Team "would rather die than admit something's bothering them"
So for the first good chunk of their relationship, Bad Luck and Vash were more "fucking" than "dating". Bad Luck was really apprehensive about romantic entanglements, and had been taken advantage of by a friend, in the past. (While not THE reason he was kicked out of his community, it was definitely related.)
However, Vash-- aware of Luck's hesitance but not of the reasons why-- already had a little bit of a crush on him. So when Luck stupidly offered a FWB situation, Vash accepted, thinking he could be chill about it. He quickly realized, no, he could NOT be chill about it, and spent the next few months relentlessly pining and feeling guilty and wanting to broach the subject, but never saying anything.
Eventually, Vash's crush gets revealed, and by that point Bad Luck has kinda fallen in love with him and they get together and Bad Luck insists that it's all fine, water under the bridge. Truthfully, though, he feels a little betrayed, and has this sense of "why the fuck would you think that's a good idea" towards Vash, hanging over his head. But he also thinks he has no place feeling this way because he never told Vash why he was so hesitant (and still hasn't), and also he does love Vash now anyway, so there's really no point bringing this up now and messing with the status quo, right?
And that's just the beginning of their relationship. There's a whole bunch of other plot-related problems they never talk about until after things boil over. Eventually, they'll get their acts together and talk through everything, I promise. Eventually. It just, might take until after the plot's fully resolved for them to get there.
I did mean to write for @wwwhumpweek but life wasn't very nice so im gonna shamelessly promote
Bleeding for you
Fandom: Trigun
Wordcount: 11,647
Status: Complete
Rating: T
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Characters: Vash the Stampede, Nicholas D. Wolfwood, Milly Thompson, Meryl Stryfe
Additional Tags: Hanahaki Disease, Unrequited Love, Grief/Mourning, Five Stages of Grief, there is comfort during the hurt still, Wolfwood doesn't think he's a good person, no happy ending, Aromantic Vash the Stampede, that Couch, accepting your fate, Self-Worth Issues, terminal Illness, Vashwood Week 2024,
Summary:
Wolfwood had a feeling that Vash would be the death of him. He just never thought it would be like that. He stares at the single red petal in his hand. It blends in so well with the blood on his hands that it could easily be overlooked. It makes him wonder briefly if it is the first one or just the first one he noticed so far. Wolfwood grapples with the realization that after everything, he can still love deeply and unconditionally but the prize for it is his life.
Which i wrote for vashwood week earlier this year but really became far more Wolfwood whump than vashwood. It would fit day 4, hidden wounds
I still want to finish my Serizawa animation, but before that I want to finish another tutorial lesson, so I slipped a little practice in between, that is more or less just copying, working out the shapes, getting a feel for movement and such. I stopped this short animation of Vash from ep1 at various frames and redrew them. (So this is like an animation redraw) There are still lots of frames in between that I didn’t draw, I might add some more later, the leg movement is pretty cool but complicated to grasp, so adding some more might help me understand it a bit better. Besides that, this was really fun! The anime is CG, but the movements and animations are really nice, so contrary to what I might have expected, that didn’t bother me at all.
Also, there’s ONE spin missing at the end but then I really lost patience. MIght add later too...he also gains a bit in volume in general, but that’s not sooo bad, I want to focus more on the movement anyway.
There was something in the night sky. A bright light. Was it a star? No, it couldn’t be a star, it was too bright and… getting bigger? Was it safe to get closer? But get closer how? How does one get closer to the sky? How was no one else seeing this?
You felt like you should be scared, at the very least more cautious. This was potentially a supernatural event and you were at the centre of it. The hair on the back of your neck stood upwards. Someone else might have taken that as a sign to run, but… it felt like something was calling to you. Something was there and you had to see what it was, no matter what
When Vash appeared in this world, it was like he was brought here on a falling star. A mysterious light in the night sky that kept growing and growing and growing until it fell to earth and landed with a large impact. It was a miracle no one else was around to see this phenomenon.
There would be a moment of disbelief. How can this be the real Vash the Stampede? He's a character. But the supernatural falling star and the prosthetic arm are enough to convince you there was more to this person than what you could see on the surface.
Vash was entirely disoriented. He was screaming. Panicking. It took a second to realize he was not where he was just minutes ago. A few minutes ago, he was fighting his brother as they plummeted back to No Man's land. There should have been an explosion, Vash right at the center, but instead he was here.
He'd have a lot of questions, a lot you wouldn't be able to answer.
But it's a no brainer that it would be easier to talk things over in a secluded and safe environment, so when you offer to take Vash home, he follows. Besides, where else would he go?
Accepting that he was in a new world where he was safe took a long time. He didn't have to be looking over his shoulder for danger every few minutes. He could finally relax and not have to worry about what he thought was the inevitable: destruction around every corner that he was desperately running from.
There would be nights where he would try to sneak off without a goodbye. Whether it was because he felt like he was being a burden or because he still hadn't accepted he and the people around him were safe, he would try to leave a few times in the first few months of him being around. It took a lot of patience and compassion to convince him he could stay without consequences.
Having him stay was hard, though. He had no identification. He couldn't get a real job. He would do as much housework as he could to try and compensate for his living expenses, but there was only so much he could do. What if he got sick? What if something happened? There'd be a lot to work out and a lot of backup plans upon backup plans that you two would discuss.
It became a strict rule to not leave the house with his prosthetic attached. That kind of tech doesn't exist in our world and would draw too much attention if seen by other people.
It also became a rule of how many doughnuts he could have in one day. Doughnuts are cheap. You don't equate the price of doughnuts to the price of bullets in this world. You can get a half a dozen for less than six dollars depending on where you went. And so, you almost felt like a bartender making sure your customer didn't overindulge. One doughnut per day.
There was something so satisfying about watching Vash expand his interests. He had time to do things he thought he'd never be able to do, and there were many things he had enjoy that would never have been accessible to him in his own world. With expendable money, you both would often attend classes to learn or expand on different hobbies such as playing sports, baking, or making handmade crafts. One taste of freedom and Vash wanted more, he wanted to experience everything the world could offer to him at least once just to know what it'd be like.
He was enthralled with your world. Animals and nature all around were something he hadn't truly experienced before and he was enamored with it. He'd often go out just to sight see or people watch just to get a glimpse of what he could be and what he could enjoy.
It took him a tremendously long time to accept he was dancing on the edge of being real and not. He definitely was real, he was there and that was a fact. But he came from something not real, a fictional world.
He'd often watch the show he came from and would read online the manga that it originated from. It was interesting to him to see the scenes from his memory play out in a different perspective. It was both painful to revisit the crux of his existence, but soothing to hear the voices of people he missed. He would play scenes of him, Rem, and Nai over and over again. This window to his world was so close but so far.
Vash came to his own conclusions and found his own way to cope with it. He learned to accept that his world was very real to him even if it wasn't real to anyone else. But there's this faraway look he gets when he thinks about home, a place he may never see again with people he may never know again. That never went away.
oohh my goodness would you look at that. its the tristamp version! at last!!
ill admit- this has been all but finished for uuhhh weeks! its been weeks. the only thing ive needed to do is the ampersand. that lil "&" that you see? thats the only thing i needed to do. i just didnt want to.
BUT ITS DONE!! its done and if you want heres the links to the tri98 version and the trimax version