#trigun on the run au

[dozenssporks]

*the video opens with Vash collapsed in the sand looking dry and withered. The camera is at ground level, indicating that the cameraman is probably also on the ground*

Vash speaks, his voice raspy: is this it, Wolfgang? is this how it all ends?

Wolfwood: it ends for you if you keep calling me by made-up names.

Vash: oh, Lobo Arbor, I think I can see the light . . .

Wolfwood: listen here you little brat I told you not to use my name in your little home movies but I didn't say you could just pick me a new one!

Vash: Ulf of the Jungle . . .

Wolfwood: okay that is it--

*the camera shakes as Wolfwood starts crawling toward Vash. Abruptly the image only shows sand, having been dropped mid-journey. Shrieking from off-screen can be heard*

*the video cuts to a new scene*

*Vash is still on the ground, somewhat more sandy, holding the phone above his face. Next to Vash's head Wolfwood's feet can be seen, his shoes also encrusted with sand*

Vash: guys, we're lost in the desert

Wolfwood: we sure are

Vash: this might be our last video, dear viewers

Wolfwood: I want to be cremated and have my ashes portioned up and dumped over the heads of all the people I hate

Vash: I'm not one of those, right?

Wolfwood: you're not that significant to me

Vash gasps: if the desert hadn't dried up my tears I would weep, Wolfgang. We're so horribly dried up . . . like raisins or sun-dried tomatoes . . . if only there were some landmark

Wolfwood: look again, one more time, spiky

*the camera raises up and slowly pans a wobbly path back and forth, showing empty blue skies and yellow sand. It flashes past something triangular, stops, and turns back. The blurred image focuses until the pyramids of Giza are clearly visible*

Vash: no way

Wolfwood: is that--?

Vash: it can't be! it's--!

*disregarding the pyramids the camera whips around and swiftly zooms in on a modern highway and clearly populated and thriving city. Everything blurs again when Vash staggers to his feet*

Vash: It's a pizza hut!

Wolfwood, simultaneously: It's a KFC!

*the camera turns back around to show Vash's overjoyed face and lingers there for a few seconds. Vash's face twists up and after a brief struggle he bursts into laughter*

Vash: just foolin'!

Wolfwood, also laughing: gotcha!

Vash: this video is for everyone who doesn't know that the best view of the pyramids is from a KFC and that even I couldn't get lost between the pyramids and the city!

Wolfwood, breathlessly: pfft, okay let's get some chicken

Vash: no? we're getting pizza hut?

Wolfwood: nooo we agreed on KFC

Vash: we did not, I never did

Wolfwood: yes we did, we're going to get some extra crispy

Vash: nuh uh

Wolfwood: mashed potatoes. biscuits.

Vash: pizza with everything on it!

Wolfwood: Bucket! Of! Chicken!

Vash: ranch-pineapple-BBQ-anchovie-jalapeno-mushroom-green onion-feta-asiago-buffalo--

Wolfwood: whoa jeez is that a pizza order or a curse?! K.F.C.

*Vash screeches and lunges at Wolfwood*

Wolfwood: Oh LORD!

*the camera, again abandoned, shows a beautifully clear image of the cloudless blue sky before the video cuts to black silence*

[andr0nap]

two guys sleeping on a cot, zero ft apart bc its cold as fuck and one of them is the resident heater~ 🎶

[dinemunyu]

bYEE i spent way too long on this

I don't own any of the assets used in rebuilding the town and the ui—nah, that's the great work of ConcernedApe. I just merely made two extra buildings to look similar enough to the other buildings in town.

Why stardew though??? idk i couldn't sleep one night and instead detailed out the steps on how I would do this with unity and aseprite because of course I'm still thinking about trigun 24/7; only this time I've recently started playing stardew.

wanted to add Nai, Livio and the rest of the cast but i wanna work on keychains next sooooo

Nai works in the library where books are less likely to offend him. Livio helps around the orphanage. Vash likes to garden and to visit the bakery next door in his free time. Kinda want Zazie to be an absolute menace of a niece that got sent there under their care.

[raepliica]

[myuminji]

Vampire AU (vw)

[ohitslen]

Uni AU where Kni and Vash have an argument and Kni is like “so what? Are you just gonna walk away from the issue???” And Vash just goes “YEAH ACTUALLY I AM” and just walks out of the house and leave Kni there sooo bewildered

Vash drives to his house and feels so accomplished and good about standing up to Kni and then cries inconsolably on the living room floor where Wolfwood finds him and lays down in there with him while he scrolls through his phone. He says nothing until Vash has let it all out and they go to buy burgers and eat them on the sidewalk

[saltlog]

[avitus-ostrander]

Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too So I stayed in the darkness with you…

[soapgraves]

off memory married boys.

(short hair cuz it was a chill day.)

[the-music-maniac]

Reformed Hundreds Spoons. Uh. Sort of.

[kitsoa]

"The Pale Horseman"

“It’s hollowed you out, Nai. That’s what happens when you try to live among humans instead of above them.”

-"Vash Saverem" (The Pale Horseman) By @tragic-unpaired-electron

This author is weaving the best Twin Swap AU out there. Vash is terrifying. And while I think the fic's title is referring to our prickly cowboy as the pale horseman, I chose to invoke the apocalypse with the silver-tongued "Vash Saverem". If you only read one swap au. It has to be this one. Nai is heartbreaking and frustrating and sympathetic and Vash... he's an absolute monster. Bone-chilling. Disturbed. We thought god-complex Nai was bad. I quote the now thrice mangled addage: "if it wasn't for Vash's paralyzing sense of guilt he'd be unstoppable"

[dozenssporks]

Vash having to abruptly skip town at the most inconvenient times because he can't resist shooting at the target on Target stores

Meryl, hitting the gas: could you not have waiting until we finished shopping

Vash: You left me in the car with nothing to do but stare at those tempting red concentric circles! A man only has some much willpower! The target, it beckons!

Meryl: you're a menace!

Vash: c'mon, it's a target! Just sitting there, wasting away! You know you'd like to take a shot too.

Meryl: stop it!

Milly, on her phone: did you know there's a website recording all the Target targets you've shot, Mr. Vash? Aw, you gave this one a smiley face!

Meryl: ugh!

Vash, sliding into Meryl's personal space: I know you wanna try doing that, I can hear your thoughts

Meryl: shut up! you're a walking intrusive thought!

Vash: it's me, girl, the target sign, listen to me, girl, come get your derringer we'll have marksmanship times in space

Meryl: I am going to run you over

Wolfwood: she'd do it too

[lost-technology]

Rem Lives AU Fanfic Idea

So, I have this idea for a Trigun Stampede AU.   A “Rem survives” AU.  (Please don’t roll your eyes).   The idea of it is that most things go like in canon.  Vash and Nai are jettisoned off on a shuttlecraft.  All of the stuff with the Big Fall is the same.  Vash being found by Ship 3 is the same.  He even gets scrutinized and imprisoned just the same.  However, in the early days and week where survivors are trying to piece things together, a lot of wounded survivors from crashed ships that are reasonably close by are brought into Ship 3 because they got out of it with most of their facilities intact (I believe Luida said something about activating a gravity-well so that they kind of landed rather than full crash?).  Ship 3 is one of the few ships with a working hospital and they gather up any survivors they can in need of help.   Vash, from his cell, gets used to the sirens and the drone, hearing gurneys come in every once in a while whenever a Search comes back.  And then one day, when Luida comes in to do her daily check on him and bring him food, she has him come with her (still in chains, for the comfort of the rest of the crew - jerks) because they think they might have found someone of interest to him.   Indeed there’s Rem - alive (due to some kind of lucky air-pocket in the command room during the crash), but really messed up.  Burns and cuts all along her right side.  They had to amputate her right leg.  One eye and half her face is all bandaged up.  They don’t know if she’s going to make it.  Whump! Whump! ANGST!  She regains consciousness briefly, recognizes Vash and puts all of her monitoring equipment into a FRENZY as she tries to get up out of bed, DEMANDING to know why there are shackles on him before she’s sedated for her own good.  And Vash is led back to his cell with this image burned into his mind.  He stresses himself out for the next few days and is not allowed to see her because of how precarious her condition is.  And then the incident with the Plant happens and Vash heals it and becomes the Hero of Ship 3.  Rem starts recovering enough that they are allowed to see each other and Vash basically lives in her hospital room for a while, refusing to leave her side.  She gets a prosthetic leg - thank you Brad - goes through intense physical therapy to recover and use it.  Is very concerned about learning what happened to Nai.  Vash is reluctant to tell her the whole story...  Vash does that “Brad deciphers the Black Box and runs off to try to find Nai” thing as in canon when Rem is taking a nap in coldsleep.  I do not know yet if it is for a health reason (crash really did jack up her insides and she’s subject to multiple surgeries, some of which are best done when she’s kept on pause while the technology meant for implants is tweaked), or if it’s because she becomes a Ship 3 crewer and is put on sleep-wake rotation. Maybe both? Probably the surgery-thing.   She’s pulled out of coldsleep when Vash returns missing an arm...  And helps teach Vash how to use his new prosthetic, using her knowledge / experience from her leg.  She decides to join Vash in searching for Nai.  Ship 3 is against this because, well, she’s the Hero of Project SEEDS, having held her post and relayed the alarm / reversed poles on the ships to save everyone that is yet alive. (She doesn’t feel the same way, is full of regret, always second guesses how she should have “read the signs” in the ship-readings / blames herself for things that aren’t her fault, because hey Vash has to get it from somewhere and generally has a massive case of PTSD).  Everyone wants to protect her.  No one wants her to put herself in danger.  And that’s when she takes a SEEDS service-revolver and absolutely pin-point obliterates all of the targets on a target range to show that she can look after herself.  To say that everyone is blown away by this is an understatement.  “Senior Crew Training,” she tells them.  They all had to be weapons-proficient, even if they were not expected to actually have to need to use them.  And so... Vash and Rem adventure around Noman’s Land.  Vash is treated to new perspectives on his mother, the kind he never got in canon.  She is, generally speaking, a non-fighter (and gets them out of trouble with diplomacy and devious ways.  “Rem does crime” is an Ao3 tag I coined, after all).  She totally did crime with forged data to try to protect Vash and Nai, she’s going to be no different - just a little bit devious there, or a lot...  Rem fighs with her brain.  And Vash, being a supernaturally skilled Plant-gunman, keeps that brain from getting blown out of her.  With her around, though, he cuts some of his more passively-suicidal crap and gains fewer scars.  She winds up taking long terms in coldsleep back on Ship 3, though, because her goal is to not age and die before they get to Nai.  That boy needs to be grounded!    

[memecatwings]

trigun modern AUs where writers try to give them "modern" jobs are so funny to me bc wolfwood meryl and milly already have jobs that exist in our world. wolfwood would still be a priest meryl and milly would still be insurance agents. vash would not work at a coffee shop or retail store or anything though vash would be an unemployed homeless drifter on the run from the FBI bc he's wanted in connection to his megalomaniacal doomsday cult leader twin brother

[splinter-sister]

🎲 - One for Caz, and one for Woowoo! ( @plague-on-the-run / @nomans-land-rp ))

[These are VERY LONG so I'm putting them under a cut.]

🎲 10 Caz-A kiss along the jawline

Issue after issue after issue. Nothing could have gone right that day. Rolling up into town to find that marauders had trashed the place was just the start. Rachael thought it was her lucky day she had barely missed the action and finding Caz there set a red herring of credulity for the remainder of the day. Who did she piss off to have such a crummy rest of the day? Already tired from the journey in, she gets to work and not only fought with maintaining and tuning up the Plant there, but she also got into a bit of a fist fight with one of the workers. Over what? She'd tell you the sheer incompetence of man.

After that, she was somehow pickpocketed at some point that day, ran out of cigarettes and unable to buy more, found out that the raiders did damage to a water main so no running water was available in the town till morning, and she didn't have enough cash for a hotel room and dinner. That's enough to make a grown man cry, she reckons.

She ran into Caz again after the sun had set and they spent the evening together after that. Rach tried to keep up brighter spirits but inevitably failed as she confessed the slight pickle she's in. It turns out Caz already had a room at the local inn and a couch was included in the furniture. Rachael was welcomed to stay there for the night and she thought she could cry, realizing food was still an option for the night.

The evening began to turn around after they got a bite to eat and headed back to the inn. The night was cooler like an apology for the harsh heat of the day. Rachael set her things down by the couch and went to the washroom to see if there was any trickle of water left in the pipes. With barely enough to fill a cup, she used half of it to clean herself up. When she came back into the main room, there was Caz checking her mask on the bed and something on the couch. A tiny rectangular box in plastic wrapping. Rachael knew what they were immediately and could cry knowing she had smokes again. Opting to no longer contain her bigger emotions, she goes over to the bed and wraps her arms around Caz's shoulders in a hug from behind.

"I could kiss yew. Actually, I will." Rachael tightens her arms around Cazs neck and plants as many quick kisses to the back of her jaw as she can before she's told to knock it off. Such joy for some cigarettes.

🎲 39 Wolfwood-A tentative kiss

It has been a stretch of time since Rachael and Wolfwood met on that windy day. A game of darts bringing them closer together till they could part ways, but not stay separated forever. Every time they reconvened, they grew closer and closer. Whether it's having smoke breaks at night or keeping their skins on their persons, they grew to not just tolerate each other but rather enjoy one another's company. The sands would not let them part ways indefinitely, it seems. (And Vash had a part to play in that as well...)

There came a point where Caz pointed out some details to Rachael about their priest. The things he was going out of his way to do and give to her. They claimed he fancied her! She didn't take notice of them at first, but after Caz had set the seed into her mind was when she started to notice. One thing led to another, and feelings got caught like birds in a tangle of fish nets. Though she still denies it, Rachael does have a fondness for him in return.

It wasn't long before a first kiss was exchanged through taunts and teases. She thought it would be a turning point, but she didn't feel much different after the fact. His company was still enjoyed even if he pissed her off sometimes. Their little taunted spats were actually fundamental to their relationship at this point. The bit of spice that kept each of them on their toes. It was fun in a way!

Now, it's an evening out in the empty desert. The moons are high and the sun is slipping under the horizon. The gaggle of outlaws (and one non outlaw) had stopped for the night to rest. A fire was going with a pot heating up what scraps they had on them. While the others were either cleaning their fire arms or setting themselves up for the night, Rachael and Nic, as she referred to him, remained by the fire. She watched the pot boil with the collective water and flavor cubes they added to it. The chunks of dried meat weren't soft enough yet.

Nic sat right next to her, leaning back against his cross that he had staked into the ground. They chatted on and off as she watched the thickening mixture. Catching up on where they've been and what they did as they waited always reminded her of the fondness she felt with him. She eventually joined him in using the cross as a backrest. There wasn't much room and she was more leaning against him than the big metal gun. They settled into it with his arm over her shoulders and her cheek against his collar. Not much was thought about it as the hypnotic dance of the fire kept her attention. But after a bit, she began to think about things as he lit up a cigarette. The silence between them was comfortable and it occurred to her that thats how she felt around him often.

The smell of smoke reminded her of him now, and when she picked up that he had lit up she glanced up at him. Something tugged at her brain, telling her to do something. The others weren't around or looking, but what if they came back? She was fighting with herself on if she should or shouldn't. Her patience with herself ran thin. In one quick motion, she plucks the cigarette from his mouth. When he turns to bark at her she thievery is when she smashes her face to his. It's a very uncoordinated and unsure kiss.

They break apart when he blows smoke into her mouth to make her cough and hack. Nic gets a punch in his shoulder for that and told he gets served last.

[rennyrose]

What do you think a superhero AU of Trigun would look like?

Oooooo this is kind of tough yeh-

Tbh I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Trigun Superhero AU before since the OG was already heavily inspired by western comics, and if the anime had been more episodic in plot lines like say in BBB I think a lot of those tropes would be much more obvious- (I’m sure someone has one floating around somewhere tho)

Buuuuuuuuuuuut the first thing I think of would be Meryl/Milly filling in again as the reporters/conducting investigative journalism, following reports around an odd do-gooder with the nickname Stampede who’s antics have led to him presumptuously being involved in a string of crimes conducted by the GHG organization- And when Vash isn’t trying to thwart his brother’s attempts to sway the city’s sociosphere he’s just some intern working for the same news agency as the girls

And the EOM is an underground organization of the church who work to eliminate super-powered folks (oddly, while using a powered Wolfwood and L/R in order to do so)