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Original Tumblr Post: Some absolute horrors
Some absolute horrors
Now that we’re finally at volume 5, are you guys ready to fucking suffer? Yes? Good, because I have some absolute horrors to share with you guys, and since I had to realize this and live with it, so do you!
Let’s start with this page:
Vash is blaming himself for shit Knives has done, right? He puts the responsibility of his brother’s actions onto his own shoulders while his own rage mounts, he kept himself going because he had to send Knives to Hell for what he had done.
We saw him say this to Legato,
And we saw him say this to Hoppered, despite his earlier inner confession of being a murderer.
Almost as if this excuse runs on autopilot as a way to cope with the horrors he witnessed and can’t remember in July, blaming Knives for everything. This was his mindset before July, and after losing his memory of July, it reset.
This is the last time we see this excuse, however.
As the truth comes back to haunt him, he is faced with the true suffering, and so are we as readers.
Vash IS a murderer, in fact, he killed everyone in July. Knives didn’t force him to pull the trigger, Vash made a calculated move, something he could only do if he was aware. He WANTED to kill Knives right then and there, and for the sin of wanting to shoot to kill, Vash’s punishment was blowing everyone around them away.
Vash intentionally swapped where his angel arm was growing to trick Knives, made it smaller, possibly in the hopes that it would contain the damage.
After hearing Knives’ rant about what humanity has done to him, it probably dawned on Vash that these are Knives’ abuse towards him. Vash’s goal was to punish Knives for the Big Fall before July, and everything that just happened only enforced that. Vash really did intend to send Knives to Hell there, using his angel arm to kill him and took all of July with him.
Vash will be completely changed after this, having realized that he is just like Knives now, killing thousands in a moment of anger and fear. Knives caused the Big Fall, Vash destroyed July. Vash lost Rem’s spirit long ago, his hands are already dirtied by blood.
But wait, it’s about to get worse.
Remember this line from Trigun Vol 2?
Knives body couldn’t survive the damage done to it from July, even after years of attempted recovery. They’re transferring Knives consciousness to another Plant, his data, to make a new body for him, a “copy.”
Question is now, is this a data copy or a transfer? Because if it’s a copy, then Vash did truly kill his own flesh and blood brother. The new resurrected Knives is both a copy in body and spirit, if that is how one sees it, and leaving the original Knives to experience death.
Vash did not only kill everyone in July, but potentially also his own brother, and with his returned memory he now remembers this.
Anyway, have fun and enjoy, Bookclub!