#also the fucking. knife tentacles and roots in ep 11 of stampede are SO fucking. extinction core are you KIDDING me

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

HIII MAC! i don’t listen to tma (podcasts r hard :[ still working my way thru nightvale) but whatever an avatar of the extinction is sounds very intriguing 👀 giggling kicking my legs twirling my hair. would u like 2 perhaps. explain what that is and how it relates 2 knives perhaps??? i am holding out a microphone 2 u the floor is yours

OH FUCK YEAH. HI HI IVE BEEN DYING TO TALK ABOUT KNIVES AND VASH IN THE LENS OF TMA ENTITIES. SORTING SYSTEMS AND HORROR THEMES MY BELOVED.

ok in basic terms. The Extinction rules over. obviously the fear of going extinct. (alt names for it are. The Terrible Change, The Future Without Us, and The World Is Always Ending. which. hello. slaps.) it deals with catastrophies, large forces of change, the human race dying out and being replaced with something else. you know that feeling when you think about how the sun is going to expand and swallow the earth in millions of years and theres no way the planet or anything on it will survive that, but time will keep passing anyway without us? yeah. that.

there werent ever any actual extinction avatars within the show, so its given more as a vague concept instead of given human form (which i think is very fitting) but if it was given a form i think that would be TEXTBOOK knives. thats his Whole Deal.

the extinction IS however manifested physically in different ways in the show, mostly in the form of different technology. and sometimes it gives visions of what humanity could potentially become or be replsced by.

ALL THAT TO SAY. holy shit. extinction avatar knives. he is distinctly Not Human, but appears human. he's actively working toward the destruction of all humanity, planning to replace it with plants. plants are vaguely humanoid in shape, but also distinctly Not Human. horrifying and eldritch and scary. the first time any of the humans see what a plant actually looks like its often met with disgust and horror. now imagine seeing those and being told "one day all of humanity will die and be forgetten about, and youll be replaced with these. nobody will be left to miss you." knivescore.

this post is getting sooo long but i have so much more to say. namely regarding not only knives' need for the destruction of humanity but ALSO his destruction of everyone he used to love. the people on the ship. rem. vash. etc.

BUT. i woudl also like to talk about desolation vash :]

The Desolation is the fear of losing things dear to you. losing everything you own in a house fire. family members and close friends dying unexpectedly and out of your control. everything you love being cruelly ripped away from you in an act of senseless and unstoppable violence. natural disasters. etc. you see what im talking about here.

Desolation is often represented by fire and melting wax but thats really only because the only canon representation we get is very fire-heavy. personal hc is that it can manifest in ways other than that.

normally i would call vash a victim of the desolation (victims are people whose lives are ruined or are killed by the fears, but avatars are people who either embody or serve the entity. instead of being afraid (or sometimes in spite of being afraid) they are also drawn to their fear and have a sick fascination with it) BUT. even though he has VERY much been a victim. vash has also CAUSED desolation. its not always his fault and its never intentional, but it still Happens. he doesnt want it to. and thats why hes unwilling, he would never choose to torture people in that way, but it still happens and because of his actions the entity is still being fed. look at the people who want revenge on him because of july. look at augusta and the fifth moon. it might not be his fault, but hes still the catalyst.

look at vash standing in the ruins of july and tell me that isnt desolation incarnate.

[weirdcat1213]

epi...episode...11...things

-this is when i go feral, this shit is life changing

-ok this is about the opening but has anyone seen how the plants are kinda connected...? like it seems like they all form a tree instead of being in their little capsules, but its not like they form a tree during the anime...i wonder if its foreshadowing

-i wonder if vash's roots will reappear again and he will use them like nai uses his ...knife tentacles (?) it would give us sick ass fights and yeah they could have appeared in ep 12 but vash doesnt have complete control of his powers yet. hell, we dont even know if he can pull off his wing on command

-nai risked vash not remembering who he was not only to save the plants but also to save vash from the suffering humans cause him...im Normal About This

-every fucking time they shoot rollo man, every fucking time

-idk if i said this here but for the 1st seconds on that walk MY MAN WAS GOING NO WHERE, HES WALKING BUT DOESNT MOVE AND HONESTLY IT FUCKED ME UP THE 1ST TIME I WATCHED IT

-why are the petals on the arm that he lost??? hmmmmmmmmm

-i always separated the vash that is looking through his memories and the little vash that hugs rem but theyre the same. The same vash. do you understand how fucking happy and relieved vash must have been after the few but really painful memories nai showed him? do you even care about how much he needed that hug? do you get why the moment vash sees or thinks about rem he immediately goes into his kid self? do you-

-theres no fucking way we dont get more info/scenes on how life was with rem and the twins in the ship. stampede its literally giving us a sneak peak and i will eat that content up when it comes out

-nai has a magical ability to express so many emotions in like 3 seconds. ily nai. youre unable to say what you think but your eyes betray you

-do you ever think how vash's root are kinda trying to hug every tank, every building, the land, the planet as if hes trying to hold onto his love for humanity even though his memories were messed up?

-the scene with the plants will always be upsetting...i get why and im fucking glad theres a purpose and that it wasnt explicit but it will always be upsetting to me

-"its the end of their dreams of total domination" yeah i feel ya

-nai is so fucking happy there and no i will never shut up about it

-i like how the giant rem that vash forms doesnt have specific eyes or mouth. its just neat

MY FLIGHT IS DELAYED SO LETS START THE ULTIMATE STAMPEDE REWATCH

in public

yey :D