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Taking the train to class again, so that means I got more time to scribble on transport in the next weeks! Here’s our all emotional support boi

July drawing with potential spoiler and violence under the cut!

High Stakes UNO at JuLai

Fallen Angel

I didn't have enough room in the timelapse post to fit them in so they are here.

Also if you're wondering what nick is playing

"please don't leave me" / "i'll save you." the detached look on knives's face. with rem out of the way maybe vash will realize that he's here for him. that knives is the one who will always stay with him. that knives is important, please, doesn't he mean something? why must vash always take him for granted? is he not enough? no, he has to be enough because they're the only two of their kind. therefore vash just needs to realize it, no matter how much it might hurt him to have his eyes opened to truth. they make me want to claw my own eyes out. the hope, almost relief on knives's face... i can't stand any of this, i can't. he thinks he has his brother back, finally finally finally after so many years.

gif by @typhoonstrikes

LOVE the way it was obvious how the roots that attached to the dependent plants were similar to umbilical cords. chest-burster moment! god, everything is just so brutal. i can't be upset about canon divergence when it's just this good.

knives's candor, man, alright? like he was telling the truth, as he knows it to be good, that he caused the fall for vash, but he also knew damn well how that statement was going to affect him. he knew the guilt would break his brother and he weaponized that, and he still thought it was the right thing to do. FUCK. he's so eldest sister complex it's insane. the ends justify the means, but the means aren't even taboo to him anymore; he kills because he hates. it's a win-win, this plan of his. kill as many humans as possible, all of them hopefully, and liberate his kind, and his brother. all around victory.

AND TESSLA????

oh. my fucking god. i wish they'd focused on that more!! honestly!!! i wish they'd shown how it fucked those boys up past a couple of bags under vash's eyes!!!! that was gut-twisting!!!!!!! uuouugfhggghhh the way her status was still "alive," that. christ. i'm on knives's side :| not news to anyone, but! lol. drudged up some serious issues in both of us.

i'm honestly waiting for the clash in ideology alongside the mindbreak. or is it just gonna be light versus dark? they've shown how vash's complex is a detriment to him already. obviously knives as a whole has been a warning against polarized thinking and extremism from the start, while vash, as in the original, is a little more subtle since he's fighting for "good." in this day and age nobody's used to the protagonist being wrong, too.

gah.

the way vash's massive root structure looks like rem. i'm gone. that boy has so many mommy issues, but i don't think tristamp-only fans are ready for that conversation!!

i wonder if they'll draw a wobbly parallel between rem and meryl again. i hope to god they do honestly. she's there for a reason. i want those fucking roots to light up when she touches them. psychic connection. crazy intense brain sex. no but like i wonder if that sort of thing — not the mindfucking, the communication — will happen. i wonder if she gets through to him. honestly a little worried that they're gonna sexist-yaoi their way out of this one, sasunaru style, with vash and wolfwood. but i can't make assumptions really. just guesses.