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franeridan · 3 months ago

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thinking again about how in trigun 98 they had nick kill someone with the face of a child posing as an orphan for vash, and how in tristamp they had him kill a child in the body of a monster who had no choice in what had been done to him, and how instead in trimax nick for vash kills a man who'd approached vash for a death match, who'd demanded to either kill or be killed, a man nick had given vash a fair chance to fight and win against and who nick would have left alone hadn't said man attacked vash when his back was turned after the duel was over and done with, a man who'd been one step from possibly seriously harming vash hadn't nick stepped in. and about how after in all three versions vash yells at nick for it, but only in trimax nick tells vash that he's lucky he's there to play the devil for him so that he can stay a saint, and only in trimax in the arc right after vash ends up thanking nick for killing for him and protecting his home when vash couldn't because of his own morals, and only in trimax in the end when nick isn't there to play the bad guy for vash he ends up being right, and vash ends up having to dirty his hands himself to protect what he loves - while both in 98 and for now tristamp vash stays a saint until the end, and that fight they have ends in itself, and the only lesson it leaves you as a viewer is that nick is jaded enough to kill a child

#this is in the same category in my brain as 98 and tristamp making vash the nice kid between he and knives #while in trimax knives was the nice hopeful naive kid and vash was the guarded and skeptical one #and also the same as vash in 98 never losing control of himself and in tristamp only losing control #when knives literally brainwashes him into becoming a husk of himself #while in trimax vash loses control of his own negative emotions all on and by himself and That's #what puts meryl and nick and milly in danger #not someone else's actions but /vash's/#and to me that's like #yeah maybe 98 came out before trimax was over so the authors didn't have a full grasp on vash as a character #and maybe it's true that the tristamp writers love the story their own way honestly and genuinely #but the way both anime make vash so objectively Good™️ and everyone else just too jaded #to see how he's right and being Good™️ is the only way to move forward #like...#I'm sorry #that's the opposite of what i thought nightow was saying when i first read trimax #the world isn't black and white and some choices are unavoidable but that doesn't make them any less bad #and people aren't perfect but that doesn't make them any less able to be good #and all that #yk #?#the way the anime always make meryl so unwaveringly strong and corageous too when in trimax #she's actually so scared #reasonably!!#same with nick too all his fear of knives and conflicting feelings about vash all gone always...#then again when you make vash to perfect what's there to be scared or conflicted about?#it's something I always come back to ESPECIALLY the nick killing for vash moment #the manga makes it so hard to decide who's right #and in the end it takes you by the shoulders and shakes you and tells you nick!!! nick was right!!!!#while in the anime nicks kills /a child/ so of course you're brought to assume vash was right #i dunno it's just so flat to me

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