WARNINGS: Graphic depictions of blood and injury, (consensual) cannibalism. No character death though, just a lot of blood (like, a lot).
Summary: Vash gets injured; Nai takes the pain away. He consumes it—all of it—and makes Vash whole.
Themes: A violent sort of love, expression of intimacy through horror, loving someone to the point of consumption and destruction, vulnerability and sharing the burden of pain and grief
Have you ever loved someone so much you wanted to tuck them up inside your ribs and wrap them around your lungs, so they can be part of you forever? So you can keep them safe?This is that, but bloodier. Messier. Hungrier.
Deeply romantic, though, and the heart of it is tender.