#trigun tesla

[feyringo]

What could have been.

#trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #spoilers #vash the stampede #millions knives #rem saverem #trigun tesla #my art #fanart #I REALLY wish she had a proper chance at life instead of -waves hand- THAT

[realseascourge]

Memento.

#myart #my art #digitalart #digital art #artists on tumblr #artists of tumblr #trigun #trigun stampede #Tristamp #Millions Knives #Knives Millions #Nai #Trigun Fanart #Fanart #Clip Studio Paint #Trigun Tesla

[dravencore]

just a kid

Nai | Vash

#trigun #trigun tesla #the more i look at it the less it looks like something so i'm just gonna say #that i'm done and throw it on here #i should draw tesla more considering she's the catalyst of the entire series and also the type of character that makes me go insane

[vamp-bites]

the text to audio syncing was a nightmare

#i made this back in september and then never posted it because i hated 1 frame but refused to redraw it because i didnt wanna reedit it💔 #trigun #trigun fanart #vash the stampede #millions knives #trigun maximum #trigun maximum spoilers #trimax #trigun tesla

[hashtagloveloses]

if elendira is a combination of human and plant and we just saw tesla’s dismembered body, and one of tesla’s eyes is in nai’s knife hand….where’s the other. notice elendira’s different eyes. notice tesla’s eye is blue.

ive been thinking about this bc i thought “why would nai let conrad do human/plant hybrid experiments if he wants to make all plants independents and hates humans” bc it gives tesla a second chance oh i feel sick

#trigun stampede #trigun stampede spoilers #trigun #elendira the crimsonnail #trigun tesla #trimax #trigun manga #trigun maximum #knives millions #millions knives #original post

[aidonotknow]

👼🧙‍♀️Happy Halloween🎃🍬

Because I need some girl power & haven't draw them before :D

#trigun #trigun tesla #elendira the crimsonnail #fan art #100

[kreweofscifi]

“Don’t you dare say I’ve forgotten what they did to Tesla!”

#trigun #trimax #vash #vash the stampede #trigun fanart #trigun 98 #trigun tesla #horror #when your dead sister is a looming albatross round they neck weighing you down with unspoken sin

[duncanor]

In the tanks where Tessla is dismembered, in Trigun Stampede, we can see the show focus on 3 parts of her :

An arm

Her guts

An eye

My conspiracy theory is they've been used for experimentations on some of the Guns, more specifically :

Legato, with his strange kinetic arm

Wolfwood, who ingest vials

Elendira, and her 'Eye of Michael'

#trigun #tristamp #wolfwood #Trigun Tesla #legato bluesummers #elendira the crimsonnail #trigun stampede #I'm still tryin' to work the symbolism and meaning behind those fleshy symbols

[tenshibird]

Mermaid au time

Lore down here

I don’t really have a story for it yet and dunno if I ever will. It’s just a silly little AU where I suddenly came up with most of the lore at 3am. And it’s mostly PLANT lore.

Sorry if it’s messy I tried making sens of my even messier notes.

PLANTS are some kind of deep sea seaweed that look like a mix of the petals and glowy markings from stampede and the feathers from trimax. So no humanoid bodies, just the leave things. They’re still a hivemind entity that’s all connected though. They need a very specific environment to live so scientists have had a hard time recreating the PLANTS environment to better study them.

PLANTS can use DNA from other species to create creatures close to the species but plant like to help them thrive. Like bringing them food, protecting them or help them spread seeds and stuff. Scientists know this ability but they (I) have no clue how it works. The PLANT recreated creatures have PLANT like markings and features. They thought PLANTS could only recreate aquatic species or more specifically some smaller ones but sharks and even a whale have been seen. Then somehow human DNA (probably blood) got into one of the tank they kept some PLANT in and Tessla happened. Mermaid aren’t their own species, just mermaid looking PLANT creatures. She’s close to Nai’s coloration. After she died because of the experimentation, the scientists tried to recreate human/PLANT hybrids but couldn’t force it. Some years later Rem who’s, one of the scientist, found Vash and Nai and hid them so they wouldn’t undergo what Tessla had.

In this AU Wolfwood, Meryl and Millie are university students. Meryl and Millie are journalists students while Wolfwood is probably marine biology. Wolfwood wasn’t experimented on but he still had a rough childhood.

The design are a mix of stampede and trimax so Wolfwood and Meryl are based of stampede and Millie, Vash, Nai and Rem are based of trimax.

The twin’s hair are based of trimax because after Rem died they where on their own in the ocean and they didn’t have anything to cut undercuts. Vash’s hair are down just cause I think it’s cute. They’re both trans and had longer hair like in 98 when they where younger.

No clue yet if Nai is evil or not but he’s definitely Vashwood enemy number one.

Rem is a marine biologist from Québec probably from Gaspé so she’s speaks both Québec French and English and taught both to the twins. So picture this:

*twins arguing in French*

Ww: *looking at them confused* This some kinda secret mermaid language?

Meryl: No. it’s just French…

If anything isn’t clear or y’all have any questions feel free to ask :)

#trigun #vash the stampede #trigun vash #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #vashwood #millions knives #trimax #trigun nai #knives millions #millie thompson #trigun tesla #trigun rem #meryl stryfe #trigun wolfwood #trigun plants #mermaid!vash #mermaid!nai #mermaid #mermaid au

[tigerjawed]

big sister 🥀

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #millions knives #trigun tesla #tigerdraws #as of drawing this i do not yet know if tesla is in ep 11 #but by the time this posts i should know #im so hopeful #HELL YEAH IT HAPPENED

[n--av]

Tesla

"Elder sister"

#trigun tesla #trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #trigun spoilers

[feyringo]

What could have been (pt 2)

#trigun #trigun stampede #fanart #my art #trigun tesla #i can't stop thinking about if the tesla experiments never happened #what could have been #also there are huge grates on the sky in the dome that i refuse to draw because how dare i block the sky

[wingshadowed]

hi this is my daughter tesla

#I have not seen the newest episode #not ready yet #trigun #trigun stampede #trigun tesla #tesla trigun #tristamp #tessla trigun #trigun tessla

[emweach]

music: O Superman by Laurie Anderson

#trigun #trimax #trigun maximum #millions knives #trigun tesla #my art #animatic #cw gore #cw blood

[nanomooselet]

Visual Motifs: Tesla

So, one of the benefits of an adaptation like Stampede - a retelling, rather than just lifting from the page - is that they know where it's leading, and they can add context or foreshadowing. For some characters, they can even add presence. In addition, Stampede is required by the limits of the medium to do some streamlining. From all I've heard about their consultations with Nightow, their concern was with themes first.

But there an issue arises in Tesla. What is there to say or do for her? She isn't a presence; she's an absence. There's not much you can add without undermining the gutwrenching horror and thus the thematic impact of her character.

But Orange found a way. In fact, they found multiple ways.

Tesla can never let anyone know what she wanted because she was so thoroughly stripped of action or speech. While she lived no one cared to listen to what she had to say, and she's forever silenced by death. Nightow had to bend the rules to give her a last, ambiguous word.* Memories and assumptions are all that's left. Those are all undoubtedly themes in Trigun. I think it's all still true in Stampede, with an obvious exception.

After all, silence is a statement.

Congratulations to Orange on making it even more horrifying. Though I'm at least reasonably sure that she wasn't conscious in suspension... I hope she wasn't. I suppose it adds to the argument to suggest her fate in the manga was kinder.

It also opens the question of what happened to her in the Fall, but helpfully (?), Nightow had already introduced a means of resolving it. It tidily both suggests a possible future plot point and further characterises Knives in the way he protects what he loves. He says her discovery was to him "but one grain of sand", and he's a fucking liar. (Also, note Dr. Conrad in the picture on Tesla's file. Nai had to learn he was involved somehow.)

My trash boy never disappoints.

Personally I do believe it's jumping the gun to assume Knives actually bears her consciousness, but she had a profound effect on him, much as red geranium petals are now foundational to Vash's identity. While the icon of the Eye of Michael represents a number of things (I'm gonna talk about them too, if I ever get around to it), the variation on it used in the Windmill Village isn't so ambiguous. The arrangement turns up over and over.

Behold the single most obvious way Tesla's made more "present" in Trigun Stampede. (It's sure beholding you.) The motif of Tesla's eye is as central a symbol in Knives as geranium flowers are in Vash. Tesla might not literally be a ghost, but she haunts Knives anyway. He's determined that she'll haunt everyone else too, though they may not know it's her. In his mind, he's her avenging angel.

But he isn't the only one who holds onto her.

And a certain panel in Maximum...

Though those particular eyes actually represent the eyes of humans. Eyes weren't prominently linked to Tesla in the manga, but this may have been the inspiration.

Speaking of the manga... what about Rem? Though we know it or something like it occurred, in Stampede we don't see the confrontation with Vash where she confessed to her anguish over failing their sister, and how far she was willing to go ensuring he wouldn't be hurt. I understand feeling that it flattens her. The narrative is being dictated by Knives in that moment, who wasn't there to witness it and had a vested interest in removing Rem from the story.

That doesn't mean there's no sign Tesla haunted Rem. If Tesla hadn't suffered what she suffered, maybe Rem would have served an uneventful term as Navigation Officer before going back into cryosleep, while the SEEDS fleet peacefully continued on its journey. It was still because she failed Tesla that Rem adopted and raised the twins. Knives's anger/fear at the perceived betrayal by both Rem and Vash still led to him crashing the fleet, Rem's death, and all that happened in its wake.

It's an interaction we never witness - it may not even have been a direct encounter - and yet Tesla, through Rem, instigated the plot. And that's also still true.

Comparing the discovery scenes in Stampede and the manga directly, there's a change. The flower Rem left as a memorial for Tesla in the manga (looks like a white lily, which represents innocence and purity in the Japanese language of flowers and is often used for funerals) is instead a red geranium.

I'd chalk it up to reinforcing Rem's connection with the flower and minimizing the 2D background painting budget, except...

Almost every time the twins as children are together on the screen with Rem, a geranium in a glass dome is there too. The only time it's not present somehow is when they're visiting the Plant room at the start of ep twelve.

And when they find Tesla, there's a shot where this happens:

The red petals are almost invisible in the darkness... and then pop out when she's revealed, like a wound. As if they emerged along with her.

The geranium, to Rem, represents Tesla. When she can, she has it accompanying the twins. The presence of this small, red, glass-bound thing - suspended, mute, so easily stripped of its petals - is perhaps an inadequate gesture, just as Tesla herself never grew to be what she could have been, and adopting the twins may not make a difference. But Tesla can be with her family in spirit and her baby brothers will get a chance to grow. That's all that Rem can do for her now, a regret she bore until the end of her life.

In Stampede, Rem and her successors are positioned as Knives's most direct ideological opposition in a number of ways, and I think one of them is in how they honour the memory of Tesla. Would the twins' older sister have wanted the vengeance Knives wreaked in her name? Or would she have had the grace to hope the humans would learn better? Would she have been happy those who came after her were given the love and the choices that she wasn't?

She can no longer choose. No one will ever know.

And that brings me, finally, to how Tesla haunts Vash.

Unlike the manga, in Stampede it's not as though Vash has any reason to fear being abused, or dismembered, or consumed, or exploited. In the manga he very much feared all those things, and accused Rem of raising them to continue the experiments. He was very angry and frightened to realise he was surrounded by humans and he was "not like them". But in Stampede Vash might as well be a human.

That's definitely a way Stampede thematically diverged from the manga. Nai's the one who's perfect and more like a Plant, because of his powers. Right?

It's Vash who tends to be physically closest to the geranium.

In the SEEDS database, Vash and Tesla are in the same folder, while Nai has his own. There are all sorts of potential reasons, but in my mind it'd be because their colouring matches (yellow-blonde hair, blue eyes). It's Vash (his hands on the left) who notices there's an extra file and starts scrolling through them. He unlocked the database, and he caused the jars of what was left of Tesla to be revealed.

He wears red. Specifically his outfit is red over black - his shirt and pants. And his eyes are the first ones in which Plant patterns are highlighted.

Ever noticed that Tesla's missing both arms?

But it's hardly as though Vash is in any position to understand what Tesla felt, or what she wanted.

And it's not as though Knives, in his loneliness and fear and denial of responsibility, would puppet his sibling for the power to take revenge.

Right?

* Don't get me wrong. Nightow's relaxed approach to worldbuilding could have made her reveal in Maximum a plot hole, but it's not. Plants really are weird enough that just about anything seems possible. Nightow created the impression that discovering her remains was so painful for the twins they came to a mutual, unspoken agreement to avoid mentioning it, let alone using her fate as a rhetorical tool. When Knives finally does bring her up, it's just before trying to meld with and then imprisoning his brother aboard the Ark. To me, it feels like his declaration of total war.

#trigun stampede #trigun meta #tw body horror #tw medical abuse #trigun tesla #(but i repeat myself) #no more space left in my soupy brain this one fought me to the last #tl;dr can i just give the poor child a HUG #uh. watch the uh. bits and pieces #shape of a lost girl

[r0r0binery]

Tesla and Edison

#trigun #trigun stampede #trigun tesla #artists on tumblr #oc art #if theyre not giving tesla powers then i will #also giving her a sister so she isn’t alone #sobs and cries #they make me unwell