#trigun maximum manga spoilers

[radiashen]

in this post i will be Pointing Out The Obvious but i need an outlet because this genuinely makes me feel crazy. one mention of vash's name. one mention of vash's name and wolfwood, laying on the ground on the verge of death, sees vash in his head:

and it's vash's smile. his billowing coat. his back as he steps forward. wolfwood looks up, and he sees vash. still moving and not giving up. vash, who walks an eternity of suffering, and still believes that the world can be kind.

and wolfwood gets up.

nicholas "i can't change the way i live" d. wolfwood, changes. he's changed since he decided to follow vash. because he decides to believe in him. he decides if someone like vash can afford to hope, maybe he can, too.

because he ends up choosing to treat vash not as a target. not as a naive dreaming saint. because he chose to have vash as his friend instead. that's his friend. and he believes in him. vash gave him no reason to doubt him—he covers his back again. so wolfwood believes in him.

wolfwood believes that if it's vash, love and peace is possible. because what else is there? what else should there be at the end of the journey, to make it worth it, if not love and peace?

[tradingjack]

citrus trees are odd. like why are they allowed to happen?? wild

[lemongogo]

[pancake-breakfast]

I think chapter 2 of TriMax Volume 6 might just be my favorite thus far. Everything in it hinges on this one iconic scene.

This isn't the first time Wolfwood has pointed a gun at Vash's head. Maybe it won't even be the last. But it holds a bit more weight here because just a few pages ago, we saw a flashback where Wolfwood pointed his gun at someone else's head.

His hand shakes as he aims at Knives. His breath is heavy, and the memory of the Fifth Moon incident is fresh in his mind. He knows if he can just pull the trigger, he can end it here. This being of destruction will be gone, and maybe this time his fancy scientists won't be able to bring him back.

But then Knives does Plant things, and under the weight of it Wolfwood finds he just can't follow through. He fears his own death too much, and Knives will surely kill him.

When he points his gun at Vash, it's different. His hand is steady, his breath calm. The memory of everything that happened at the Dragon's Nest is fresh in his mind; just this morning he warned Meryl that she and Milly should remember that, despite his ideals, Vash is still a loose cannon that they'd do well to avoid. He thinks to himself that if he can just pull the trigger, if he can just take out the less intimidating of the brothers, then one of these monstrous twins and half of the problem will be gone.

This time, there's no crushing sensation of oppression. There's no air of fear and malice. There are no threats or memories of twisted promises. There's only a look, wary and concerned...

...but even by the time this happens, Wolfwood has already lowered his gun. He's decided not to pull the trigger, not because of an immediate threat on his life, but because... well, it's Vash.

Wolfwood surely knows that if he pulls that trigger, he catastrophically fails his mission, and whatever consequences might await him on the far side of such a failure aren't going to be anywhere near pleasant. But it doesn't seem like it's fear of Knives that makes him lower his gun. At the very, very least, Wolfwood knows no one stands a better chance at taking down Knives, but he also knows Vash. He's seen Vash's fake smiles and knows his real ones. He understands Vash's ideals despite very much not wanting to and not knowing how he could possibly accept them for himself. He's fought side by side with Vash, and been standing at his back since day 1.

And before this night is out, only a few minutes after pulling a gun on Vash, Wolfwood's right back there again, moving in tandem with Vash, being a human shield so they can accomplish Vash's goals together.

It's only when the fight comes to a close that Wolfwood realizes that's what he's been doing. He didn't put any thought into falling in step behind Vash, didn't dwell on the fact that Vash trusted and moved with him during the fight. It's only afterwards, when they stop to catch their breath, that he realizes Vash hasn't looked his way through the whole battle. That Vash didn't need to look his way through the whole battle.

Not only did Vash trust Wolfwood at his back, but he knows Wolfwood well enough to move intuitively around him, not hesitating and always understanding what Wolfwood's about to do. And at that moment, Wolfwood realizes two things:

First, that there's no way Vash didn't notice when Wolfwood pointed a gun at him. If Knives could figure it out while half dead and barely knowing Wolfwood, then Vash, who's awake, alert, and has spent plenty of time with Wolfwood, can surely figure it out.

And second, that when he's fighting back to back with Vash, nothing else really matters. All his (quite legitimate) fears about what Vash is and how dangerous he can be, about Knives, about finishing his job, about what he himself has become... they all melt away. He's where he needs to be, where he should be, and that's all there is to it.

[uynumeotp]

Vash and the people that he loves. Please read image descriptions :)

Full video here:

[njere]

Final parting

[flavoredfaeman]

Fellas is it gay to fall in love with a man whose doomed by the narrative?

[revenantghost]

I can't handle this

[c-hrona]

Pietà

[tometen]

wrapped up in the wrong world

[aboveweirdest]

Time to be fucking sad. Vash talks to God exactly once in Trimax (as of the end of vol 10 at least). Like he goes into church once, laments about how he thinks he is unforgivable, but that's musing to himself. He's not actually talking to God or praying.

No, Vash talks to God exactly once, to ask for the only thing he ever requests. The only thing he wants, and the possibly the only thing he allows himself to want. And of course by the time he allows it, it's entirely too late.

Vash talks to God to ask for exactly one thing. To save Wolfwood, to let him live. So they can share their tomorrows. And by the time Vash lets himself ask for this one thing, he already knows how futile it is. Sitting next to his best friend, probably the only person who can come close to understanding him, he talks to God for the first time. And God does not answer.

[radiashen]

lrb. ruining me in all the worst ways. lets save the pack of confetti in case of happy ending.

hey lets pack a ton of confetti just in case. just in case a happy ending happens. just in case the one everyone is waiting for comes home. just in case we need to throw a celebration

in case we need to welcome someone home. because that's something worth celebrating. that's everything we need to start celebrating. no matter how much has changed and how short you will stay.

just in case. if we get a chance to welcome you home. just in case of a happy ending. we have confetti ready to celebrate.

[iamsweetchaos]

Panel redraw and some other fanart of Vash and Wolfwood!

I finally watched Trigun Stampede and I've fell into the deepest rabbit hole there ever is. I'm even reading the manga and Maximum broke my heart in the deepest of ways, so I had to sketch redraw some panels with the Stampede designs!

Also, my commissions are open ;)

[akimao]

Is this how it feels?

...

You risked your own life to protect so much.

I couldn't bear to let that go to waste.

[tradingjack]

how bout them apples

[angebluee]

!CW: mild blood !

Some older Wolfwood art

Edit: i forgot to add a warning

This is based off like chapter 1 or 2 of the infamous volume 10 of Trimax lmao.

But yuhhh I made it tristamp ww version

Also happy Wolfwood Wednesday