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[ID : Fanart of Vash and Wolfwood sitting down on a light yellow BG. Wolfwood is smirking and lovingly petting Vash's black hair, while Vash sheds a small tear with a smile on his face. Wolfwood has a small halo on the side of his head.

Second image consists of a Wolfwood torso. He's smoking and making a lightly concerned face as two small Vashes sit on his shoulder. The Vash on his left has an angel-like appearance, with yellow feathers coming out of his body. The Vash on the right wears his red coat, with his face obscured in black, with only his glasses visible. End ID]

Praying to the god he knows doesnt exist

THE FUCKIGN CONFETTIS I CANT

Absolutely no light in those eyes...

Hes dead. I buried him.

Do you think as he held him in his arms, held his slowly cooling body, each moment losing a bit of the warmth of life, he thought about how he could have saved him if he had just came sooner

Do you think as he was digging the grave, he kept thinking about all the other times he dug the graves of his enemies, that maybe if he never met ww he wouldnt have wanted to save livio and could have lived, if he didnt influence him with his own ideologies, he would have lived

Used up half of his remaining life force in grief .....😭😭🥺

And ww dying with a smile on his face.. hes finally home

moodboard for when you are praying for a god you know doesnt exist because the last time someone was praying to a god it was you who came. so there is no one higher up. to save you.

also. thank you for the gut punches about the burial. i just noticed how vash's black hair that falls into his face looks like a widower's veil

vash 2 me would love wearing makeup and dresses occasionally. but usually like. like he loves doing makeovers with friends as a girls night kinda thang. he loves letting a group of children attempt to braid his hair and paint his nails. its like a social thing for him. he would love doing drag performances. but i dont think he would really care for it just like, for himself. like i cant really see him putting on makeup by himself in the morning. like i said its more of a social thing, he uses it to bond with others, ie makeovers and such. he only learns how to do decent makeup so he can participate in these social events. grah imagining younger vash seeing a group of young women talking about makeup together and he very shyly asks if they could maybe help him learn? and they all get SO excited, invite him to one of their houses and they all sit in a circle showing him the basics and giving him advice and letting him practice on them for the night. and hes SO happy, cause not only did he get to befriend these nice strangers, but also now he has this knowledge that he can use in the future to befriend MORE people. grahh i just think about vash being invited to girls nights so so much he's an honorary girl. esp for meryl and milly. m&m and vash having a girls night one day, hanging out in m&m's hotel room with face masks and snacks and painting eachother's nails. wolfwood knocking on the door looking for vash and seeing them all like this. he makes fun of them a little but u can tell his heart isnt in it and hes actually a little hurt that he didnt get invited. milly excitedly asks mr priest, would you like to join us? youre always welcome to! and he thinks he should decline and go find something else to do for the night but all three of them are looking at him hopefully with their big puppy eyes so he sighs and goes alright alright. lemme in here. meryl paints his nails black with little fancy white crosses on his middle fingers and he ends up liking it so much he keeps borrowing her black nail polish all the time, until one day she gives him a brand new bottle and tells him to keep it, for whenever theyre not traveling together. vash and milly do his makeup and at first he's kinda huffy and tells them not to make him look like a clown, expecting them to go nuts with it. but then when theyre done he sees himself in the mirror with just some lip gloss, mascara and eyeliner and hes like wait a minute. this is actually pretty good... basically m&m plus vash introducing ww to the wonderful world of being low-effort gnc and changing his life. although i do think when he was a kiddo he totally let the girls at hopeland give him makeovers, but he acted all huffy about it cause he thought he was supposed to. but really he just loved how happy it made them so he never put up TOO much of a fight when they would ask. n when m&m plus vash invite him into their girls night it reminds him so much of his sisters at hopeland doing the same to him and it makes him kinda nostalgic and fond. and hes happy that even though he cant see his old family and he misses them like crazy, hes thankful that hes got a new little family with him right here. ok this got away from me big time but its okay you all already know im insane and love to ramble. okay

Running a bit late on the last chapters for this week, but that was expected. Let's finish up Volume 2!

Archive

Trigun Volume 1: Covers + 1-3, 3 Detailed Thoughts, 4, 4 DT, 5-6, 5-6 + DT, 6 DT, 7-8, 9-10

Trigun Volume 2: Covers + Extras, 1, 1 Supplemental Research, 2-4, 5-6, 7-8

TriMax Volume 1: Covers + 1-2, 2 DT, 3-4, 3 DT, 5-6

TriMax Volume 2: Covers + 1, 2-4, 5

Stream-of-consciousness thoughts for TriMax Vol. 2, Chapters 6-7 below.

Chapter 6: Home Sweet Home

Is this Wolfwood or Midvalley? Someone else? I'm thinking Wolfwood 'cause the hair and the build look more WW, but the white suit makes me think Midvalley. Whoever he is, he looks so smol in the closeup of his crying face.

Scruffy hair plus cut to WW reinforces WW belief.

I like how a chunk of Nightow's aesthetic for civilization is, "What if small, mundane thing, but the size of a house?" Also, tiny Vash!

Drowning in sand sounds... unpleasant.

Hahahahaha, Wolfwood's love language is punching.

It's very trusting of Vash to take "I Know Too Much About Knives And Won't Tell You Why" Wolfwood to a place he'd dare call home.

Here's Wolfwood tactfully pointing out the differences between the two of them instead of throwing it in Vash's face that Vash isn't human.

Ugh, Vash is so worried about this place....

But it's ok. There's not so much to worry about, after all.

Gosh, the contrast between these two panels, one before he knows what's happened, and one when he realizes that, for now, everything's ok.

WELL NEVERMIND THEN. A THOUSAND YEARS TRAUMA FOR EVERYONE.

Fuck this guy.

Chapter 7: Darkness

I'm just gonna make a small note here that, on the title page, the shot of Vash from a lower angle behind him makes it so his hair looks almost completely black.

Wolfwood <3

I know enough to understand why Puppetmaster's saying Wolfwood's method's twisted, but... I also know enough about Wolfwood to know it's not nearly that simple.

Oh, no.... Not Unica.... /s :|

Welp. Definitely reading a seinen. They wouldn't get away with that kind of anatomy in a shonen.

Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

This Vash is pretty much bristling right now. He's got both guns out, and the only parts of his body that aren't drowning in the bristles are his hands (which need to be steady for holding his guns) and his hips (suggesting his feet are firmly planted where they need to be).

Wolfwood looks concerned.

Actually, Puppetmaster looks a bit concerned, which is kinda dumb of him because he's the one who caused all this. Or... maybe he's just sweating because he's wearing so much black in a freaking desert.

Oh, Vash....

Shoot, there's another Gung-Ho Gun here.

That's a REALLY big hand.

I wish I knew what the heck was happening in that explosion panel.

You know... I'm actually kinda glad I was so late on getting to these two chapters. Now I can start on the next volume without getting too far ahead of the game.

Author Bonus Chapter: Anime Talk

All evolution eventually leads to crabs. Apparently, Nightow is not immune to this.

I mean... you're not missing much by skipping Titanic. I'd sooner rewatch Starship Troopers myself. At least that was hilarious.

(Also, I just realized he kinda called it "Starshit Troopers." Honestly... fair.

The other day I was at an anime con and a mangaka whose story is now an anime basically said the same thing. It's very much a dream come true for them.

This is the cutest thing Nightow has drawn. Except for sleepy Vash.

I mean, might as well shoot for the stars. I've long had a bit of a soft spot for Madhouse myself.

Yeah, my brain would pop out of my head at that kind of news, too.

Aaaaand I would promptly explode upon hearing they were gonna move forward with it.

Ohhh, this is sooooo indicative of the shows that were popular at that time. It was absolutely a ton of mecha, magical girls (this was pre-Madoka), harem, and guy-oriented romances where a crazy amazing weird girl just dropped in the life of some loser-boy.

Lucky for us all, Madhouse hasn't exactly built a reputation for themsevls as being "normal."

No wonder Nightow is thrilled about Stampede. He's getting to see his story adapted to an anime not once, but twice. And it's making people fall in love with the older versions of it all over again.

LOL, "Yoshimura Something-san"

That meeting was too long. No meetings should go for 13 hours.

LOL, Nightow being so excited about action figures. POSABLE action figures.

More notes! Please be aware that I could not follow a SINGLE damn fight scene in this manga, especially since I was reading it on a time crunch. This is going to be a recurring thing going forward. It's not Nightow's fault, I can't follow comic fight scenes for shit.

TriMax Notes: Vol. 5

TriMax #5.1: The City, and then the Banquet of the Dogs

Oh shit July Flashbacks!!!

OH. COUNT REVENANT. CONRAD!!! Vash was accused of murdering him!

They were…nice…to him…sobs???

Vash thinking of Meryl and pushing on…sobs…

Still unclear as to who zipped off Zazi’s arm but! Moving on.

TriMax #5.2: [Forgot To Write The Chapter Title LOL]

So…the Gauntlet had his…family? Loved one??

OH it was Gauntlet [who ripped off Zazie’s arm] so Zazie would stay out of it [Note: Seriously I couldn’t follow the action in this part at all]

…WOLFWOOD’S BEEN BLINDED THIS WHOLE TIME???? [Note: See previous bullet point lmao]

“Your only gift is the blessing of the gods of battle, yet you press on, inch by inch, you devil.” -Midvalley, about WW

“Found you, Player” *twirls hair* Soooooo there’s this undertaker

TriMax #5.3: Loss

“Even with your unseeing eyes…instinctively shielding her…how very intriguing!” THAT’S MY MAN

THEY WERE EXPERIMENTING I mean TBH this is just. Slightly less upsetting than TriSTamp now that I think about it.” [Note: I realized like halfway through writing the sentence that experimenting on Vash is just par for the course with Knives's bullshit]

“It’s okay. Just resonate with mine” what the FUCK [Note: I almost feel like this should be a CW but I don’t know how to phrase it. General Knives creepiness????]

“I hate you, Rem. You were the one who made him like this” YELLS

Grinding Millions Knives into the DIRT [Npote: I underlined dirt so hard it’s basically a solid black bar. I hate that man.]

TriMax #5.4: Villain

Oh he’s accidentally psychically feeding his memories to Gantlet and Meryl OH SHIT

Seems to be done through feather touch

WW pointing a gun at MIlly to try and scare her off and she WON’T GO AAHH

“Don’t talk to me about morals. We’ll both get our lips burned.” Okay Mildvalley that was pretty raw I’ll give you that

NO GO AWAY LEGATO

Wow tumblr wasn’t kidding he did not HESITATE to put Midvalley down when he tried to leave again [Note: He was probably looking for an excuse at this point tbh]

TriMax #5.5: Death Deal

OH HELL YES BIBLICALLY ACCURATE VASH

Oh hi New Body Zazie

OH…Legato has both Gauntlet and angle!Vash frozen and somehow his brain hasn’t popped??

This is THE most bonkers Mexican standoff

“Who’s going to play the next card?” IT’S MERYL STRYFE WITH THE STEEL DERRINGER!!!!

Legato you got shot in the face STOP TALKING

“If you cannot even be a pawn, then you die here, too!” -Legato

AND USING MIDVALLEY’S CORPSE TO SHOOT THEM LIKE!!!

Okay damn yeah good timing Elendira he was definitely about to angel arm blast EVERYONE

TriMax #5.6: Let Us Walk the Path to Redemption

“If I save one life, will it be as though I was born alone? Will that life be a good one?” (Vash) YELLS

“All that pent-up energy [is] looking for a way out” So yeah exactly like July in TriStamp

“He saved me. I’m as wicked as ever today. I was about to destroy that which he holds most dear” (Legato) There is. SO much to unpack in those 3 sentences

“The name I have tried to forget…the mistake I have tried to seal away…that which cannot be undone…I must…go on…” (Vash) saves this for the time travel AU…

“I don’t know! How can I know?! But [...] all those lives I extinguished…they were so kind…” (Vash) gnawing!!!

Okay yeah Legato is DEAD SET on killing Vash, and also was being carried by his…weird gimp suit servant until Elendira set in [Note: Again I have questions but I’m not sure I’ll like the answers]

“You…live and suffer. I won’t kill you. I’ll let you go on living, spitting up blood day by day in this shitty world” (Gauntlet) Oof

Vash burying the bodies and then bowing “incorrectly” so he can put more feeling into it ogghh!!!

AND THEN DRAGGING WW TO HELP FIX THE TOWN AAAA