stama

We start with Wolfwood in the hospital:

Wolfwood: "If I'm wakin' up in a place like this, in this kinda getup… That must mean eveythin' worked out then… I guess some of the folks livin' here managed to survive, huh?"

Vash: "...Yeah. ...Thank you."

Wolfwood: "I killed 'em, ya know. I fuckin' murdered 'em. I ain't gonna sleep on the job, unlike some people. Knowin' that, do ya still think you can thank me?"

Vash: "I do. Thank you. The people who survived are alive because you were willing to fight and bleed for them. I couldn't have done it without your help."

Vash: "I'm sorry for making you go through so much."

Wolfwood: "Tsk!"

Wolfwood: "This is what really pisses me off about ya!"

Vash: "What? Why?! I was really worried you know! From the bottom of my heart!"

Wolfwood: "Shaddup, yer just a natural born idiot! It's gettin' less and less amusin' as time goes on, dumbass."

Wolfwood: "I'm reminded of those ridiculous thoughts I had before. His words seem enlightened, yet they cause me deep inner turmoil..."

Wolfwood: "Eternal youth. Immortality. I dismissed the idea so many times, tellin' myself it was impossible. I didn't think I'd have to face the truth quite so soon."

And then after he has these thoughts, what happens immediately afterwards?

Wolfwood sees this:

Just, mwah. No notes.

Wolfwood: I keep suspecting that Vash really is eternally young and immortal. But no, that's ridiculous... Right? I sure hope I don't have to face the truth of that any time soon...

Jessica's locket:

so….. i continued to think about it and generated additional trigun meta musings below:

that vash's sisters think of him often enough to have a nickname for him

that they, too, see him in a very familial way

that one of vash's defining characteristics, as seen through a plant bulb, is "wearing red"

it's also interesting because we SO RARELY get any impression of how vash interacts with his sisters. there's really just the "hey... sister" moment from the sand steamer arc, then the "i have seen the dead plants" line from the vash & knives confrontation pre-Ark.

then all of a sudden, at octovern, we get such a distinct impression of how the plants view him! not only with "red brother" but also -- vance's whole speech regarding how "a memory of him lingers within every plant" and the panel where he's shown holding a bottle of alcohol nearby. sidenote, vance's speech also makes clear that the plants DO know vash's name ("vash the stampede"), so "red brother" isn't for lack of him introducing himself.

it's very sweet. they clearly love and respect him, just as they do knives.

i couldn't not make him op as all hell. legoato

Yeah me neither. I dont think about it nightly at all.

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