The last time we saw Wolfwood's Punisher, it was in a sorry, shattered state. So not only did Vash bury Wolfwood alone, carve a gravestone alone, but he gathered the Punisher and wrapped it up as neat and tidy as Wolfwood did
Nothing is more heartbreaking than trying to get Arcade’s personal quest, finishing it, having him LEAVE YOU PERMANENTLY, and then find out like 10 minutes later when you’re done with the battle of Hoover Dam that he’s actually not even happy about Vegas being independent.
The Holy Trio Novel chapters be like :
LCF: I'm speed, baby (readers got fed every week and months)
ORV: Already finished and dead just like kdj-
TSCTIR: M.I.A
Isn't it sad how opium single-handedly ruined both Altan and Rin's lives.
I'm not gonna say that it was ONLY the drug's fault, ofc many other things came into play for their lives to be THIS shitty. But opium was the one thing that kept showing up, kept destroying them, continuously throughout the series.
Firstly, it's the reason that the Speerlies were annexed, enslaved, and ultimately massacred. Nikan bribed them with the only thing that could silence their god, and kept their people addicted to it for so long.
Altan was tormented by the drug, forcefully given the addiction by Shiro, and then restrained from recovery by Irjah and Daji. Going without the dose for too long caused him unimaginable pain, both from withdrawal and from the Phoenix.
Rin grew up with the drug. It was everywhere around her, she was an opium runner by the time she could count. Uncle Fang was addicted to the point where he became a useless sack of flesh. She describes in the first book the customers she saw, how they were promising young men, eventually turning into penniless addicts begging in the streets for their next fix. Eventually she herself became addicted, to the point where any longer than three days without opium put her in the same pain as Altan went through.
Both of them tried to quit, or at least take longer breaks between smoking sessions, but the damage had been done. Altan soon fell back into a void of addiction, relying on the drug several times a day. Rin's attempts of quitting eventually failed, and while she didn't do it as often as she used to, she described opium as "the only thing that kept her sane."
In conclusion, it's a tragedy how much shit these two went through, and even sadder how much of it could have been avoided without the existence of the poppy flower.