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It's so funny to me how Roberto puts on this grand show of being uncaring and almost nihilistic, valuing surviving about all else (as he says and tries to teach Meryl many times), and yet. He sees Vash senselessly and brutally beaten by these military policemen, who are obviously unafraid to cause violence and harm for no reason, and he gives this speech. He instigates this whole situation after seeing Vash suffer like this.

No wonder he doesn't leave in the liferaft later on the sandsteamer when Meryl says she won't leave but he should go alone. He's just as bad as the rest of them.

Vash truly is surrounded by everything he believes humanity is capable of.

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Watching tristamp: oh vash has mommy issues

Watching trigun 98: oh vash has MOMMY ISSUES

Reading Trimax: Actually Vash went through an extremely traumatising event at a young age and had to face the realities of humans. Rem was there, as the twins' mother figure, to represent the good. Reconciling humanity's differences is what made him how he is, and he projects that onto Rem. In this essay I will-

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meryl is the partner who screams when she finds a bug inside. vash is the partner who catches the bug and takes it outside. wolfwood is the partner who catches the bug and chases meryl around with it.

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Trigun Stampede | s01e07

“Vash… That pattern… A plant?”

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Hellooooo people of the media

Still gonna post Trigun fanart because it was really good and also I had a cool idea

Warm colors are so fun yay

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crybaby

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Weeping angel

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Family business

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Final Phase: Liminal Time

Now this is where things get weird.

Liminality is a concept that you'll never stop hearing about if you get deep enough into folklore, literature etc. "Liminal" means (more or less) "between”; the point after which something ceases to be itself, but before it becomes something else. For this moment, or in this space, it's neither definitively what it was, nor is it anything else. It's nothing more or less than potential. It's in transition.

Noon, midnight, sunrise and sunset are liminal times; doorways and thresholds are liminal spaces; the point between leaving childhood behind and assuming the responsibility of an adult is a liminal period. They can be dangerous and frightening. It's natural to fear the unknown, be unsure of the future, or have trouble making a choice. Undergoing a transition means something is destroyed - certainties, structures, self-concept - and that can be traumatic. It can feel like you've lost something. Innocence? All the choices you didn't make?

It's hard to say. Everyone approaches it differently. Nevertheless it is a choice you must make. The alternative is to remain trapped between - to stagnate, to suffer, to succumb.

Trigun Stampede incorporates a lot of liminal imagery, most of it centred around Vash, who embodies all sorts of dichotomies and contradictions. He's a force of absolute destruction, but he's a kind and gentle person who refuses to take a life. He's male but incorporates a lot of typically feminine traits and story developments. He looks and behaves youthful - especially so in Stampede - but he's older than human civilisation on the planet he lives on. He seems clumsy and silly but he has superhuman grace and self-control. Everyone says he's an idiot, weak, foolish, selfish, but he's none of those things; it's always safe to assume that he understands what's happening better than you do, and that he's acting with intent that you may not grasp without access to his perspective.

The Plants are all aggressively weird and Vash might be the weirdest of all. Because he can seem otherwise.

It makes him… unsettling. A little hair-raising. He's an incomprehensible fourth dimensional entity who likes doing things as a human would, but every so often the mask falls. It's one of the things that has people calling him a monster.

That takes me to a liminal time which I think is familiar: Hallowe'en. Stripped of its commercial aspects, it's the time of the year when one honours the dead, and the time when children dress themselves as monsters. Because it's when the worlds of the living and the dead come close enough to influence each other - and death, too, is a liminal state. A spirit departed from its body, yet to reach its final rest, can be a dangerous thing.

By the way, another word for liminal?

Gate.

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Bless this person on Twitter for sharing the Tristamp SakuraCon deets for all us peons stuck at home (Source in the comments since it won’t show up in the tag otherwise ):<)

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Some of Vash's anger with his brother honestly reads to me as embarrassment.

Knives is flailing around, knocking things over, making a mess - and he refuses to acknowledge that he's behaving this way because he's scared, or that he enjoys killing. He talks about it in terms of cleansing and revealing the truth about humankind and freedom for the Plants but he's lying, maybe as much to himself as he is to everyone else.

Vash - at least in late Maximum - has no patience for it, because he knows how Knives feels. He's consciously chosen a different path.

If Vash made the same choice his brother did? That'd be it. He wouldn't be cruel. He'd just extinguish it all in an instant. No one would see it coming. He has that power.

But there's pancakes and kind people to meet and children to play with and that's way more fun. Vash has to keep putting all that on hold to stop his idiot brother from blowing up the planet and like, he does this every time. It's just embarrassing.

Anyway Vash is a very good boy.

can you explain why knives needed vash for his plan? is vash's power giving plants life?

So from what I gather, Vash is unique in his ability to both give and take from the higher dimension, which is the place where all plants get their energy from, and that's what humans use them for. (This is also where Conrad says their souls are instead of their bodies (possible bullshit, given the unreliable narrators we have), and also given Vash's conversation with Rem in episode 12 it's possibly connected to the afterlife???) Or, at the very least, Vash is different from most other plants, as they can only take. His power has been compared to something black hole-like, but I won't bore you with quantum physics since we don't know exactly what they mean by that yet, exactly.

In order to access and enter the higher dimension to rip souls free and shove them into the plants' bodies to birth independent plants, Knives needed to use Vash as a gate, as a tool, to open Vash up and let himself in so he could funnel that power out through Vash.

At least, that's just what I've gathered from watching Tristamp... way too many times and reading meta as I go. I'm probably a bit off in this explanation, so anyone feel free to add on anything I missed! I think we're going to get way more in-depth in the following season/s with the plot threads left hanging after episode twelve. Hopefully this makes sense! :'D

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Vestments

It just occurred to me that probably most other members of the fandom don't have any insight into Catholic liturgical seasons and colours. I used to be an alter server for my parish so a lot of it got sunk into my brain, and I somehow didn't realise it's affecting my reading of Stampede, so...

A Catholic liturgy is an elaborate ritual. Everything about it is layered with significance. It's about representations and stand-ins. And part of that is the clothing!

Vestments. They differ from place to place, depending on what's available, but the calendar and the colours don't change.

Green is for Ordinary Time, between Easter and Christmas or vice versa. It represents hope, growth and life.

White/Gold is purity, joy, light and glory. Angels, saints, feast days relating to Mary, Christmas and Easter.

Red is passion, fire, the blood of martyrs. Good Friday, Palm Sunday, and the Pentecost. A sign that you're willing to die or kill in the name of devotion.

Purple is for Lent or the Advent (before Easter and before Christmas). A mourning colour. Penance, preparation, and sacrifice. A reminder to pray for the absolution of the departed. (Black is also mourning, obviously, but it doesn't get used that much. Wearing black is also a reminder to pray for the departed.)

Rose is very rarely worn - third Sunday of Advent, fourth Sunday of Lent. It represents joy and love, even in times of mourning and penance.

Blue is worn on exactly one day, during the feast of Mary.

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Por qué es tan lindo este rubiooOOOO??? 🧎‍♀️🛐✨️

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I’m obsessed with the ways they broke through the window like Vash had a failed high jump attempt and Knives really just belly flopped his way out

Edit: everyone PLEASE check out the reblogs. It’s a fucking goldmine in there. This post is one of my top tumblr experiences, easy. I read all of them. Y’all are so real for this. I love you.

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Official art of Vash from Trigun Stampede released by Studio Orange