#bc i like her telling vash to take care of knives better

[millionsnife]

//i'm aware it's trimax canon that rem tells vash not to leave knives alone not stampede but it's my blog and i'm cherrypicking canon i like to incorporate into my interpretation so fuck you, anyway-

rem telling vash to 'stay with knives'/to 'take care of knives'.

it's p clear that knives is the more sensitive twin of the two (stampede inverts this a bit in the twins personalities which is interesting but honestly i do actually prefer the trimax canon here, where knives is the more sensitive and emotive of the two and the one who is more interested in and excited to meet humans so for my knives, that's the version of history i use; a lot of the stampede events happen, but the trimax ones also get mixed in, and knives is closer to his trimax personality as a child than stampede's version); he cries much easier and more often, he clearly worries more about how humanity is going to accept him and vash, and while when they're with rem he tries to act a bit tougher and more aloof so she doesn't worry about him, when it's just him and vash he's very much a stupid baby and more open about his emotions lmao.

he tries very hard to protect vash bc he's the older brother and that's supposed to be his job, but between the two of them he's actually the one to get attached to people easier and much more quickly and much more likely to be hurt emotionally. and rem knows this. she raised these boys, she knows them better than anyone.

it's why he reacts so strongly to tesla, and why it sends him into such a horrible spiral to find her, and why it damages his trust in rem (and humanity as a whole) so badly that he never truly recovers from it even 150 years later.

that's why rem tells vash to stay with knives, and to watch out for him. bc without vash there as a buffer between knives and other people, he's going to get hurt. he isn't going to know how to stop himself from getting hurt.

knives doesn't actually know how to close himself off from other people even when he's trying to cut himself off from them and isolate, he invests himself in them entirely; it doesn't matter what emotion it is. whether he loves or hates them, knives will take his entire heart and bury it in other people and then not know what to do when his heart breaks as a result. he physically can not stop himself from investing all of himself into people, causes, whatever and burning himself out in the process, he needs vash to hold him back, to be that safety buffer between him and the rest of the world; he needs vash to tell him when to stop.