HAPPY APOLLO JUSTICE (and the other 2 games) PORT ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉🎉🎉
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it’s a terrible affliction, isn’t it? the guilt I can’t absolve you of, however much I wish I could
notes:
-the inspiration for this piece was the concept of guilt as poison, represented as the cigarette (physical) and the gun (mental)
-the cigarette is pretty self-explanatory as a poison. I see it as a form of punishment he inflicts on himself--it's killing him but he pushes onward anyway
(-even if the regenerative drug's effects extend to healing damage caused by chemicals, there's still weight to the act of willingly putting poison into his system. either way it's not enough self-sabotage to stop wolfwood from fighting for the orphanage, but it's enough to make him feel something)
-the gun is, of course, about his role as an assassin: how he justifies the act of killing, and how he deems it necessary, but laments what he's become at times
-vash understands very well that wolfwood carries his own heavy burden in silence, but still wants to ease the pain
-so here he's asking wolfwood to leave it to him, to allow himself some reprieve, by taking the cigarette and gently lowering the gun
-vash's plant powers are supposed to represent a "blessed antidote" to suppress the "cursed poison", which is why it has glowing blue-green (associated with healing) lines in contrast to the purple smoke (associated with poison)
-in other words: "if I fight in your stead will that lessen your suffering?" (no lol)
-these colors are also the highlights on their respective earrings
-consider the caption to be the last part of the piece: where vash admits his attempt at helping wolfwood isn't a permanent solution, but it doesn't stop him from trying anyway
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and still we were tentative, hesitant to seek comfort and offer it, for it was unfathomable that we could do such things; even though we had already pledged ourselves to each other a long time ago
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