#trigun miss melanie

[funshinebf]

son boy and the weird chickencat he found

[c-hrona]

Victory of the people.

[mikayare]

saying goodbye to your friends

[nihil-ghost]

No fue lo que soñe, quiero volverte a ver

[buried-l0cket]

happy Mother’s Day!!!

[rennyrose]

I adore Vivio as well just two very kind but very broken people trying their very best hhhhhhhhhh

But Chyeah one of my fav things about their dynamic is how comfortable they are around each other- esp with Vash being so trusting of Liv from nearly the very get-go

Whether it’s goofin together or having a deep moment, it comes easy to them-

I like the idea that whenever LR are around it means that it’s time to Rest™️ for Vash, mind and heart at peace knowing everything will be alright since they’re there (even if it gets in the way of quality time sometimes)

[dragons-art-den]

@trigunsapphicweek Day Two! Role Swap!

What if VashWood was hot moms? Or, Miss Melanie and Rem Savrem as this Wolfwood and Vash pose:

[trigunsapphicweek]

[I.D.: The prompt list. The background has an aged paper look with real-life violets in the corners. The list is captioned: “Trigun Sapphic Week: February 9th-15th 2025.” End I.D.]

Here’s the prompt list! Thank you to everybody who has voted and supported us so far!

Check out our carrd for further details about the event here: Carrd. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, send an ask or a DM!

Under the cut is a plain text transcript of the prompts.

[Text Transcript of the prompt list:

Trigun Sapphic Week

February 9th - 15th 2025

1. T4T | Post-Canon

"And I realize I'll play any type of fool to make her laugh." - Mazey Eddings

"Killer Queen" by Queen

2. Flirting/Banter/Teasing | Role Swap

"That's what I admire most about you - the bloodiness of your heart." - Margaret Atwood

"Red Wine Supernova" by Chappell Roan

3. Flowers | Pre-Canon

"Would you put my whole, wounded body in your own, if I asked you?" - Bianca Stone

"Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush

4. Hurt/Comfort | Missing Scene

"Stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes." - Sappho

"Two Slow Dancers" By Mitski

5. Letters | Cowgirls

"Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it." - Richard Siken

"Girl with One Eye" by Florence + The Machine

6. Hands | Supernatural

"In the crooks of your body, I find my religon." - Sappho

"Love is like a butterfly" by Dolly Parton



7. Worship | Canon Divergence

"Someone will probably love you for who you are, not just for who you labor to be." - Stephanie Burt

"She's A Gun" by The Greeting Committee. End Transcript.]

[mydetheturk]

ficlet for an au where wolfwood just... never ended up with the eye of michael and he's going to be in charge of the orphanage when melanie retires. it's a softer au, at least for wolfwood.

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Something loud knocks on the door. Nicholas pauses with his hands in the sink.

Melanie looks at Nicholas. "See who it is, sweet pea?" she asks, and it's how she asks that has Nicholas reaching for the rolling pin instead of the skillet. It's heavier, and quieter, and most of the kids are asleep.

Whoever is at their door this late at night isn't up to any good.

Nicholas gets to the door and peers out the cracked and dusty window, seeing no one in the dark. He frowns, shifting his grip on the rolling pin, and he opens the door.

Nothing but the stars and the faint glow of a worm migration in the distant sands on first inspection, but then Nicholas looks down.

There’s a corpse – maybe a corpse, fuck – on their front step, and Nicholas nearly drops the rolling pin, he’s so goddamn startled. Then the corpse fucking breathes and Nicholas looks frantically about for a raid, because sending some half-dead bastard to knock on the door of an unsuspecting orphanage in the middle of the night is some bullshit the local Raiders would pull.

Nothing.

Not a goddamn thing, and Nicholas’s heart rate starts slowing.

His heart flutters, and Nicholas takes a deep breath to make it stop fluttering. He takes a couple more breaths to stave off the panic and kneels down next to the not a fucking corpse, Christ.

Nicholas mechanically goes through everything he’s learned about seeing if someone is actually alive and isn’t about to kick the proverbial bucket on his front goddamn step and tries to stave off the way his head is swimming.

“Miss Melanie,” Nicholas croaks, because he really could use a hand.

Because if Nicholas hasn’t seriously mistaken him, the halfway to a corpse unlucky bastard in front of him is Vash the Stampede, Humanoid fucking Typhoon.

[as-the-stars-foretold]

रे दानवीर​—

कस्य धर्मम् अनुसरति?

भवान् कार्यं कस्य कृते करोति?

भवत: कर्तव्यं किम्? कर्तव्यं कस्य कृते?

O, generous one Whose path of life do you follow? For whom do you do your work? What is your duty? Who is your duty for?

(Alternate shots and thought process/explanation under the cut!)

(Click for better quality – Tumblr kills it </3) Free to use/save with credit and/or a reblog!

OKAY. YAP TIME. This is a Hindu mythology/Mahabharata AU, and this art specifically is of Wolfwood as Karna. I'll explain who Karna is first + give context about his role in the Mahabharata, and then explain the symbolism and everything.

Who is Karna and what is his role in the story?

Karna was the illegitimate son of Kunti and Surya, the sun god. Due to being unmarried and young at the time, Kunti put Karna in a basket of sorts and allowed the river to carry him away where he was later found by his adoptive mother and father.

Thanks to his divine heritage, Karna was born with a kavach and kundal— a chest plate and earrings. These were immensely strong, even to the point of being unaffected by celestial weapons, and, most importantly, they were inherent to his being. I mean that very literally: the chest plate and earrings were literally parts of him. Taking them off would leave him bloodied and vulnerable (cough cough).

Eventually, through his prowess with archery, he made his way to the Kaurava palace–the Kauravas being the corrupted, power-hungry side of the conflict (oversimplification, but the Mahabharata is way too long for me to summarize here)–and became fast friends with Duryodhana, the leader of the 101 Kaurava cousins. Now, the issue with that is that his half-brothers, the Pandavas, were technically the rightful heirs to the kingdom, Hastinapura. This is where Karna's conflict begins: who does he have a responsibility towards? The family that housed and loved and fed him, despite the wrongdoings they were committing, or the family that was his birthright?

In the Mahabharata, Karna chooses the family who raised him, hurt by the fact that his mother gave him up. While this seems like a perfectly logical decision, the fact is that the Kauravas were cruel and deceitful— adharmi, or straying from the path of righteousness. In enabling and aiding them, when he had a responsibility to his blood family AND to keep the Kauravas from committing evils, Karna damned himself.

That isn't to say that he was a horrible person, however— he was notoriously humble and generous (which is the epithet that I used in the title!), incredibly dedicated to his cause and his family, and burdened with the knowledge that his birth mother gave him up. Karna is a morally grey character: put into his shoes, we, too, would struggle with choosing a side.

Leading up to Karna's death, during the war, Lord Indra, disguised as a brahmin, asked for his kavach and kundal. Karna gave them away without hesitation, leaving himself bloodied and vulnerable. This tremendous, selfless display of generosity is the main sticking point for so many people; how can a person so devoted and so generous be wholly evil?

I'm sure that idea rings true for many of you, since it's a point of contrition in Trigun, too. This leads me to the next part:

Why is Wolfwood Karna? What does this imply?

If you're familiar with Karna or you read my explanation up there, I'm sure you can see the connections now. Both Wolfwood and Karna struggle with choice— who do they have a duty towards? Karna has to choose between the two sides of his family and, symbolically, between right and wrong. Wolfwood has to choose between his obligation to Hopeland Orphanage (and, by extension, Knives as his contractor) and the obligation he brought upon himself in regards to Vash's ideals/quest. The conflict is near analogous: he's stuck between the people who raised and loved him, and the people who are working for a better future.

Another important thing to consider is Karna's generosity and how he, quite literally, gave someone the skin off his back. Wolfwood, too, is unerringly generous— he posits himself as selfish and mean, but he gave up everything for the people he cared about: his adolescence, his morals, his basic nature, his life. They are both so, so generous, and it leads to their downfalls.

Finally, the most important thing to remember is that neither Karna not Wolfwood are inherently good or bad. They're humans making very human choices. They're both selfish, yes, but they're also generous and kind and caring. In the end, Karna recognizes his mistakes and regrets what he's done, and Wolfwood, similarly, is forced to make peace with what he did and how his life has come to an end.

Artistic choices!

Wolfwood's arm bands and bracelets are gold and mimic both the Eye of Michael's insignia as well as the sun(s), which is a nod to Karna.

He's shown holding his kavach instead of wearing it to symbolize both his dedication and generosity (again, a nod to the original story), as well as to serve as his cause of death. He's forsaken his protection for what he believes in and wants to protect. In my original planning, the kavach and kundal were actually way more analogous to the EoM juice lol.

I replaced the Punisher with a crossbow because a giant cross-shaped gun would, unfortunately, be even more idiosyncratic than a crossbow (apparently ancient mainland India didn't have crossbows! Assam did; however, the Kurukshetra War happened in Haryana so boo hoo). Despite that, I tried to keep the coloring similar to the Punisher from Trigun (1998) as well as including a skull motif under the bow.

The pose is referenced from Wolfwood shooting up at the rubble during Badlands Rumble! I just modified it for the drama lol.

Wolfwood is pointing the crossbow at the sun for a purely Wolfwood reason (meaning it is NOT a reference to the Mahabharata). Despite his best efforts, he ended up backstabbing both of the twins in one way or another; you can imagine the sun as either brother, but I'd probably imagine it as Knives, since he "remade" Wolfwood, so he'd step into the role of Surya (Karna's father).

[aauroralightss]

happy wolfwood wednesday nicholas d wolfwood is a LOSER and i don't mean stampede wolfwood (although he is too with his tech bro ass big sunglasses and coat) but i mean trimax wolfwood. literally everything he does is so fucking funny to me. the scene where he tells vash to shoot him? did he honest to god think "oh yeah vash is gonna shoot me this will be great" ????????? like what did he truly expect to happen. and he monologues through the whole fight against grey the ninelives. he makes me sick why is he so EXTRA

[funshinebf]

your honor he's just a little guy. hes just a little fucking guy

[c-hrona]

Chapter 1: Back From The Dead

Part 4

Beside being a post-canon Wolfwood Lives AU, this doujinshi wants also to be a love letter to redemption. Wolfwood see himself as a monster? No bitch, get here and GET FUCKING HUGGED.

CHAPTER 0

CHAPTER 1: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Hope you guys like this new part of Don't Miss Me, it was my favourite to draw ❤️ We are almost there, next week there's the chapter grand finale! :3 But! If you want to support me anyway while I ink Chapter 2, you can do it on my Ko-fi page! Thank you so much for reading ❤️❤️

[grand-line-shenanigans]

DEALS YOU 60 PSYCHIC DAMAGE. DEALS YOU 60 PSYCHIC DAMAGE. DEALS YOU 60 PSYCHIC DAMAG-

[magebird]

You were never supposed to leave,

Now my head’s splitting at the seams.

[ID: Trigun Stampede fan art showing Wolfwood, Livio, and Melanie in two panels. The drawing is an uncolored sketch with no background. They are kneeling on the ground embracing each other. In the first panel, Melanie is shown from the front, crying with her arms around Livio and Wolfwood’s shoulders. The second panel shows the same scene from the other side, with Livio crying against her shoulder and Wolfwood looking sad and conflicted. Livio has short hair and no mask and his face is scarred. End ID.]

[yuhi-san]

Sand

Wordcount: 3,128

Fandom: Trigun

Rating: T/G

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Vash the Stampede & Original Character

Characters: Vash the Stampede, Miss Melanie, Original Character

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Acts of Kindness, Passive suicidal Ideation (Mild), Vash is having a rough time, Little Miss Melanie, hopeful ending, takes place some 40ish years before the main story

Summary:

Everything hurt. It wasn’t the sharp kind of pain, rather it was more of a dull ache, one that went deep. Past skin and flesh and bone until it festered in his soul. It wasn’t the worst pain he had ever been in, not by a long shot, but Vash was tired. The heat of the twin suns was beating down on him, the sand under his feet a little too soft and crumbly. He had strayed off the save paths at some point and it made walking hard as his feet sunk in more than ankle deep with every step. It was fine. He had meant to get away after all. The people of the town didn’t want him there and he understood why. ------ Vash was having it rough but sometimes, all it took was a little bit of kindness from a stranger to make things alright.

Had a bit of a rough week but this has been festering in my brain for a while so at least something god came out of it yo