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Do y'all think that when Vash had to bury his best friends body, he held him gently in a type of tender hug that Vash had not received since the great fall? Do you think the embrace he used to lower Wolfwood into his grave was the very same one he craved? One where he is understood as a man and not a monster? One where he is neither less than nor greater than? One where he and the other are exactly the same? Do you think Vash's touch lingered far past when all the warmth left Wolfwoods tired body because that would be the last time someone saw him as exactly what he wanted to be, a man? Do you think he gently slid into Wolfwoods grave to tenderly lay his body to rest, to arrange his limbs just so? Do you think he lingered there knowing that when he pulled his pristine red jacket through the dirt of Wolfwoods grave the only thing he would have left of this moment is the dirt scuffs clinging to it, destined to be washed away? Do you think the entire time he filled the grave he never stopped praying that God may finally answer his pleas? That he could have his friend back? Do you think that some deep and longing part of Vash reflected on the fight and wished that the arc put just a little bit more effort into their pointless blast at the orphanage? Do you think he wished to have spent even more energy protecting his best friends corpse and the physical embodiment of everything he was fighting for? Just enough energy to finish him, that way he could still go noblely into the darkness but this time his body would be laid to rest beside the only person who's ever understood him, regardless of if anyone bothered to bury them or not?