#also it's a trigun reference...

[fal0n]

Random TSWR dump bc I got my starting date for my job and I'm nervous and need to ponder my silly guys... first is a repost of a remake on a mini comic I did while ago exploring how Centis also radioactive from her time spent in the city! I took a lot of inspo from this in the actual comic too, I posted it a while ago but it flopped really bad :3

I also wanted to share a little concept sketch of something!! It's ugly and a really shortened version of the whole scene but....everytime there's a silly part in tswr I need to counteract it with evil parts..whoever gets what this is vaguely referencing gets my condolences

AND I found the actual first pages of tswr I did like!! Last year!! I had no intention of finishing it at the time and wanted to see where I was at skill level to ever actually make it...I cut some pages bc I'm still planning on using those parts..

[volaenii]

The one, the only, Ms. Meryl Stryfe

alternate versions

[bobosbillionsknives]

Wine aunt Knives 👱‍♀️🍷(it's juice)

[stefisdoingthings]

horror or love; which will last?

[buried-l0cket]

Polygun but it’s how they all see each other

i always really like in books with different narrators when how a character looks itself is unreliable narration bc they describe themself differently compared to how the other pov characters see them, and the dungeon meshi shapeshifter chart scratched that itch for me art wise and I got inspired ✨

To be more specific this is what they each picture when they think of each person 👉👈

Details under cut!!

Meryl clothing details aside because I think she’s just short and the boys aren’t looking at her traveling clothes too hard (and vash clearly likes making his own clothes with how much his overly intricate jacket design changes so ofc his version of her outfit just looks like another one of his designs 🙄) all of the clothes are based on specific parts of the manga!

A big thing with these designs was taking moments that were important regarding each characters relationship with the pov character and adding in visual nods to that to show what memories stuck with them to shape their image of that person.

The clearest example of this is everyone thinking of a different Vash coat, for Wolfwood it’s what he was wearing when he turned him over to Knives, to Meryl it’s his final fight coat, and for Milly it’s when she met him.

It may be Trimax but I will always have a soft spot for 98 millywood so those two’s impression of each other has been influenced by that, but more specifically just the idea of them both alone together, layers and walls down, hair messy from sleep. Their relationship is one I just see very clearly developing over a lot of late nights at inns and bars during traveling!

Vash is the trademarked inventor of Savior Martyr Victim complex supreme and when he thinks of everyone he sees times they’ve been let down by him. To me he’s the biggest broken gear in their dynamic because of the way he holds himself back and isolates, the ship really works in spite of him most of the time. But he also sees traces of times his desire to be by their side was cemented. His Meryl is heavily based on after she was kidnapped by the GHGs and he lost control in front of her, but her hair is longer + earrings are gone like when they saw each other again after Knives released the ark, and she has a black turtleneck peaking out from under her traveling clothes the way it did under her space suit during the final battle. His Milly has the hair and undershirt of the final battle but her outer clothes are from when they traveled together for the majority of Trimax. His wolfwood isn’t doing too well.

Meryl’s versions of Milly and Wolfwood are both pretty similar to how they looked when she first met them, wolfwoods hair is just a little longer like I imagine it being towards the end of Trimax and is very windswept, from their short first meeting in the original Trigun manga run I always got the impression she thought he looked very cool lol, she was staring up at him like ://0 the whole chapter.

I mentioned it before but honestly most of Wolfwood’s Vash is based on how he looked when he turned him over to Knives, not only do I think that moment stuck with him but I feel like it’s a good visual summary of all the mixed feelings he has towards Vash. He’s drawn to him and sees how sad he his but he also sees how inhuman he is and the threat he and knives pose for the people he cares about and prioritizes. At the end of the day Wolfwood chose the orphans over Vash twice and never went back on that, and a big part of why he broke Vash our of Knives prison was just so he could go fight Knives to the death for humanity’s sake, and I think that’s important to his character and their relationship.

Similarly, Meryl’s Vash is really just final arc Vash. She’d already developed a very strong impression of him before then but they would go weeks to even years without seeing each other and each time the way he looked and the way she felt about him would change drastically, it seemed to me like it wasn’t till she was on the ship advocating for him and the people living on gunsmoke that she knew how she felt about him and what kind of person she saw him to be. It was also a huge moment for her character wise with the way she faced her fears in the name of human connection and made the active choice to not be as apathetic and closed off as she realized she had been in the early manga.

I think Milly’s first impression of Vash was strong and accurate enough to not change much, this nice guy is Vash the Stampede and there is definitely something weird about him.

I don’t know why Wolfwood doesn’t know what Meryl’s hair looks like, what’s wrong with that guy? In general his version of Meryl is very inaccurate now that I’m looking at it, I promise he likes her

+small details that are my personal headcanon and not the characters interpretations are Meryl and Wolfwoods hair being a bit more curly/textured than canon, Milly’s eyes being green, and Meryl’s earrings being silver (gold earrings with a white black and blue outfit and silver guns?? C’mon girl accessorize properly)

[buccellato]

[simonsezsewart]

Happy last day of pride month! <333

Here’s a Trigun/vashwood sketch dump lol

[sheepb1t]

Average Gung-Ho Guns meeting

(Based once again on a conversation I had with my friends after reading Trimax Volume 3)

[zerosforks]

I saw somebody mention legato x kuroneko as a platonic crack ship and like. I had to. Humans are terrible and knives will never acknowledge any affection towards legato therefore cat it is.

Also a meme

[into-the-feniverse]

How to design a TriMax character *

*"The Average Trigun Character has hundreds of buckles" factoid is actualy a statistical error. Buckles Georg (Vash), who has a million buckles, is a statistical anomaly adn should not have been counted

Anyways here's a quick drawing of this one off OC (his name is Bucky and he's wanted for ✨homicide✨)

(Also I made a Trigun OC community Consider joining it perhaps 👀)

[varilien]

(dress ref)

there's aus where u try to recreate the "effect" of a character's personality and behavior through an alternative "cause", and then there's this shit where i Just think umm well personally wolfwood being down to kill for vash is hot and it's a bummer vash doesn't think so too, but what if an au where he does ?

it's not a true "villain" vash au, basically it goes that vash decided to stick it out with knives in the hopes he could mitigate the damage knives planned to do to mankind, and it's worked for the most part-- at the expense of vash taking on much of knives' ire himself. this vash is even more isolated than in canon, unable to meet the standard knives enforces for what a god is supposed to look like, and constantly concerned with appeasing knives: dressing and styling his hair in a way that doesn't annoy him, talking very little, always offering compromises that put himself at a disadvantage

it's a wholly bad deal, up until the eye (yeah i'm blending stuff from other triguns in even tho it's a 98 au lol) offer vash their latest up-and-coming disciple to protect and serve him directly, though the "protecting" thing ends up being extremely mutual. wolfwood is the first bright spot in vash's life in a hundred years, and he's not going to allow anybody to take that away

[redhotarsenic]

Screenshot redraw 🙏

[bobosbillionsknives]

The downward spiral

[millionsknives]

☆DEEP☆SPACE☆PLANET☆FUTURE☆GUN☆ACTION!!☆

[to-eat-laugh-love-in-peace]

With how Tristamp sets up major plot points in advance with the characters that they name drop or have appear and interact with and learn more about other characters throughout the series no matter how short their screen time was or how small their role to play at the time was, I think that Meryl along with Milly might be a bit more involved in the fight against Gray the Ninelives who really only fought against Wolfwood in Trimax.

Like yeah the girls show up but it's really only at the end and as comedic relief they literally just fall on top of them and knock them out, signalling that the fight's really over now. But like just look at how hyped they looked to fight, guns out and all.

But in Tristamp not only has Meryl gotten to meet and get to know some of Ship 3’s residents, becoming especially invested in Luida’s project in growing enough flora to terraform No Man’s Land into a green planet to lessen the burden on the Plants and ensure the survival of both species, making her more than willing and ready to fight for them given the chance,

but also she’s seen Gray as the both the mech suit in Ep3,

and as the nine people who control it in Ep10,

with her having seen and gotten to know more about them thanks to Conrad possibly setting up that she might actually be the way Wolfwood figures out that Gray is just a giant mech suit being piloted by nine people. And then they could work together to take them down.

Which would be pretty cool to see, maybe they could take three each, given that there aren’t a lot of instances that I can recall at least where Wolfwood fights alongside the girls, plus it’d make for good team building with Milly having just joined the gang. Also, after rewatching episode 4, specifically where right before Roberto’s taken by Zazie Wolfwood makes fun of Roberto’s derringer, it just ignited a want, a need really to see Wolfwood have his ass saved at least once by said derringer.

Speaking of which, there have also been multiple instances where allusions to David and Goliath were made in relation to Meryl in Trimax, notably in the few panels that show bits and pieces of her backstory that show how she got her first derringer, which Studio Orange expanded upon with Roberto, that lead me to believe this to be the case even more.

On top of that, I think that she might be reason for why they're simply going to have them locked up and not killed (wonder if seven of them are still going to be killed during the fight in S2) even after the damage they've dealt and the deaths they've caused seeing as she reacted with horror and pity when she learned about them from Conrad,

a sentiment Roberto himself doubled down on,

which while it might have enraged Elendira and sent her to come after them with her nails, leading to Roberto's death, and possibly souring Meryl's feelings about her, the same can't be said for Gray. @tristampparty

[vero-niche]

I've been trying to find the ask where you gave me a full trigun guide because I want to finally get into it now and I can't find it anywhere ahhhh let me know if you happen to find it 😭

my friend, worry thee not. i have this information on demand at Any Time

[the following is my personal recommendation based on my preferences. others might disagree]

vero's guide to trigun:

watch trigun stampede - it should give you a pretty good idea if you would like the story and itsh vibe or if its not a match. hint: third episode is the real tone setter. machine gun cross guy appears in ep4. subs first but the dub is very good, worth a rewatch for that only. + at the moment the series is still up on my public google drive for download :3

read the manga at @trigun-manga-overhaul (best translation - the official one is uhm. well. wasnt given the attention and effort it deserves, lets just say that). trigun is the first two volumes (shounen) but then the thing it was published in shut down so the continuation had to have a different publisher and title. thats trigun maximum (seinen).

watch the 1998 trigun adaptation - tonally this is a very different work from stampede or the manga; its characterization is heavily based on the non-canon "pilot" chapter, which was originally created for a competition with no further plans for it. starts off goofy silly but also has the 90s-typical comphet and humor regarding, well, women. only the first two manga volumes + few chapters were available at the time, so it diverges greatly, but the jist of the message is the same. i think of it as an AU with the additional tag of "crack treated seriously". the dub is good enough to watch right off the bat

optional:

trigun movie badlands rumble (anime original). wolfwood is about the only good thing in it lol

multiple bullets: trigun anthology. only read nightow's badlands rumble manga (made for the movie - tonally still very different from it tho) + les enfants from it. the others are not worth it trust me on this

i hope you'll like it!!! 💞💞💞