I've never seen a piece of media grasp the absolute grief of having an unhealthy relationship with a brother like trigun has. I've never related nor cried so much over a pair of brothers who love each other but in such fundamentally different and incompatible ways. Vash loves Nai as a person, as his family, as a friend he wants to have a good relationship with but because of who Nai is and his actions Vash can't love him like that. Nai loves Vash as his brother, as the position Vash held in his life, as an extension of himself but not as who Vash is as an individual, in fact he vehemently hates who Vash is as a person and refuses to believe that Vash is like that of his own volition. Nai does not view Vash as his own person outside of his relationship with Nai or someone who is capable of having thoughts and opinions that differ from Nai's. He still sees Vash as his little twin brother who sat beside him on that bench and completed his piano song. Something that completes him but is ultimately lesser than him, something he can control, a tool, a balm to his loneliness, but never a person, never just Vash. And Vash wants his big brother so badly, in a way that drags at his heart and burdens his shoulders but Nai will never be his big brother again, not in a way that doesn't do irreparable damage to Vash and everyone he loves. They each yearn for something they cannot have and no longer exists. That scene where they're fighting over the cube and Vash looks at Nai with eyes full of tears because goddammit he loves his big brother so fucking much but Nai isn't a person he can afford to love without losing everything else and Nai looks at him with anger and frustration that he can't have what he believes belongs to him is just the epitome of their relationship. The heartbreak of loving a brother who does nothing but actively harm you is so difficult to capture but trigun does it so flawlessly. Idk maybe it's just that it most accurately reflects the relationship I have with my brother and Im massively projecting but goddammit I want to shake the writer's hands.

This. This analysis right here. This wins.

I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he “regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,” I have a strong spiritual connection with him.

I fucking love him

i can imagine this guy’s voice very clearly in my head but i couldn’t put a name to it 

I love the justice grandpa of fists

I have a new role model

😍

“justice grandpa of fists”

It’s nice to see a fat dude in a political cartoon that’s NOT being used as shorthand for greed and corruption.

Hes like the personification of motherfucker unlimited

Reblogging this newer version of this thread with so many more strips I haven’t seen…why did this character ever disappear. Where did you go, Everett.

we need him more than ever…

He’s a hero, our Everett.

Reblogging to always have it to hand. :)

I love how this man chooses violence almost every time.

Vax can’t grow facial hair for an entirely different reason. 😞

Reblogging for reference.

I just adore the way the twins look at their little sister!

Yeah, that moment…ow. It physically hurts. I’m dead. I’m dead like Vex was. I will not stop saying this. Ow.

Just thinking about how the Raven Queen severed Vex and Vax's thread that tied them together, and then later when Vax tells Vex everything had changed.

That moment where the thread of fate snapped and Vax’s hand on his chest after…okay, I’m dead. I’m dead like Vex was.

The snap of that golden thread of fate and Vax’s reaction to it hurt more than anything else.

Got to say, I’m not sure I can handle the coming year if this is how it’s starting. Might just go into cryostasis for a few years instead.

I’ve seen it be called “Gravestone” but I don’t know if that’s widely accepted or not.