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hello steel ball run fandom please accept my offering 🙏

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Hello the vashwood brain worm got back, so I’m jayviking it.. The people who enjoy this, please reach out I need to know if I’m the only insane one

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gladiator Jayce, with machine herald Viktor against him ykk 🤭

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they’re stupid I love them

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i am back with fanart of Will Graham.

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deppressed Crowley :p

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I'm back in the furry fandom :))

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quick sketches of link and knives (do not ask me why I drew them together)

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Made some trigun (and a giant isopod) stickers, check out my redbubble shop (link in bio) if you're interested :]

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sketch of Vash :3

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Random wolfwood sketch because i love him

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TriMax destroyed me and i can't draw anymore, so this is all you will have for now 🙂

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The Bride (TRIMAX VOL 10 SPOILERS)

since twitter went absolute HAM on volume 10 of trimax the other day I thought I'd contribute. I have to say that the comparison of Wolfwood being like a bride left at the alter is the most accurate. Because let's be completely honest, there is no way that Vash and Wolfie weren't in love. I just can't really think of any way that they weren't.

It's insane.

Anyway. Vash doesn't let Wolfwood have his final words. The words that would've been "I love you." Instead, Vash stops him and says, "don't say anything stupid". He says this right after Wolfwood says he looks better with a smile and that it was "harsh of me to say your smiles were empty".

Through my felt trimax read I didn't really understand why Vash stopped him from talking. I've reread that volume so many times because I feel that the more I read and reread it, the more I understand it.

The church bell, the confetti, and Wolfwood's ring finger still touching the Bride bottle as it slips from his hand. I can't even view it as a rejection.

Vash didn't want to marry a dead man.

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god okay i got to trimax volume 10 today and. i really thought i'd been desensitized to most of the scenes just by the sheer amount of times i'd seen them posted around but 1) nope reading them in context actually made it hurt so much more and 2) (kind of more in depth spoilers ig)

up until this point the entirety of volume 10 has been from wolfwood's perspective. three and a half chapters of his slow march towards death.

so when the speaker on the page says, "It was then that I knew deep down, he had become very close to me. What is important? What are we willing to do to protect it? That's why, after everything's been said and done, I wanted to see tomorrow with him," we're inclined to think it's ww reflecting on vash's importance to him as he barrels towards his end.

But instead we're given, "Isn't that right, Wolfwood?"

and we learn this in the moments between wolfwood telling vash he's not going to make it back to the orphanage, and vash physically feeling how much damage has been done to his body. the weight and value of wolfwood in his life has crystalizes in this moment where vash thinks he still has a chance to save him. and then you turn the page.

it's such a cruel, raw, visceral gut punch. a shining moment of clarity at the worst possible time. it's gorgeous writing. it's a beautiful use of the comic format. i read it like 11 hours ago and i still have a pit in my stomach. trigun it's the world's only manga

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Trigun and the 'Bride of Christ'

An additional thought that popped up after my previous post about Triguns heavy themes of Christianity (a somewhat? Part 2?). In this I look at the Vash and Wolfwoods relationship, their opposing views and how that relates to the Christian term 'the bride of christ'. During this I specifically discuss a large spoiler for the series/manga, so readers beware!

I was chatting with some lovely folks on the Vashwood discord server (if you wish to join, click this link!) about Wolfwoods death, and the way it's, well, wedding themed. The wedding themes include the confetti, the way Wolfwoods passing occurs in front of a church, the ringing of the church bell, and the bottle of liquor they share is labelled 'BRIDE' with a cross on it.

All the items come together in a definite way that resembles, in some terrible fashion, the festivities for a wedding. Hell, even after Vash buries Wolfwood, he makes tons of dishes of food, and Livio and him basically have a feast, another thing one does at weddings.

The 'Bride of Christ'

What particularly caught my eye was the bottle with the word bride on it, with a cross. Multiple times within the new testament, the body of the church is referred to as the 'Bride of Christ'. As I've previously mentioned, Vash is regularly set up as a Christ-like figure; his actions and his philosophical values align with a Christian perspective, in his belief in unconditional love and forgiveness (ie, the blank ticket). As well, as that Wolfwood is a Christian preist, this literally makes him a 'bride of Christ'. In a sense, where in the story Vash is pitched as a Christ-like figure, this means that Wolfwood could be interpreted as the 'bride of Vash'. This especially so considering the contextual clues that hint towards a wedding - confetti, church, and church bells.

Acceptance of Christian philosophy

Further adding to this, is that although Wolfwood was a priest, he did not fully ascribe to Vash's view. In fact, the two of them are foils, their beliefs similar- both coming from love and a need to protect, but differing in Vash ascribing to unconditional love and forgiveness, while Wolfwood refuting that such a position can be practically taken (this is, well, I would say a simplified take on their beliefs but thats a different post for a different day). However, by this point in the story, the both of them have very deeply impacted each other. In fact, this is set almost immediately after Wolfwood saves Vash from Knives, which is the the moment where Vash openly forgives Wolfwood and Wolfwood begins his acceptance of Vash's philosophical views; in that specific moment, he accepts his own absolution (explained further in my previous post).

It is exactly in Wolfwoods fight against Chapel and Livio, that Wolfwood fully (or mostly so) accepts Vash's philosophical views, expanding to accept a blank ticket/unconditional love for others. This is seen as he repeatedly chooses not to kill Chapel's hired guns, and even sharply pleading Livio to spare one of them. Indeed, previously at Vash's request, he'll shoot to injure, but he's not really shown to be particularly worried about the bandits, versus here he is actively choosing to minimize harm; exactly like we've seen Vash do, over and over and over again throughout the series. As well, the hired guns literally try to target the orphanage when they've clearly lost, and also kill one of their own when Wolfwood brings him back, telling him that they've just upped their pay- showing that they're not particularly 'redeemable' hired guns that are likely to repent and become good people. And yet, Wolfwood still chooses to try and save them.

He also specifically goes out of his way to not kill Livio, even though killing Livio would severely even out the playing field, and Wolfwood would likely not have likely died as a result. And Wolfwood makes that decision, again and again and again, only focusing on killing Chapel, and Chapel only, since he's the one that is threatening the orphans.

While Wolfwood fights, Chapel derides him on Vash's views, and how Wolfwood has picked them up. Wolfwood, close to death, reviews his relationship with Vash and Vash's philosophy, and refutes the ideology that Chapel believes in, and that he himself has lived under, that they need to kill to survive, (or to save lives) and that Vash's belief in forgiveness and unconditional love is foolish.

It culminates in Wolfwood declaring that he believes in Vash, in his principles, and standing back up to continue to fight, having accepted Vash's Christian philosophy. Interestingly, it's also Christian leaning terminology he uses; both in that he followed Vash, much like one follows the the teachings of Christ, and that he believes in the Vash's ability to change to world with his philosophy, in the same way Christians believe in Jesus's ability to save the world through the gospel.

In summary, Wolfwood chooses to accept and even says he believes in Vash's philosophical views, thereby choosing to accept the possibility of forgiveness and unconditional love, both for himself, as is shown when he saves Vash from Knives, but also for others, and especially with Livio during the scene up to his death. This full acceptance and belief in a Christian/Vash's perspective would then also show that Wolfwood has fully accepted to be the 'bride of Christ', making him not only via contextual cues a 'bride' of Vash, but also within a Christian theological sense a bride of Vash as well.

In conclusion, (ie, TLDR) Wolfwoods death is wedding themed, with confetti, a church, church bells, and a bottle with the label BRIDE with a cross on it. The church is within the Bible called the 'bride of Christ'; as Vash is a christ-figure, and Wolfwood is a priest, this would make Wolfwood Vash's bride. As well, it is just previous to Wolfwood death scene that Wolfwood has accepted Vash's Christian philosophies, signalling his acceptance as the 'bride of Christ/Vash', further perpetuating the wedding theme.

TTLDR: Vash and Wolfwood are married yup 👍

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idiots in love (<3)

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No homo, just bros doing bro things 🐟