![]() Knives, at least, holds no illusions about the sort of person his brother is. It’s an interesting parallel to every little betrayal Vash has stacked on Knives’s shoulders over the years. (Maybe his brother doesn’t want to be saved.) It’s heartbreaking when you consider he once said “I’ll find a way to save everyone…including Nai.” This is when the denial shatters and Vash thinks for the first time that maybe he can’t save his brother. Even as they once defined themselves as a pair, when Vash asks “Who are you?” with such broken, seething horror, it’s like he’s realizing he’ll have to let him go. “I’m Vash the Stampede” and “Nai is dead.” The finale of Trigun s1 is the declaration to end 150 years of stalemate. It’s like Vash is seeing Knives for the first time and realizing his twin has become completely unrecognizable.Įven as the visual cues have actually made their physical similarities even more obvious (Vash’s finale redesign having his hair pushed back, the multiple side by side shots, Knives himself having discarded his amongus hoodie) it’s a moment where their identities diverge. ![]() The fact that they have Vash say “Who are you?” in the English dub before telling Knives he doesn’t recognize him anymore. ![]() ![]() I know everyone and their mother is frothing at the mouth about it but. ![]()
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