#cash the stampede

[vashtaylor]

// Run out o’ town

inspired by:

[millionsknives]

talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time!

[yuhi-san]

Why do you always make additions that make me tear up??? That last line??

But yeah to all that.

I also think that while stampede vash is seen getting angry, the degree of rage trimax vash has is something yet to come (like with meryl who was so inexperienced but we got hints that this changed in the skip at the end)

Same for vashs alcoholism. Food may not have the same effect on his body but alcohol really is more poison than anything nutritious. Maybe he starts drinking (possibly gong back to it after years/decades?) To numb the pain. Or hell, if he is a miserable drunk, making himself even more miserable. (though i dont we will see the alcoholism in the anime. Showing drinking as a bad thing ratherthan haha drunk shenanigans seems like a bit of a taboo in shows? Instead they show vash struggle with selfcare and his questionable coping mechanism via what is clearly an eating disorder.)

And the thing about vash realizing too late how much his actions hurt those around him, the people that love him. I dont think the issue is vash thinking he isnt loved. He's not a fool. I dont even think it comes down to wheter or not e precives it as deserved for people to love him.

Vash is so old. He has been through it. Like everyone else on no mans land, he is a victim of circumstsnces. But some of the struggles and hardships are very much self-impose. But exactly because vash has been at it for so long he is sort of... stuck in both his way of life and how he sees the world (maybe on some subconscious level thats his nature as a plant, following a set routine)

(great example when in trimax he accuses wolfwood of being a coward and taking the easy way out after killing rai-dei, then acknowledges during the hospital yuri that wolfwood bloodying his hands saved a lot of people. To vash killing is never justified. But to wolfwood its what he needs to do to keep himself and the people around him alive.)

All that to say, at some point vash decided he can and he will (and has to) bear all the pain and horror so hopefully he will have to see less people suffer. Absorbing it, if you will. He is so focused on trying to spare other people from pain that he kinda forgets that, you know, the people that love him hate to see him hurting. Doesnt matter if he actually can or cannot take it, thats not the point.

Vash is full of self-loathing yet he knows he's loved. But while it pains him every time he can't prevent someone from being hurt or he fails to help, he never seems to think about how he puts wolfwood (and meryl sn everyone else) through the same thing all the time.

Vash is such a hypocrite, really. Everyone deserves another chance. And another. And another. No one is beyond salvation. He thinks that woolfwood is good and kind, despite the things he has done. But does he ever extend that grace to himself? Nope. No wonder wolfwood is always so pissed of about vash.

And wolfwood?

We know he was a great source of comfort at hopeland. He seems to struggle with it now. Maybe its a little because its different with kids. Maybe he no longer feels right, like himself, like he is supposed to be. instead he is all wrong and twisted and his hand too stained with blood to still hold children or offer any comfort. We see wolfwood being haunted by just that in his dreams early in trimax.

So he cannot offer comfort like he used to for many reasons. But he can still offer food, like he used to. Sharing something valuable in a world where resources are scares, probably especially for a shield growing up in a struggling orphanage. Sharing food is the only way of comforting someone he still has without it feeling wrong somehow.

So that’s what he does. And vash? he just brushes him off. Doesn’t eat. He’s not as easily swayed as he used to be, that very first time they met. For Vash it’s refusal, for many reasons. But to Wolfwood? It must feel not only like a waste but also like a failure. Like he himself was rejected.

We all know Wolfwood wont make it out alive. So I’m thinking, is he going to die wondering if Vash understood anything at all? If he ever got through to vash that he cared? Is he going to die not knowing if it (he) ever meant anything to vash?

And of course he did. More than anyone, maybe. But vash struggles to see how much him hurting hurts others.

But by the time it truly sinks in, it is already too late. Wolfwood is dead. And it’s only now with livio on his hands all of a sudden and not knowing what else to do than feed him. And he eats too. To reassure livio that it is alright, that despite wolfwoods death, there is no bad blood with them. And as they eat, it sinks in, slowly but oh so painful that it was never really about the food that vash may or may not need anymore. It was always about Wolfwood trying to reach out, trying to comfort vash in the only way he didn’t feel to tainted to. It was about Wolfwood worrying and caring and vash rejecting it over and over again.

There is still guilt after that. Eating is still hard. Its not what it used to be, probably wont ever again. Its difficult to get himself to eat sometimes when there is no longer the same you in it. Sometimes he still won’t but vash makes a point of eating when someone offers him stuff. and vash shares food, with livio, with meryl and milly and everyone else, remembering wolfwood and how he tried to reach out and offer the comfort he could.

and maybe one day, when he cries over spilled donuts

Thinking about Trimax vs Stampede Vash and how they introduced Stampede Wolfwood. They're going to be soooooo mean about his death. 😭

Like genuinely, I can tell they want to make us cry harder than we did in Trimax. Like when Wolfwood taught™ Vash it's important to eat and move on with your life(smile), even tho it's something they did naturally together in Trimax. No, here it's another of Wolfwood direct impact on Vash. Plus the cowboy Livio fit.. Come on..

They're trying to amplify volume 10!!! Someone help!! 😭😭😭😭😭

[joearlikelikeswrestling]

[revenantghost]

Sometimes I forget how much of an intense love letter Tristamp is to Trigun at large, but then I remember again and I need to take a moment to recover

[leieryx]

vashhh (why so huge picture ? Literally be small please?)

[dozenssporks]

dreamed Vash and Knives were not twins but triplets and had a sister. Vash and the sister dressed the same and got into identical twin shenanigans all the time. The main difference between them was that she could actually drive.

[ocdhuacheng]

This is so funny how can you say vash was out of character in the manga as a kid bc

1) it’s literally the original form of media for trigun. If anything 98 and stampede vash were out of character as kids

2) I don’t know if you realize this but vash is 150 years old and has gone through several lifechanging events and revelations and I think that is enough to change how he acts at different points in his life. He is not the same person 150 years later as he was as a kid.

3) “knives should have stabbed rem” he was too busy being in a coma

[miss--river]

ok i know this is played off kinda light hearted because of how vash has his mouth stuffed with pancakes and he's laughing but like... this part feels like my heart is being ripped out! everything is so nice and then they pull out their guns like 'im sorry but please die' and he just says 'no biggie' ?????????

its understandable that they want the bounty because they need it for the town BUT MY HEART!!!!!!!!!!!

[miss-atomic-blog]

Started as a shit post. Liked the pose too much. Made it an actual piece. Bon appetit.

Process video on tinktonk I wanted it as a sticker so I put it on redbubble. Here's the link in case anyone else wants it. https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Humanoid-Typhoon-by-TheeSydSquid/139642205.EJUG5

[dyed-indigo]

i am having a wonderful day today :)

[b0tsbby]

WHY IS THE RESELL VALUE OF THE VASH PLUSH SO HIGH GUYS PLEASE THIS ISNT EVEN FUNNY…THIS ISNT EVEN FUNNY

[joearlikelikeswrestling]

[anachronistic-falsehood]

i NEED to do a big gender themes analysis of knives in tristamp i’m listening to the melanie martinez album and milk of the siren is soooo knives i’m going to lose it. i gotta write about him AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!!

[takineko-arts]

So that last vid I posted about that young dude being Vash, I was right.

They're just... Wolfwood and Vash...

[shredded-angel-wings]

As a giant brunette with blue eyes seeing they took Milly Thompson out of the new Trigun is heartbreaking.