@awesome-pizza-88 dude, look at this little creature 😍
@way-to-go-lad buddy!! this little guy's amazing! I swear these moths are straight up Pokemon.
It's little antennas ✨🥺
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Butterflies weigh as little as two rose petals.
@way-to-go-lad this little guy's so beautiful. Like those glass stained windows 😻
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@awesome-pizza-88 look at this guy!!
@way-to-go-lad this little guy's so beautiful ❤️🥺
*sheds tears at its beauty 🥲
Some doodles I did a bit back of Vashie and some of Wolfwood! Meryl's there too!
[thinks about knives and vash for too long]
"Help.... You must save him. This man..... he's crucial for you." SHOOT ME
I CANT DEAL WITH THIS. HE JUST LET HIMSELF BE SHOT. NOW I UNDERSTAND ALL THE FICS WITH WOLFWOOD GETTING GRAY HAIR OVER VASH PUTTING HIMSELF IN HARMS WAY
Frank Marlon is seriously one of my favorite characters. He really is trying to help the spikey headed doofus realize what he has with Meryl and even Milly.
I think because he lost his wife and daughter he sees the relationship between Vash and Meryl differently from others. He went from avoiding his grief through alcohol to living with it.
I really can't imagine Trigun Stampede getting through season 2 without him in.
he makes her feel selfless and she makes him feel selfish
attempt at a meta or rather more incoherent gushing about these two
I love the contrast of the above scene, how Vash is joyous, all-smiling. While Meryl is wrecked, in tears. Most often, it seems that’s how they also remember each other.
Meryl likes to remember Vash happy and at peace. Vash remembers Meryl while she’s solemn and also a bit vulnerable. In a way, they inspire emotion in each other that’s hard for them to express. Vash has had a lot of sadness in his life, but while he will always wear a smile, I think he finds it harder to let himself be genuinely happy than to cry. Meanwhile, Meryl hates to cry. She hates to let down her guard and appear as if she can’t take care of herself, but with Vash, she really can’t help herself.
I ship WildeHopps (another goofy tall character hiding sadness with a smirk and a straight-laced, determined shorty. even their eyecolors are the same!) and I remember that there was a thing in the fandom about foxes that they can’t help but shout when they see their mate, and I don’t know how accurate the translations are, but even when they reunite again, Vash can’t help but shout out ‘Meryl!’ in happiness (seriously despite how surprised he was, he could’t help his smile. and he only called out meryl despite milly also being there, like rude, vash, if milly wasn’t such a sweetheart and loved you both to bits, but anyway, I digress…)
I really loved the fistbump (*cough indirect kiss cough*) scene so much because in asmuch as it was Vash comforting Meryl, it was also about him taking comfort in Meryl, which when we remember from his waterworks when Marlon called him out on it, he previously found really hard to do.
On Meryl’s side, we actually see that she has the same values as Vash. I love the Little Arcadia chapter/episode so much for this reason. Grandpa’s speech to Meryl about following your own path and your connection to your parents, resonated with her, but we as the readers also know that it’s something that would have also resonated with Vash. She wanted to resolve the conflict without anyone losing their life, and at first couldn’t understand why something like land would be more important than life. But push comes to shove, when she sees the resolve of someone to protect something, she puts her life on the line anyway. We even see traces of it in the anime with how she also shoots non-lethal shots, and that one time when she saved Vash, she shot the light to fall on the person instead of shooting the person. That sort of pacifism is present in her and Milly although they may not be as obvious about it as Vash, which is why despite himself, Vash finds himself growing closer to the girls and considering them as among his most important people despite the fact that he knew them only recently compared to the people from Home and Marlon. Even Milly’s principles regarding family bonds would also be something that would resonate with Vash, and it’s important that he was there in the shadows because I think that was the turning point in how he started to consider them his friends. So in a lot of ways, despite Meryl not wanting him to, I think Vash truly sees the vulnerability that she tries to hide. And I find it so believable and endearing that he would be drawn to her because of that similarity and connection between them.
they both inspire hope in each other
When I say that Vash inspires Meryl to be selfless, it’s in the way she will risk everything just so she can be there for Vash, to overcome fear and her own human limitations, just so she can hold him close. Vash (and through his connections with others like Luida) inspires in Meryl hope for a better world. At the same time, I always got the feeling that the type of love that Meryl felt was something she would be content to keep on giving to this person who always kept on giving to others, even when there was a chance that she would never get it back or have it returned. I imagine that she would have been fine with that as long as Vash felt that he was unconditionally loved.
When I say, Meryl makes Vash feel selfish, it is within the context that selfish for Vash is already a normal level or base desire of wanting to be happy in other people. I remember Legato’s observation of Vash, that he considered himself as having utterly no value in this world. Of course a person like that would be fine with dying!
But this person who considers himself worthless, eventually makes a promise like this.
Vash must know that there’s a high likelihood he’ll die. Someone as self-sacrificial as him wouldn’t want anyone, much less a person he cares deeply for, to be hurt by him. And yet he makes this ‘selfish’ request of Meryl anyways. And it matters so, so much that he does. Because it shows that he can consider himself as someone who can make another person happy. It’s a promise to her, as well as to himself, that he won’t let himself simply die. He wouldn’t anyway because of how much he values Rem, but with this promise, it feels like his wanting to live is finally something he wants to do for himself, and not just as a continuation of Rem’s memory. Like with the fistbump scene, this promise was as much for him as for Meryl. I know he still would have fought to live and to protect humans, but at the same time, in the wake of Wolfwood’s death, I also felt that he would have been at peace should he have died trying. So this promise was to tether himself (to her). It’s something to keep him fighting to live now that he knows there’s someone out there waiting for him, by his own actions at that. More than that or simply put, it’s just a simple thing of allowing himself to want something or someone.
And this is how Meryl inspires hope in him. All this time he’s loved humans, but it always felt like he was living beside them and not with them. He doesn’t know what it is with Meryl, maybe her sheer stubbornness, but somehow she ends up representing that hope, that possibility of finally living together with humans (with her). In contrast to Meryl’s hope, it’s a very simple and humane one. To have someone care for him, to have someone wait for him, to have someone to come home to, to have someone who loves him. And it’s funny that it seems that Meryl expects nothing in return for her overwhelming love for Vash, because Vash actually meets her halfway. He’s the one to initiate the kiss. He’s the one to make the promise and have her promise. Finally, he’s taking the chance of his happiness into his own hands and doing something about it. I just, I really can’t with them. No wonder I ended up being vashmeryl trash.
When Vash is connecting the minds of humans and plants in the final battle with Knives, he connects himself with Meryl. While he connects others randomly, he chooses to connect his mind with Meryl. Livio was there, also Milly and many other humans but no he chose Meryl and what is more interesting both share the same memory.
The memory of Vash losing control and Meryl being caught in the middle of it. When they are sharing this memory, Vash feels what Meryl is feeling right now.
And that is why he thanks Meryl.
He thanks her for not only overcoming her fears but for also not fearing him anymore. For being strong. For being determined. For not giving up on him. For being still here for him.
If this is not love, I don’t know what it is.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
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
I get that Kmives was tragically hurt and betrayed by humans, but the way he makes Vash and humans suffer is as rotten and bad as the scumbags of humanity which he argues are all humans.
Bitch acting more human than most
I want someone to just get into his face and call him the hypocrite that he is.
