#Tristamp spoilers

[tsundernova]

Knives posts to reddit to unfavourable results. 

Bonus: Vash responds

[ella390-the-potato]

Trigun Stampede (2023)

Season 1 End Cards

Episode 1 - 12

[shalpilot]

all will be even again

[poruvoron]

tristamp ep 7

[beaulesbian]

Trigun Stampede || episode 12

(Wolfwood finally to the rescue)

[unovul]

am I too slow with this one

[leox-un]

i really like his grappling hook actually

[eliasdrid]

grief...

[coelacanthking]

The brother who loved westerns really did become the villain of his own story, and his pacifist twin really did become the greatest gunslinger to ever exist.

I feel a normal amount about this.

[maruxee]

not me thinking about how both Nai and Vash keep passing the "fallen angel" symbolism onto each other like a hot potato

Lucifer, the light-bringer, the morning star, the shining one, fallen from grace and losing his halo, his wings, burning as he falls, shifting from light to dark

white-clean Nai burning to a crisp, screaming in hate and fear and rejection and trying to reach for the forbidden in his hubris until it flays him alive and turns him into a blackened, snarling demon

void-dark Vash reaching out to his brethren with no way to stop himself, crying in loss all the way down, crashing like a comet from the heavens and killing everyone in his path down to Hell

[threegunbrainrot]

i dont have any trigun mutuals so i'm just gonna ramble my thoughts into the infinite void of tumblr. and im sure others have touched on this same topic but

it almost seems like vash is getting softer with every new installment of trigun? like incredibly consistently and incredibly specifically.

let me explain.

i'll start with tristamp and work backwards; the tristamp vash we all know and love there is incredibly adverse to violence.

more often than not he ACTIVELY refuses to fight and just WON'T draw his gun. this post loosely counted the amount of bullets that he shot throughout all of season 1, and almost ALL of them (like to an insane degree) were dished out against knives, who vash knew was strong enough to take the hit.

the few times vash does draw his gun against a human in tristamp, it's as a blunt force weapon (against the badlads gang and livio, for example) or to disarm others/save someone with ricochet (like shooting the punisher before wolfwood can kill livio).

he just doesn't shoot people. at ALL.

then if we look at 98 trigun, things change drastically.

here, vash isn't afraid to hurt people a little if it means more will be saved in the end. of course he never kills, but he actually shoots people here. not only that...

he holds a casual, sarcastic conversation while pointing his weapon at people.

he constantly shoots at limbs to immobilize people, fires warning shots extremely close to peoples' vitals, and performs several very insane trick shots throughout the show to wound those with armor.

tristamp vash wouldn't even draw, but 98 struts around firing warning shots into the sky and singing about bloodshed for intimidation! i'm not sure there's a single episode where he doesn't shoot someone at least once.

...so what about trimax, then?

(PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD)

he is so. shockingly. violent.

of course he never kills. of course he's still trying to save people, but there's this anger in him that i was completely taken off-guard by reading for the first time.

tristamp vash is so soft he's painful to watch. 98 vash makes a heartbreaking effort to be as silly and nonthreatening as possible, constantly making himself out to be the fool. but trimax?

he's... literally grief-stricken and out for revenge. explicit revenge. he's angry and he's hurt and he lays his intentions out so clearly. he's making THREATS.

seriously:

hunting legato. HUNTING him.

it's not even a matter of drawing his weapon anymore. he does it constantly, and fires just as much. never to kill, but he doesn't joke around the way 98 vash does. the most he'll offer is a sunny smile to reassure others and nothing more.

i'm not that far into the manga, either. i'm sure there's countless more (and probably better) panels to convey this side of trimax vash, but i suppose it also says something that i've found so many panels depicting this so early on.

but the progression of vash's personality is fascinating regardless.

from a tortured, angry loner desperately trying to cling to his morals for rem's sake

to an equally devastated man who devotes himself so completely to acting the role of the fool

and finally to the sad, chronically depressed shell of a person in tristamp who refuses to so much as draw his weapon.

[revenantghost]

Shout-out to my man, still eating his noodles even in an apocalyptic situation

[spicyturbines]

ohh hes a little bit fucked up actually.....

[tantei-armin]

YES BABYGIRL, YOU ARE AND I LOVE YOU!

[beaulesbian]

“Even if they hunt me, I’ll just run away! I’ll run, run, run, and keep running as far as I have to! And when things calm down, I’ll quietly settle by their side again. I’m Vash the Stampede.”

+bonus: Eriks.

[madeofloveandpeace]

I cannot stop thinking about this frame.

Vash pushed Wolfwood on his ass.

Vash pushed Wolfwood on his ass and he landed in front of the Punisher.

Vash has already pushed Wolfwood into his grave.