#from: legato bluesummers

[fictivecalls]

Hi! It’s Vash! I already made a call for myself but now I am making one for our Legato Bluesummers! We aren’t 100% sure which version of course he is, as he has memories and characteristics from Trigun 98, Maximum, and Stampede! He is a little standoffish at first, but can be really nice once you get to know him! He’s a bit of a weirdo, lovingly, but he’s nice! He loves talking about his memories! You can message him on his blog @lord-knives-finest

-M.T

[ruporas]

special operatives (silly interaction beneath read more)

[ID: Digital Art in color of Trigun Maximum, characters included are Wolfwood, Elendira, and Legato in a casual meeting situation. The piece consists of orangey yellow lighting and purple shadows. Wolfwood sits on the left side, facing Elendira who’s on the right. He’s seated on a plain wooden chair with one knee up and he’s holding the strap to his Punisher in his left hand while his right sits against his thigh, He has an irritated expression as he speaks to Elendira. Elendira is sitting in a fancier seat, her right arm rests against Wolfwood’s propped up knee, her left hand holds her suitcase. She’s sitting cross legged with an amused expression. Legato can be seen in the back at the center of the image in his mobile body case, one of his eyes shown to be glaring at Wolfwood. End ID]

[ID: Sketch, uncolored comic. Elendira says to Wolfwood, “I’m not telling you to dedicate yourself to him, but just accept the situation at hand. We could get along better if we were on the same page.” Wolfwood responds, “Don’t peg me me for an optimist. I’m not dumb. But, I’m also not going to just live in resignation. Plus, I don’t have any interest in getting along with ya.” Elendira coos, “Aw, you sure? I have a wonderful shoulder to cry on when the weak people you’re trying to protect eventually dies in the coming months. Though, I guess it’s fine. Someone like you might just die before then anyway...” She snickers in her hand while Wolfwood is speechless and just glares. Legato is faintly drawn in the back, glaring at Wolfwood, muttering “worthless” repetitively. End ID]

[supernova351]

Yasuhiro Nightow did not painstakingly shade Vashs double decker dump truck for you all to go calling him flat because of STAMPEDE!!!

[goldrogerstits]

quick doodles I did for that one post + plant drawing I didn't end up using for the background

[zerosforks]

I saw somebody mention legato x kuroneko as a platonic crack ship and like. I had to. Humans are terrible and knives will never acknowledge any affection towards legato therefore cat it is.

Also a meme

[maomango-doodle]

AU where Knives is cat (bc I want one so bad)

+ Miscellaneous chibis?? (ft. ugly plush Knives, rolypoly woowoos and the crew as katamaris)

[intoxxiicated]

them and their respective blond twinks

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I think another thing that makes Legato so incredibly tragic is… how do I put this?

Usually, in character arcs where the character in question wants to be important to another, it’s because they feel needed but not wanted, which is understandable, and I think a common experience that many of us have, which kind of explains its ubiquity - that feeling of being unwanted, and by extension, unloved.

But Legato is different. He wants to be needed - necessary to Knives on a level above everyone else. Because he has been wanted. Wanted in all the most horrifically perverse ways, wanted as a plaything, a creature of no dignity. To be needed then, is for Legato to be a person that Knives literally cannot do without, not just a “weak” want or flight of fancy or desire, but the key cog in the works that cannot be replaced. For his efforts and even tears shed on his behalf to be demeaned is devastating for him.

So even though Knives requests Legato be returned to him, which signifies some level of wanting him there, time and again… he never acknowledges him or what he does as needed, leading Legato to grow more and more desperate and unhinged, even going against Knives’ wishes, to get any acknowledgement that he is needed at all… which he never does.

And of course this really messes up Legato even worse. He needs Knives, we are told that outright. Legato has no will to live beyond him. But Knives doesn’t need Legato. (Or at least, that’s what Legato gets from their interactions - I’m of the mind that Knives couldn’t have been half as successful in anything he did without Legato tbh.)

And what’s so fascinating is that it’s ultimately selfish. Legato wants so badly to be Knives’ most important person, and honestly, much in the same way as being wanted is a form of love for most, I think being needed is the only form of love that Legato can even really accept. I think so often about that “I wanted to know him” line - Legato is not the embodiment of selfless devotion at all! This is a desire for a more personal connection that inspired everything Legato does.

But since so many other ways to be loved and appreciated have been so brutally perverted for Legato (such as wanting beyond needing), what else does he have, other than fighting to get the person he needs to need him back just as desperately?

[kiviniik]

[skeleboy13]

not usually the type of stuff i post but this song is very knives to me and i wanted to draw something for it lol (+ silly knives doodle to balance out the universe) textless + closeups below cut

[funshinebf]

hello trigun fandom. vashwood Aristocats au. that is all

[yellowistheraddest]

anyone wanna recommend legato a therapist?

[close ups under cut]

look at his beautiful jaundice-full anime girl eyes <33

[dangopango00]

Mfs will have an unpopular fave and be like “More for me!” And then the more for me in question is two fanfics and a jar of toenails (im mfs)

[millions-dykes]

WOE. HOPE DOODLES BE UPON YEE!!! featuring : rare soft moments with knives and co + how her first few weeks with Vash and the gang was like! I love her sm she never leaves my brain

Faux (weird blond guy) belongs to @cliban :3

[creepycoffins]

V-kei legato fashionably late for @tristampparty ✨🤞

[littlefankingdom]

Trigun Maximum be like: Diversity wins! The genocidal bad guys are all trans!