SO. ON THE TOPIC OF LOSS OF AUTONOMY. i am having the analysis brainworms now i hope u dont mind me going off in ur inbox. hi :]
there is something to be said about how vash's name is used against him constantly. that loss of who he even is as a person. i think about this so much. his name, his very identity is taken away from him. just the mere mention of the name vash the stampede is enough to send an ENTIRE town into a panic. it happens so much and its DEVASTATING to me. hes been labelled a monster across the entire world, and people who stick by his side after hearing his name are few and far between. theres been so much fear tacked onto his name, so much so that OTHER outlaws have used it on multiple occasions to make themselves more powerful. using his name to commit crimes that the real vash would be horrified to even consider. power in names and all that.
vash even. leans into it himself at a certain point. in order to protect the people of augusta he runs through the city shooting bullets into the air and solidifying his image of a deranged killer in the pursuit of. saving everyone. the only way theyll listen to him is if they think hes going to kill them all. if theyre afraid of him. theres also the part in hang fire (? i think its that one) where hes walking through the halls of the sand steamer singing about killing people in order to scare the bandits into not hurting the hostages.
and then you think about. eriks. how lina and her grandma took him in and accepted them as part of his family. how the town around them accepted him only because they had no idea who he actually was. he was a good guy... up until they learned he was vash. and then we get the conversation between the two men in the bar talking about how they should chase him out of town, despite living around him and knowinf him and seeing how good he is for . two years.
but lina and her grandma still accept him after that. theyre one of the only people besides milly/meryl/wolfwood who genuinely love and care abt him despite his name. they still want to keep him safe, grandma asks wolfwood to protect him and keep him out of trouble, even after learning hes the legendary outlaw gunman. because shes seen the true vash ans doesnt let the name scare her.
aughhh im rambling now i probably should have made this into my own post but this makes me SO fuckign crazy dude . give me ur thoughts id love to hear them.
I. YEAH. YEAH. OH MY GOD. Like. nothing is his own anymore. His name is used against him, his face is plastered on wanted posters. There is nothing about himself that he can truly call his. Not even his Plant powers! Because those are used against him time and time again by Knives in EVERY ADAPTATION!!!!
Like. Vash is no longer the name of a kid who once argued with his brother and laughed with his mother and celebrated his birthday and rolled around in grassy fields. It's the name of an outlaw who will kill at the drop of a hat. It's the name of an out-of-control human natural disaster who's leveled cities. If he doesn't even have his name, then what part of himself is really himself anymore?
AND THAT'S WHY I LOVE ERIKS! He finally has something of his own! He's got a name that attached to no one, and a life where he can settle down and stay out of the public eye. He finally has something that is truly his. And no one lets him keep that except for Lina and her grandma.
This guy really has no control over his own life doesn't he!!! He's a passive character in the story of his own life!!! He has nothing of his own, no identity past "humanoid typhoon" because everything about his identity has been stripped from him and morphed into something he's not. He has no say in anything in his life, not even who he is as a person, AND IT DRIVES ME BONKERS N FUCKING YONKERS!!!!
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every time you draw darvo 1000 angels get their wings
HEHE i’m glad u like him anon i’ve missed him so much….. went digging thru my procreate files to see if i had any stray doodles lying around that i hadn’t gotten around to posting yet jsut for u but could only find the one.
i took a break from him for a while, partially cuz my brain latched onto other stuff, partially cuz i was real self conscious about how he’s basically become his own guy in my hands over the years… but i think it’s time to return to my roots. letting him out of the wet cardboard box i keep him in to roam free. nature is healing <3
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Any cross or fresh headcanons?
fresh is already answered so
CROSS HEADCANONS BABYYYY
- soft soldier man <3
- i still hold on to that one hc where cross collects plushies btw. keychain collecter <3
- if went to a date with him, he's INCREDIBLY smooth. not too shabby, not too fancy. just a little picnic beside the river of Waterfalls, whispering soft confessions and silly banters into the echo flowers and
- SORRY. WENT TOO INDULGENT. brhfbbrb
- is usually the first to get up in the morning but here's the twist
he wakes up in VERY NOT NORMAL TIMES. like ... 4.30 am.
great breakfast maker, however not really good with main dishes lmoa
- ok. being a little indulgent here now but.
- i feeelllll like he would be the type to sneak in cheek kisses if he was a romantic type
- p. pats. if you're shorter than him, gentle head pats. if taller, gentle back pats
- very stand-off ish when meeting humans
- he yawns with his mouth WIDE OPEN. but he tries to avoid the habit
- DAD SNEEZES HEHEHE (sorry but i think it's funny if he sneezes the world just SHAKES)
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giggling and kicking my feet and twirling my hair i’m so in love with qcellbit i love fucked up men who have tremendous amounts of issues and are covered in blood and calling people sweetie and darling in a deranged raspy voice I WOULD DO INSANE THINGS TO THIS MAN ‼️‼️‼️‼️
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