#sorry fkgjhdfg

[mrbluesummers]

OP, I get where you're coming from, but also

Man. You ever just think about how Wolfwood had no one to rely on growing up, no matter if we’re talking Trimax or Tristamp? It’s always the Eye of Micheal. Always a bunch of people there to use him and punish him and strip him of all dignity and self and will. He barely has a will to live, more of a fear of death.

Except

He wouldn’t fear dying so much if, despite everything, he didn’t care so damn much. He loves so deeply that of course that’s what survived that torture. Even if he has to bury it and hide it to keep it safe, Wolfwood cares so much. About the orphanage, about Livio, about kids in general, about mercy, and eventually, about his new companions.

Idk I just think he’s neat

[revenantghost]

#to me personally an important part of wolfwood's character is that he DID have people to rely on but #instead of reaching out to them and explaining the truth of the situation he decided to just grin and bare it because that's what he does #he takes on every burden he can because he loves so deeply #despite the fact that the burden would be so much easier if he let the people he cared about help him as much as he helps them #i always feel like a jerk countering peoples posts but #miss melanie is so important and she cares about the kids she takes care of SO much #she recognized wolfwood even with the drastic physical changes he's gone through #and tried to sacrifice herself for the children by throwing herself in front of chapel and razlo AFTER seeing how powerful they were #like if wolfwood came home and told her what the EOM was doing i fully believe she would have walked straight into the church #and beat chapel in the head with a frying pan #hell i bet she'd square up to KNIVES in full angel mode #miss melanie is so powerful and good#sorry fkgjhdfg

No need to apologize, you raise good points! I’ve no doubt that she would, too. For me, why I didn’t mention her, is that we see Nicholas raising the other kids, taking care of things beyond his age, which honestly should have been shut down. We see him not having an opportunity to be a child himself. She does the best that she can with a loaded orphanage, but how Wolfwood lived there lead him into the bullheaded determinedness to need to take care of everyone else and himself, because who’d got the time for him? This isn’t to shit on Miss Melanie, I want to reiterate that she did an amazing job loving her broken kids as best she could. I can’t even imagine the pressure and the danger of raising any kids in Noman’s Land, much less a bunch of rebellious orphan rascals.

This does not change the fact that you’re right, he could have leaned on her! On Vash!!! Hell, even the insurance girls!!!!!! His guilt and lack of self worth still couldn’t be conquered in the end. He’s a product of the world that he lives in, and though he changed and grew drastically and became one hell of a person, it still wasn’t enough

Man. You ever just think about how Wolfwood had no one to rely on growing up, no matter if we’re talking Trimax or Tristamp? It’s always the Eye of Micheal. Always a bunch of people there to use him and punish him and strip him of all dignity and self and will. He barely has a will to live, more of a fear of death.

Except

He wouldn’t fear dying so much if, despite everything, he didn’t care so damn much. He loves so deeply that of course that’s what survived that torture. Even if he has to bury it and hide it to keep it safe, Wolfwood cares so much. About the orphanage, about Livio, about kids in general, about mercy, and eventually, about his new companions.

Idk I just think he’s neat