#i think.... so i figured similarly to vash but not to the same amount -- there are people that look for wolfwood too. but most of the time

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can’t talk about it

[ID: Black and white comic of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. The comic starts with the sounds "thud, thud, click". Vash, mid-action of peeling an apple, turns to the sound, noticing who it was that entered, and says, "Oh, Wolfwood, you're back." He resumes back to his apple in the next panel as he speaks, "Where'd you go? You snuck out of bed quickly this morning..." Wolfwood's hand then enters the panel, hovering over Vash's cheek and Vash looks up as Wolfwood asks, "Can I?" Vash responds, "Not going to talk about it?" while using a hand to gently hold Wolfwood's hovering hand and presses a kiss to his inner palm.

Vash then gets up fully, setting down the knife down on the table and the apple onto a plate, He leans into Wolfwood as Wolfwood explains, "Had to meet someone. Nothing interesting to talk about." Vash kisses Wolfwood's left cheek and a hand moves to cup his other cheek while muttering, "You're being vague." Wolfwood says neutrally, "If yer really that curious, keep askin'. We  can talk about that instead of doing this." Vash leans back and responds, "Let's talk after, since... You look so tired."

The panel pans to a close up of Wolfwood's downcast eyes, bags heavy underneath his eyes. He doesn't allow Vash to sit in that moment for long though, then saying, "Yer not helping, Spikey. Being all slow with it... I could fall asleep right now." He moves his hand to start unclasping Vash's coat, starting from his collar. Vash with red cheeks, responds briskly, "Oh, shut up. I'm worried about you. I can't be worried?"

The final shot shows Wolfwood's back to the viewer while Vash's softened expression can be seen as he holds gently onto the side of Wolfwood's face and a hand firm on his waist. Wolfwood responds, "I'm fine, seriously," pausing for a moment before continuing, "Is it okay to still..?" Vash responds, "Yeah, it's okay."

The next image is a shot from later that night after the previous comic. Vash and Wolfwood are now in bed, half naked. Wolfwood's buries his face into Vash's chest, his arms wrapped around him, while Vash is petting at his hair. Vash reminds him, "Hey. You said we'd talk about it." Wolfwood pauses for a moment before piping up, "In the morning? I'm sleepy." Vash says, "Okay..."

The next two pages start from the morning after. Wolfwood is already fully awake, pulling on his outer jacket as he says to Vash, whos' still bundled in his blankets, "Breakfast is on the table. Make sure to eat it. I'm going to grab some things in town and then we're leavin'. Got it?" Vash says, "Mh." Wolfwood responds, "Good. See ya in a bit." The dialogue starts to shift into Vash's inner thoughts now, as he gets up and eats toast, thinking, "Wait. Weren't we supposed to... talk about it?" The next shot then shows him fully up, meeting Wolfwood in town. He carries a half worried expression with him while Wolfwood slides on his glasses for him. A quick panel shows Wolfwood's tired expression from the night before and quickly juxtaposes with Wolfwood in front of him who's smiling gently, the shades covering his eye bags. Wolfwood asks him, "Still not awake yet?" Vash pauses, his thoughts stirring, thinking, "Oh. I guess I was getting ahead of myself... thinking you owe me that kind of honesty." He smiles at Wolfwood and responds, "I'm awake!" His thoughts continue, "Maybe one day, you'd trust me enough to share your burdens."

The final image shows Wolfwood pulling at Vash's cheek and Vash complains, "Owwwww why..." Wolfwood quickly says, "You were thinking something stupid, right? It's all over yer face." Vash mutters, "Nooo, I wasn't..." END ID]

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{like what i have going on in my head for vash and his brad is like. brad was NEVER as initially aggressive as either canon brad. he's gruff, he's not the most personable person, he sucks hardcore at knowing how to relate to people and isn't as effortlessly friendly as vash is. i think that's just how brad kind of is as a person and even at his most friendly he's still a little awkward and gruff and standoff-ish. but he NEVER threatened vash or thought they should kill him or anything like that.}

{like brad looked at vash and was like... i don't care if he's human or not, that's a child and i'm developing paternal feelings now whether i want to or not.}

{he still made a lot of poor decisions, but they were borne more from brad and luida both wanting to find the perfect solution than any genuine ill will on, say, brad's part. neither of them wanted to traumatize vash so they ended up traumatizing him in new unintentional ways LMFAOOO.}

{like brad considered holding a trial on the ship to prove vash's innocence so the rest of the ship would stop saying the things they were in front of vash, but was like. that's a fucked up thing to do to a kid. we'll figure out something else.}

{same with luida putting such emphasis on vash finding something only he could do; they both knew vash shouldn't have had to do ANYTHING to earn being taken care of, but the rest of the crew saw it as a waste and would openly wonder why they didn't just kill vash already or turn him loose or SOMETHING, and luida's hope was that if they found a way that proved vash was a necessary presence on the ship, that everyone would stop openly being assholes}

{which is why vash has such a complex over 'earning' the 'privilege' of getting to eat well and getting to live comfortably. i think that was something he always had issues with - i think even on ship 5 with rem - because he felt like he was a burden to his sisters and the rest of his ship for not being a good enough plant, and felt a significant amount of shame about not being like nai (which. nai may not have understood why he and vash were different, but he didn't hold it against vash either and was more worried than anything)}

{but i'm getting off track. my point is that i think brad mentally adopted vash pretty quickly and took the simpler route of "who cares what he is that's a wholeass child" and while he definitely sucks at people'ing, he always tried very hard to make vash feel like a person and that's the reason vash got similarly attached to him the way he got attached to rem. vash loves luida too - brad and luida coparented him on ship 3 - but in terms of day to day life, he was practically glued to brad}