#I’ll never leave the trimax fandom

[paiteyy]

I think I love TriMax bc every time something should be hetro, like there’s the typical manga hetro set up, BOOM, NO!! It’s about Vash and Wolfwood instead.

Milly and Meryl are right there, two lead girls to pair the two lead guys off to, but no, that never happens!!

Instead Milly/Meryl and Vash/Wolfwood are friends and make a fun teams with each other, but they’re closer with their respective partners then their would be (in a typical manga) love interests!

God its SO fucking refreshing, even if you read them as platonic, to not to have hetro love between the main cast.

Idk, I read TriMax as a 13 y/o baby queer and I kept waiting for the shoe to drop. For them to get paired off to each other like in the original anime, for more of the same, like pretty much every other manga available at the time, but no, it never happens. The relief I felt was wild to me at the time, I didn’t know why.

Looking back on it now, I was dealing with a lot of little lesbian CompHet, and the fact that every manga I read had the guys pair off with these girls who they really seemed to have no real interest in, just for the story to be “complete,” even when it made no sense from a character or story perspective, was so exhausting. It was always, “he’s done all this, now here’s the girl he’s supposed to marry bc they’re all actually straight even though there’s no real relationship here, or even though they have a deeper relationship with someone else.”

And the girls, these girls who where so underdeveloped in their writing, who didn’t get to be real characters, made me mad, they deserved more! Where was their spotlight?! Was this all I could be in a story like this? Not to mention the anime and manga fandoms general attitude towards queer people and women at the time… (which has gotten better but is still a bit iffy in my experience).

In a weird way, manga felt very… CompHet? If I’m making any sense??

And in the face of all that, here comes TriMax! No Het romance! Girls who cared about each other, did cool shit, had cool designs, and were genuine friends with the men, but who didn’t revolve around them!!! It was everything to me, it still is!

Tldr: TriMax means a lot to me man :,)