#vash headcannons

[duskpeak]

Vash Headcannons (p1/?)

(As someone who has watched the og anime and the badlands movie) this will also include things that are cannon about vash, it’s just to get a list so I can characterize him better/more consistently.

- vash doesn’t just cry when he’s upset, he cries ALL the time you can’t tell me he doesn’t cry when he laughs just a little too hard

- also he tears up when embarrassed, not all the time but the redder his face is the more likely there are to be tears in his eyes

- he has been called thousands of insults over the years, you will not find a new one, trust me

- on that note pls don’t insult him unless he knows you don’t mean it, better yet just don’t at all my boy does not deserve that🥺

- idk what the hell they were doing in the movie but vash is a hard believer of consent before touching anyone intimately ( there are exceptions like with his friends or in battle) but literally whatever was going on with him taking Amelia’s glove and boot off and rubbing his face against her hand/leg, he would not do that

- on the other hand he absolutely says the shit he says in the movie smh “THEN YOU AND I SHOULD GET OUR LITTLE TAILS BACK TO OUR LOVE NEST! YEE-HAW!” Or like with his first battle with the gung ho guns where he said he could have groped her three times

- big difference in the things he says and the things he’d actually do, a lot of the eyebrow raising stuff he says is just to bring the mood up

- we know his philosophy applies to animals and bugs but he has been shown to eat animals, it’s important to note that he apologizes to the animal before eating them

- someone please tell vash the eggs we eat wouldn’t hatch a baby anyway😭😭😭

- on the topic of food I think he likes sweet stuff, donuts are his favorite but he’s a fan of all pastries

- he shares with the animals around him, even if it’s not a Tomas he was riding (which he especially treats afterwards) this has put him in a number of situations where he is out of food or water or both, this has not stopped him from doing it again

- I’ve seen headcannons where he falls asleep easily in the cold because his plant body isn’t used to it or whatever, I don’t agree especially considering how damn cold it gets at night

- also there ain’t no way he can’t handle extreme temperature shifts at least in terms of being hot, bro walks around in full leather all day (THE DAY GUYS THERES TWO FUCKING SUNS THERE ID LITERALLY DIE)

- however if it’s a modern au I am more open to that idea just because I still like it even if I don’t agree

- he sings!! Even though people have canonically said that he sounds awful I think he can actually sing pretty well when he wants to

- I like to think he knows how to play smaller instruments like an ocarina or castanets

- he probably has a bunch of little skills that he’s developed while traveling, after all theres not much else to do other than look at sand

- loves finding the constellations that people have come up with for this planet, he liked the charts from Earth’s constellations and thinks it’s so cool getting to see people come up with stuff in real time

(There will probably be more parts to come so look forward to that I guess)

[kaithegremlin]

I for get who made the post but I saw a headcannon about vash being basically a walking heater and now I'm just imagining Meryl on her period clinging to a confused but happy vash

[quetzzall]

Si diosito lo permite..

[kurikorso]

uh oh

[dragons1re]

Trigun is a very autism media to me. The twins themselves are full of amazing metaphors for autism!!

The plants wings are a physical metaphor for autism! To me Rem’s and other humans fear of seeing Vash’s overtly autistic traits is shown in their reactions to his wings. We see Knives isn’t afraid of showing off his plant powers ever. The twins have a very cool dichotomy about masking-Vash was favored because he masked, while Knives never cared to.

When Vash and Knives see Tesla Rem goes to comfort Vash first. This seems to be slightly on favoritism, but also because she’s shocked that Vash is having a large emotional reaction. I think the fandom sees Vash as hyper-emotinal and Knives as hypo-emotional, but to me it’s switched.

Knives does not hide his emotions. And absolutely does not hide his outbursts! He has meltdowns all the time and is not ashamed of his autistic traits(Edit* this comment is in reference to Knives using his plant powers with no restraint, compared to Vash who almost never used his powers. I agree that Knives isn’t exactly a bastion of positivity about his autism, and hates his lack of control, that being said he isn’t ashamed of the traits themselves, just his lack of control over himself). He doesn’t care about being unsettling or being accepted by humans/neurotypical society. (Even more interesting to consider that all of the Gung-Ho Guns are disabled/neurodiverse in some way). Knives allows his emotions to control him, where Vash is guided by his obligations. He does what he wants, based on his wants. And what he wants is to be with the only other autistic person he knows-his brother. He also desperately wants his brother to be free from his internalized ableism and the pain of masking.

Vash on the otherhand spends all his time masking and denying his autistic traits so he can fit in with “normal“ humans. He also again, in contrast to Knives, acts based on how his mother told him to behave. He hates acting out/standing out. He still operates on Rem’s instructions to be “normal“ and unnoticeable. He does occasionally show strong emotions but they’re not his positive emotions. To be these are less examples of Vash being over emotional, but instead are examples of outbursts. The overflow of negative emotions reminds me of my meltdowns! As well most of the emotions we do see Vash show are also parts of his masking. They are deeply constructed displays of emotion. All set to Vash‘s derived sense of what’s normal. It’s what he thinks positive emotions look like. His mask is baked into everything he does. And only one person sees through it-Wolfwood!!

Wolfwood is also set apart by the narrative. He has been modified. In my view this is the story portraying that Wolfwood is also neurodivergent in some way. He is capable of seeing through Vash‘s mask, and from Vash‘s reaction is the first one to call him out on it. He also goes from being afraid of Vash‘s autistic traits-his wings-to supporting him. His last words are him encouraging Vash to express his emotions genuinely(to not worry about his “unsettling“ autism smile).

Trigun as a media deals to deeply with disability and autism(if someone remind me I’ll make another little essay thing about Meryl and Milly‘s autism). I hope this is coherent!!

Anyways! Happy Autism Month!!

[tiedyedeyes]

"If we leave now, we'll still have time to pick up some donuts"

[monsterunderthesheets]

A little head cannon where when Vash climaxes, his plant marks will start to appear and glow brightly in the dark. And the better he feels during sex, the brighter they glow.

[slothpoth]

Uncanny Vash and Knives Hcs

I just finished TriMax like— today so now I feel more comfortable being Public with hcs

TW: Body horror and the like

I’m gonna format this by saying overall hcs and then getting specific on how both of them treat/adapt to these hcs and what personal differences they have

Duo Headcannons

Every time their voicebox reopens their voice takes on a different tone

Most of the time it’s imitating voices they’ve heard in the past, sometimes it’s a weird amalgamation of them creating a new voice.

For example when they only knew Rem their voices would sometimes go a bit too high pitched like it’s their original voice mixed with Rem or just straight up Rem

Their eyes are very glassy and doll-like

I won’t say life less because they can still emote but I think when they’re at rest it’d be very like IB/ Mad Father Doll Room Tease

I’m playing with the idea of them not blinking but I wanna make it freakier somehow so maybe they blink inconsistently? Like one eye will blink every hour and the other every two hours?

The surface of their skin is always feels like there’s an electric current underneath, like you touch their arm and they have buzzies

Independents in general start off looking very uncanny as a newborn, grow into a child that looks very human, and as they rapidly age they start to become more plant like again (got inspo for this from possuminatrenchcoat_27 on tiktok)

This could possibly be a newer adaptation after what happened with Tesla assuming that Tesla is the first instance of an independent/ the first instance of an vs independent getting brutalized like that.

When they get antsy or any high tension you’d be able to see their respective abilities kind of…..moving under their skin

When the tension or emotion gets too much they start to like leak whatever their thing is, think “Hikaru” from The Summer Hikaru Died

When they bleed it’s a mixture of blood of sometimes a feather or a leaf or two

Viewing their “human” visages as a sort of disguise, I’d like to assume they can change colors

And by change colors I mean change how saturated or unsaturated their skin, hair, nails, and other organic parts are

Like if they do choose they can have the brightest teeth none to man and plant

Speaking of teeth, they can choose how many, how little, how long, how short, and what order their teeth are in

Also!! Incredible muscle control, like thinks Fox in a trap, rather than knaw off their leg they simply move and contract the muscle (and possibly bone) until they can slip out

They can photosynthesize but when they do it’s very obvious and very ominous

Like imagine one of them standing looking up, neck limp head back, eyes wide and unfocused slightly rolled back, jaw slack, a rumbling coming from the top of their head and from the ground but nowhere inbetween

Their senses are heightened so in high traffic areas they can get overwhelmed easily, especially considering that they spent their developing and adapting years on the ships where the loudest thing was the machine hum

I think it’d be funny if they can make themselves smell like different types of foliage like one day it’s roses the next it’s honeydew the next it’s just grass

Vash Copes

so Mr. Deluxe-Life-Like over here is a hummer

Like he’ll hum and clear his throat and make noises to try a get his speaking voicebox to around a tone that somewhat sounds like him.

He can’t just start randomly talking and sound like Milly! That’d be rude!

So along with the rainforest animal sequence chittering and chattering he’s just, “hmm hrrmm huummm buh…how are doing? Do you feel okay?”

To make up for how his eyes are he wears glasses (of course) but also had figured out how to dilate his eyes in time with what he sees in other people’s emotions (incredible muscle control)

He’ll be purposely very expressive to take as much attention from his eyes as possible so none notices how his eyes look or the blinking issue

Sometimes he’ll make himself blink when he knows he’s being looked at

So when Vash is getting antsy under his skin youll see almost like vines wiggling about underneath, but very inconsistently

Like if you’re looking at his arm you’ll see a long thin vine, that could be mistaken for a vein, jerk around sporadically

When he’s getting very antsy the vine will sprout thorns that’ll push through his skin like water. It won’t leave a wound behind the skin will just fall back together

That’s why he likes the coat so much because you can’t see the things going on under his skin

So like imagine an almost worm like part of his skin being raised that’s jerking around and moving these thorns that just glide through his skin (freaky huh?)

I think Vash would use the color changing thing for comedic effect, like the usual tinting red for blush or embarrassment, stuff like that

Despite having all these options for self customization, I think Vash would keep it pretty human like.

Well— not exactly. He hasn’t been in a place to get the details right so he kinda…fills in the blank spaces with other things!

Like since he hasn’t had the time to peek into someone’s mouth, he has a dog mouth. He’s seen the inside of a dogs mouth lot of times what’s wrong with it? They look cool!

One time him and wolfwood were play fighting and WW had pinned him so Vash started to moved his muscles around to squeeze out and WW got so scared he jumped like a foot in the air and cowered in a corner

Vash doesn’t photosynthesize often because he typically eating so that’s how he gets his energy

But when he’s on the run and another town is a ways away and he’s sooo hungry he just gotta Yknow

one time Meryl and Milly caught up to him while he was doing it and when they approached (after passing once to try to taunt him with water) he jerked out of it in a blink all creepy like

Like they were a yard away from his back and they blinked and now he’s a foot away and facing them all “Hey Ladies!” fym hey ladies bitch move

For his senses I feel like he kind of enjoys being on the run so he’s not constantly overstimulated by all the sounds of towns

Don’t get him wrong he loves towns and people but 24/7 everytime he opened his eyes? He just needs a wee break is all

Smell wise I think he’d keep to a grass kind of scent, it’s all he really knows

So when Meryl or Milly or Wolfwood come up and get personal with him and ask “what are you wearing” after answering cheekily for a while he just goes “nothing, I just smell like this”

Knives Cope

Welcome to the stage Mr. I-Look-Like-This-For-The-Irony and his special talent How Far Can We Push The Human Assumption

One of Knives’ pleasures is seeing how far he can push what he looks and acts like until people start to think he’s not a human

He’s found it’s reasonably far if he’s careful

Voice wise, Knives’ voice really doesn’t change all that often

It gets more erratic based on the people around you and Knives is usually isolated, since he’s not constantly around voices and people like Vash he just has to deal with voice pitching up and down and less imitations

That doesn’t mean it’s never happened

When he and Conrad first teamed up and we’re talking more often about their plans and what’s possible, Conrad thought Knives was warming up and being playful by imitating his voice sometimes

He chuckled once and Knives was like “What’s so funny.” And Conrad brought the voice thing up and Knives was like “That’s unintentional, why would I wanna win your favor I already have it.”

Knives knows his eyes are off putting. He knows very well.

He intentionally makes an overt amount of eye contact until he knows the other person is freaked out

When Knives gets to a point of tension where you can see his blades poking under his skin, he just lets em out

To him it’s his base plant side telling him to free himself of this embarrassing flesh suit so he’s like ah just as nature intended

It could also be why he has the cloak of blades cause he’s always high tension

Back to his stage act, How UnHuman Can We Look Until They Start Actually Thinking I’m Not Human, when it comes to their customization options, Knives likes the keep it just about human

He wants to look like his sisters, but knows he can’t get people to do what he wants if they think he looks too sweet (in his opinion his sisters are adorable)

So he tries to balance both visuals. He’s crazy pale with platinum blonde hair because his sisters are also incredibly pale.

But on the other hand, he keeps himself looking somewhat human because what else to should humanity see at its end but itself?

When he isn’t in public, he likes to look ALOT less human, like biblical Angel.

Knives doesn’t get into situations where he needs to move his muscles around himself to escape anything, the only time he did was when he and Vash were younger and playing around

Unlike Vash, Knives photosynthesizes all the time

He doesn’t like eating, it overwhelms his senses. The sunlight? Oh the sunlight.

Knives feels the same way about the Sun like yearning gays and the moon

He will photosynthesize even if he doesn’t have to, he does it so often he can do it laying down (he looks like a corpse and if you come too close to him while he’s laying there you will get skewered right ways)

Knives remembers more about the flowers Rem showed them and how they smell so usually he’ll choose whichever plant he thinks of first

That’s the end, this took like two days straight there was more in the thinker and reading The Summer Hikaru Died mid way through making it. Can you tell how much I like figuring out how human is human?

[polararts]

bonus

[macncherries]

trigun stampede character studies because i like them a normal amount (I literally cannot stop thinking about them. i wake up and I think about them. i go to sleep and I think about them) some of this is a combination of both trigun and trigun stampede as well as headcanons! drabbles about that under the cut

i took the original canon designs from trigun stampede as a basis. i kept their outfits relatively the same and their hairstyles + accessories match that of stampedes. edited wolfwoods outfit slightly by making his grey shirt deeper cut to mimick that of 1998 trigun's. as for faces, because all of my faces have a slight pinch of realism, I had to determine their face shapes and feature shapes based on cannon and headcannon. i huge differentiation not put into trigun stampede is vash's face shape! in the original trigun movie (2010) you can see their differences better as well as when the anime begins to reach further out into the 2000s and the style changes.

vash has canonically droopy eyes! imo, it wasn't really put into the stampede version and they kind of went for typical bubbly eyes instead. considering this, I had to balance the bubbly eyes with the droop so I added a droopy bottom lid to the eye while keeping the top one rather happy and crescent-shaped. additionally, in all of the official art for the 1998 version, vash's eyes stick out a lot. they tend to use high contrast to highlight his blue eyes a lot in the original so I decided to purposely give him extra shiny eyes since they seem to catch the light so often. woflwoods eye shape changed quite a lot. I prefer stampedes version a lot more; with thin eyelids on top + bottom and a slight droop right before the end. I also accentuated the length of the last eyelash more because while its there in stampede, it's not enough :3

other face changes include their noses. in stampede, pretty much everyone has the same face shape depending on gender/age. but in the original trigun, and while its more obvious as the style develops, wolfwood does have that big angular nose with a slight bump. i did not change the nose shape at all and referred to that specifically when deciding his. vash's on the other hand tends to fluctuate, and because it was 1998 it is kind of hard to tell but his nose is definitely more pointy than ANYONE else's. so taking that into account I gave him a very sharp straight nose but with a button-ish shape at the end to define it more because his nose shape stood out to me more than just a simple straight nose.

some details changed were the lack of facial hair on wolfwood. in 1998 he had some stubble and it also just seemed fitting to give him more hair in general because of that. feel like it would grow back too fast and he'd just give up trying to shave. i jus think he's a hairy dude. as for vash, even if he IS hairy, he's also blonde, so any of those thin hairs like whats on arms and legs would shine in the sunlight and basically go invisible (before T i had those blonde leg hairs and it didn't matter how much i let them grow out, they're invisible) nonetheless, he got a little hair in places its more concentrated. darkened his happy trail too since he's got a little bit of brown and blonde hair i thought it was valid enough decision-making.

i also adopted the more gruesome scar types seen in the manga panel in 1998. in stampede its more stylized, which isn't bad, but I prefer more obvious ones as well as showing the differentiation in healing/age depending on the scar. finding references for all the scars vash has was really difficult (he canonically has one on his butt, lol) so I had to bullshit some of the lower half ones (like on the knees) but I think its fitting enough.

some things entirely based on headcannons:

wolfwood

trans'd his gender. because i can. no other reason :)

the scars he's got because of that are;

hysterectomy (two small, symmetrical scars above the v-line)

double incision (mastectomy)

phalloplasty (not shown, its under the burger.)

skin graft from phallo (kind of visible. please note that irl skin graft scars on the thigh can be practically indetectable, but I decided to do a more stylized version for this to make it more apparent. i went with a thigh graft instead of arm because grafting from your arm restricts mobility for a short period of time which obviously, he would need, considering his weapon. thigh is also less visible under normal circumstances and we additionally never see wolfwoods bare thigh in either canon universes so I am allowed to be delusional :3)

no adams apple (while you can get surgery for this, its relatively uncommon and is invasive for little to no benefit, its like, an inch of cartilage.)

long face + his jaw shape (the jaw shape KIND OF appears in stampede, but not really, so I accentuated it more.)

eye bags (no real reason. i just think he deserves them :3)

wide mouth (again, KIND OF in stampede because vash tends to smile more vertically and he smiles more horizontally, so i accentuated that factor)

painted nails (because i can.)

body shape edited a little bit from canon. i made him more bulky and rectangular but still kept a sinched waist in his outfit as compensation. the bulk isn't really pure muscle mass; he's just kinda built like that

wolfwood is subject to change. im considering giving him slightly longer hair in the back(because I can) and his necklace choker from his prototype version back (because. I can.) p.s. if you want to see without the censor please dm me! these are just character studies so I don't really see any point in keeping them under wraps.

vash

all scars below the groin area i had to make up. i think its realistic for his knees to be banged tf up because that's easy to scar considering how reckless he is. everything else I just decided accordingly with aesthetical balance.

plump bottom lip (he deserves it :3 he's cute :3)

painted nails (because I can.)

jaw shape (he has more circular proportions in stampede but in trigun he's very angular so I wanted to find a balance for that. he's babygirl but still not entirely feminine.)

circular chin (I wanted him to have a puffy circular chin from the side to compliment the lower lip.)

eyelashes (hes kinda got it in the 1998 version but they're not very consistent so I just gave him some top eyelashes to accentuate it :3)

side note: i refuse to transgender vash. i wont do it. ive seen so many people trans his gender and it makes me sad bc they either do it because they ship him with his fucking brother or they do it because he's too babygirl for you COWARDS who equate that to being AFAB. shame on you. real mfs KNOW he's cunty babygirl and give him a horse cawk. thank you for your time.

[maggotzdilemma]

headcannons for vash w a gn! stoner reader

im about to get SO annoying abt this but i genuinely think vash would enjoy weed culture, since a lot of what i personally have experienced has been so chill and laid back and has strong morals on peace and anti violence

i have no clue WHERE the reader would get weed but lets just assume for this one that since tobacco is obviously grown and exported for cigs in trigun, weed is too.

98' vash and stampede vash

TWs// brief vomit mention, drug use

i think vash would be a stoner but only in a modern setting, so in triguns setting i think hes tried it but prefers to stay sober unless with other people. he'd treat it the same way he does alcohol

vash will partake in the za but to be honest he has so much fun observing you while high he'd probably trip sit even if it isnt needed (trip sitting weed 💀)

he would think its SO hot when the reader wears hippie clothing, even if only a watered down desert safe version. he loves how loose and flowy clothing dances around you as you move.

on special occasions when he does smoke with you hes definitely a giggly type, but the higher he gets the more quiet he'll get, you'd have to get him violently high before he drops the goofball act.

vash's favorite thing to do during your sessions is to just listen to you ramble, a lot of the time you wont make much sense but he loves to listen to your voice. he'll remember everything you say too, he knows so many embarrassing things you let slip under the influence. he would think it's adorable tho

hes drunken bong water for shits and giggles before, he immediately threw up

vash is a little shit and will insist on shotgunning if you want him to smoke with you, it doesnt really work very well at getting him high but it makes him melt everytime. bro is so touchstarved, he'd take any excuse to kiss you.

speaking of touchstarved vash, he would cling to you like a koala while high, hes already the biggest cuddlebug in the world and it somehow gets 10x worse when high.

this man is so down bad, he'd do anything you asked for without hesitation. some water? he's already handing you the flask. you have munchies? hes making his famous stir fry. you're too high to use the lighter? he'll light up for you everytime. at this point he'll light it for you even if you're perfectly capable of it.

since vash is always on the run, and youre running with him, hed be concerned about you smoking too much, he'd probably only smoke while traveling. theres too much of a risk of him being recognized while in towns and cities and hes horrified at the idea of an inebriated reader getting hurt in the crossfire.

[comfy-sofa]

How the fuck do I talk about this episode?????

Where the fuck do I even start but here we go????

Ok the fact that we went straight into the intro is already a bad fucking sign...

Ok Meryl always beefed with Wolfwood but this time this she was on a fucking MISSION. This girl really said give me your shins and tell me where that blonde bitch is

God, I love me some plant lore, like the idea of there being a higher being???like higher rank of plants???mhmmm thoughts are being thunk (I have so many headcannons about trigun its crazy)

Ok Knives is really our here in vegan spandex with no camel toe and NO ASS LIKE yeah yeah he's buff but he don't work out his LEGS IM SICK

Ok the word of the day is CONSENT BECAUSE NO ONE IS FUCKING RESPECTING IT

Ok the fact that knives swapped with wolfwood and that Nic was the only one not to turn into the flower petals is definitely intentional (my theory is that this was done to get vash used to death occurring around him, especially with humans. It's like "humans kill each other all the time, so why when I do it to protect the plants and you, it's a problem,")

Ok the fact that everything is turning into geraniums to highlight that vash's whole reality is shaped by rem is such a nice touch

Ok I know it's a long shot but I hope this military police dude survives because I think having moments between them (both in a fun chase way and seeking vengeance for July would be a nice for the next season)

TESSLA AND THE FACT THAT VASH KNEW THE CODE TO ACCESS THE FILES IM LOSING IT. SHE'S STILL FUCKING A L I V E OH IM NOT FUCKING OKKKKKK

Knives is the fucking king of gaslighting and manipulation because he's really projecting his "fear" and hatred of humanity onto vash like JEEZ

That fucking scream...

Oh the next word of the day is AUTONOMY O H PLEASE STOP

Ok the flowers are really pretty (Ok they still look like geraniums, I feel like this is suppose to emphasize that while rem had such an impact on vash but at the end of the day, he's still his own person at the end of the day idfk i dont know anything about flowers)

Ok, look knives acknowledged Meryl (something that took vash numerous EPISODES TO DO (I'm bitter about the characters dynamics leave me alone)

I can't fucking believe we got to wait another FUCKING WEEK FOR SOME ANSWER LIKE TELL ME. This really might be the last episode of the "season" and that's crazy to think about. That episode should be longer to really end the series on a high note (hell, all the episodes should've been longer, in my opinion).

With that being said, I hope July gets FUCKED👏 UPPP👏 NEXT EPISODE I'M READY FOR MORE

[cuntingtonmcgee]

All I can picture right now is Vash bugging Nicholas being like “I’m not touching you”

And Nicholas gets tired of the joke and pulls him in for a kiss and walks away like nothing happens being like “what’s wrong needle noggin, did I get your tongue?”

[existential-muffin]

You know how PLANTs have been known to produce independents like Vash and Knives?

Well, I have this head cannon/imagine that even though Vash can't make stuff like other PLANTS, he can offer something else to humanity. By creating another PLANT whose purpose is rain clouds and maybe even some wild flowers.

Made from a combination of Vash's fallen feather with the mix of human blood. It's said that on occasion plants can divide and make another. And for this hybrid plant, humans are the catalyst to Vash's first creation.

That's right, I'm making Vash an asexual dad. And the vashwood shipper are gonna love this, his child plant (branch?) takes on the image of those who have inspired/influenced Vash most for humanity. Nicolas D Wolfwood with features of Rem as well.

Plant baby's first interaction with humans is Meryl. Meryl gets flashbacks of her trauma with Vash's true form at first, making her flinch and scare the new plant that is still forming.

After she snaps herself out of it, not wanting to make the same mistake she made with Vash. She reaches out and plant baby reaches back to her.

[strawurberries]

I had an idea last night and I wrote it down so I wouldnt forget and I just looked at the paper and it says "Vash maid outfit??" And I dont know what to do with this information

[rhainintheattic]

I've been going through a Trigun phase again! Watched the original, Badlands Rumble, and I'm starting Stampede. So have a Vash headcannon that is kind of important to me

Ace!Vash. It just feels right to me. It's established that even though he acts like a playboy, he's very self-conscious of his body and his scars. We see him shirtless after he's been bandaged, or when he's by himself in the morning, but it really sticks out to me that his comment when Meryl and Millie saw him like that for the first time was "It's not exactly something I like girls to see." (Ep. 13, 20:35) He also says that he thinks many girls would run away, but I think it goes deeper than that. Being alive for 130+ years really does a number on you. Seeing the mortality of man compared to you, a seemingly immortal being. It becomes glaringly apparent that attachments like love are temporary and only hurt you in the long run. But Vash is brimming with love, it's his very nature. But sex? I think he's seen the worthlessness in it. So he goes about his life, making friends and flirting and kicking ass, but in the end he'll forever be lonely. He'll outlive the people he loves, what's the use in trying?

Ofc there's the moment in Ep. 7 where one of the important people in Inepril City brings a couple of sex workers to Vash's room after he saves the town from the Nebraska family. Vash has had a lot of alcohol that night and plays like he's passed out, but when they leave, he asks himself maybe, could he be regretting it? (This man's ability to sober up will never cease to amaze me tbh but that isn't the point here) I choose to interpret this statement as part of this hc to mean that yeah, he's chosen this way of life, but he's still tempted sometimes.

I'm sure I could find more instances but this is what came off the top of my head :)) I love this man with my whole heart but he's old and tries to stay optimistic but even he breaks sometimes :))

Now a side tangent! Is there even a guarantee that Vash and Knives have genitalia? Like, they're apart of an alien race. We have no idea how they reproduce. Vash calls the creatures inside the PLANTS friends, and they look like merpeople. How did Vash and Knives end up being so humanoid?? Just a thought :)))

Anyway I could ramble on my thoughts forever so I'll stop now :)))