives above, the focus is on his right eye - so is it one or the other!?

The blurring of roles here is a bit more obvious with Livio specifically. Tell me you haven't looked at a panel like this and gone 'hey he kinda looks a bit like Knives with that hair'

That of course leaves the question: What exactly does this shake-up tell us? Is there meaning here or am I reading too much into it?

If I had to take a crack at it, I'd say that the uncertainty here is the point. It reminds us that we don't really know either of these two that well, or that they're not a threat. We don't even have both of their word that they're on the side of the good guys now - only Livio's -, and it's a promise coming right after he and Razlo killed Wolfwood. So perhaps it's not surprising that Vash might be getting echoes of his brother here. It's a set of coding that feels strange and contradictory in its motifs - yes these two mirror the twins, but the analogy isn't clear cut, but that's also kinda what Trigun is all about - the nuances of kindness hiding in sharpness and strength in even the less outspoken.

The fact remains that these two cannot exist without each other, intertwined as the embodiment of the complex human nature - often at odds, but when it manages to come together, it comes together in arguably the coolest fight in the whole damn text.

Forget Legato or even anything to do with Vash, because I'd argue that this is the precise point in the narrative that thematically sets in stone how the fight with Vash and Knives is going to go down. It is the point that the story outright states that unity of the self, with others, is a thing, and it will succeed.

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Day 24!

Character Prompt: Brilliant Dynamites Neon

"Favorite" Prompt: Gung Ho Gun

Themed Prompt: Redemption

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Day 23!

Character Prompt: Tesla

"Favorite" Prompt: Headcanon

Themed Prompt: Growth

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