#like vash is so scary

[altades]

can we talk about can we just talk about them can we can we i'm please

ww seeing the worst most terrifyng parts of vash and still staying by his side i ahhhhh

#trigun #vashwood #artists on tumblr #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #digital art #i know we know how vash loves ww even though ww is not the best guy #but ww also sees this nuclear warhead with legs and doesn't dump him??? #like vash is so scary #the only thing between him and being just as bad as nai is his morals #so if one day he just doesnt like ppl anymore then what #right #and ww knows that but he still loves him #they drive me insane

[lemongogo]

this vash im drawing rn sorry im too excited 2 wait ,i love him so much I LOVE HIMM

#GIGGLGINGGGGF BLUSHSINGGG LIKE LOOKINGG AWAAYY #I LVLE UU I LVOE YOIU #ISKWHJWHAHAGSHAHQHWHWCWW C #lg doodles #trigun #trigun maximum #for oncein my life i feel like . hes vash enough to share #idk how the HELLL PPL DRAW HIS HAIR ITS SOO HARD #Nyqyas . ANYWYAS!!!‼️‼️‼️‼️ #i cant wait to color him though … when i finally get arnd to it #i hve a knives in the corner rn (thts why the lineart looks so fucked over there HAJAHA) #but this fndom is scary and idk if i want them on the same page lest ppl be FREAKS!!!!!!!! #i see one k*v tag im killinh myself

[collieii]

a lil detail in trimax i like is how it shows meryl and wolfwood grappling with vash's inhumanity. wolfwood sees vash's power, what he's capable of, before he really gets to know who vash is as a person (they met for a lil on the bus ofc but that was pretty brief). he sees him blow a hole in the moon right after meeting him. of course he's heard rumors about vash, but then he sees him and knives up close and personal, sees the angel arm, and he can't believe vash is an ordinary man anymore. he's confused, shocked, and scared, because he barely understands what's happening. but he can clearly see that vash is dangerous and inhuman. so a lot of his arc is him struggling to reconcile his knowledge of that power with his relationship with vash. ultimately, he ends up with an understanding of who vash is, what he values, and he comes to share those values and beliefs. he learns to let himself trust and believe in vash, despite the implications of his powers.

and meryl, ofc, knows vash as a man and as a friend before she learns what he's capable of. then it isn't until the midvalley/hoppered arc that she's not only told explicitly by zazie what vash is, she sees it for herself in a pretty violent way when he loses control and goes bird mode (what do i call feathery vash lol). not only that but she's shown his memories of july, probably the most brutal and visceral expression of his power there is. that experience traumatizes her, but she makes an effort to overcome that instinctive fear of what vash is because she knows she can trust him, and that almost everything he does is for the good of humanity. and he deserves to be treated like a good person, a good friend, because he is one! he's not just his powers of biblical proportions. all this is to say i like how trimax lets us see two people who are close to vash come to terms with his plantness in different ways, because it's not something people can just shrug off, it's something they need to process.

#trigun #trigun maximum #meryl stryfe #nicolas d. wolfwood #vash the stampede #i was really sleepy when i wrote this so idk if it makes sense #just. i like how trimax shows that vash is actually scary to normal people #as opposed to glossing over it kinda like 98 does lol #trigun meta #.lieii #also if i missed smth about wolfwoods arc sorry it's kinda long compared to meryls lol so maybe i forgot smth #there aren't really any insights here sorry i just think it's sort of an interesting parallel (?) with ww and meryls arcs #is this spoilers #trimax spoilers #just to be safe #.lieii txt

[tradingjack]

These were the concept pages I drew for my original writer in the @vashwoodbigbang event! Unfortunately they have disappeared on me 😅 and also bc god hates me I guess, the day I was supposed to post these, yesterday, saw me dealing with first a wifi outage and then a whole electricity outage so. That was fun lmao

Details about the drawings below since. I don't know if my writer will ever post the story, unfortunately 😔

So this was originally coined as a stardust au! I believe it was primarily based on the movie that came out in the 2000s (?), though I believe my writer was familiar with both the movie and the book it was based on. Honestly, it doesn't pull much at all from the story itself, just the general concepts of stars.

In this version, Vash is a star, and he decides to try and find his long-lost siblings (Knives and Tessla). In his search, he comes across a planet he hasn't visited before, and while he's descending to it, he's shot down by something mysterious that causes him rather permanent injury (not new; I believe he'd already lost his arm previously and he has all his scarring from travels to previous planets, this specific technology is just new to him).

He manages to crawl some distance from the resulting crater and is rescued by the odd pair of anthropologist Milly and journalist Meryl, who are tracking fallen stars on their planet in order to research them. Vash is horrified to learn that stars on this planet are rather brutally searched for and used for their power, so he tries his best to keep his real identity as a star secret.

In the next town, he learns about Star Cultists, who are the leading experts on stars. Our dear Wolfwood is one of them, and though he's a priest under the head of Chapel, he seems pretty jaded about the whole thing. He also spends some time poking fun at their visitor Vash when he stumbles on the doorstep of the church.

Unbeknownst to all, Chapel is the one who shot Vash down, and he suspects Vash is his target. When Vash, Milly, and Meryl skip town, Wolfwood is ordered to tag along with them against his will, and he begrudgingly forces himself into the group with his usual grace lol.

Through some shenanigans, including an interesting fight with Livio/Razlo who is a martyr (a human who ate at least part of a star and became consumed by it), the group all grows closer to each other. Naturally, Wolfwood and Vash hit it off with their usual ideology clashing and homoerotic team fighting. The tension comes to a head when both of the boys are drunk and attempting to stumble somewhere after getting kicked out of the bar, and with the help of liquid courage, Wolfwood admits to Vash that he's what's known as a "Star Eater:" a human that has consumed part of a star, and by some genetic luck, isn't consumed by it and instead gains some superhuman abilities so long as the magical tattoo (i forget what it's called off the top of my head fuck) that forms around the presenting star isn't broken.

Vash is understandably horrified. Wolfwood is confused by Vash's rejection bc he isn't aware Vash is a star; he's under the impression Vash is just some very talented guy Chapel really wants to feed a star shard in the hopes he becomes part of their superhuman cult.

Vash sobers up and manages to drag a very drunk and eepy Wolfwood to their hotel.

The next day is the turning point; the star cultists, including Chapel, catch up to them and confront Vash. Wolfwood has to learn very quickly that he'd been Wrong and Vash, in his panic, flies to where it feels most safe; the city's Star (storage area?? Idk). He ends up cornered there and, in his panic, accidentally goes nuclear trying to escape and blows up half the city in a column of flame. While he's barreling across the desert in an attempt to get away, he's trapped by a net the star cultists set up, made of the same shit used to shoot him down at the start, and he can't escape it on his own.

Luckily he's found by Wolfwood first, who's decided he owes it to Vash to try and fix his fuck up, and using his superhuman healing, he manages to free Vash. Both are exhausted and ultimately rescued by LR, who's been tailing them.

Tbh my memory's kinda foggy... my writer only managed to share up to that first LR fight, so I don't remember exactly what's supposed to happen between here and the fight at the orphanage?? I remember Vash somehow finds out what happened to his siblings (a hella long time ago, Tessla was consumed by the people of the planet and Knives, in his rage, fuckin just annihilated everything, turning it into a desert planet, and has been laying dormant for the most part since then) and also we learn that martyrs gain better control of themselves, and the crystal growth consuming them stops, when in proximity to enough additional star power. Vash, as a star himself, allows LR to easily think as they did before they ate a star shard when in close enough proximity.

Anyway, fight for the orphanage, Vash shows up in time to see Wolfwood getting his shit rocked and his magical tattoo (I'm so annoyed I can't remember what it's called. My mind is supplying sharingan and i know that aint it) shattered by Chapel, who accomplishes this by running Wolfwood through with his cane. Vash, believing Wolfwood's dead (bc like. Lmao it's pretty hard to live getting impaled, like, fully), loses his temper and basically obliterates Chapel. He moves on from Wolfwood's body to try and dismantle the entire Star church so Wolfwood's orphanage can stay safe. In this process, he confronts a Doctor Conrad, who was behind the whole thing, the remains of Tessla, and somehow Knives?? I think Knives, sensing Vash's anguish, just tried to fuckin nuke everyone, and Vash stops that. I feel like Knives dies in this process somehow... I think it was by saving Vash from something Conrad made??

By the end of it, Vash is wounded and exhausted, and ends up being saved by Milly and Meryl, I think.

When he recovers, it's to find he's lost his ability to leave the planet; while still functionally a star, his power has greatly diminished, his hair is black, and he can't even hide his wings anymore. Last I knew, my writer was actually merciful and let Wolfwood live! Albeit as a martyr (thus the wolf form with the uncontrolled star shard bursting out of the hole in his chest you can see on Wolfwood's page lol). Luckily he's got Vash around, so he gets to keep his mind, if not his human form.

With Knives dead and the star cultists mostly dispersed and no longer able to fuck with the planet, the story ends with our characters getting to experience rainfall on the planet for the first time in centuries.

.......

I like the story :P I imagine it'd be a lot better written out in actual novel form by the person who'd actually thought it up than my shitass, too-long summary lol.

Honestly my writer was communicating up until like, a month ago?? And then they just.... disappeared :/ which is weird bc I checked with my mod for this event (shout out to mod sana, @pushclouds, you're an amazing mod and I appreciate the heck out of you) and they submitted literally every check-in. Honestly I'm more worried for them than anything, if anyone knows what happened to @lohikaar I'd appreciate anything you can tell me. I hope they'll publish this story whenever they can, I'd still love to read it in its entirety.

Additional shout-out to @priellan for beta-ing the story they shared with us, and for overall being a super supportive team member :D

Also they did assign me a pinch hitter writer since we have no idea wtf happened to my original writer, so I'll be doing more drawings :D priellan agreed to beta for them too, which I'm super happy about! And thanks again to mod sana for your hard work and arranging that so quickly!

An admittedly strange first big bang experience, but I don't think it was overall bad, and I'm excited to work on more stuff with my new writer :D if you read this far goddamn. Thanks lol. See you again for sure on January 1st! (I'll try to post other shit between then and now hopefully)

#vashwood big bang #my art #stardust au #man im. idk. it really feels like the universe was against me on this one but fuck the universe I'll do what i want #i deserve to make silly little drawings of queer silly little guys. i think ive earned that this year. good god #anywayyy will be making more #and fr like. if aster does see this im not angry! im not even really disappointed i know shit happens #really i'd just like assurance that you're alive and well at this point 😅 #feel like we've been through some real scary stuff this year #trigun #fanart #primarily based off trimax tbh #still plugged a lot of christianity into this one dont worry #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #werewolf??? ig????? it's not technically a werewolf but also shit dude i was looking up werewolves as references so #vash x wolfwood #ik there's really none in the drawings but that was a focal point of the story #which the concept pages are about

[littlefankingdom]

In Trigun, we all know that plants don't grow up at the same speed than humans, as Vash and Knives are as developed as 10 years old children at one year old. However, y'all have miss something. In Trigun Maximum, it is told that Vash lost his arm around 80 years ago, and the Fall was around 150 years ago. However, in the flashback about the accident, Vash and Knives seem to be teenagers. Which would mean that plants don't grow faster than human, they go through early childhood faster, but stay teenagers for decades, than don't age once they reach adulthood (around 25 as Vash is described has looking 24).

Yeah, no shit Knives is genocidal, he's a teenager with no adult support. (*My Chemical Romance is playing in the background*)

#trigun #trigun maximum #millions knives #vash the stampede #teenagers scare the living shit out of me #my ramblings #teenagehood is such an unstable period for the development of a child and adults often fail them at this stage #so yeas this is scary to imagine #nightow being like “let me show you what having no safe space does to a child” and he throw you Knives

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

The fact that Vash has to keep reminding himself that he can also be threatening and dangerous probably means something that I am too tired to piece together atm but for now it's just funny to me.

#it's weird because in the monev fight it was kind of how he psyched himself up... which to me implies that despite his skill #he still feels vulnerable... or maybe helpless? since that chapter was the one we get the rem flashback #and the line 'i just watched on helplessly' as the fleet crashed etc #so maybe that's it - like a 'no wait i can do something about this now!' #but also. hdfbvsdhb it reminds me of stampede vash's 'mm. no thanks!' when challenged to a fight #vash gets challenged by assassins and still goes: 'oh... no thank you. that sounds kind of scary...' #ahfbdhfvbj #tbh i really do like that vash is allowed to get nervous and grieve and cry though. and he's still confident and skilled and cool. #he's got the range :D #trigun #trigunbookclub #vash the stampede #storyrambles

[ohitslen]

Something something I was thinking about this afternoon over on Twitter right here

#no real meaning behind anything I just thought it would be funny #inside my head there are things that are happening beyond our comprehension. mine included. this is one of them #wouldn’t it be so cute? not to Kni maybe but to me and Vash sure is! #I used to be at the church choir when I was a kid for like a year and then never came back to it #my mom was a choir girlie her whole adolescence so it just kinda stuck with me for a little #I am not a catholic since years ago so this is double the funny bc I can barely remember anything LMAOOO #ww WILL become a priest and he will be the worst priest ever committing sacrilege after sacrilege incredibly sinful #oh religious guilt! how great I used to have loads of that one when I was a kid. it wasn’t even endorsed by my family I just thought that #hell was a scary place even if they never told me I would be punished. lucky in that aspect but they didn’t count with the fact that #I had undiagnosed adhd and anxiety so that was a hell lot of fun so let’s project yeah! #trigun #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #Kni saverem #millions knives #trigun stampede #trigun fanart #nicholas trigun #vash #wolfwood #nai trigun #Kni Trigun #church choir! AU #funniest thought ever like what the fuck even is this OQNMSKW

[b0tsbby]

So do we just not talk about Vash being able to handle a spaceship control panel, bypass the lock that was on Tesla’s files and him being very comfortable fixing his own arm like do we just not talk about it like do we just not t

#I just think there’s a lot of potential here y’all #I’m just saying he’s a very multifaceted and skilled man #he has so many skills it’s scary #his brain is massive #but he has no fat ass tho🫶 #like there’s just so much au and fic potential here #like idk it’s giving #it’s giving genius #it’s giving mechanic #it’s giving rocket scientist #b0tstalks #trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #vash trigun

[varilien]

kinda wild to me this is the Final Thing from last summer i never posted :0 i’m still kinda hoping one day i’ll actually go back and re-board it and do some proper post prod. but at this point i KNOW i’m busy and will continue to be busy so.  i hope y’all still enjoy this first pass as is :)

random stuff about the process for it under the cut if anyone’s interested

so all the boards in this pass were done late july/early august 2021, with about a month put into them all collectively.  i was trying really hard to strike a balance between wanting the boards to look clean but ALSO do them as fast as possible, because that’s, y’know, kinda the whole point of boarding lol

the three pages of thumbnails i did took about a day per page with all the planning involved

i’d intended to do the whole song but i didn’t have a fully formed opinion about the ending of the actual show at the time, so by this midway point i ended up realizing i’d need to completely re-thumbnail the entire last half if i wanted it to make any sense.  IT ALSO GENUINELY TOOK ME A WHILE TO REALIZE THAT I UH, DEFAULTED TO THE INSTAGRAM PORTRAIT FORMAT.  INSTEAD OF AN ACTUAL VIDEO 1920x1080 RESOLUTION.  I MAY BE STUPID

#trigun #trigun anime #trigun fanart #vash #vash the stampede #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #milly thompson #meryl stryfe #chapel the evergreen #animatics #that ''in the name of what you love'' board is still one of my fav woofs i've ever drawn lol #he's my icon for my college email :) helps with sending scary messages LMAO #teehee tolerating the discomfort of posting something so extremely unfinished and unpolished like this to prep for how class feels Every Day #IT WON'T WORK I'LL STILL JUST SKIP THOSE DAYS BUT Y'KNOW #also my other favorite thing about this animatic is you can TELL how fucking old all the art is. purely by the shape of vash's nose :) #if nothing else seems bleedingly obvious i didn't draw this recently well the square nose will do it fgjdkhdk #videos

[weirdcat1213]

whatever is up there has really spit on my face but guess what fucker, if vash the fucking stampede can survive more than 100 years and get through all the abuse and trauma, so can queer people. we're gonna live even more than 100 years and thats a fucking promise

#im angry #i really cant escape #it was dumb af of me to think i could but hey #if he can survive so can i #and giving up would make vash really sad #im tired #i dont have the best irl support system #but i have media that tells me im not wrong and i can live how i want #and im gonna trust that #im gonna chase the feeling of comfort that some people give me #its gonna hurt and its gonna be so scary but whats fear to us #like water to a fish #ok im done now

[triguuuun]

98 really does not prepare you for The Horrors in Maximum im ngl legato forcing all those people to literally crush themselves to death in a car was one of The Most Fucked Up Things I’ve ever read

#I’m only on book 3 #this book is kinda scary 😂😭 #legato scares me #trigun maximum #trimax #legato #i wonder if the person that makes jojo liked trigun #ignore #Jfc just read book 3 and literally every couple pages had to stop and scream WHAT THE FUCK #BC WHAT THE FUUUUUCK THAT WAS NOT IN THE ANIME #GREY THE NINE LIVES!?!? #OH MY GODD #AND LENOF THE PUPPETMASTER!?!ZAZIE #that post thats like the horrors 😶OH THE INSURANCE GIRLS ヽ(♡‿♡)ノ #SO LITERAL #VASH KNEW WHO LENOF WAS AHHH #ANS THEN WHEN HE SHOT THE GIRL OMGGGGG

[orcelito]

Feel like I am absorbing as much as my father after his death as possible. I will carry on his Legacy. I will be the Biker (in time). I am already the weapon collector (though with knives, not guns). I even have accepted owning a minions mug, something I swore would never happen (I hate those fucking things), just bc it makes me think of him.

Maybe he's gone now, but I'm gonna make damn sure to live a continuation of his life... just in my own way, lol

#speculation nation #like how im taking so much of his clothes. im absorbing some of his masculinity too #i own so many harley things now. like tshirts and such. my dad had so many. #and. well. i did end up deciding to take his little revolver. though that's with more of a grave observance than anything else. #guns are. scary. and i think it's ludicrous that i dont even need a permit to own a gun here #but it's my dad's. and at least a revolver is less scary than like. a pistol. #less easy to accidentally go off. u gotta pull back the hammer every shot and everything. #guns are scary and i dont like them. but it was my dad's. a pretty big part of his life. #i was raised being taught basic gun safety rules. brought to a shooting range at 9 years old #i couldnt even hold up the rifle i was so small. #never went since then bc i didnt care for it. but it's still... something so intrinsic to him in my mind. #so in this Too. i will be continuing his legacy. at least a little bit. #we r gonna be selling most of his guns. but not that one. #it's so tiny. it fits so well in my little hands. i kind of love it almost as much as i fear it. #oh well. i'll be careful. i was taught to never forget the danger a gun can be. #a part of me also is like 'omg a revolver. like what vash uses!' which ok maybe that's part of why i went to the revolver too #though the primary reasons are. it's a Tiny piece. and also itd be Really difficult to accidentally shoot it. #bc u gotta full on cock it back And pull the trigger. that aint gonna happen by accident. #but yeah not to be Stereotypical American but yea guns sure do exist here #and it's in my family too. i want the gun to remember him by. even if i dont ever end up using it. #(tho ive contemplated taking it to a range at least once just to get a feel for actually shooting it #Just In Case i ever end up needing to use it for like. home invasion self defense or smth #which is. another Smaller reason for me to have it. things to think about.)

[mechawolfie]

gasp *slams fists on table* WOLFWOOD AS A DEER

#smudgy.txt #trigun #yeah making his fursona a wolf is funny i agree HOWEVER #the violence to survive/protects those you love angle works well with prey animals that are also Very Dangerous #first thing that comes to mind for me is deer i think they embody that vibe perfectly #or maybe that's just bc i find deer scary 👍🏽 #plus deer are also Very Pretty. and so is he :] #whenever i thought of an animal for him i would always think a black panther but. im liking this one better..... #deer are fucked up animals. wolfwood is a fucked up man. you agree. draw it NOW!!!! #or i will. later tho im taking a little break #anyway vash is either a wolf (bc cmon. the dynamic) or a borzoi #im thinking abt that comic abt a dog being seen as something freaky to a wolf. or was it the other way around #i cant remember who made it grrrrrr #but anyway. if you get it you get it #also i think the dog in the comic was a borzoi??? so. yeah

[guideaus]

Remember in badlands rumble when vash died

#personal #it was so unbelievable but they sure did give vashwood material #but god thinking abt him dead is soo scary #i watched after the anime but reading the manga at the end i was like pls dont do this #i dont even like wolfwood dying but if vash followed rem... #then my opinion on the end would go from neutral to bad

[kimtranssexler]

I <333 having an awful memory, I’m rereading trigun and I actually am shocked at the plot twists despite the fact that I have literally read this already. Knives did whaaat haha wow that’s crazy

#it’s so good tho #but the panels can get cluttered and hard to comprehend sometimes #when vash gets serious it’s actually kind of scary #like this is a horror manga now #I HAVENT read trigun maximum tho. that should be really fun after I finish this one.

[nightlightrequested]

I always find it funny and thinks it shows off an obvious disconnect Knives has to the consequences of his actions when he’s like “Vash humans have caused so much physical damage to your body you cannot healed from how can you continue to protect them” and it’s like bestie you severed a limb off him. You are just the same, even more one arm wasn’t enough you went and did some fucked up science to the other one! At least it’s pretty understandable why Vash never belives knives

Knives is just a goofy scary character because ultimately his logic only works of you can physically amd mentally destroy and stop anyone who argues with you compared to actual reasonableness. Which I think ultimately makes me feel for him because it’s obvious he’s stuck in that traumatised state of mind he can’t move on from.

But he’s kinda like megamind to me

#trigun #trigun maximum #millions knives #knives millions #Vash the stampede