#honest to god losing my mind over millions knives my abhorrent meow meow

[arahabakix]

i can't stop thinking about knives using his remaining life to turn himself into an apple tree to sustain vash while he's injured and recovering at the end of trimax. he really did apologise for ousting them from paradise. how tragic that love drives you to this extent; that wanting to carve a world for the one who means the most to you ends up being your downfall; how your last moments are not in their presence; how you choose to not say goodbye; how you resign yourself to their hatred; how your last moments are filled with regret.

but they're brothers--yeah so what? trigun is an incest creation myth. it is biblical to the core. just like eve sprung from adam's rib, vash was created for knives and knives was created for vash. the running theme in trigun is obsessive love and how you end up demonising and glorifying the other to justify the treatment meted out to them. it is knowing that you and your other half are both adam and eve and the snake and the forbidden fruit and the paradise that eschewed you. it is fucked up and abhorrent but at the end of the day, trigun is about love and how it warps your perception. it is self-sacrifice and self-destruction in the name of the ones you love. the love of your life consumes you to live unaware that it is your love that gives them strength at the end of the day. your love that changed the course of both of your lives forever. your love that made the both of you grow into the beings you are now. knives’ action at the end is him saying, all this bad blood between us is but a mere drop i have to step over if it means what remains of my life can add to yours.