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makima-s-most-smile · 10 months

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Trigun Ultimate 2 (Part 4)

Will this volume ever end? Why do I have so much to say?

OOOOooOOooooh, it is woowootime. Nyehehehehehehe *continues to say even more about its favourite character!*

Chapter 6: A gathering of demons

Oh, I love how nightow portrays the vastness of the desert. How much is an ile? How big is this planet? Is it earthlike? With no oceans and all... are the cities splayed out? I am European and live in a big city conglomerate. In two hours, I can switch countries and visit like 20 different cities. This picture reminds me of the "Wild West". I remember American friends being shocked at how connected everything is and how we Europeans see distance. For them a 4-12 hour drive is totally normal and you are still in the same state. I can only imagine that No-Man's-Land is even worse than that.

But what does that entail? Is travel between cities something regular or something you only do if you try and get work or flee from something? There is the big trade between the cities, but those have to be the outliers. Sandstreamers being something like trains. I imagine that they are mostly used for commerce, then. Transporting people has to be a lesser side hustle.

But how long does the journey with a bus between the cities take? I'd say days with the thoughts I just had.

I leave the Wolfwood introduction panel out, because of the limitations for pictures, but damn, it is good. It also took me too long to realise that this was not fabricated, but that Wolfwood literally had a bike mishap. His whole interaction with Vash reads differently for me when I take this into consideration.

Three things. 1. what I like about Wolfwood’s design is that if you don’t take the tit window and the facial scruff into consideration, he is dressed like a typical Japanese salary man! A nobody, one of many. Black short hair with suit, he could be a 0815 background character/random casualty in nearly any anime/manga. But here, he falls out of the line. All in black in the desert heat, that is suicide! He is not dressed like the others in typical western clothes. He’s an outlier from the start but at the same time a very usual sight for us readers!

2. I love how silly and welcoming he is. He is just a very charming random dude. We next to never see him interact with random people after this, so we miss this side of him in the later volumes. But he easily fits in and connects, even as a weird outlier. He is an idiot, but an idiot with street smarts.

3. Maybe because I am not a native English speaker, but I stumbled more than once over the word “tradesman” as a colloquial term for assassin. Kinda a roundabout way to say, hey, if you’re interested in me, I may provide you with more information and maybe I have the kind of skill you’re looking for. Tradesman basically means person with a specific skill, so not elaborating on that, but letting people mock him always reads for me as Wolfwood playing with being caught/putting his “profession” down/offering work. That he has a good eye is shown on the next page with him immediately realising who Vash is (at least he know the bounty pics and knows how to look. Wolfwood is not faceblind!)

Without the context of Milly being especially perceptive, this always read for me as Vash being absolutely annoyed by Wolfwood and being distrusting, when in reality he seems to be already warming up to him. Like with us readers, Wolfwood has wormed himself into his heart already. Who could deny Wolfy?

“‘Bout time I left, anyway.” Rings differently when you know him more. Wolfwood is a person that has his foot already out of the door to be not a burden to anyone nice. And we learn that in his introduction.

Wolfwood looks so damn fucking young there. I always have big problems in discerning ages in Manga. But even with his scruff, Wolfwood looks barely out of his teens.

When I think about the different WooWoo-versions, I always deck '98 as the oldest in his mid to end thirties, Ultimate barely 20, Trimax 30 max and Stampede... Sorry, StampWolfwood, you are still in your teens for me. You are baby.

I always remembered Wolfwood as a liar by omission, but damn, he is doing everything but spelling stuff out. “Not exactly just that…” Damn, and he looks so pained. Vash surely zoomed in on it. I now believe, the only reason why we know stuff so late about Wolfwood is because Vash never asked or tried to pin Wolfwood down.

The following pages is Wolfwood sharing his money with the orphans and I love it. We get to know Wolfwood as a very perceptive, benevolent and honest guy, who seems to be desperately begging for people to see him, to ask more about him. As much as he is funny, we also see someone who sees himself as a burden and who is burdened by a big responsibility and who still shares and gives as much as he can. No wonder Vash smiled with such earnesty. Wolfwood is the personification of what makes him still have hope in humanity.

Chapter 7: The demon’s eye

You know him just for this little bus drive and you already trust him with that info, Vash. Wolfwood is part of the team now, wether they realised it or not. Like I said in the chapter before, the journey must take longer, so they may have had a few days to bond.

He knows what happened. We learn in the next chapter why Wolfwood is there. It is easy to put two and two together for him.

Or regrets that they have to part ways and Wolfwood has to go back to being the Punisher. He had a short dance with Lady Death and then a little vacation where he could be human.

As much as we learn that Wolfwood hates his predicament, it is his duty. There is a reason why he does what he does.

It is kinda sad that Wolfwood left immediately. Nightow, most likely, had other stuff planned, but the cancellation of the magazine kinda threw a wrench into it. I kinda like how '98 did it with Vash and Wolfwood having their own little adventure on the journey.

Funny observation. People are there, because there is gunshots. Not children’s laughs or anything, it is gunshots that show that people are there. What a shitty world they live in.

08: The fifth moon

Did Legato control the corpses? Or did he “take in” the survivors and used experiments on them? Nicholas knows his bounties. Without him, I wouldn't peg them as the Slavers.

First of all, the hint/info that Vash and Knifes are both not human. A man between a rock and a hard place. A well-prepared dead man, but a dead man either way.

Since we as a reader already have a bond with Wolfwood, he is our point of reference for a "normal" human reaction to the shit that goes down. Nightow regularly flashes back to Wolfwood's reaction to it all. Either so we don't forget that he is part of the EVUL or to bring down that point how fucked up Knives is (especially with the SA-symbolism). People with uteri will agree either way that the scene with the sister being that pregnant and Knives bursting out is… massive body horror.

At least both legs and one arm are smashed, pelvis most likely, too, his head is squished into his torso, neck broken? and I have no idea how else he is crumbled up. Paper doll Legato

Vash didn’t only shoot himself to regain control. He shot Knives, too! He shot Knives to get free, but it was already too late.

While someone else (I am sorry, I am bad with names D; If I find you again, I will link your post) has put it brilliantly how Knives taking control over Vash can be read as assault, there is something else I’d like to point out.

Knives is the only person in the whole story who has been able to take control from Vash. We have seen him fight so many people, like Neon, Monev and others, but Vash never was not in control. He put rules upon himself that constricted him, e.g. the pacifism, but those constrictions were by his own decision. Vash takes into consideration that he may die, but it is by his own free will and as we have seen, he is a bit suicidal. Likewike, Vash gives people all the agency, all his agency. He mostly reacts to their decisions towards him. Knives is the only person in the whole world who is able to take away Vash’s agency and he uses that power over him. Not going into powerscaling or such a thing, but it shows what a powerful player Knives is.

Again, Wolfwood is our focus point for human reaction. Dude is scared out of his mind and mixing both brothers. Messengers of God coming to cast down judgement on us? That would be Knives, not Vash. But he demands an answer from Vash, with whom he already formed a connection. Wolfwood may feel even somewhat betrayed, as hypocritical as that is.

#trigunbookclub #trigun bookclub #Trigun Ultimate 2.4 #It is done #I am finally through with it #Also WooWoo #here to break my heart again

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forabeatofadrum · 1 year

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El WooWoo! Hi, hello, thank you @nausikaaa for the tag.

I am back on my Klaine bullshit and I posted two chapters of Ljubim te this week 🤯. Who am I? Although, unfortunately, I am stuck again. I have learnt that I am just having a hard time writing Kurt POV for this fic. Welp, I’ve committed to alternating POVs, so here is something from the upcoming chapter:

Kurt gives up after three days of phone calls and text messages. He’s even considered stopping by Blaine’s apartment or office, but that feels a bit too much.

Although Kurt thinks he deserves answers, because what the fuck just happened?

He does find comfort in the fact that Sunil cannot reach Blaine either, so it’s not just Kurt he’s ignoring. Kurt and Sunil miss their third Boni buddy. Now, they just need to get Boni with the two of them.

“What the hell happened between you two?” Sunil asks.

Kurt lets out a sigh.

“I’ll let you know once I figure it out myself.”

I want to get through this chapter, cause I’ve been dying to share chapter 15 (the one after this) for weeks! Cause yeah, I have written for the Blaine chapters, but Kurt’s are still painfully empty. Ah, I will get there one day.

And now, the weather: @quizasvivamos @blurglesmurfklaine @coffeegleek @esperantoauthor @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @bazzybelle @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @takitalks @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna @tea-brigade @ivelovedhimthroughworse @moodandmist @whogaveyoupermission @bookish-bogwitch @confused-bi-queer @aroace-genderfluid-sheep @ionlydrinkhotwater @1908jmd @special-bc-ur-part-of-it @larkral @chen-chen-chen-again-chen @cutestkilla @artsyunderstudy @martsonmars @facewithoutheart @shrekgogurt @boyinjeans @rockitmans @bitbybitwrites

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yooniesim · 1 year

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Not really sim related, but do you have any Kpop groups/singers you recommend for newer listeners? I've been wanting to listen to more but there are so many to pick from lol. Any suggestions would be appreciated if you've got the time!! ♡♡♡

hey nonny! :3 i’m not sure what groups you already know/listen to, so I’ll just list a few of my favorites!

boy groups

BTS - a seven member group (four vocalists, three rappers) that debuted in 2013 and have an awesome and extensive discography. they seem to have a little something for everyone genre and concept-wise, near endless amounts of content to enjoy, and just a really genuine feeling to everything they do. I recommend their songs: Butterfly, I Need U, Run, Awake, The Truth Untold, Outro: Wings, Awake, 2! 3!, Autumn Leaves, Tomorrow, Coffee, Converse High, Spring Day, Outro: Tear.

TXT - a five member group that debuted in 2019 under the same label as BTS. they don’t have official positions besides the leader (Soobin) and are a little younger than BTS (the oldest member is 23). their sound ranges from dreamy, magical pop to raspy pop punk, with elements of trap, hip hop, and r&b. they recently had a comeback with their EP, The Name Chapter: Temptation! I recommend their songs: Blue Orangeade, New Rules, Eternally, Drama, Blue Hour, Ghosting, Dear Sputnik, Frost, Anti-Romantic, 0x1=Lovesong, Sugar Rush Ride.

Seventeen - a thirteen member group that debuted in 2015. I only listen to them casually so I don’t know as much about them as a whole, but their music is extremely good quality in my opinion. I recommend their songs: Very Nice, Pretty U, Adore U, Holiday, 17, Ready to Love, Pinwheel, Left & Right, Mansae, Home, Don’t Wanna Cry.

Others I recommend: Wanna One, The Rose, Pentagon, Day6.

girl groups

Twice - a nine member group that debuted in 2015. The queens of cute pop that have evolved their sound over time to something more mature but still super fun. I recommend the songs: Perfect World, Cry For Me, SOS, Better, Kura Kura, Behind The Mask, Make Me Go, 21:29, Likey, TT.

DIA - a six member group that debuted in 2015 and released their last singles last year. One of my favorite girl groups of all time with underrated chill bops. I recommend their songs: Will You Go Out With Me, No, 5 More Minutes, Crescendo, Daily, Hug U, Nobody Knows, To You, Woowoo, Woowa, Good Night, Can’t Stop, Listen To This Song.

Kep1er - a nine member group that debuted in 2021. They’re still rookies but have super talented members and fun music. I recommend the songs: MVSK, Le Voya9e, Wa Da Da, Shine, Rewind, Wing Wing.

Others I recommend: Everglow, G-IDLE, ITZY, Cherry Bullet.

soloists

Kim Sejeong

Sunmi

Chungha

Jeon Somi

Ong Seongwoo

hope this helps and isn’t too overwhelming! lol 💜

#asks #anonymous #ceci speaks #ceci likes kpop #long post #nonsims #if you want more info about the groups individually im happy to help #tried not to ramble too much and it still got long ha

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bakubitch-minusultra · 3 years

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Not Alone: Chapter Six

-> an apocalyptic series with bnha characters but without quirks because im the writer and i can do whatever the fuck i want B) this chapter is short but theres a seggs joke in it and a new character is finally mentioned so

-> Word Count: 1.4k

-> Warnings: seggs joke lol i think thats it

-> Taglist: @5sosfckss @laudthingcat [if you wanna be added lmk <3]

The farmhouse sat quiet, just like Y/n hoped it would. She’s never come back to it so quickly. It had the longest, most off the beaten track, driveway of the four and it was the closest to her cabin.

They peeled off their soaking wet clothes. Her wound burned from the cold river water and the exertion of wading through the river for such a long ways. She’s done it before, but it wasn’t her favorite way to get to the house. But she’s been followed before, and she didn’t want to be followed again.

She couldn’t help but steal a glance at Kirishima as he pulled his wet shirt off and dropped his jeans on the floor. His wound was bright purple. The brand new scar that’s developing was lumpy.

“It’s bigger than I thought it would be.”

She looked up at Kirishima to see him smiling at her. She pulled her pants off and noticed for the first time that he had drawings of dinner rolls on his boxers. She raised an eyebrow at him.

He laughed, “Buttered buns.”

“I don’t get it.”

“That’s because you were nine when the world went crazy.”

Y/n felt her face blushing, realizing that it obviously meant something filthy, “You were only ten,” She said out of spite.

“Yeah I was but my friend was twelve. So that makes me more like twelve when it happened.” Y/n stopped smiling but he didn't stop talking. “Bakugo was a bad kid. His mom used to get so mad at him. He had a magazine collection that could shock a whore.”

Y/n flinched at the word. She knew what it meant and how it was used but she never heard anyone say it. The conversation suddenly felt wrong.

“One time he was dating this chick and he-”

“Kiri.” Y/n looked back at Mina who was making a distasteful face, “Sex related Bakugo stories in your underwear is creepy dude.” Y/n smiled and watched as Kirishima’s face grew red. He looked at her through his bangs and her heart started to feel like it was too big for her chest.

“Where’s your friend?” Y/n didn’t want to ask but she knew she had to.

Mina answered from behind her, “We hope dead.” Y/n nodded and left it at that. She knew that feeling. Kirishima’s face looked haunted and Y/n could’ve sworn she saw guilt, but she leaves it at that.

Y/n felt weird about being in a house with other people. Not just because it was one of her safe spaces, but also because she was never with people. Her legs ached and she knew she wouldn’t sleep.

She looked at Mina, “You guys sleep first. Me and Hades will take the first watch.”

Kirishima frowned, “Why don’t we all just sleep. There’s no way anyone followed us Y/n.” She wanted to slap him. She knew it was irrational but his survival skills left a lot to be desired. Instead, she turned and walked away.

“Dude we’ll take watch here every night. It just feels safe here, that doesn’t mean it is.”

“Fine. Whatever.”

Y/n pulled the knife that she stole from the dead military guy out of her boot and rubbed it down with bleach she pulled out from under the sink. She hated that she touched something of someone else’s. She caught Kirishima watching her but she ignored him. She ignored her heart fluttering every time he glanced at her. She would leave him. It was her nature.

Instead, she looked at Hades, who had positioned himself in front of the back door, curled into a ball.

“So much for helping me.” Hades opened one yellow eye and closed it again.

She took her new knife, bow and quiver, and her bottle of water to the door. She rubbed Hades’s head once and then headed out into the night quietly.

She opened the barn door and slipped inside. The darkness of the barn was frightening, but she gripped the handle of the blade for strength. She climbed the stairs and felt like something would grab her feet at any second and drag her down into the hay.

She climbed into the hayloft and sat on the open window. The dark night was silent. She didn’t like the silence. She liked the sound of animals telling her she was safe. She opened her ears and closed her mind against the sounds that haunted her.

Then she heard them.

The night creatures that would warn her of any intruders fill her ears. There was a cricket, a single cricket out in the field. She heard a bat off in the woods south of the farm. The noise made her smile. The signs of life filled her with a mistaken and misguided hope. She knew the reality of it all. She knew they were lost, all of humanity was. She knew what the world has done to each other. They were no longer human. Their humanity was lost. The animals had bested them in behavior in survival

The door to the house slipped open. Mina crossed the driveway carefully. A smile crossed Y/n’s lips. She knew that Mina was a survivor.

“His leg’s infected.” Mina’s words cut her. Y/n knew what she had to do but she wasn’t prepared to do it. Mina saw her face in the moonlight, “I know. I feel the same way.”

“The medicines are all expired.”

“We have to go for him. His fever is back. The red lines have started. My dad warned me about the red lines.” Y/n’s eyes left the deserted yard and fixed themselves on Mina. They glistened in the moonlight.

“I’ll go alone.”

“I can’t ask that of you.”

“He can’t travel.”

“But I can’t ask that of you. He’s my burden.”

Y/n laughed softly into the cool night air, “He really is isn’t he? How is he so clueless?”

Mina’s lips curled into a grim smile that the darkness couldn’t hide from Y/n, “He practically worshipped Bakugo. They joked and laughed while my dad tried to teach us how to survive. My dad always called them grasshoppers who played all summer.” Y/n flinched at the childhood reference. “When all of our parents died Bakugo took care of us, but he wasn’t a survivor. When Bakugo got taken I was eleven. Kirishima’s tried but he’s, well he’s a moron.”

Y/n looked back out into the yard, “He’s amazing Mina. He’s still full of the things we’ve all lost. He smiles and laughs and sings. I heard him humming the other day and I almost shot him and then realized I haven’t hummed since I was nine years old.” Her skin shivered when she thought about spying on Kirishima humming. She couldn’t take her eyes off of him.

“He’s a goof. We’ll travel together Y/n.”

Y/n looked back at her harshly, “He’ll die if we make him travel. Those red lines are blood poisoning and once the reach his heart he’s dead. I’ll go and you’ll stay and keep him safe.”

Y/n was risking her life for him. She felt like she was back at the cabin door and Mina was knocking. Y/n knew she would regret this decision.

“I’ll leave tonight. You’ll have to keep Hades with you. He can help you.”

Mina’s voice was small, “I can’t ask this of you.”

Y/n smiled bitterly,”Guess you’ll have to trust me.”

Y/n stared out into the night, it was peaceful and quiet. It scared her more than anything suddenly and Y/n felt her jaw tense.

“If I’m not back in three days you’ll have to cut the leg off and clot it. Don’t give him liquor before you cut it off, it thins the blood and he’ll bleed out. Clotting is done with a hot iron. You press it against the stump where the leg bleeds to seal the veins.” Y/n doesn’t look at Mina. She couldn’t. “The red lines means he has a week at the most. He’ll need tons of soup and water and rest. He can fight it somewhat with those things.” Y/n stood up, her legs ached at the thought of leaving. The barn felt less scary with Mina it and Y/n realized her whole life had started to feel that way

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koutawoo · 4 years

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Day 27 of loving Woowoo-chan 🌼 okay, so I finished playing the first three chapters for Bokuto’s route in your new otome game and I have to say I AM HOOKED!!! Ah, I can’t wait to get the new chapter tickets!! It’s seriously so much fun and to think every single one of his lines is voiced as well??? LIKE WHAAAAT!! Woowoo-chan is feeding this fandom!!!!

excuse me???

FALSE ADVERTISING!! u r fake news

u r fake news u r fake news u r fake news u r fake news

DON’T MAKE PPL THINK I CREATED AN ACTUAL OTOME GAME

#i love u BUT NO #but maybe one day i will create another character’s version but iono #idk im brainrotting here #I LOVE U BUT NO #im crying #is this ur way of telling me to make one #eden san 💛#go eat ur candies #kouta babbles #edensxgarden #but omg voiced lines <3 i would kill for them

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shinwonsaysomething · 5 years

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Hongseok Stuck in a Loop!AU

Chapter four: No one is like you (END)

After you brought Hongseok home he was so exhausted and sad. He lost hope now he know he blew his changes with the real you. Spending time with the last version of you was great, but he misses you. He will forever stuck in this loop.

Hongseok decides not to go to the café the next day. Whatever version of you he might meet, it is not you. It is not the girl he fell in love with. He looks in his notebook and notices how he compared every version to the first Y/N he ever met. Hongseok stays home the whole week. Not knowing what to do. Today is the day of the last date. Hongseok drags himself out of bed. He wants to go back to the place of the date.

Standing on top of the building Hongseok looks at all the lights down below. He smiles when he remembers your eyes. The reason why all your versions had the same eyes was probably because that was the first thing he fell in love with. So bright. Full of love and wonder.

Tears start filling his eyes again. “Where are you… Y/N” he screams from the building. “Excuse me, but is this seat taken?”. Hongseok looks behind. It was coming from a girl that was standing in the doorway to the roof of the building. She was standing in the shadow, but stepped into the light. “Y/N?” he says.

Hongseok drop onto his knees. You rush to his side and hug him. Your tears are falling down and so are Hongseok’s. Hongseok wants to tell you everything, but you don’t even give him the change.

“It is you” you say to Hongseok. He looks confused. “For the longest time I have met so many version of you, but the last one made me realize that I should have told you I loved you on our last date. I was so stupid to let you go and I did nothing about” you say crying and talking at the same time. “I have met so many versions of you too. I shouldn't have kissed you that night! I should have let you walk away…” Hongseok says.

Your cheeks are red. “You wanted to kiss me?” you say. Hongseok nods. You whip away you his tears and your own. He helps himself and you from the ground. He hugs you properly. He hugs you so tight like he never wants to let you go again. “I love you, Hongseok” you say to him. There was that feeling. The real feeling. The first feeling he had when he saw you in the café when she order that cappuccino and brownie. That feeling he had when you two went to the art museum. The feeling he had when you two went out and spend a lot of time together. That feeling when he saw your eyes sparkle of the first time.

He pulls away and look you in the eyes and smiles. “I love you too, Y/N”. He leads in and kisses you. A soft kiss filled with love and happiness. You two have been through a lot. His lips are soft and amazing. You wished he kissed you that night and you wished you told him that night how much you love him.

That night you say over at his place. You are both so afraid that once the moment comes that you both change. That night you both don’t sleep and just talk. He holds you close to him and you hug him tight. Once the sun shines through the curtain it wakes Hongseok up. He opens his eyes and sees you are still sleeping. He looks outside and sees different cars, different people. The looks at his phone and finally sees a different day.

He looks at you and wakes you up with a kiss. “We are real. We are back to normal!”. You open you sleep eyes. “Are we really back to normal?”. “Yes baby!”. You hug him tight and he hugs you back. “Please never leave me” you say. “I finally find you, I won’t let you walk away again”. He kisses you. Enjoying each day to it fullest with each other’s company.

Hongseok smiles at you and says “There is no one like you, not even 125 versions of you”.

Request and idea of @soft-woowoo 🌱🌸

[Introduction] [Chapter one: The “Too Shy” you] [Chapter two: The Real You (part one)] [Chapter three: The Real You (part two)] [Chapter four: No one is like you (END)]

#hongseok #yang hongseok #pentagon #ptg #pentagon au #jinho #hui #hwitaek #edawn #hyojong #shinwon #yeo one #changgu #yanan #yuto #kino #hyunggu #wooseok #universe #🌱🌸.txt

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makima-s-most-smile · 9 months

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Trigun Maximum 8.2

Ugh, one day left to chew through Vol.9 and then the bookclub and I can skip hand in hand through Vol.10. Why did the heatwave just hit? Gimme my thunderstorms back.

... I reached 30 panels for two chapters... Part Three comes soon... Why does Nightow have so many banger panels and why do I have to be like: Look! Look! I like this and this is why! And blabber on?

Trimax 8.1

Trimax 8.3

04: Escape

I read that in Chapel’s voice.

And he still hesitates. Maybe hesitates because he had to work with Chapel in all these months and had to do repeated senseless slaughters. Wolfwood may just not be able kill anymore. Even Legato.

Just the thought of your body moving not only against your explicit will, but in an active attempt to kill you. Legato IS scary. It says so much about him that his power (wherever it comes from) is about robbing other people of their ability to act.

And Nightow draws movement and poses so godly. I wanna chew on his art.

Wolfwood seems to have run in without a true plan. His face reminds me so much of little WooWoo when he was shot the first time. He is scared for his life and does not want to die. But he still has nowhere else to go, he has to do this. No one else could do this.But at the same time, it shows his absolute trust in Vash. He can only survive if Vash has prevailed like he did over the months.

This I do not completely get. Has Legato made Wolfwood miss? Or did Wolfwood miss unconsciously? Or did the other Eye of Michaels somehow interfere?

The blood splatter reminds me so much of 98’ Ep 23.

Wolfwood has put his life on the line to get Vash out, again. And he paid a massive price for it, again. But again, he had to, necause he knows that only Vash can stop the ongoing genocide by undoing Knives (with whatever methods. I don’t believe Wolfwood trusts that Vash could kill Knives.)

This says so much about Wolfwood. He is so used to transactional relationships, but the orphanage didn’t take anything from him, it just gave him a home. That’s why it is his paradise. That’s why he needs to protect it, because he still feels indebted to it. That’s why he so easily fell into parentification (last chapter of the volume). Outside of the orphanage, Vash and the insurance women may be the first people Wolfwood has met where it wasn’t about him being of use and it may be why he harbours an comparable guilt towards them as to the orphanage, because he benefited from the betrayal against Vash.

Brainwashing 101: Take any personality from the to be brainwashed, erase his personhood, give him a goal that aligns with your wants.

Perfect, Perfect and Perfect again. Why does Livio want to be perfect? Because in Chapel’s eyes, Wolfwood’s betrayal came to be because he was not perfect. And Livio as his replacement thus had to be perfect, better than Wolfwood the perfect pupil in any way. This is not Livio speaking, it is Chapel’s indoctrination.

There is much to be said just about that, but also that Wolfwood was indoctrinated like this, too. But his love and “debt” to the orphanage was in the end greater than the indoctrination. But we still see him struggle so much with being a person.

I love how the drawing style of Livio changes infight. His face disappears behind the mask covering half his face. A skeleton face, a person ground down to its bare bones, something missing humanity.

And I just love how Wolfwood is drawn fighting. He is so quick to think and react, even with this unhandy weapon. It is so quick and fluid and fast. Truly a god of battle, in the best and worst meaning of it.

I snickered at the panel of the explosion behind Chapel and him hopping/jumping awayffrom it with his wheelchair.

B… Batman? Is that you?

The closeup to Wolfwood’s face gives me the impression that he could have avoided the critical hit, but then Vash would have been hurt (more). So he shielded him with his body.

And Wolfwood cannot shoot Livio. He could shoot Legato in the end, but he cannot shoot Livio. Livio is a symbol of the orphanage. Wolfwood, as the caretaker and protector, cannot shoot Livio. It would be equal or even worse than Vash deciding to kill someone in cold blood. It is against the very core of his person. If he kills Livio, Wolfwood ceases to exist.

Livio was such a cutie... and then he got this mob of a hairstyle.

This injury is just so… uh… physical? How Wolfwood’s state of body is shown, the blood just flowing freely from his mouth like his mouth istself was the artery cut. And how it comes back to the attackers looming and coming closer all in black. And then it gets countered with this dreamlike looking panel of Wolfwood’s and Livio’s childhood, how they moved together, how they were happy at each others side and content (even though they seem to be working at that age). Chapel corrupted Livio, he corrupted Wolfwood. He is the difference between these panels, the thing that separates Wolfwood and Livio from their past relationship.

And that’s it. Wolfwood falls. It looks so simple and not “that” bad. But we know from his expression, from the one “Shit!” that Wolfwood has reached his limit. It changes from Wolfwood successfully fleeing with Vash to Wolfwood dying while trying something. These four panels are for me one of the most impressive ones from the manga. It just feels so real. You just know... And that is just... damn... Fuck... I need a minute.

We, the readers, have seen Wolfwood’s complexity from the start. We saw how he grew, how he constantly reflected upon his actions and how hard he judged himself.

But Wolfwood never does. Like Vash, Wolfwood is unable to forgive himself. He is unable to realise that he is a victim of Chapel, that he did so much good and that he can continue to be better, that he has already gotten into a better place. There is no forgiveness for Wolfwood in himself. Even as the one who protects, he is not enough.

Say that to yourself first, Vash!

Can Vash hear people’s thoughts when they are near death? Or just people he feels close to? While the scene is so awesome, it also confuses me so, so, so, so much. Answer me, Mr. I-go-by-vibes-Nightow!

Even being at death's door, Wolfwood is not about himself, he is about comforting Vash. And that’s, again, just sad. Even when receiving protection, most likely for the first time ever, he cannot stop being the protector.

Oh, you just realised, you selfabsorbed butt! Vash, I love you. But Wolfwood truly has done so much for you. Kiss him when this is over and say it to him when he is not actively dying! Give him the appreciation!

Yeah, typical abuser behaviour from Chapel here. No surprise. Now that his revenge has not only failed, but it was actively stopped by some”thing” that he has to revere, Chapel shows himself as submissive. Or… if he only reveres Knives, since the Eye of Michael has never had any contact with Vash and it is exclusively under Knives, Knives put out the rule that Vash is a) to be unharmed and b) is not allowed to use his powers, no one should dare to make him use it. I really despise him more for it.

I think it is interesting that they still think that Knives has any hold over Vash or humans as a whole. The thing that Vash protects, humanity, will die if he stays. If Knives kills him now, he at least tried to prevent it instead of letting it happen. Same reason why Wolfwood acted, he knew that Knives is unstoppable for humans, but not for Knives. Knives means no future for the orphanage or himself. So why sit by and let it happen, waiting for death that will come anyway? They are helplessly underpowered, but a death by letting gruesome things happen or a death by trying to prevent it. Vash and Wolfwood would choose the latter.

While… it is nice that Vash has a reason to fight, Wolfwood would truly like for Vash to care for his life… I mean, he made Vash point his gun at his temple to make him understand that one day Vash cannot avoid the trolley problem. Wolfwood cares about Vash’ life… But Vash care cares not for what Wolfwood cares about, but about Wolfwood’s life. (Because he doesn’t understand the complexity of relationships and connections, since he runs from them since forever)

*surprised Pikachu face* If I constantly abuse my brother, he will leave me at the first true chance he gets?!?

Vash is going BECAUSE you are really going to end it this time!

Oh, Knives… Knives and his weird obsession with Vash. He still does not recognise that Vash has not only another opinion about the continuation of humanity, but that he himself is acting actively against it. Vash does not exist to Knives beyond being a body that has to be there for him.

That is just a “GOTCHA!”-Smile! And how he got them!

And the hit every deck on their way down. As if they weren’t hurt beforehand.

*insert Hercules-meme of Hdes: “Okay, okay, fine, I am cool. I am calm” while his fire hair explodes*

NOT THE PUNISHER! HELP HER!

I still love that we next to never (beyond the introduction) see Wolfwood talk preacher-like or do churchstuff, and still everyone is like: Yeah, priest, preacher! It is the guilt, isn’t it?

05: Parting ways

NONONONONONONONONONONONO! Have you learned nothing from horror movies?

Deus ex machina, uh… deus ex phiala.

Ah, yes, the way to make a lesson stick... Child abuse.

I am unable to not think about Tesla here.

A kid, experimented on, unable to say no or safe themself. Well, Wolfwood survives, but does he really? Physically, he does. But the rest of his measly childhood dies, the rest of hope he had for himself, hope he may have had for a future for himself. From then on, he is a tool, a weapon. And his only choice has been to be a shield for the orphanage and not completely Chapel’s weapon. From then on, his body is not his own. Nico has died, crucified to protect the future of the orphanage children.

But another kid ended up like him. This is the moment Wolfwood decides to leave Vash. He goes from relaxing to determined.

Wolfwood killed Chapel not only to get Knives, but mostly to protect the orphanage. Wolfwood followed along until he found out that Chapel still procured children from the orphanage to use as weapons. That’s when Wolfwood broke out.

Nightow mentioned somewhere that the ageing up and the vials were something spontaneously added. And you feel it when reading this. I still like it, but I know that if the vials were planned, they would have been introduced earlier, making other fights either shorter or more brutal (*stares at Midvalley or at Ninelives*). I mostly like them, but they come so out of left field. Same with the experimentations.

I’d love to have that more explored, because the comparison between Tesla is a big one. (I like what Stampede does with it.) Tesla is a being without agency whose existence gets used for horrific acts as Wolfwood. But Wolfwood still has a voice and dreams, unlike Tesla had. We see the results in his psyche, how he completely fixates on one part of him, his usefulness as protector, how that makes him up and what his dreams are after all he has lived through. And that is, in the end, to prevent other children from going through the same and, maybe, “if he could be selfish” to not having to kill anymore. And that makes the answer to the question of: “What would Tesla think about Knives’ actions?” at least for me, much less vague.

Same with the comparison Knives/Wolfwood. Knives received a massive amount of trauma by adults and has been on a revenge trip since then. Wolfwood’s trauma is somewhat different and much more personal, but even when killing his (then) main tormentor, he didn’t kill out of revenge or hate. He killed out of the need to protect others like him. Knives so often declares how he is protecting his sisters and Vash as justification for his hate, but Wolfwood protects so without declaring it and still owns up to the responsibility of his actions and is hurt by his guilt.

He is not talking about his encounter with Knives. He is talking about Livio. Killing Livio means Wolfwood’s own death. Letting Livion stay like this means Wolfwood’s death. Being the protector of the orphanage and ALL the children there is Wolfwood’s one main motivation to exist, it is the one thing that kept the guilt and the self hate at bay. There is no peace or future for Wolfwood, if he cannot get Livio out.

This is also the farewell. Because the orphanage and Livio is a bigger priority for him. This is the second time ever that Wolfwood decides the path on his own. First was killing Chapel/Knives and the second was rescuing Livio. Since getting the orders from Knives, Wolfwood was back to following orders and Vash’ whims. (Remember how often Wolfwood tried to point Vash to the goal of Knives and Vash was like: Yeah, no, I wanna go there instead.) Wolfwood leaves the big future to Vash, the big problem, Knives. He trusts Vash with the planet’s future. But it doesn’t read like Wolfwood considers his own future being part of it.

And Nightow’s modus operandi: Interrupt heartfelt openness by sillies so no other questions can be asked.

Burrito Wolfwood just gives me life. I wanna hug him so badly.

Does Vash get that Wolfwood plans to leave? That Wolfwood is zoning in on December? After the closeup of Vash, Wolfwood hides his face. And he hides his face when he has something to hide. And just from the positioning from the panels it looks like he understands it. WHY DOESN’T HE TALK TO WOLFWOOD AFTERWARDS!

The ships from earth truly mean hope, but since the resistance now know about Knives’ sucking up his sisters, the researcher is right in pointing that danger out. What I also think is important, Knives is breaking apart by all the power. He broke apart in front of Vash when he trapped him seven months ago. Shouldn’t absorbing more plants accelerate that process?

Protect Meryl! Meryl still had hope and her hope infected others. People need to fight for a future and not just leave it to Vash or give up.

That’s so nice.

It also means that Brandon knows that Wolfwood is not just an alpha-dude that has a big pistol for “Biggus Dickus”-reasons, but uses it responsibly.

And this… Why would Knives do this? More power? Nah. Knives absorbs his dead or nearly dead sisters to absorb as many bad memories of them as possible, so the plea to stop from his sisters stop, so they finally agree with him and do not hinder his deeply “rational” actions.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! *sobs* Stop carrying your burden alone!

One little detail. We do not see Wolfwood’s eyes. This has become such an important visual cue for Wolfwood if he is lying or not. Wolfwood is lying. He doesn’t leave to protect himself or anything. He feels guilt for leaving and tries to avoid it by giving these reasons… That he’d be useless in the final battle anyway, so he can allow himself to betray Vash like this, his work is done here.

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Hongseok Stuck in a Loop!AU

Chapter One: The “Too shy” Y/N

Hongseok walks to the café he has been going every week since he met you for the first time. He orders something to drink and he sits in the corner of the café . He got tired of the buying the same cup of coffee every week, but he never got tired of seeing the same people in the café. Every time he notices different things about the people around him. He pick a notebook from his bag and grabs a pen. He goes through the pages filled with text and drawings. They were all about you. Hongseok draws every version of you he meets and describes your character, looks and what he like about you. You became more beautiful to him. In total he met around 100 different versions. Some versions of you didn’t see him, so Hongseok has to try harder to make you notice him. Some versions of you don’t steal his heart in time. All he know is that he has to make you fall in love with him.

At exactly 07:45 pm you walk into the café. This time you have long hair and you are taller than the two version before. Your style is different too. This time you were a long modest dress with a fluffy coat. You look very girly. Hongseok smiles when he notices your eyes. Your eyes are always the same. They sparkle the same way they did the first time he saw you. He sees you walk to the counter to order a drink. “One cappuccino with a brownie please” you say. You voice sounds soft and insecure. Hongseok has met many shy versions of you before, but never one that was this girly. Hongseok goes through his notebook again. He also wrote down what helps to get with type of you to notice him. At first he felt so weird describing you and the way you act, but it seemed to help more and more.

If she is shy: Make sure to not approach her this will only scare her away. Just wait. She will find you interesting and will sit with you, because all other seats are taken or next to old men.

If she doesn’t approach you come back tomorrow, she will recognize you from the first day she saw you.

He looks up and sees that you are looking around for a place to sit. He looks down to his notebook once he sees you are moving towards him. “Excuse me” you say softly and tuck your hair behind your ear. “Is this seat taken?”. He looks up at you. Every time he meets you he feels it. Some sort of spark. It is the first sign of falling in love. He just hopes you are finally the one he is looking for. He smiles. “No, take a seat”. Hongseok continues drawing in his notebook. You sit down and pick your notebook out of your bag. You draw as well. “Wow you draw as well?”Hongseok asks you. You cheeks are red and you look at him. “Yes, I have been drawing for as long as I can remember” you say and giggle “well it started with scrabbling and now I got a bit better”. “May I see your drawings?” Hongseok asks. He leads a bit more forward, casing you to press your notebook to your chest. “I… I… I never shared my drawings before”. “Ow I understand if you don’t want to though” Hongseok says. He sees you look very doubt full. You quickly drink the last bit of your coffee and put the brownie in back in the foil. “I think I really have to go, I will be late for my classes” you say and wave him goodbye.

“Damn it…” Hongseok whispers to himself. “Was I too straight forward or was she just not the one I was looking for?”. That week he doesn’t run into that version of you anymore. Other week gone by and still nothing changes.

Hongseok tries hard to not lose hope, but after meeting 20 more versions of you he feels very hopeless. “Y/N, where are you...”. The real you has the key to a normal life. He fell for all the versions of you, but none really stole his heart. Maybe it was something he did wrong... Or did he still not find you...

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[Introduction] [Chapter one: The “Too Shy” you] [Chapter two: The Real You (part one)] [Chapter three: The Real You (part two)] [Chapter four: No one is like you (END)]

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Hongseok Stuck in a Loop!AU

Chapter three: The real you (part 2)

The last day finally has arrived and Hongseok never felt more nervous around any version of you before. It feels weird. The date goes well. You eat at the same restaurant and he brings you the same gift. Even though your reaction is different the rest of the night still goes well. Around 1 am you are standing on the highest building in the city. Your eyes sparkle because of the lights. Hongseok has his hand wrapped around you and his heart is going a wild. Even though the date is the same, you are very different. Not in a bad way. You are very open and lovable to him, but for some reason something feels of. Hongseok remembers the first time you two were standing on top of the building. He remembered that he wanted to kiss you, but he first wanted to make sure that you liked him. Once you didn’t give him a clear answer yet, he decided not to kiss you. He still regrets not kiss you that night.

Maybe that is why he is so nervous. He doesn’t want to make that mistake twice or 126 times. You turn your head towards hongseok he is daydreaming again. You take a deep breath and you want to say something, but Hongseok starts to talk first. “It has been this way for as long as I can remember. I lived the same life over and over. Everything was the same, but still there was one thing is different every time. It is you. Well, a version of you. When I was around the age of 25 I meet you for the first time. Since then my life has been stuck in the same week for the rest of my life. Every time you is different, but yet still there is something so special about you. It is very difficult to explain. I have just one week to prove myself that I am worthy of you. I know that everything will change once I find the real you. I really hope you are the one I am looking for. Please be the real you… Please be the one I am looking for”.

You look at him and say. “I don’t know what you are talking about, but there is something you need to know”. You turn you body to him and he puts his hands on your waist. “Tell me” hongseok says. “I love you” you say.

Hongseok minds starts to race: What is happening? This didn’t happen the first date and that was the reason why I didn’t kiss her. She finally said it. Why doesn’t it feel good. Why? She finally confessed to me. I should kiss her, but… but she is not the real one. The first Y/N I met was the real one… I let her go without kissing her.

Your cheeks turn multiple shades of red when Hongseok doesn’t answer. You pull away. “I am not the one, am I? Am I just a version of the Y/N you are really looking for?” you say and start to tear up. “I am so sorry Y/N, but I am afraid that is true”. You sit on the ground. You don’t cry even though your eyes are filled with tears. Hongseok sits next to you. “I let the real you go” he says.

“Tell me about the real me” you say. Hongseok is surprise and is hesitant before he tells you more about the real you. “She is a lot like you. She is a bit more shy, but not too shy. She likes to draw. She has earrings and has a little bit longer hair. Just like you she likes to eat and she has your laugh. The thing you all have is that you all have the same eyes. Our last date was on this building as well. I finally know what I did wrong that day. I should have told her that I loved her and I should have kissed her that night. I didn’t because I wasn’t sure if she loved me. I am stuck in a loop because of it. Tomorrow you won’t exist anymore or turn into a different version. I met 125 versions. Extremely shy you, tomboy you, tough you, giggly you, sleepy you, emotional you and so many more. The point is that you all have something of her, but you are not the real thing and I am so sorry I let her… you… go...” Hongseok says. Tears roll down his cheeks. You whip away his tears and let him rest his head on your shoulder. “I know I will never see her again, but luckily I meet all different sides of her. I just wish I could see the real you again. Y/N is seriously the girl of my dream. If I get to see her again, I will do what I had to do that night”. “I hope you two find each other again” you say. “I am so sorry” Hongseok cries out and buries his face in your shoulder.

“I am so sorry Y/N”

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[Introduction] [Chapter one: The “Too Shy” you] [Chapter two: The Real You (part one)] [Chapter three: The Real You (part two)] [Chapter four: No one is like you (END)]

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Hongseok Stuck in a Loop!AU

Chapter two: The real you (part one)

Hongseok sits defeated in the corner of the café. He left his notebook in his bag. He looks at his coffee and takes another sips. He met around 125 versions of you and he is feeling more and more hopeless. Why can’t he just find the real version of you. Hongseok thinks back to the first time he met you. He tries to remember what you look like. He started to draw around the 30th version of you, but he still remember the version of you. Maybe he did something wrong back then, that must be why he is still stuck in this hell of a loop. He is drowned in thoughts.

It is 07:45 pm. The door opens. Hongseok doesn’t even looks up. “Why would I if I know she won’t fall for me anyway” Hongseok thinks to himself. He just looks at his cup. “Excuse me” a clear voice says. Hongseok looks up. You are standing in front of him. The same bright eyes great him. Your hair is different, though. It is short and in your ears there are multiple earrings. You also have a nose piercing and your style is very cool. You wear a very oversized sweater with black skinny jeans with holes in them. You look taller, but that is because you are wearing boots with heels under them. There it is again. That spark. The first sign of falling in love. It feels a lot stronger than usual. “Heey are you okay?” you say and look at him worried. “ow.. ummhh… I lost someone I care about, so I am not really feeling well”. You sit down in the seat in front of him. You place your hand on his hand. “I am so sorry to hear that. I noticed you sitting here and I thought something might have been wrong. Do you want to tell me about it?” You say. Hongseok looks at you. It is very confident and touchy version of you. “Well.. what is there to say?” Hongseok started “I made a giant mistake. I let the girl of my life walk away and I don’t know where I can find her”. You comfort him by rubbing on the top of his hand softly. “I will be okay. I am sure she regrets the choice of leaving you. And hey, there might be more girls like her out there” you say and smile at him.

Hongseok laughs because of your comment and just answers with “you have no idea”. It is quiet for a while, but the other people in the café make a lot of background noise. You break the silence between the two of you. “You know what you know need. Distraction! I am going to an art museum tomorrow. Do you want to join me?” you say with red cheeks. Hongseok looks shocked at you. Your first date with at an art museum when you met for the first time. Is this the real you?

The next few days you meet up a lot. Your first day at the art museum went well. It was still awkward, just like all first dates. You met two days later again to go to the movie and it was a whole lot less awkward. Afterwards you two went to grab something to eat. You picked a restaurant. Everything went the same like the first time you met. Hongseok even crashed at your place on the 5th day. While he sits on your couch, while you sleep in the room next to him, he writes in his notebook.

This is her! She is almost the same as the first Y/N I met! But for some reason it doesn’t feel the same, but that is probably because of the Y/N’s I met. I am so happy to go on the same dates with her again. Even though she looks different and she is a bit more direct, I am sure she is the one that makes my life go back to normal. I think she is falling for me so everything is going well. I wish I knew what Y/N has to do to stop this loop from happening so I can finally live my normal life and be with the real her. Me and this Y/N will go on another day. I will take her to the same building the first Y/N and I went in the hope this time it will go better.

Hongseok closes his notebook and thinks back about that last date with you. Hongseok and you were standing on the heights building in the city. The beautiful view was literally magical. He wished he told you that he fell for you and that he really loved you.

Request and idea by @soft-woowoo 🌱🌸

[Introduction] [Chapter one: The “Too Shy” you] [Chapter two: The Real You (part one)] [Chapter three: The Real You (part two)] [Chapter four: No one is like you (END)]

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