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aauroralightss · 7 months ago

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i love trigun stampede as an adaptation and i always do my best to engage with it as its own piece of art vs. as a reflection of trigun maximum (bc imo that's setting it up for failure!!!) But it always baffles me when people try to act like stuff like vash or wolfwood's new designs aren't explicit changes to their characterisation haha

#rora rants #twitter giving me heartburn today sorry about this #i don't feel a need to tag this with character tags i just need to shout into the void #but just came off a tweet where someone screencapped a bunch of manga shots of vash with his hair down to say that #his design in stampede isn't a 'new design'#except that a he has an undercut now that he didnt in trimax but also b like #vash gelling/spiking up his hair is an intentional character detail. and we know he uses product bc water makes his hair deflate in the #emilio the puppetmaster arc #so what does this tell us. vash spends hours every morning working out and then dressing up. there's an intentionality #we see him don the red coat and the spiked hair every time he decides to step back into being vash the stampede #at the beginning of trimax after the home arc at the end of the manga #vash styles his hair that way as a conscious choice probably because he takes pride in his appearance and thats how he chooses to look #so to have him wear the red coat and have his hair down is fine and i wouldnt try and criticise studio orange for it #but it IS a characterisation change #and i just think trying to argue that it's not is really... silly. it's silly #do i think he looks better with the spiked hair yes #do i prefer what that says about his characterisation also yes #i prefer vash's writing in trimax pretty much a thousand percent #but there's no love lost for tristamp vash either #i just augh sighs #i understand loving trigun stampede and not wanting to see it criticised but at least be logical about it hahahha

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