it's such an injustice that if I want to read fics with stupid and ridiculous concepts like Savage as Jaster Mereel's sugar baby I have to write them first
I know the show probably won’t do it but it would be nice to see rex struggling with the prosthetic hand they give him (you see it in the s2pt2 trailer)
a long rant from the perspective of a person who’s parents are physical therapists:
the healing process from any amputation is long, arduous and traumatic all around. Also most amputees don’t wear their prosthetics (if they have one) 24/7
Hands are one of the most complex systems in your body they are made up of 27 bones total including the wrist! They’re full of so many tendons, small muscles and nerve endings which is why hand injuries tend to hurt that much more and as someone healing from a bad finger injury rn it takes time and patience to heal from
I know the invincible show verse has much more advanced tech and I don’t doubt they have advanced prosthetic technology at hand (accidental pun) but going off of the most advanced prosthetic hand tech we have available now it involves connecting nerves to electrodes that are on the outside of the left over arm stump via surgery. Then the patient has to work slowly with A LOT of physical therapy to rebuild these new connections to use this new hand. To even just make a fist!
I don’t expect the show to go into the depths of this whole process and the intricacies of physical therapy work with amputees but I would at least like to see rex struggle a bit. To fuck up when he tries to first use it! to just be frustrated at how hard this is! He’s been through so much in his past and now he has to get used to a fake hand? It could provide good character depth and show a bit of the real life struggles amputees deal with especially since the show has gone much more in-depth on the emotional, physical and mental effects of trauma.
Not gonna spoil who but rex is not gonna be the only amputee we see in this series and I hope the show handles a certain female character’s injury better than the comic did! That’s all bye bye!
i'm sure it's been said but i do love how trimax handles wolfwoods death. i've seen so many stories that have characters die and they just go away after. i'm really used to stories where the other characters aren't allowed to grieve, the story keeps going and it feels like the other characters aren't really affected or get over it really easily. but in trimax wolfwoods death is so important. we see other characters grieving him. vash protecting the orphanage, expanding his power when he really shouldn't, because it was wolfwood's home, even though wolfwood is already gone. he gets an actual burial. vash and livio eating their way through the grief, which is more comedic but still shows us how important he was to the two of them, sets up how in many ways they're fighting in his memory.
even after he's gone he's still present in the story in such a strong way. we can see how he's affected the other characters, even when they don't explicitly mention him it's obvious that they're thinking about him. what he did when he was alive, and his death itself, are so important to the story even after he's not there. not just in a really abstract "this is someone we lost" way (though there are a lot of times his death and sacrifice motivate vash and livio to fight harder!) he's present in the finale in a material way to livio, who uses his serums to help fight against elendira, which ofc also ties into the way wolfwoods choice to ally with vash and fight against knives gave livio strength to do the same. wolfwood showed him that there are things worth fighting for, things worth protecting. that your body is a weapon, but you can choose what to do with it, use it for something meaningful.
and the way vash kills legato in order to save livio? vash outright says that he did it to protect what wolfwood fought for, sacrificed his life for. it's tied to the ongoing arc between vash and wolfwood, their conflict over the necessity of killing others. wolfwood pushed vash into having an understanding of his views when he was alive, demonstrating the necessity of that violence. simultaneously, vash inspired wolfwood to follow his path, a kinder one. vash remembers what wolfwood said to him, and his death gives those words added poignancy. wolfwood well and truly sacrificed everything to protect what he loved and fight for what he believed in. how can vash let that go to waste? he sacrifices something just as meaningful to himself, and he pulls the trigger. it brings him closer to wolfwood in a way he never was before. he understands now, fundamentally, what motivates people, motivated wolfwood, to act as he did when he took lives. there are so many other ways wolfwood is present in the story after his death i can't talk about all of them but it makes me so crazy
My grandmother died this morning alone with all of her children desperately trying to reach her in her final moments & I thought I would be overcome with grief and sob endlessly but I just feel so empty