#<- dmc4 blitz if it helps you understand what I’m going for better

[redhotarsenic]

Okay so as to why trigun valantinez dies (this is gonna be incoherent as fuck I’m so sorry I’m very bad at words)

So to start off the place they came from was a very very isolated village that was falling on hard times. Super religious too. And I THINK that at some point the people that lived there actually saw the plant they’d had unfurl (holy fucking shit that is literally an angel ) and they went NUTS.

So at some point the plant starts dying right? And you KNOW that’s a death sentence for the people. So they all got the Bright Idea to easentially do some Unethical Shit by literally extracting bits off of the plant and doing some convoluted experimentation bullshit that resulted in Horrible Goo being implanted into a willing surrogate (woman that REALLLY wanted to be the next Virgin Mary. She wasn’t pregnant with them or anything she just fuckin neuralinked or something to the plant after getting filled with Goo and Valantinez burst out of the dying plant like Knives did that one time fully grown and everything. Except the resulting wave of radioactivity melted everyone within a ten mile radius. So basically the entire village fuckin horribly died.)

And essentially what they ended up doing is creating a being that is rapidly decaying over time and could literally violently explode at any second (Sentient Nuke).

So here’s the thing! The body modifications are still there! Except in this case it’s literally to keep them from bursting at the seams. They are very much living on borrowed time and entropy WILL catch up to them whether they like it or not. Which. Their whole philosophy is still very much “Fuck You I’m Not Dying On Your Terms I’m Dying On Mine”

Which brings us here! They’re a mercenary! Gun for hire! They outright kill people for money! Super fuckin reckless too. Like actively putting themself in Mortal Danger all the time (circles right back around to the philosophy thing) and like. The thing HERE is that either they get cash (funding for more modifications) or they get a bullet in their brain and they die without causing another Incident. Win win you know?