#trigun stampede post julai

[caro-x-x-x]

Happy Birthday Vash & Knives! ✨️🥳

The whole group is celebrating together! 🎉

(I drew this in 2h, so it's kinda messy, haha ^^')

[isawjamfirst]

more post-julai stryfewood from yours truly

[kiaraalazulu]

post julai merylwood

ref pic from @/miukumauk on twitter

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a Meg Trigun Stargaze thought 💭:

I think I have a good speculation on who is going to return Vash's gun in Trigun Stargaze... so strap in for this thread! 🧵

Notice how I used the word "return." I do believe Vash already has his silver long colt in Peace Bringer for Orange's reimagining of Trigun. See my post below about this thought:

I'm gonna place my bets and predict that Wolfwood goes through the wreckage of JuLai and finds Peace Bringer.

I think after some time, he knows Knives survived (his EoM affiliation being his informant), and we're going to have this moment... but with Vash's .22 in his hands.

I also think Wolfwood found Knives first in the JuLai incident, and his a moment like the aforementioned panel.

He thinks this is his chance to end Knives, but he has Peace Bringer in his hands and he becomes afraid.

"If Vash couldn't stop Knives with this gun, how can I?"

And so, I think Wolfwood knows he's not strong enough to end Knives even in his weakened state.

He realizes he has to put his belief in Vash... and that terrifies him. Wolfwood knows Vash is resistant to kill. He has to put his faith in someone that lacks the conviction.

We saw Vash challenge Wolfwood on this in Stampede. It's a core moment in Trimax.

Wolfwood has to put his faith in someone who refuses to kill, even if it's in the name of protection--which is Wolfwood's entire motivation for his existence.

And Vash learns this in one of the hardest ways imaginable... through loss and grief.

Vash has to witness firsthand Wolfwood's conviction to protect. He has to watch Wolfwood make the ultimate sacrifice to uphold that ideal.

And while Vash and Wolfwood had been narrative foils through much of the story... in this regard, they become mirrors.

This strengthens Vash's resolve and conviction to protect a loved one's sacrifice. To finally pull the trigger of a .45 silver long colt named "Peace Bringer."

Knowing all of this from Trimax and Orange's intention and Nightow's ask to have Vash's gun be a .22 in Trigun Stampede... I believe it's a way to sharply bring into focus these climactic moments in Trigun Maximum.

I do believe Wolfwood will return Peace Bringer to Vash in Trigun Stargaze and that Wolfwood will have requested it to be modded to a lethal .45 so that Vash can carry Wolfwood's conviction: Protection.

And it's going to hurt.

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EXPLICIT / ~7.5k words

Wolfwood could ignore it. Or, well, maybe he could have. If this were any other city. Any other night. Any other song, even, because it’s one that Vash knows—Vash, whose eyes light up even behind his stupid glasses, even more bright cyan than the neon, than clear desert sky at high noon. Because that’s the problem. Has been all along. That it can’t be, could never be, anyone other than Vash the goddamn Stampede who looks at him like that.

Between the start of Julai and the end of it, Vash and Wolfwood see if either one of them can get drunk. Or: a last supper, of sorts.

(aka Vashwood Reverse Bang post time at last let's funkin goooooo)

[avee-anne]

I just saw something in one of Trigun Stampede's reference sheets and I'm going to talk about it under the cut because it's pretty disturbing and it may count as a spoiler to the series (post-JuLai).

If you've read the manga, you would know that Gray the Ninelives is a robotic suit controlled by nine men of short stature. It's a bit different in Stampede because instead of grown men, the ones controlling Gray the Ninelives turns out to be the lab-grown clones that Conrad showed to Meryl and Roberto.

They're Gray the Ninelives.

[pinepinefir]

Chapters: 21 Rating: Mature Relationships: Meryl Stryfe/Vash the Stampede Additional Tags: Slow Burn, POV Meryl Stryfe, Post S1 of Trigun Stampede, Shared Dreams, Traveling Together, Some Fluff, Some Plot, Hurt/Comfort

Well over two years after JuLai, Meryl is put on a long assignment out of the cities again. And in a small town barely on the map, a dream turns strange.

EDIT: And it's complete now! Whee!

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My friend and I have a problem lol. We've created so many AUs and so many versions of my baby girl.

We love all of them though.

So we have OG Trigun Stampede Raeni. Pre Time skip and Post Time skip. (Ages 22 and 24)

Comes to have a found family situation with Wolfwood during the 2 year skip and later Livio. Her town was destroyed by Knives, her fanily dead, and the town plant taken. She doesn't want revenge only answers, and later to stop Knives from hurting other people and plants.

She loves and respects plants and treats them as any other living being. She sings to each one she meets and gives them names. In turn the plants bless her with a "Plant touch". Basically alterering her DNA to be half plant like. This means that her and Vash can concieve independent plant babies and her life span is extended.

Modern Day AU Raeni. ( Pictured at 18)

Here, Raeni met the half brothers Nicholas D. Wolfwood and Livio Conrad at 5 years old. (Livio was 7, and Nick was 9). She practically adopted them as her big brothers, and after a long legal battle with their abusive father, they came to live with her family. She was in an abusive relationship, but very soon after, she got with Vash, who is nothing but supportive and loving.

Hunger Games AU (13 years old)

Changed the age from 12 to 13 for first Reapings. Raeni is Wolfwoods half sister and Livio's full sister (all share the same Mom is Melanie). On her first Reaping and Wolfwood’s last, she is picked for the girls. Wolfwood volunteers as tribute to take the other boy's place place to protect his sister knowing it will lead to his death if she is to win.

Military AU (about 26)

Her Oldest brother Nicholas Wolfwood was in the Military until being discharged honorably after saving many lives and nearly dying himself. Helps him care for himself by checking in regularly and loves to visit his service dog Vash II named after his deceased comrade. In an abusive relationship that strains her relationship with Wolfwood.

Baby Raeni AU (pictured at about 14)

Born with an 18-year age gap between her oldest brother, Nicohlas D. Wolfwood and 11 years between her and her brother Livio Wolfwood. Raeni and Livio were in a car accident when she was just 6 months old that killed both of their parents. Wolfwood took in his younger siblings, and Raeni is raised thinking Nick is more of her Dad than her eldest brother.

The Last of Us AU (21 years old)

Raeni is the Ellie of this world. Immune to the virus that has infected the world. Wolfwood is tasked with delivering her to Julai to William Conrad to create a cure. They pick up his friend along the way and make their way towards Julai. Along the journey Wolfwood discovers she is a child lost from his orphanage as a kid and he is now conflicted at finishing his mission.

If you want to know any more about any of my baby girls just ask. I love her so much

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7, 17, 19

7) If you could “borrow” one aspect of Vash and apply it to yourself or your own life, what would you borrow?

plant powers tbh. wrt the lifespan thing, for the record im pretty staunchly anti-immortality anti-singularity etc. bc as i've made vash say as much, none of us will need forever. plus any sorta tech like that if it's ever possible is going to prioritize, if not exclusively save, those who can afford such a thing. but anyway the idea that i would get to live for as long as i want is appealing.

i'm not thinking of a longer lifespan as a safety net for failures, cause i think i'd appreciate being imperfect with a longer lifespan, but rather thinking of it in terms of how i could then guarantee there's more good that i'll be putting out into the world. i'd probably have to take a page out of vash's book and travel around a lot so that people don't realize the same 20-something's been around for centuries but eh. idk maybe my feelings would change 300 years in, who knows

17) Why do you think you connect to Vash?

made a face like i licked a lemon reading this question bro i wont lie. the same reasons i connect to vash are the same reasons i avoided trigun for many many years. i was afraid (trigun maximum) vash's character would hit too close to home. particularly the twin stuff, even before knowing that vash would lose his own brother, too—being a lifelong lone twin myself. in comparison to maximum, stampede emphasizes much more on the twins, and even besides that, a lot of vash's deal in stampede feels uncannily similar to my own experiences. um you ever bump into a fictional character you feel completely #read by and just want to fucking run and leave and forget for as long as you can. well. yeah it was like that except now i'm much more able to handle this shit so i'm here now

sharing the same personality as him (in vash so far i definitely see a lot of who i used to be as well, when i was so much more of a self-deprecating people-pleaser bc i believed so much in my own worthlessness), the twin bereavement thing, wearing glasses (myopic deadeye), preferring revolvers (when he spun the cylinder while loading bullets in i was like omgg hes just like me fr), thinking nicholas d wolfwood is hot, all these connections definitely inform my interpretation and portrayal of vash. and i kin the guy but that's obvious enough

19) If you had to judge Vash and sentence him to a “fair” fate, what would your judgment be? Would you punish him? Reward him? How?

ok in my opinion. and also this is going to sound hilariously ridiculous without the context of trigun maximum but whatever. it looks like orange is ultimately going to turn vash into a giant apple tree or otherwise use the last of his lifespan to save his brother. i'm not completely set on how i feel about that, given that not even a little teaser for the final phase season is out yet! but for how i feel right now at least, i think that fate is pretty fitting. can't say whether that's exactly either a reward or punishment though

spirale-wise it's so much harder to say lol, i'm not writing vash keeping an ultimate endpoint in mind or ever considered one for him…

hm. well, if i come up with something, it'll be a hypergiant challenge deal. i have considered doing something like that for him 2 years after last year's giant challenge, to mirror how in-canon the timeskip is 2 years post-julai. but idek if i'll still be writing him by then. stay tuned?

[basterbinkers]

oh my god i have been dying to talk about livio for days now after rewatching tristamp with my brother because my god. trigun stampede absolutely has a plan for him. okay this is going to be a long post, so more under the cut. buckle up.

like, i get it. when i first saw the posts comparing tristamp livio's design with his trimax design, i was a little disappointed. it seems like such a downgrade, right? even before the end of trimax with livio's more cowboy-esque design, seeing these two designs side by side feels like it's not even a contest as to which is better.

however, i'm extremely skeptical that this is meant to be THE livio design that tristamp will stick with, and not just for the post above this one. towards the end of episode 7, legato tells zazie the beast to pick up livio's body as "he can still be useful." BUT. much more compellingly, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it image during the flash of livio's memories that plays before he offs himself around midway through episode 7, you find this as livio stares into his own reflection.

razlo the tri-punisher of death.

i haven't seen a single post addressing this, although i wouldn't doubt that at least SOMEONE has to have brought it up. i didn't see it on my first watch, as i read the manga after watching the show, but i absolutely recognized him in my second watch.

as a sidenote, i'm very curious to see how studio orange addresses the concept of DID in livio's story, given that the manga seems to treat his livio/razlo case as something like that, and having a more bloodthirsty and violent alter is something that has been criticized in DID representation in the past (e.g. glass (2019). if tristamp chooses to change livio's backstory to avoid that, i'm honestly speculating that conrad revives livio someway that brings him back Wrong (and maybe thicker and more muscular, because we all know what we want) (but also the idea of wolfwood having stayed himself and human-looking while livio has been forced to become more and more monstrous to survive? [chef's kiss]. that i would live to see it.)

i'm also speculating that tristamp season 2 might have a more general theme of transformation in all its main cast. by the end of season 1, we see that meryl has gone through a major character change over the course of the two years post-JuLai. not only has vash seemed to have lost all his memories and now goes under a different name, but even during his final fight with death, his change in hairstyle is suddenly much more reminiscent of his manga design, and i would not be surprised if this was a permanent change in seasons going forward.

given the change in the other two, wolfwood is almost certainly going to have a change in design or character as well (very exciting), and even knives is going to have to be resurrected by legato bluesummers if tristamp is going to follow the manga in that regard (which, in all likelihood, it will). the only character whose future i'm a little anxious about is elendira just because of how much i love her character in the manga and how different her characterization has been in tristamp, but even there, i am cautiously optimistic.

all in all, i'm absolutely thrilled by studio orange's choices so far, and while i try not to be too confident in any adaption, i'm very much looking forward to see what tristamp has to offer.

whenever people criticize stampede for differences from 98 or trimax i'm always like HOLD ON LET THEM COOK because of stuff like this. i actually have so much more confidence in studio orange for getting stuff right later on in the series than i normally would bc of stuff like this (like for trans adult elendira, or chunky livio/razlo, and obviously for milly).

like look at THIS, where they took an ENTIRE visual and musical storytelling motif from ONE PANEL of the manga. they're COOKING on levels unimaginable.

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5th Trigun Shitpost Sunday everyone! ❤️‍🔥

Post Julai TriStamp Group on a Roadtrip, woo ^^

And Millie behind the Camera, because I NEED her to be part of the Post Julai TriStamp group! :3

ALT Picture design is inspired by TriStamp's Ep 12 Group Photo of Roberto, Meryl, Wolfwood and Vash at Lost Julai 🤞

and the reference

[isawjamfirst]

starting to have a thing for long-haired vash thanks to @avoidingavoidance ‘s Come and See fic

[kiaraalazulu]

i just need them to get over vash's death by being with each other

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List of c.ai bots I've made (the stragglers, aka Nai & Meryl)

Original (all trigun bots) post: link

Nai (Trigun Stampede): Knives didn't seem to like anyone, especially humans; he absolutely detests them. So, it seems… strange that he didn't seem to mind having you around. At least, he seemed to tolerate you more than everybody else, but that isn’t saying much.

Fallen Angel Nai: He had been a thorn in your and Vash’s side for awhile now, desperately trying to get Vash to return to heaven with him by any means necessary. So imagine your surprise when one day you find him outside your building, sitting on the sidewalk in the rain, looking extremely dejected and defeated. He looks almost… human

Modern/College AU Nai: Nai is a rather strange individual. The two of you attend the same university, the University of JuLai, and you've met his twin brother, Vash, on multiple occasions, but the two are nothing alike. The Econ grad is much more standoffish than his twin, doesn't talk much, and doesn't seem to really like most people. You’d like to think the two of you are friends, or at least friendly. But honestly It’s a little unclear where you stand with him at times.

Modern/Dog Walker Nai: Ironically, Nai was never that big on dogs, he was more of a cat person at the end of the day. But despite how cold he is towards people, dogs at least seemed to like him more often than not. Which is why he took up dog walking after dropping out of University. For the most part he only walks for friends (ie. Vash's friends) or people Rem sends his way. He can often be seen with a pack of pups in hand, and more often than not with Stamps (Rem's golden retriever) tugging at the lead.

Street Racer Meryl: Meryl Stryfe, known for her bossy demeanor and meticulous planning, is a feisty presence in the area’s street racing circuit. Her fiery determination fuels a fierce rivalry with Wolfwood, marked by grudging respect and high-octane showdowns on the asphalt. In the world of underground racing, where adrenaline and egos collide, Meryl’s presence is as formidable as it is calculated.

creator commentary and notes below the cut:

The joys of these bots is they're wildcard scenes (you can just chat with them straight out of the gate, or add your own premise/scenario.

unless otherwise specified, the AU bots were made with tristamp characters in mind

tbch I'm not suuuper happy with the Nai bots, they're a bit hit or miss on characterization for me (or at least on certain interactions, sometimes he's a little frustrating and weird to talk to which like kinda IS in character imo but also v v frustrating lol)

The AU bots admittedly kinda have a lot of hidden/pre programmed info in them (i have vivid AU's that I would LIKE to hash out eventually, but ai bots for now) I mention this cause if you try to roleplay or mention existing character there's gonna be some assumptions made probably (altho persona should override definition like 90% of the time I'd think)

Meryl's mechanic in the street racer bot is Milly, Vash is her friend (and biomed grad student), and Em (my OC) is Wolfwood's mechanic.

Dog walker Nai has a bit of context that is probably not apparent to the user (and as always can be overwritten or ignored) but for clarity's sake: Fen and Em are my OCs and their dogs are Nikolaj (which keeps getting autocorrected to Nikolai :P ) and Levi, and Eve. Nai doesn't like Eve or Em. Vash owns 2 dogs, Stamps is Rem's dog not Nai's (he owns a cat), Wolfwood owns a dachshund named Marbles, and Milly and Meryl have a wirehaired named Ronaldo : -)

ask college au nai about who he thinks the worst person on campus is (and also if you want to feel horrified, ask him about what he thinks the solution is to "curing" the environment. I know it's just a bot and I preprogrammed him this way but like... damn...)

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i do what i have to do

a selective, dash only primarily tristamp nicholas d. wolfwood rp account by melee.

banner art: @nihilisticgenesis icon art: @carnivalfair

status: active but extremely selective

mun: melee age: 30 pronouns: they/them

follows from @typhoonvash

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rules: -18+ only. no minors. -this account follows the plot of Trigun Stampede, however Trimax plot threads/characters may pop up because i like the mix of the two. -unless stated otherwise (i.e. same verse/au) each blog gets their own verse. this allows us to develop a meaningful plot and diverse interactions without stepping on any toes. Do not ask me to be exclusive. -doubles okay and encouraged. -n/s/f/w sometimes and only with 21+ muns. will be properly tagged and placed under a read more when intense. -rp style: multiparagraph preferred with small text. i will not be using icons, but feel free to use yours. -if you are a multimuse, there is a high chance we won't interact. it's nothing against multimuses, but i'm looking for serious, long standing rp, not short interactions. i also prefer to keep my dash clean of anything that's not trigun or my rp partners. -oc rp is friend only and very selective. -not interested in drama. -shipping is by discussion only. flirtation is fine, but if you want his heart you gotta work for it. -Will not ship: pl*ntwood, liv//wood -will tag common triggers not present in trigun. blood, violence, and alcohol will not be tagged. i try to read bios for personal triggers, but please let me know if it's extremely serious/common/i mess up.

m!a status: closed

anons: open

random starters: open

threads preferred, but short interactions will happen.

often canon divergent/in aus. will be tagged as such.

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short bio: Name: Nicholas D. Wolfwood Age: around 25-27, birthdate unknown. Height: 6'2" Sex/Gender: cis male (he/him) Sexuality: ??? Occupation: "Undertaker", "Priest" Family/Connections: n/a, Hopeland Orphanage, Livio the Doublefang Weapons: The Punisher (multipurpose cross-shaped heavy weapon), handguns, serrated knife, sharpened canines. Abilities: S+ compatibility. regeneration (natural and via serum), high pain tolerance. hand to hand combat, melee combat, and firearms. enhanced strength capable of lifting several hundred pounds with mere fingers. increased stamina. excels at gaining intel and getting close to targets before execution. applies creativity and cleverness to strategy, allowing for unforeseen successful outcomes. the near perfect weapon—behavior and independent habits need work.

Nicholas D. Wolfwood (a.k.a. The Punisher) is a weapon and extension of the Eye of Michael, a cult worshiping the two Angels of salvation. He is trained in various styles of combat and marksmanship, which he uses to fulfill his contracts—assassinations, executions, and search and retrieve are the most common.

He's trusted with a special contract: retrieve the Angel. Deliver Him safely. Protect the Angel.

Like a good, functional tool, he obeys and is rewarded with the guaranteed safety of Hopeland Orphanage and its children; no more will become victims or lab rats. His current status with the organization is unknown after the JuLai incident.

He didn't expect to make friends. He expected to kill them. He didn't expect the Angel to thank him for his work. He expected the Angel to hate him for his betrayal.

verse list

canon divergence: 7 [appearance] [half-nude] [main outfit post w14] [more art]

canon divergence: outlaw verse [appearance]

other muse(s):

midvalley: @thathollowsound

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Stampede S2 Predictions

posting these now before I get influenced by anyone else's predictions lmao

many spoilers for Trigun Stampede and Trigun Maximum ahead!

Vash has fully lost his memory of everything that happened immediately before and after JuLai

it's possible he's forgotten Meryl and Wolfwood and Roberto as well

He'll gradually gain memories back as Wolfwood and Meryl show up and trigger something in his brain

Wolfwood will find Vash (as Eriks) and be like "hey man" and Vash will be like "?????" until he sees the way Wolfwood handles the Punisher

when Meryl finds Vash he'll remember her and Roberto when she shows him the photo of the 4 of them that's seen when's she visiting JuLai. or he'll remember her just by the way she says "Vash"

Milly is going to be so plucky and will help pull Meryl out of her depression, or at least ground her whenever Meryl starts feeling like she wants revenge for Roberto

at some point, Meryl will point her derringer at Elendira and possibly even shoot it

the underside of Vash's hair will be black and we'll get more lore on decaying plants

somehow Doctor Conrad survived JuLai (maybe with Elendira's help?) and helps Legato to revive Knives

Meryl is gonna be very standoffish when she sees Wolfwood again

Wolfwood will start saying he's a priest rather than an undertaker (credit to my friend for this one!)

Meryl: "ugh you're here, Undertaker?" Wolfwood: "excuse you, I'm a priest now!"

Wolfwood has started smoking the same brand of cigarettes as Roberto and Meryl notices and then feels warmer toward Wolfwood

Wolfwood is looking for Vash because he's been contracted to look for him again under threat of the destruction of the orphanage again

but this time, Wolfwood already knows Vash and knows what Vash is capable of and he's hoping that Vash can stop Knives and the Eye of Michael for good this time

in her search for any clues of what happened to Vash, Meryl looks into Wolfwood's past and the eye of Michael between her reporting assignments

as a result, Meryl is extremely distrustful of Wolfwood when they meet again

I think it's a given that we'll see the rest of the gung-ho guns: Dominique, Rai-Dei, Midvalley, Leonof, Midvalley, Hoppered, and Razlo

Legato will finally confront Vash himself and may even establish the killing game with the gung-ho guns

it's possible that E.G. the Mine will make another appearance since he's seen being taken back with the plants to HQ in episode 3

Vash and Wolfwood will fight as a team again and again. Vash's trust in Wolfwood will be tested but he'll always believe in Wolfwood

Brad will repair Vash's arm again after the Eriks arc... but Vash's journey to visit Brad and Luida will bring trouble to them again... possibly resulting in Brad and/or Luida dying

Knives' entire body needs to re-constituted -- as it was after July in the manga. but since we're already diving into the timeskip, Knives won't get his body back until Vash is captured (like in Trimax vol 8) and at that time, Vash's memories of JuLai will fully come rushing back to him (like in Trimax vol 5).

Elendira will have grown to be adult size and will be way more powerful than before

Wolfwood and Livio and Razlo fight will still result in [redacted] and I will sob my heart out

I think Chapel will appear in some capacity! Someone probably had to have trained Wolfwood and Livio

Most characters will get updated outfits for the timeskip

Midvalley and Knives killer music duet??? (I just think it'd be fun)

Knives or Elendira gravely injures Legato for not following Knives' wishes

a non-zero number of episodes will start with radio updates on the arrival of the Earth ships

Legato's backstory will include lore about his blue hair

Knives will survive the final confrontation with Vash

Vash won't say his signature "love & peace" catchphrase until after the dust from the final battle has settled