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hashtagcaneven · 9 months

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On my Vol 10 reread, this panel stood out to me:

There's nothing inherently weird about it to make it stand out. Other than it comes VERY shortly after Vash realizes Wolfwood is dying.

THIS is something I see get glossed over in favor of fanon characterizations of Vash that are all "love and peace 100% of the time".

Vash is ANGRY.

He's fucking furious. And it's only his willpower, and Wolfwood's love for his brother, that stop him from going ape shit.

There is so much seething rage underneath Vash that he hides behind the mask of pacifism. We see it mostly in the TriMax depiction, and only briefly in 98 or Stampede. But Vash is all about controlling himself. He can't control his body. He can't control his situation. But he can control his anger.

We see him angry a few times throughout the manga but this is where I seriously questioned whether he would break his vow and kill someone on my first read-through.

Would he kill for Nicholas D. Wolfwood? An assassin who converted to Vash's ideals AND IS NOW DYING FOR THEM because Wolfwood is trying to save Livio, not kill him. A man who he clearly loved. Wolfwood MATTERED to Vash more than almost anyone else in his life.

And Vash's ideals helped kill him.

Is the anger towards just Razlo? Or to himself as well?

#trigun maximum #trimax spoilers #trimax #trigun #trigunbookclub #maybe the seething underlying rage is somewhat projection on my part #but like... i relate #it was trimax that made me realize how much I related to vash as a whole because he's not as single-noted as the other renditions #even though those have nuance too

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