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[mrbluesummers]

Great post OP! I agree with all of this, except for the idea that Conrad is the only human allowed close enough to be able to hurt him. Both Elendira and Legato are also allowed close.

I think a lot of talk is done about Legato, so I'll keep my piece about him brief. He's allowed the most concessions out of any character in the series, and is allowed to live despite doing things that other characters would be killed for. There's a level of trust between them that Legato won't hurt him, whether it's because of Knives' belief in his own power to resist Legato or the power of Legato's loyalty. The biggest example of this being the fact that, when Knives tries to resonate with Vash, Legato is both in a position to stop Knives and is able to successfully do so without any repercussions.

As for Elendira, I would say that she was closer to Knives than Conrad ever was. I think Conrad only had a semblance of closeness because he knew Knives from the before times and was an adult he knew as a child. You can sort of see it in the fact that even Conrad wasn't free of Knives' rage when he saw the last run. Even though Conrad was still useful, he couldn't stop himself, because he never really cared about him.

Meanwhile, Elendira is one of the only characters allowed to speak pretty candidly with Knives. Even when speaking with him she doesn't hide her personality and outright questions him like asking why Knives needs to keep a "failure" like Legato when ordered to retrieve him. She is trusted with his most important tasks and even thanked outright for her work.

She's also the only character other than Conrad shown to be kept at his side n any extended capacity. She's included in a great majority of the scenes where Knives appears either with him or near him. Elendira's there during the last run, for example, where Conrad is the only other person brought with him. He's also shown asking her for her opinion and acting on it in Chapter 46 Invasion when he asks if she thinks the humans are going to open fire.

In large part, I think she gets so far, because she's the one character who truly has a deep and intimate understanding of Knives, but that's probably a post for another day.

All of that to say: it's not just that Knives willfully seeks out the worst parts of humanity, but he also actively ignores the good and his own reliance on them.

the way 98 trigun had to rush thru the gung-ho guns left me in a headspace of just not really questioning their existence or motivations much. And early trigun manga / trimax doesnt get into their motives much either, so tbh I just kinda mentally kept glossing over them?

but finishing trimax and rereading it finally got me to wrap my head around the fact that Knives spent years purposefully looking for and/or overseeing the creation of the worst in humanity, and presumably interacting directly with humans very little otherwise, all to prove his point to Vash.

Knives never went looking for anything to change his mind because he was scared of being hurt by what he found again. He had so much hope for humanity that was dashed by discovering Tesla. The point of Trigun is that continuing to have hope and trust in the face of uncertainty is arduous and terrifying, but that its worth it. Knives refused to acknowledge that he was afraid at all, tried to ignore how desperate he was to escape his fear. The only way he saw to avoid feeling afraid and vulnerable was for him to refuse to have any hope or trust in humanity.

Which is, symbolically at least, why Knives doesn't have a single scar from humans. He never risked trusting them enough that they might hurt him again. He could avoid that vulnerability and uncertainty by threatening them into obedience, and thinking of them as tools.

The one time he let a human close enough to hurt him (post-Rem) was Conrad-- and Conrad ended up decieving Knives with what little trust he was given. And Conrad felt his deception was necessary, because Knives was making himself a threat. Which Knives did to avoid feeling vulnerable.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Knives guarantees he sees the worst in humanity, not just because he goes looking for it, but because he is constantly showing humanity the worst of himself. Because doing that makes him feel safe. Because he knows how humans will respond almost every time, when backed into a corner with their lives threatened. They'll try to survive. There's too many unknowns in any other scenario. Too many risks. He's too afraid of another nasty surprise, so he just tries not to be surprised.

Meanwhile Vash, covered in scars, still gives humans the benefit of the doubt. He is willing to risk getting hurt and IS hurt over and over again in order to show them the most kindness he can offer. In order to give humans a chance to show him their best. And he sees it. And it's worth it. man.

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[blackbird-brewster]

Hey i was wondering if you could give an update on cut to the feelings story i really would love to read more. So i was wondering if you have any idea when you may be putting more out.

Ahhhh! I appreciate the gentle reminder! I'm currently working on chapter two of [Cut to the Feeling], I have just been a bit stuck on this one simply because of how pissed I am at what canon has done to me sweet characters.

BUT! I am slowly getting this written. I appreciate your support!! Trying to get past my writer's block has been a bit rough but I'm still very interested in writing this story.

I can't make any promises about when Chapter 2 will be posted, but at least I am making slow-going progress now :D

[kissgn]

i want to get more in photography does anyone have any recommendations for good but inexpensive beginner cameras i will mostly be photographing buildings and maybe my dog #replypost

[mrbluesummers]

OP, I get where you're coming from, but also

Man. You ever just think about how Wolfwood had no one to rely on growing up, no matter if we’re talking Trimax or Tristamp? It’s always the Eye of Micheal. Always a bunch of people there to use him and punish him and strip him of all dignity and self and will. He barely has a will to live, more of a fear of death.

Except

He wouldn’t fear dying so much if, despite everything, he didn’t care so damn much. He loves so deeply that of course that’s what survived that torture. Even if he has to bury it and hide it to keep it safe, Wolfwood cares so much. About the orphanage, about Livio, about kids in general, about mercy, and eventually, about his new companions.

Idk I just think he’s neat

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i have tummy hurt im being sooo not brave about it but i cant call in sick because it’s super busy and no one can cover should i go in and throw up all over the floor what do u guys think #replypost

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I'm in the "make youe own Sephiroth" level xD

Oh, Gaia! I didn’t even know there was a level like that. Poor us xD

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@victorian-sims replied to your photoset “Veronaville 1914”

Hi @danjaley , I wondered where I can find those skirts and vic-shoes of the ladies? They're neat!

Hi! The skirts are from All About Style, found for example in this folder, anything that has “bustleskirt” in the title. They exist for teen- adult- and elder Sims. (The one top is from the same source, the other is from Supernatural) The shoes are also from Supernatural, though All About Style’s victorian teen shoes were among the items I fixed recently. The coats are by Simromy / TSR.

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Replies to @andantezen

andantezen replied to your photoset “Garulf: Enough! You’re all obsessed with irrelevant nonsense! Now is...”

love how Garulf won't go down in a sea of troubles but instead recognizes the moving of the tide and decides to ride the wave -- in pop words, go with the flow. My - often quoted - professor once said about one of those Roman usurpators: “Then of course he collected troops and marched for Rome, which was kinda legitimate to do, because obviously he wanted to stay alive.” This was a thing that impressed me, and made me understand this everlasting civil-war much better. Once you had entered the game, it was win or die.

andantezen replied to your photo “Cecilia: Aren’t you going to say anything? Lavinia: [Why? My claim to...”

I love it when she shows her nobility not just as a pose but at her core leading her acts... Last sentence is marvelous! It was always a challenge to find fitting poses for Lavinia! She’s not, in our modern sense, self-confident, she’s just used to seeing her orders executed, and she’s as hard on herself as on everyone else. The exchange about love was sadly cut in two. I kinda liked the irony that they both see the other as the only one entitled to love. When really they both are the ones closest to each other’s heart.

andantezen replied to your photo “Hildric: I ask only one thing of you. Have mercy upon my children. I...”

would they be equals, in the sense that he is prince to his people and her a princess? Something like that, yes. Although Lavinia’s only de-facto subject at this point is Cecilia. It’s only when she realizes that the Goths are all about to be killed that she fully accepts responsibility for them. Also, her historical inspiration, Galla Placidia is said to have had a personal guard of Visigoths for the rest of her life, long after she returned to Rome.

andantezen replied to your photoset “Lavinia: [I tell you a story: A woman gets married to a nobleman....”

love the scene being played out on the wall... you are very resourceful when it comes to images (and words, of course!!!) I came to love those houses as a projection-space!

andantezen replied to your photoset “Centurio: The ultimatum is off. Attack. Ulfilas: They’re coming!...”

it's like you warned, it escalates from bad to worse! :/

andantezen replied to your photoset “Lavinia: I am the queen who spreads her shielding cloak over all her...”

beautiful scenes! Thank You!

andantezen replied to your photoset “Lavinia: You are the four riders on the storm…”

and rereading this, it relates to the 4 riders in the last scene, too... The four riders are a recurring motive. It’s a story about the end of the world, after all. But I wanted a different take on the subject; so often images of the apocalyptic riders are reduced to drawing a very scary skeleton-horse.

andantezen replied to your photoset “There will come a time when nothing will be remembered of this Wild...”

agree with @nornities... And I believe it started as a fade in background image to the scene where Lavinia breaks from the group of women to talk to the Roman soldiers, right? Yes it does! That’s why I wanted to call the Story “Wild Hunt” and nothing else, even if I risked being confused with the videogame of the same title. In the scene with Lavinia walking, my association was hoofbeat=heartbeat. (Sometimes I’d love to have sound-effects). The horses were also in the fire, directly after the Horses-of-St-Marc scene - and I placed the horse walking by there on purpose :) Ever since I read about it, it fascinated me that according to folklore, Theoderic (the Ostrogoth king) rode his horse over the cliffs at Ravenna and became the first rider of the ghostly Wild Hunt. Which is a thing in Bavarian/Alpine tradition, where it’s much feared. And like Lavinia, I believe this must be a misunderstanding.

andantezen replied to your photoset “Roxas: No way. No way, no, you can mark us all three off as sick but...”

such a beautiful scene. making me emotional right now. I felt so sorry for them. I remember thinking, ‘If I am putting you through this, it must at least be beautiful’.

andantezen replied to your photoset “Gisa: You’ve come. Hildric: I’m so sorry, I should never have let...”

Rereading this 2 months later, what strikes me now is the sentence "This path we are travelling can only lead to disaster." Seems to me to be the path of mankind on this planet right now :/ Given that I wrote this some time last summer or autumn, the story turned out alarmingly up-to-date by the time I posted it! Maybe we’ve reached another of those points in history. Civilization has been at a point that looked like the end several times by now. (WW2, 30 Years War, Fall of the Roman Empire, to name just a few) The encouraging thing is, that it always got better after that (for a while). But of course it was the end for all those people who died there and then. Maybe this is why there are so many legends about the post-Roman period. It felt like the world was coming to an end, but new things were already beginning to grow from the ashes.

andantezen replied to your photoset “Ulfilas: You two come with me. There are several people fallen ill, we...”

and indeed, the end of a world as she knew it has come, and she is still here... Just what I said above... Also this is another motive that seems to be rooted in people’s imagination. The most notorious example is probably that of the “every-wandering Jew” (badly abused by the Nazis). But I’ve also read exiled French priests during the Revolution express this feeling that their world was gone and they were condemned to wander.

andantezen replied to your photoset “Theudilas: Grandsire, I have come to inform you that my Lady Mother is...”

I enjoy getting glimpses into their beliefs. This is also a thing that fascinates me. Many people think, the legends in Ovid’s Metamorphoses were something like the Bible to the Romans, but in fact we know little about their actual everyday beliefs and even less when it comes to non-Roman peoples.

andantezen replied to your photoset “Messenger: The clan of the Darkstags sends their greetings. We left...”

look at all the details of their lives inside that wagon... it's gorgeous! I’m quite a little bit proud of this wagon! For one thing, these travelling people in antiquity lived in such cramped spaces - if they really had a wagon like this, it would have been much smaller, and much more crammed with luggage. But for Sims storytelling, a set must have a minimum size to allow for the decor, Sims and camera to fit in. So this was a bit of a compromise. And then of course the fact that it had to travel to several different locations throughout the story!

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Don't you wish you could party with Colin and Bradley?? Like how damn lit would that be?!?! What kind of club would you go to?

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