#trigun

[atanerrum]

I can't tell what's going here bc I don't want to... ♡ just know that I'm hapi...♡

[abimewn]

[aldoodles]

Messy polygun sketch for the soul

[mitochondriawhat]

The other side

[sp00ky9]

A bit of context for these, I have a hc that vashs earring was originally a part of a pair given to the twins by rem, and when knives lost his faith in humanity, he ripped his out, leaving a permanent gap in his ear

[nu11b0dy]

i return with more trigun art

[stefisdoingthings]

oh, what a man will do / when a man's lost everything?

[tolbyccia]

and the busy weekend once again leads back to merylmilly redraw monday!

[yuhi-san]

Milly so pretty

beloved Milly

[atanerrum]

still trying to upload a speedpaint for the anon that's been asking for it!! and FOR ME as well this one is my favorite 🍶

songs are 'konya mo kimi ni telephone call' and 'hakanaki haru no ichimaku' by Lamp

[amphibianshaped]

soup

[bubblesandpages]

To have a healthy nutritionally balanced diet please make sure to include all four of the major demographics (Shonen, Shōjo, Seinen, and Josei)

[mijell1]

Sentimental moment

[myscalesofjustice]

#trigun#dr. conrad wants to create humans who do not need those things#calls knives the perfect lifeform#and yet… knives cannot do what vash can#<- prev tags#having needs being perceived as an inherent weakness#rather than something innate to all living things#all existing in a web of interdependence#as things that need ecosystems and communities#but to conrad the perfect lifeform is a fearful shut-in with no friends who abuses his only family#yeah okay dude sure sounds like you know what you're doing <- Prev tags

Something that I don't often see discussed about Stampede's Vash is that, yes, he's an outsider by proxy of being inhuman, but he's also an outsider from his own kind as well.

Luida compares him to a human right after this, but that doesn't mean that Vash is human. We can even see as such through the mise en scene here - Luida is sitting facing Vash, but there's a degree of separation, both through the back of the chair she's leaning on and the pattern on the floor dividing them.

There's something to the pattern there as well too - between the use of angular hexagons and the ladder-like pattern, it reminds me a bit of DNA. (Actually a lot of visual motifs in Stampede do. I might have to go back and list them all sometime). After all, as entirely different species, DNA is ultimately the difference between humans and Vash.

He's not a human and he's not like the Dependents. He's not even like his brother. There's a lot you can draw comparisons to from that - how Vash is canonically disabled, how he's heavily trans-coded with the yonic imagery surrounding him, but also in what specifically Vash uses to signify his worthlessness.

"All I do is eat, drink and sleep."

Vash sees these things as weaknesses because they mean he takes up space. He sees them as isolating, because these aren't things the rest of Plantkind needs.

But at the same time, these are all things tied to survival. They signify that we're alive.

We don't see the Dependents eat or sleep the same way as people do, but they clearly need similar things. They need energy just like any other living thing, because we see what happens when they burn out into a Last Run. We don't hear them say anything, but they have enough of an inner personality that Vash can act as a therapist to them.

It reminds me of a certain page from Trimax.

"What matters... that you understand the person next to you is breathing and existing."

Despite his differences, Vash will never be alone.

No matter what happens, or who we are, we all breathe. We all feel. It is something so powerful that here, it is directly associated with divinity.

And why shouldn't it be?

After all, there is nothing more glorious than being alive.

[rcrisdraws]