#I say that Vash was hard as hell to write and that's true

[yellowocaballero]

is knives closer to brad than luida? does she remind him of rem too much?

So much to say about this one and please re-ask it (or I'll rb it) further down the line when we know more!

I can say now that Knives hero worships Brad a bit while he's closer to actual friends with Luida. Which doesn't necessarily equal closeness either way. I think you can tell this already by how often Knives thinks about what Brad would do and what he would say if he was there. They have a very unique relationship that's probably my favorite in the fic, and it was hard to write so I hope it lands how I want it to land.

It's interesting writing a main character of Trigun who's not obsessed with Rem. Knives was more mature than Vash, and as happens frequently in families with a high needs kid like Vash he got a little promoted to part-time caregiver (he also promoted himself, to be fair), so he had a more mature relationship with Rem than Vash ever did. So he's not as obsessed with her pacifism, which means that Knives is pacifist for different reasons in a different way. In a. You know. 'Cold turkey' way.

I never got much chance to explore this, but Vash is absolutely still obsessed with Rem. I couldn't see any situation where Vash didn't do exactly what he thought Rem would want. Which severely affected me writing him because that means that he has to have a baseline level of Space Alien Scifi Insanity for that to be part of his mental schema for the world. Jonestowning a city and telling himself that Rem would want him to do that means that this baseline level has to be extremely high.

This fic was. Really tricky. So tricky. Very tricky. I'm proud of it but MAN you still have to wonder if you did what you wanted to do.

[a-waste-of-time-and-hot-glue]

Trigun Book Club: my thoughts on trigun volume 1

i've only read the whole manga once, so this is my first re-read. I've already watched the 90's anime so I'm pretty familiar with this early part of the story. but once I get to trimax I'll probably understand the story a lot better this time around, which i am excited for!

the story starts out with a bang!

DAMN they have it rough out there D: I think the first chapter does a good job setting up just how bad things are out in the sticks.

shoutout to heinz ketchup, that is also my favorite brand of ketchup! :O sold all over earth and also in space apparently!

(but instead of pitbull it's heinz ketchup HAHAHAHHAHA)

HELL YEAH THE GIRLS!!!

i like that their character designs (especially meryl's) clearly reflect them being fancy-pantsy middle-class city people contrasted with the small countryside town people who live in absolute squalor. since economic inequality is a consistent theme in the story

vash's bold fashion choices interest me. this must be the skinny jean version of tripp trousers:

(as pictured).

perhaps vash was the true goth all along, not wolfwood?

cute page but also yes, salmon sandwiches... sand salmon from the sand ocean on the all-desert planet... tbh i like that the food/resource scarcity of the setting only matters when nightow wants it to, and we get silly moments like this. i think it's way funnier like that and i write it into all my fanfics B)

Vash goes to bed with HIS SHOES ON?? (also all his other clothes). Maybe the 943896437 straps on his boots and super cool skinny tripp pants make them too hard to take off so he's just stuck like this now :(

concluding thoughts:

I don't really have anything insightful to say as the story's just starting out but I'm excited to read more! :D