@shingansoul, Both. Both is Good :>
Que an image of Wolfwood squinting because of the amount of bright wholesome energy the these two would let off SDFLKSAJDFLKDSJGLSDGSD
I loved this idea so much blease Livio feels like the kinda guy who gives out hugs easily but also is a nervous rabbit about the safety of his friends ;;v;; He would adopt Vash as a second brother following Nico nii’s example of course :>
They seem like they’d make such sweet friends toooooooo ;;v;;
-NO ROMANCE INCLUDED-
Please enjoy this series of "it's too hot to touch a computer" drawings of some assorted trigun guys (and politely ignore any weird jankiness oh god it's been so long since I've done much traditional art let alone ink only ones, weeps,)
i did this challenge like way back but everything comes back eventually! so here it is, evil art style or as i knew it opposite art style challenge thing yeah, this time with Livio!
featuring:
no bright colours
no sharp features
no cel-shading
minimal lineart
less cartoonishly defined shapes (like the hair and his cheek)
Sometimes I just... think about how Razlo is the "younger" of him and Livio.
Razlo, the Tri-Punisher of Death, the scary boogeyman we get introduced to with badass fights and copious carnage. Razlo, the scared, defensive other self there to take the brunt of the abuse Livio endured as a kid.
Razlo. The Younger of the two of them.
Like obviously that's a thing that can happen with dissociative identity disorder, like alters are frequently "different" so him being younger, especially since he stems from specifically a childhood based trauma makes sense. But I just. I dunno. The fact that he's sort of a defensive side of Livio, one that's there to pop up when shit hits the fan and things have to get bad, despite being "younger" just gives me a lot of feelings????
Maybe it's just his wide-eyed expression and general over-the-top emotions, but he does legitimately come of as younger than Livio, both visually and temperament wise. Livio's frustrated and angry at Wolfwood, he feels betrayed and resigned to having to kill his friend. His face gets SO MANY LINES to show how fucking haggard and tired of this shit he feels. Meanwhile Razlo is feeling the full, excited, almost carefree 8D of LET'S FUCKIN' GOOOOOO to fight someone powerful, to impress Master Chapel, to prove his strength! Razlo's face is drawn with fewer lines most of the times, he grins more easily, his face, even thought it's the same face just feels... IDK. Even after Livio joins the good guys and stops looking quite so haggard and miserable, Livio and Razlo still visually read very differently!
And like. I dunno, I think it puts some of the stuff with him and Chapel in an interesting/more sad light as well. Where like. We know that Chapel really stuck his neck out to save Razlo/take him under his wing, and Razlo returned that faith and familial love fully! He completely trusts Chapel, and so it breaks him when he thinks Chapel has died. And then it breaks him ALL OVER AGAIN when he sees that Chapel was willing to kill him to get to Wolfwood!!!!!!
I don't have any sort of grand thesis here. Just a lot of feels and me holding up Razlo going LOOK AT HIM LOOK AT THIS GOOD BOY HE'S DOING HIS BEST.
[ID: Trigun Stampede fan art showing Wolfwood, Livio, and Melanie in two panels. The drawing is an uncolored sketch with no background. They are kneeling on the ground embracing each other. In the first panel, Melanie is shown from the front, crying with her arms around Livio and Wolfwood’s shoulders. The second panel shows the same scene from the other side, with Livio crying against her shoulder and Wolfwood looking sad and conflicted. Livio has short hair and no mask and his face is scarred. End ID.]
are we ready to talk about the pseudoincestuous parallels in vashwood that reference kv and livwood. ARE WE READY TO TALK ABOUT THEM YET BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT!!!
like it is NOT a coincidence that vash finds himself a big brother caretaker type to shack up with and it is NOT a coincidence that wolfwood falls for a crybaby with a soft heart. IT IS NOT.
me staring at wolfwood like. you wanna fuck your little brother so bad but you can't ruin him like that you can't ruin him with your hands covered in blood. you fuck an angel instead and pretend it's any different.
i actually do not want to think about what vash is displacing onto wolfwood bc it'll break me but if i had to guess i'd say it's the "i couldn't fix knives, i couldn't love him enough for him to be kind. let me do it over again. let me do it over again" mixed with like...
this is a version of my brother who wants to protect instead of eradicate and this is a version of my brother who listens to me. if i love him enough maybe this can end differently (he is wrong and he knows it but he has to try)
this is ALSO why post vol10 livvash makes me batshit crazy because YOU WERE THE LITTLE BROTHERS LEFT BEHIND. widowers bound together by mutual tragedy and guilt and pain and the corpse of the man you both loved rotting in the ground. one of you killed him the other one buried him.
there is nothing left for the two of you but to love each other instead.
aheem aheem i made something silly for class. we had to make a storyboard out of something already animated so i made a storyboard of the first fight with Livio