#monev the gale

[natade-art]

if tristamp gave me anything it was at least the determination to make a fun amv with it. did my best

#sorry for being a tristamp hater. but. tristamp oingo boingo anyone #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #millions knives #and the rest of them r here idk ig for the sake of the song i focused also on #monev the gale #livio the double fang #tristamp doesnt even let me have razlo. smh #amv

[tristamp-gunpede]

Tristamp as text posts 13/?

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#trigun #trigun stampede #tristamp #vash the stampede #vash #millions knives #nai #meryl stryfe #meryl #roberto de niro #roberto #nicholas d wolfwood #ww #livio #livio the double fang #rollo #monev the gale #text post meme #yall have no idea how long i searched for the little red bag one it took forever to find #vashmeryl

[mine-loves]

Trigun Stampede | s01e05

“Thank goodness.”

#Trigun #Trigun Stampede #Vash the Stampede #Monev the Gale #Rollo #Anime #Gif set #Mine #I'm really fragile today I need to focus on Vash's smile ;~;

[andr0nap]

gung-ho-woo's

+ a very rough size chart

just for estimates, i cannot be bothered to do the height calculations

#trigun #trigun stampede #legato bluesummers #zazie the beast #nicholas d. wolfwood #livio the double fang #monev the gale #e.g. mine #gung ho guns #a part of them at least #werewolf au #andr0art #EUGH #thought about writing down some design notes but its almost 5 am and im tired as fuck #so just ask ab them or smth #i wonder what conrads thought process was in this au #like ah yes i will create a new breed of people #behold the superior human race (turns them into huge fucking dogs) #like ig it makes them more adaptable #idk lets not think too hard about this #im here to have FUN #ARE YOU HAVING FUN? #also yes that wolfwood is from the other post #i wanted to have him here with everyone too

[evershifting]

rubbing my hands together like a fly it was bitch to fit all the gung hos

#midvalley the hornfreak #livio the double fang #razlo the trip #wolfwood #vash #zazie the beast #legato bluesummers #trigun #monev the gale #e.g. mine #dominique the cyclops #leonof the puppet master #hoppered the gauntlet #gray the ninelives #rai-dei the blade #caine the longshot #meryl stryfe #milly thompson #trigun spoilers #i dont tag spoilers but i dont want someone bitching about me putting liv and raz with vash n co #gonna do one of side characters but eh gotta find enough #cause neons shit fucks several like sir? slay gimme that gender swag

[therosecrest]

#Trigun #Vash the Stampede #The Humanoid Typhoon #Monev the Gale #Anime #gifset

[goldenteaset]

Episode 5 of Trigun Stampede is probably one of my favorites for the sheer number of ideas it presents re: cults in and out of this setting. But to focus on one in particular: I love that we see Rollo as a child listening to the Eye of Michael's doctrines in front of that old radio...and then when Meryl and Roberto stumble across Rollo/Monev's hideout, the ruins of his home, the radio is still on, still full of doctrine, and there's a huge furrow in the ground in front of it (either obscured or enhanced by the lighting).

It's in remarkable condition, considering the circumstances.

When Rollo/Monev killed his mother, did he look at the corpse first, or the radio? Did he realize what he'd done in that moment? Or did he take the radio in his massive, too-powerful hands and set it back in place with the last remnants of love and reverence in him? Maybe he lay down then, exhausted and miserable down to his science-warped bones, and stayed that way for years and years and years. Ample time for local parables to give way to ghost stories.

The Child of Blessing sought out the only source of comfort he'd ever known, and listened helplessly for salvation until the end of his days.

#trigun stampede #rollo trigun stampede #monev the gale #I'm late but regardless! #“Are you God?” “He couldn't be here today” remains one of the most fascinating exchanges too #tristampparty

[feverdreamsandlucidnightmares]

I was going to say this in response to the tags someone left on one of these posts (1, 2), but it honestly works better as a standalone post, because as usual it’s gotten away from me a bit and is quite long:

(Disclaimer that, as usual, I’m talking about the animes not the manga due to my own familiarity with the content and that this is kind of a blurry combo of lore from Tristamp and Tri98)

Vash wants to be a shield. Knives, without fail, makes him a bomb instead.

So much of Trigun is about struggling with personal and physical autonomy. About people being put in hard situations and doing bad things to get through them. And they do actually bad things, like hurting and killing innocent people. Not just things that are mostly socially bad. Characters like Wolfwood are explicitly shown to have been trafficked by a cult and then brutally experimented on and then sent out to kill any opposition to the aforementioned cult.

Neither the narrative nor the characters themselves shy away from the fact that these characters have hurt people. Doesn’t hide the fact that people are rarely actually, completely innocent, that the greater good is often a myth perpetuated by greedy people in power. That it’s used to guilt or pressure people into compliance. That you can be good and kind and generous, while also being selfish and hurt and scared. That sometimes those more frowned upon qualities are going to be the ones to shine through, but it doesn’t make you innately bad. That you still deserve a second chance.

Because at the end of the day, in desperate situations where your primary goal is survival? Morals are a privilege. You have to be able to afford them. And almost everyone on No Man’s Land is desperate. Especially outside of the major cities. Everyone is one bad day, one disaster away from losing everything. If a Plant “malfunctions” or a sandstorm destroys everything? There’s no real infrastructure in place to protect them outside of whatever community they’ve managed to build for themselves and the resources they’ve squirreled away. It’s often just enough, no excess. So. Would you risk that for a stranger? Would you die for a stranger? Or would you kill a stranger for your survival? Your family’s? Maybe. Probably. Desperate people do desperate things.

Vash might be the only person alive who could kill Knives. Some people might even think it’s his job, his duty, to prevent all the harm that Knives doles out. That it’s Vash’s fault, that he’s culpable for all the deadly, terrible things Knives has done and that have been done in his name. Killing Knives is for the greater good. But he’s still Vash’s brother. You’re still asking him to kill his brother. And maybe Vash is scared of him. Maybe, on some level, he even hates him. But even while Knives is killing himself in an attempt to destroy everyone and everything else Vash cares about, Vash is still worried about him. He still doesn’t want him dead.

And Knives always makes Vash responsible. The Big Fall, the Fifth Moon Incident, Jeneora Rock, Lost JuLai/July. None of these things would have happened if Knives hadn’t made them. Vash was never going to put anyone in harms way like that of his own volition. But neither of the twins wants to be alone. Not really. Vash waited for him for an entire year when he went to get the guns.

But is that really love? Obsession maybe, for Knives. And desperation for Vash. Mutually assured destruction. Does Knives love anyone? He’s in a very unique position where he gets to define the greater good at everyone else’s expense. The other Plants, who didn’t get a say in his master plan. Vash, whose autonomy he completely overrules over and over in actively harmful and willfully malicious, cold, and calculated ways. Kids like Wolfwood and Rollo and an uncounted, but horrifying number of others in bad, desperate situations who were “blessed” enough to be taken apart under a misappropriated approximation of divine right. Not to mention the entire planet of humans he wants gone.

Knives is a weapon. He owns it, he names himself for it. And he makes other people weapons, too. Maybe it’s recompense for what has been done to him and his family. He doesn’t really protect anyone, but he’s a firm believer in revenge. And he’s privileged enough to call it justice.

And Rem told Vash to take care of Knives. Her last words. What could Vash be besides his brother’s keeper? So all of the shame and pain and sadness and guilt and damage Knives causes or could feel? It all falls on Vash.

#trigun #trigun stampede #tristamp #trigun 98 #trigun meta #trigun anime meta #trigun character analysis #vash the stampede #millions knives #nicholas d. wolfwood #monev the gale #trigun stampede spoilers #trigun 98 spoilers #trigun rambles #this got so long but I have so many thoughts #feverdreamsandlucidnightmares

[shatterdome-underscore]

Oh boy I sure do hope Vash telling a poor child that doesn't believe in god and is about to be tortured, experimented on, and deeply dehumanized by a cult that he (Vash) will save him (the kid), and then can't, all while in front of a big wrapped up cross that looks like the one Wolfwood carries isn't foreshadowing!

#put on your clown shoes plant boy #trigun #trigun stampede #tristamp #vash the stampede #vash #tristamp rollo #monev the gale #he's never directly called that in the episode but they use that name in the subtitles when he's older so it is him #wolfwood #nicholas d wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #its even worse that the cult uh. worships plants yeah? follows knives like a god and all #elendira even called herself an angel #and vash is out here like if god won't save you i will. and then doesn't. boy you're the god that can't save him

[duncanor]

Okay, real question

#trigun #trimax #tristamp #trigun stampede #million knives #rem saverem #midvalley the hornfreak #monev the gale #roberto de niro #Brillant Dynamite Neon #tumblr polls #Nightow is a silly guy #But which of his silly ocs are the silliest in name?

[pancake-breakfast]

Aight, a quick note for Trigun Volume 2, Chapter 1. Disclaimer: I'm not exactly a coin expert; I just got curious and hopped down the Google rabbit hole. But here's what I found.

This coin from the end of the chapter...

...is what's called a Morgan dollar or a Morgan silver dollar.

It's actually got a very unique design, as most of the eagles appearing on the backs of U.S. coins are either in a very different pose, or they have their feet spread wider and are far less concerned with anatomical accuracy.

Here's the front:

According to Wikipedia, the Morgan dollar was originally minted from 1878 to 1904, which would make it very fitting for Trigun's desert punk setting, since that point in time in the U.S. was the tail end of what we think of as the Wild Wild West. (It's actually recently been re-minted, but that's irrelevant to the discussion since Trigun was written well before any re-mints.)

So... the coins didn't come up in the '98 anime (as I doubt they intended to try and hash out everything with these twelve assassins at that time), and if they come up in Stampede, they're definitely Season 2 material. That means I, someone who is functionally a first-time reader of the Trigun manga, don't know all the details about the coins in the manga, such as whether everyone has the same type of coin or if each of the assassins has a different type of coin, or if Nightow even bothers to continue this particular plot device.

But I do know some of the imagery for this particular coin. (It's... not that complicated. I just wanted to sound dramatic.)

The front has an image of Lady Liberty (artist's rendition, not the statue in New York, which wouldn't become a thing and proceed to overwhelm U.S. imagery of Lady Liberty until this coin had been circulating for eight years), who of course represents liberty, and the back has a bald eagle, which I think we've impressed on the rest of the world enough for most people to know we use it as a symbol of freedom.

Freedom and liberty; not that different of concepts. Not that complicated.

But the coin in the manga panel is split. It's damaged beyond repair, no longer functional as legal tender and only really good as a novelty trinket or for melting down.

Which makes it a really interesting thing to give a man who's been caged in a cellar for 20 years and is forced into the service of any sort of master.

#trigunbookclub #oh cool now i know more facts i'll forget in a few days #i could just be reading too much into things since i do that sometimes #but i thought it was neat #manga analysis #literary devices #monev the gale #pancake thoughts #trigun manga #volume 2

[lordsmaf]

#wait so now you DO call him Monev The Gale? #trigun stampede episode 10 #trigun stampede spoilers #trigun stampede #trigun #trigun spoilers #stampede spoilers #tsspoilers #screencap #william conrad #gung-ho-guns #rollo #livio #Livio the Double Fang #monev the gale #E.G. Mine #nicholas d wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #wolfwood

[tristamp-gunpede]

Trigun as text posts 9/?

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#trigun #trigun stampede #tristamp #nicholas d wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #millions knives #ww #nai #tesla #tesla trigun #rollo #monev the gale #vash the stampede #vash #vashwood #roberto de niro #roberto #legato bluesummers #legato #text post meme

[bubblesandpages]

The Gung-Ho-Gun’s are all just Dr Conrad’s OCs. It’s why he has the chronic need to correct people whenever they get the Ultra Cool, very, very Badass names he came up with for them wrong.

#never getting over the way he says Zazie Da BEAST (I know Zazie isn't an experiment (as far as we know) this time around but they are still #G-H-G) #Zazie the Beast #elendira the crimsonnail #legato bluesummers #monev the gale #e. g. mine #e g mine #dominique the cyclops #nicholas the punisher #nicholas d wolfwood #hoppered the gauntlet #midvalley the hornfreak #what even are these names conrad!!!!!??? 😭 #gray the ninelives #rai-dei the blade #dr conrad #william conrad #Trigun #Trigun Stampede #Trigun Maximum #Fizzy talks #gung-ho-guns #gung ho guns

[wiickedkinetic]

Trigun ↳ S01; EP012 (Diablo)

#trigun #vash the stampede #monev the gale #trigun gifs #vash gifs

[lost-technology]

Beholder

Trigun Body Horror Week Prompt # 1 - Eyes Universe: OG Trigun, Manga Summary: Monev the Gale encounters the eyes of the Diablo. Cage of Bone, Prison of Flesh - Story 1: Beholder For Trigun Body Horror Week @organsoutsidelovinglydescribed

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #monev the gale #gung ho guns #trigun fanfiction #trigunbodyhorrorweek #trigunbodyhorrorweek day one #trigun body horror week #probably the lightest story in this collection #this one is a little more psychological than anything