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h4venpha · 9 months

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𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠…? 𓂃 ⟡

gunsmoke band au! vash x reader

cw: suggestive actions/words, implied (light) possessiveness within polycule (reader, vash, and wolfwood)

a/n: idk i just think gunsmoke!vash is the biggest fucking tease ever. PART TWO WITH WOLFWOOD SOON ME THINKS…

"how is it now?" you ask, clipboard clutched in your arm as you walk back over to milly and livio from the side of the stage. they're both still in their casual wear as they pluck their strings, the sound ringing out from the speakers above.

"i think it's good for now," milly turns to you, lifting the strap of her bass over her head before setting it back on her stand. "we might have to adjust it later when wolfwood finishes up." livio follows her, leaning his guitar onto it's stand.

"and he's been in there for a while, it's probably our turn next." he adds, running his large hand through his white, shoulder length hair, which would soon be spiky.

"sounds good," you say cheerfully before turning to the other side of the stage. "just tell nick to hurry up cause need to check the signal on his..." and yeah his guitar is still in it's case, in the exact spot where he put it down earlier. "just tell him to hurry please." you laugh exasperatedly.

"yeah, i'll tell him," livio nods, smiling as he walks side by side with milly to the stylists room, their shoulders brushing softly.

you hook your pen onto your clipboard and make your way over to vash sitting behind his drum set, phone in hand. dark makeup around his blue eyes, lips tinted a nice, natural pink, his blond hair shaggy and messily styled just the way he likes it. he's wearing a black mesh shirt, the sleeves cut and exposing the peachy smooth skin on his side.

“y/n!!” vash chirps, tucking his phone into the back pocket of his ripped jeans when he notices you.

“ah, i still need to hook up your drum set—“ you remind yourself and begin to make your way back over to the mixer beside the stage. but vash stops you before you can.

“oh it’s fine! you can do it later when they finish,” he says, shrugging it off and pulling his sticks out of it’s hanging sleeve. “how about i teach you a something while we wait?” vash suggests, twirling the stick once in between his fingers. you pause, considering for a moment. well he was already finished styling and it was another hour before fans would show up, it wouldn’t really hurt to take a small break, would it?

so, while you should be checking over everything, you’re here instead: sitting in vash’s lap, his hands around and directing yours as you hold the sticks, tapping lightly against the toms and the cymbals. hes so fucking warm. the heat from his body soaking through your shirt, it didn't help that he was wearing practically nothing. who decided to put him in a mesh shirt?

"just like that..." vash's voice is smooth and syrupy, lips brushing temptingly against your ear. he grins as your breath hitches in your throat at the contact.

“you got it now?” he asks, releasing his hold and letting you play on your own. and no, no you don’t, because the moment his hands leave yours, they’re sliding down your sides to rest on your hips, fingers pressing into your skin, causing you to miss a beat.

“focus, cmon,” vash purrs as he begins mouthing at your nape, his nose poking at your skin. leaving faint reddish-pink marks across your neck, the tint on his lips rubbing off. vash moves down, fingers tugging your shirt to the side and licks the soft skin at the base of your neck, his piercing hard and prominent in contrast to his soft tongue.

one of the sticks clatters to the ground.

“will you—?!” you jerk away, face flushed and warm as you start to get up. vash easily pulls you back.

“stay still! i’m trying to teach you,” vash exclaims, sly smile playing on his lips as he hugs your waist. he nuzzles into your jaw, laughing softly.

“you’re not teaching me shit–” you curse.

“shhhh you know you like it,” he teases further, catching your wrists with one hand as his mouth latches back onto the side of your neck.

“—just testing with vash, and then we can sound check all at once.” livio’s voice echoes as they step out onto the stage, adjusting the spiked cuff on his wrist. your head snaps at the sound of his voice, like a deer in headlights, while vash smirks.

“oh they’re definitely doing something,” wolfwood rolls his eyes, fingers ruffling up his styled mullet as milly and meryl follow behind. he stalks over to his instrument case and unzips it. meanwhile, vash lets you off his lap with one last kiss, obnoxious loud of course, a sharp mwah! you shove at him and quickly pick up your clipboard and move to the side, letting them set up.

“just waiting for you all,” he reaches down and picks up the drum stick you dropped. “you jealous you didn’t get a taste?”

“no,” wolfwood whips around, glossy, black guitar hanging off his broad shoulder. “let’s start.” he sighs, plucking the strings on his guitar lightly to tune.

but standing by the mixer as they practice through the setlist, you notice the glances he shoots at you. dark, sharp eyes flickering over to you, raking your neck. he can see the reddish tint marks littered on your skin from the opposite side of the stage and it’s driving him fucking crazy.

#h4venpha #GUNSMOKE BAND AU #vash the stampede #vash x you #vash x y/n #vash x reader #trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #trigun 1998 #trigun 2023 #vash fluff #trigun vash #vash headcanons #vash imagines #trigun band au #vash the stampede x reader #vash the stampede x y/n #vash the stampede x you

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neddea · 3 months

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My fellow Trigun enjoyers, assemble 🙌🏻

If you had to guess, which planet/moon do you think would most likely be Noman’s Land/Gunsmoke?

I’ve been thinking about this for a while (because my latest obsession is astronomy, although it’s also a long running one). In both animes and manga there are two suns, but I’ve been generally looking at exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System) within the habitable zone of their stars, thinking it would be complicated to find a two-star (binary) system that could have any kind of habitability. Yesterday though I found THIS OFFICIAL ART FROM NASA:

(Look at this, it’s so pretty!)

Turns out, NASA has a whole site that is… kind of an AU in which space travel is viable, and they explain how these planets would look like and what events would be cool to see in them and whatnot. They even have some 3D rendering from the surface of those planets so that you can see how it would look like! When I say this website is cool, I’m underselling it:

ANYWAY, back to Trigun shenanigans! When I saw the poster for Kepler-16b, I realized that yes, you could actually live on a planet of a binary system! These are called circumbinary planets, and a funny detail when you read the Wikipedia page:

A quick note on nomenclature: from what I’ve gathered, the name of the star system is followed by a letter or two. If it’s in caps, it’s a star, with A being the primary one and B the secondary; if it’s in lower case, it’s a planet. The planet counter always (?) starts at b, so if there are seven planets in the system called TRAPPIST-1 they would be TRAPPIST-1b, TRAPPIST-1c, TRAPPIST-1d…

Another important note is that there are two types of planetary configuration: If the planet only orbits one star, it’s called S-Type (or non-circumbinary planet); if it orbits both stars, it’s called P-Type (or circumbinary). Hope this didn’t get too confusing!

So I’ve made a list of binary systems that could potentially host human life. Which one do you think would be the best choice?

Kepler-16: the NASA poster one, its planet unofficially called “Tatooine” amongst scientists (good for them). 16b (the planet) is, however, a gas giant like Saturn, so it would be impossible to live there. If it has a moon with an atmosphere though, that could host life! And we’d get to see in the sky two stars and one bigass planet covering a good chunk of it. Pretty neat 🪐

Kepler-35: The planet discovered here is not within the habitable zone, but there is a high chance there might be other rocky planets in it. We can just make it up however we want it to be ✨

Kepler-38: Same as 35, but also the mass of the planet is unknown (I think? Wikipedia says one thing and NASA another, so idk)

Kepler-47: It has 3 planets, which is very cool 🪐🪐🪐 The second one, 47c, is within the habitable zone, but it would be the same case as 16b (living on a moon). The other two planets would also be perfectly visible, I think.

PH1/Kepler-64: First circumbinary planet found in a quadruple (FOUR STARTS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) system, and the discovery was made by citizens! How cool is that!? The planet orbits two of them, but the other system is fairly near and probably influences the planet?. They’re probably perfectly visible from the surface.

ROXs 42: Not much known about the planet, but it orbits the secondary star and has an atmosphere💫 That’s because it’s a gas giant, so it’s not habitable and we’d have to use a moon. Would be cool to see the stars wandering the sky on different paths though, since it’s the only S-Type system in this list!

Kepler-453: I’ve gotten confusing info about the habitability zone on this system, but we know that there’s a gas giant half the size of Jupiter 🤔

Kepler-1647: Same as Kepler-16 and 47. Apparently the system would be capable of sustaining an Earth-sized moon! 🌑

A quick sketch of how each of them would look like:

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ectochrome · 10 months

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[slams fists on table] GUITARIST VASH GUITARIST VASH GUITARIST VA- [i am shot in the back by nightow killing me instantly]

#LET HIM BE A LIL PUNKASS BITCH #if you saw me struggle with his hair. no you didn’t #gunsmoke radio au #v’s art #trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #vash saverem

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blaiddraws · 1 year

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with the new show coming out i have been thinking about gunsmoke au. my beloved. ft. post reunion sleepy cuddling (my one true weakness) and also implied shenanigans

#submas #ingo #submas au #zisu #pokemon #gunsmoke au #nobori #nobori the eclipse

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catwafers · 4 months

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nyello @worldwright some millydira for you ;3

(for the @holidayspirits-on-gunsmoke event)

#millydira #holidayspirits on gunsmoke #worldwright #milly thompson #elendira the crimsonnail #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun fanart #very glad i could draw this ship bc i dont think i would have if not for this event c:#idk what milly's drinking but it's spiked LOL theyre both tipsy and flirting <3 #theyre at a christmas party probably idk whose or where or if this is an au or anything #christmas def exists on nml right like they have christianity so they must have christmas #i dont think ive ever drawn an actual christmas themed artwork for any secret santas ive done in the past LOL #my art #artists on tumblr

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mumblesplash · 1 year

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absolutely baffled by the existence of trigun college/coffee shop/flower shop type aus. like ok those aren’t my cup of tea in general but with trigun specifically i cannot fathom what could draw someone to the story enough to write fanfiction for it which would not be completely lost by changing the setting to present-day earth, removing all the violence, and making all the characters normal humans with retail jobs like how does that even work

#vash not being human is just so integral to his whole deal i don’t UNDERSTAND #and wolfwood too to an extent?#and like the fact that gunsmoke is a near-uninhabitable desert deathworld #is such a huge part of why the whole ‘peace and love’ thing means so much #what exactly is left when you make vash the stampede a modern-day 100% human university student #who is wolfwood without a cross no one else can carry #who is meryl without her 99 guns and a storm to chase #actually ok meryl as an honest to god storm chaser set in the present would go kinda hard #but like even as the most Technically Human of the bunch she’s still so nerfed by a human au #all these characters are extremophiles they don’t make sense in coffee shops i’m so confused #mumbling #trigun stampede #trigun

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babyraptor · 2 years

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it took me nearly 20 years of fandom before i dove headfirst into Trigun fan fiction, and now that i’m in, there’s no resurfacing. so now, just in case anyone is interested, i would like to share some of my favorites. listed in alphabetical order.

i’ll be updating my list every so often. (and if you really want to know, i’m secondofjune on AO3.)

A Bit of a Tight Spot

A Brief Respite

Absolution

A Fool From Any Direction

a haven for restless angels of mercy

a kind heart to haunt

About fears and reassurances

all that i wish i could say

all variety of vows

A Man Called Agony

And Every Breath We Drew Was ‘Hallelujah’

and how i idolize the empty highs

and we’re gonna sing it again

and your prayers (they’re not fables)

An Exchange of Words

a phantom’s reverence

Asymmetry

a tide of tender mercies

Ascension Day

At the mercy of the universe

At the Top of the World

At Vacant Hours

A Whisper in Darkness

babe, i’m gonna leave you

Balance

Bare Hands, Holding Onto the Wire

Bedside Manner

Belly of the Whale

Benediction

between your scars and mine

bittersweet

Black is the Color

Bloodstained Devotion

Bluebells

broken boy, how does it feel?

Bulletproof

But Like A Refugee

but tonight belongs to me

By His Hands

Can’t take my eyes off you

Carrot & Stick

Changing Luck

chemical haze

Child of Blessing

Closed and Healing

Closer

Cold Comfort

Come Back Home

Complimentary

could we please pretend

Couldn’t Be the Booze

Daily Special

dance in our catastrophe

darlin’, it finds a way to live in you

Daughter of Eve

dead man talking

Desecration is But a Form of Worship

did you get enough love (my little dove)

Dinner for Two

Dirty Thoughts

disarm you with a smile

Don’t need a gun to blow your mind

don’t stop if I fall and don’t look back

dream a little dream

Dreaming Saint’s Sonata

dress me in red and throw your roses

Duality

Episode 25: Live Through

Equinox

every me, every you

Exodus 23:24

Eyes of the Storm

Facets

Fairytale of December

Falling forward, back into orbit

Feel Good

Figure Me Out

Fine, Great

Fire on the Mountain

fool in the moon

for a sinner like me

For Good

for reasons wretched and divine

for where else could i go? who else could i love but you?

From the Past or the Future? Your Guess Is As Good As Mine

gentle thievery

get me outta my head

Ghosts of the Byway

god like sunshine, girl like rain

gravedigger, gravedigger

Gung-Ho Guns Ver. 1.0

Gunpowder Nights

Hallefuckinglujah

Heartbeat

heavens away

Hell, I’m Dead Anyway

hold my body down

Holding My Breath

Honeymoon

Hunger

Hurricane

I Believe in the Kingdom Come

i can see a lot of life in you

i can see it in his eyes

Idle Hands (The Devil’s Playground)

I just can’t wait for love to destroy us

IN EXCELSIS DEO

In heaven, lost my taste for hell

Inseparable

Insomnia

Interjacence

inter paradisum et infernum

In the Bloom of a Creosote

in the dark and out of harm

i promised i’d give this a go

i shot cupid (needle and thread)

It’s Open Season on Blue Moons

I’d wanna burn whole (to be someone’s spark)

I’ve seen all the demons that you’ve got

Joan of Arc

Just a Hobby

Just for Tonight

Just Listen to the Rhythm of the Heart

Keep your bliss, there’s nothing wrong with this

kiss me, son of god

la petite mort

Lay It On Me and I’ll Be There to Catch You

lay us down

lead-fill the hole in me

Left Hand

Life on Gunsmoke

Little Pieces of the Nothing That Fall

love and its decisive pain (sunlight)

maman

mashed potatoes

More Than You’ll Ever Know

Minefield

Mysterious Ways

Need

Night Vision

nobody said it was easy

No Idle Threat

Not For My Behalf

Not in the Job Description

not to me, not if it’s you

oh lazarus, how did your debts get paid

One Day Closer to Death

Only Human

Only Over You

Open Me Up

our bodies fit together

Past the Mission

Personal Jesus

Pieces

playing cards with the elephant in the room

Playing House

Pollinate him, please!

Praying to the Wrong God

Pretending

raise a glass to the turnings of the season

Reign of Lovin’

Roots

rough edges

Sandstorm Blues

say it’s such a fault

say your name, forever

Scratch Your Surface

Season of the Witch

Secondhand Secrets

Self-Inflicted

Skin Deep

Sleepless Without You

Smoke & Soulmates

so i’ll sing to the grave

So It Goes

Someday Out of the Blue

someone to last your whole life

something eluding you, sunshine?

something I can’t know ’til now

Something of a Departure

Something to Live For

sorry about the blood in your mouth, i wish it were mine

Stargazers, New and Old

stop me if you’ve heard this all before

Strange Powers

Strawberries & Cigarettes

stretched out for miles and miles

sucker love

sweet dreams of otherness

take a knife and cut through the darkness

take my breaking heart (and tear it all apart)

taste my misfit love

Tension

terrors don’t prey on innocent victims

that constant sting that we call love

The barrel of the gun

The Edge of Knowing

The Evening and the Morning and the Night

The Lighthouse

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Traveller

The Only Nice Thing That Follows

The Quick and the Bed

there are certain things you ask of me (and there are certain things i lack)

there’s something about you

The sand in your eyes was made of dreams

the ship’s inhabitants

the truth hurts worse

The wolf and the lamb

thirty pieces of silver

this could be home

this could be the end of everything

This is how we multiply

this road we are on

Thorns of Memory

Those were the days

time and tide, through the wall

Time Out

to have a body is to be a horror show

Tomorrows

touch me like nobody else does (lovely)

Touch

Trillium and Ivy

trust me to take you home

Trust

Tuesday’s Gone

two from the bottom of the bin

Untouchable

Up Front

Vashwood O’Ween

Visible Scars

water supply

Waiting at that shallow grave

Where Wild Roses Grow

Why Your Current Relationship is Not Sustainable

Wildflowers

wild horses couldn’t drag me away

will we ever grow a proper set of panic

will you welcome your extinction

Within Us An Orchard

Wolfwood’s Guide to Confession

Worth Something

yet broken still you breathe

You Are Red, Violent Red

you can run away with me anytime you want

you know you had it coming, my friend

you put me on and said I was your favorite

you stop the noise

you think history is repeated, you keep on pushing me away

you’ll leave me lonely at best

you’re a canary (i’m a coal mine)

you’re gonna be the one left standing

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nicholas-wolfwood · 9 months

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Sorry for the lack of activity again, but I got sucked into fish again all night!

#ooc #WIP #very WIP #got a few more I have ideas for #plus Meryl Milly and Roberto as biologists #gunsmoke with fish tails #mun got distracted #trigun #vash #wolfwood #livio #zazie #hope to eventually add knives legato midvalley and the reporters (plus Milly)#au: mermaids

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h4venpha · 9 months

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GUNSMOKE trigun band au!

starring… wolfwood, vash, livio, meryl, and milly polycule!

very messy, simple hcs, general opening info — this info CAN change! (these are MY SPECIFIC trigun band au hcs, heavily based off chris’s band au, check him out!)

#GUNSMOKE BAND AU

WOLFWOOD! lead guitarist + band leader

- chunky rings on fingers

- tongue piercing (matching vash), snake bites, eyebrow piercing (matching milly)

- back tattoo (cross with angel wings, see chris’s post for an example!)

- shaggy hair down, jet black

VASH! drummer

- multiple earrings both sides, tongue piercing (matching wolfwood)

- vline and hip tattoos, some sort of flowery assortment? angel wings flipping out to his hips

- blond shaggy hair down OR liberty spikes sometimes, strip of red racoon stripes on one side

LIVIO! lead vocalist + guitarist + lyricist

- lip piercings, multiple earrings, both sides

- cyber sigilism tattoo on the left side of his neck that crawls up his jaw just slightly, razlo got it lol

- spikey hair down, emo-ish hair

- sometimes half liberty spikes (teehee razlo again), white platinum hair

MERYL! vocalist

- earrings only, no face tats

- collar bone tattoo, feathers only

- emo hair, black and dark blueish tint

MILLY! bassist + backing vocalist + lyricist

- multiple earrings both sides, eyebrow piercing (matching wolfwood)

- shoulder+bicep tattoo, similar to vash’s, flower assortments BUT with feathers and not whole wings

- dirty blonde layered hair

READER! gunsmoke manager

- obvious romantic connections to all characters in this au

- reader will almost always be in all works under this au, rarely will there be any canon x canon works

this is a polycule au with above characters! heres a graph i made to show the respective pairs!!

all works under this au will be tagged with its specific pair(s)!

#vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #livio the double fang #milly thompson #meryl stryfe #trigun stampede #h4venpha #GUNSMOKE BAND AU

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browniefox · 1 year

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Fanfic Director Cut: Gunsmoke and Daemons?

:D Gunsmoke and Daemons! I've been having so so so much fun writing this fic series <3 Some of the things I say here might've been said in the author notes too, but oh well lol. Time to go through the fics!

Souls from Earth

Chapter 1

Choosing daemons are always tricky, because you want to pick something that rally fits the character, but also sometimes you want to go a little more abstracted in the characters. The names were even harder; I always picked the daemon names divorced from the daemon's forms, because ultimately they wouldn't be related when the name was chosen. I usually tried to pick names I felt would be important to people in No Man's Land - things they're familiar with or aspects they want to instill on their kid.

(This'll be long so I'm putting it below a cut)

Meryl's daemon Caelum was chosen to be a black cat, both as a reference to Kuro Neko, and because I think giving her a somewhat 'plain' or common daemon fits Meryl's role in the story. Caelum's name just means sky.

Roberto's daemon Devana is also pretty straight forward; she's a bloodhound because of how Roberto is good at sniffing out people and tracking down and noticing things. Similarly, Devana's name comes from a hunting goddess.

Wolfwood's daemon Fenneke is a maned wolf. When I get to the second chapter of the Wolfwood fic I'll go into this as well. Maned wolves are neither foxes nor wolves - Wolfwood does feel he fits into things anymore. Her long limbs are emblematic of how Wolfwood literally grew up too fast. Her name means protection, something his parents would've wanted for Wolfwood and Fenneke.

One thing I'm always trying to make clear is how strange it would be for people to see Vash without a daemon. I guess this does mean it extends to all people who have insect daemons, to a degree, but it stands that not seeing one is like seeing someone inexplicably missing their head.

I'm also trying to keep the plot more or less the same, but also not just seem like I'm rewriting Tristamp word for word, but with 'and Caelum said hi' or whatever sprinkled through. In that vein, I like having the daemons be able to notice things before their human counter parts.

Chapter 2

According to HDM lore, humans can recognize daemons on sight, which makes writing Zazie tricky, so I just kind of have to hand wave that with 'well, it would make more sense for that worm to be a daemon, wouldn't it?'

Chapter 3

I really liked playing with the fact Caelum, being the small cat around canine daemons, can easily be pulled around by the others, and how Meryl and Caelum need to learn to stand up for themselves and not be pulled around, very literally. I think being yanked around by your daemon and range like that is super uncomfortable and VERY rude, but it's done by Roberto in an effort to save Meryl's life. Still, that doesn't mean it's super great to pull someone's daemon away from them like that.

The reaction Caelum and Devana have to Vash after he's accessed his gate kind of came to me while writing. It's like how animals are usually shown in movies to react to supernatural creatures; it's not so much that they think Vash is a threat, more that there is something Wrong going on there, and until they can understand it keeping the distance is safer. Fenneke reacts similarly, but more so because she's familiar with an Independent, and did not like her experiences with it.

Fenneke also hints at another thing I hope to go into in the Wolfwood fic: that he didn't not know, going in, entirely what Vash was. Finding out he's an Independent is shocking and is almost like betrayal.

We also get the great scene of Meryl having to fight to get Caelum to follow her to Vash, and her war between seeing something totally alien to her and wanting to help her friend, where the desire to help wins out.

Chapter 4

Similar to Zazie, people can tell that Pax is not typical flora right off the bat, but most people don't realize she's a daemon - or let themselves believe she's a daemon, because everyone knows daemons don't look like that!

Luida's daemon Wiglaf, named after a character from the Beowulf poem who kind of embodies the human and flawed hero that comes after the death of Beowulf. He's a gray eagle, which I thought looked cool and big :)

Brad's daemon is Arch, which means brave. She's a raccoon because she's smart and handy.

Chapter 5

I forgot to mention this, I'll probably finally mention it in the Wolfwood fic, but because Elendira's neither human nor Plant, her daemon is not flora nor animal: her daemon is cordyceps fungi that's 'infected' a tarantula (not really infected since uh her daemon came like that).

Having Meryl hold Devana before she died was a choice I struggled with, I was way overly worried how it would be received. But I felt like it was such an intimate moment that it warranted it. I'm going back and forth on whether I'll write the epilogue/Milly chapter, and if I do how I'll write it. one of the aspects that was considered to be included, however, was Milly being Roberto's niece or something, and Meryl telling Milly about this.

In general, with daemons deaths is so interesting; you know when someone is dead, because their daemon has disappeared.

I really liked the scene between Meryl and Wolfwood, mostly for their daemons being able to be more honest, to have the conversation that they themselves are unable to have at that moment. I've also by this point made a few references to Wolfwood and Fenneke's range. Another thing I hope to touch on in the Wolfwood fic, but to settle one question: no they are not separated, the Eye of Michael would not destroy someone as useful as Wolfwood like that. Their range has, however, been stretched from an incident.

While writing the scene with Vash in the tank, originally I had Pax growing just as much as Vash himself, but that never sat well with me. Pax represents Vash, but more than that she represents his soul. Conrad mentions that at the end of the procedure, Vash is a Plant, seeming to imply Vash is more like his sisters than before (in my opinion) and normal Plants don't have daemons, so I had Pax withering instead. On Ship Three, her bush is withering as well. Was the vines growing out of Vash also Pax, though? Honestly, I'm not sure if I'd say they are or aren't.

Pax does get to reach out to Meryl, holding onto Meryl a few times in a desperate effort to bring Vash some kind of strength, to connect with Meryl. After all, Pax has been there the entire time, she has come to trust and love Meryl and Caelum just as much as Vash.

The decision to make Vash's daemon a plant actually came from my sister, @the-east-art! For a while, we weren't sure how deal with her; obviously the range between Vash and Pax would be basically witch-like. At one point, she was just in one place, flourishing on a random spot of No Man's Land where she'd landed. Then there was her stuck on Ship Three. I really like the idea of the cuttings though that allow her to grow in different places, letting Vash keep a stronger and bigger form of her with Ship Three, but also carry her with him.

There was, for a bit, also the idea of adding a sixth chapter of Meryl and Wolfwood, post July, with Wolfwood escorting her back to November (where I'm saying the tabloid agency is). And then, at the end, she would've given him part of Pax and they would've both carried her. However, the idea of Meryl deciding to cut up Pax didn't sit right with me, and I think Wolfwood wouldn't have accepted it, not thinking he was right to carry Vash's daemon like that.

The Plant and the Flora

I've said this a few times now, but Pax's name means peace. He tells people her form is that of a wolf spider, which is a reference to the spider and the butterfly question. It also shows that Vash is not afraid to associate himself with humans or 'the spiders'. Pax's exact appearance is, uh, deliberately left vague. She's a fantasy plant.

Rem's daemon is Evander, which means strong man. I went with a black-footed ferret because they're similar to a pine marten. How much does the HDM canon fit here? IDK, but I like how it gives Rem a little more holy connection. At one point, I considered making Evander a spider as well, but ultimately decided I wanted something else, and that it would feel weird for Rem to have a spider and then for Vash to pretend Pax is one.

I don't really show it in the scene, but when Ship Five is burning, Nai does feel it as well, and it does hurt, but he sees it as him freeing himself. It does take Amare a while to bounce back from that, however, and I think she struggles for a while to completely agree with Nai about what he decided to do.

When Vash was found by Ship Three, Pax had fallen out of the pendant. For a while, Ship Three ran experiments, but when it became clear that Pax wasn't doing so well, they placed her in the Herborium in hopes it would help her to grow stronger and kept most experiments and sample-taking to a minimum. Still, Pax couldn't grow in Ship Three until Vash felt safe there. None of it was done with cruel intentions, but it still hurt Vash. But, well, Vash's trust in humanity means nothing if it doesn't come with struggle.

There's like one (1) person left on Ship Three who remebers enough about psychology classes to try and be a therapist, and that's single-mention Haru. Give it up for Haru, she's a busy lady.

I went back and forth on who would give Vash the Pax cutting, between it being Luida and on purpose, or Brad on accident. I decided it was much more likely Brad would do it in a panic, in a desperate act to make sure that Pax lived. And I think it's a good gesture for him, for Brad to give Vash back his daemon, as well as to officially untether him from Ship Three with the act.

Amare's name means love, but she and Knives changed it to Papilio, which means butterfly, as that's what Knives views himself as, doing what he has to do survive the spiders. She's managed to grow so big because of how comfortable Knives is with himself, and how strong his powers are (I'm also thinking she's grown thorns, but I never mentioned that). Pax and Vash, on the other hand, try to fit in, and thus Pax usually never gets bigger than a bush.

Because Pax is with Meryl and some of her is still alive on Ship Three, Eriks always a sense of love and comfort, because his daemon is in good hands <3

Eve and the Original Sin

To those (my sister) who were hoping to see a lot of Tesla, I'm so sorry, but I think the relationship between Rem and Mendel ends up being soooo interesting. The exploration of 'should you participate in something terrible if you think you can mitigate the damage, or should you stay to the side and still be complicit and still watch as terrible things happen - maybe even go worse because you aren't doing anything - but at least you're not doing it yourself'?

Fun fact! If I remember right, what makes a bonsai is how you prune it, which forces the leaves to grow smaller. So basically Rem if accidentally making Mendel into a bonsai.

When Rem plants Mendel in the herbarium, Mendel continues to live there. He does not grow any bigger or healthier, more or less in stasis with the rest of him and Tesla.

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