#trigun kni

[rivthewriter]

Hello I am once again here with my partner @felanbernard asking which Nai version is a flat earther, but are searching for a larger sample size! So please reblog if you are able to! <3

Have fun <3 (Yes its this again. No i am not a flat earther. I know our planet is a hexagon with a triangle moon /j /lh this is totally for science reasons, totally not a joke quiz based off of tired headcanons. And i totally dont hope that this headcanon infects the rest of the fandom because its so fucking funny.)

[ienova]

Knives Millions

Beloved antagonist

[magebird]

[realseascourge]

[agendercryptidlev]

Kni, dropping Vash into the soup: to be loved is to be changed <3

[jooniely]

Those tags also killed me 🙃

I thought it was a statue tbh. It looks more scary to me than in pain but if it is a plant post death then that's dark as fuck.

And tbh I didn't see nai, even after causing the crash, be this... heartless? Like his hatred for humans began with the Bible but it was seeing a fellow plant tortured and seeing more tortured after that fully pushed him towards his goal of getting rid of humans and saving plants. I may be forgetting since I haven't see tristamp since it came out, but I don't remember him talking about his goal of making other plants independents.

It isn't until we meet him as an adult that he tells vash his goal of making them independents. Before that he talked about saving plants and getting them away from human exploitation. So now I'm wondering if he always had the plan of turning them into independents or did that come about while he was with Conrad?

Conrad is a shitty person who is way too into experimentation but mainly obsessed with "achieving peak form." I'm questioning if nai being around him essentially infected him with the idea of "peak form" and how as an independent he IS the peak. And that all other plants must also be forceably evolved.

There is of course something to be said about how when you seek to protect but do it through the slaughter of the enemy, you become too used to violence and will forget who the enemy is. Nai who became so casually violent, became blind to the fact that he was extending that violence towards beings he originally set out to protect. Something something about how if you surround yourself with just violence, it will be all you see and your new normal.

Basically I'm wondering if his increase in violence and proximity to Conrad (and Conrad's apathy towards pain, torture, dignity, mercy, peace) brought nai to a point in his life that he would have a tortured corpse of a plant as motivational art. And if Conrad's view of hurting kids being purpose and therefore a necessity, extended to nai and his view on hurting his brother cuz HE saw it as a necessity for his evolution; to reach peak form.

It may be nothing and I'm just rambling but idk, I feel like nai and Conrad's goals although pointed at different beings, being the same despite nai not starting out like that, merits some consideration.

But good God the thought that nai might have strung up vash is chilling. He wouldn't even have been like strung up art, he would have been a literal gate. Actually the statue you see before a gate. Exactly how far, would nai have gone. And how different really, would vash's fate have been from tesla's except that his tormentor was his brother and not humans?

Man, there are a lot of great (and very true) posts about how Knives doesn’t see his fellow plants as individuals, but this was the moment I really first had that gut-punch realization. I’m sure there are no rituals for laying a plant to rest, but it’s incredibly fucked up to take a corpse, writhing in pain, and string it up for your own motivation. Your own selfish purposes. The afterlife is something fairly present in the Trigun universe, and this soul surely isn’t at peace

[owwllly]

the pain continues

[ohitslen]

Something other about his eyes

Bonus! Based on this quick thing I did this afternoon and the idea took a bit more shape and turned into that thing from above uEK

[manzanamarim]

Plays our theme song but alone this time

Hey I really liked this scene *screams*

[daremol]

Fear

[mr-shimurka]

It’s VASH THE STAMPEDE B-DAY🍩

- 21 july -

[rivthewriter]

from the chaotic duo (me and @felanbernard) who brought you Flat Earth Nai

we must now ask you

we ask you kindly to share around to get a bigger sample size <3

[abrielarnold]

this isn't quite fanart, but it is mad inspired by @wendywhite13 's twinswap au Bloodletting. (good!legato is everything to me)

(this fic got me to watch True Grit. Roberto and Meryl's dynamic in stampede exists as an homage to Rooster and Mattie, in my heart. me looking at roberto's eyepatch concept art: i know what you are.)

[redsoda1111]

my offering for swap!au (dozo)

i have a lot of Thoughts about this au. specifically where both kni and vash's goals differ but yet i still try to keep the same. the shift is, who was the one who got rem's speech after tesla's revelation.

kni uses his powers of creation so as not to let his sisters suffer the end of a last run anymore. hence the black hair. meanwhile, vash doesn't want to eradicate all of humanity, but to control them and strip them of their free will. he thinks in this way, he could control how plants are to be treated and kni won't have to slowly kill himself for the Humans and their sisters. he's starting a cult lmao

[redcaplf]

This killed me when I saw it. I'd been looking at name sites on sources for "Nai" and "Vash", and (though the sources were iffy) those names do have thematic similarities. But "Kni"?? Nothin’. Does any language other than English do the silentK+N? So much for retroactively making “Knives” a chosen name and not a foregone conclusion.

Though, after thinking about it, Kni here was born ~430 years into our future. Languages change and intermix and people just get creative with syllables. So if parents today can come up with things like “Reighfyl”, I cannot say “Kni” is any worse.

also why tf did Rem write his name like this

[ienova]

Knives Millions