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Post by Sparrow on May 2, 2013 14:30:15 GMT -5
Does anyone have headcanon (ie, personal canon or "stuff that's canon in your head") about the series? I seem to have a ton of it, which I usually mention or flesh out in fic. I'll just throw out a few examples:
1. Knives loves avocados. (I read somewhere that Nightow hated them, so I figured it only made sense if the major villain enjoyed them. :3) 2. Vash became a complete amnesiac after Lost July. He spends a lot of time in July after the disaster, helping survivors and trying to recover his lost memories. 3. Vash speaks fluent French. 4. Rem is Latina. (A really oooold first impression I got when watching the anime at fifteen. But I guess according to the manga she's really Japanese?) 5. Meryl has a chip on her shoulder from trying to break into plant engineering but being constantly rejected due to her gender, forcing her to accept a pencil-pushing job at Bernardelli. Through her own efforts, she rises in the ranks and becomes an insurance claims investigator, allowing her to travel the world. 6. Meryl and Millie are incredibly good friends before the series starts and Meryl personally takes Millie on as her partner, recognizing the value of her perceptiveness even if her whimsical attitude often exasperates her.
How about you guys? Is there any headcanon you've developed about Trigun over the years?
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Post by ninjamitsuki on May 2, 2013 16:00:10 GMT -5
Elendira has a French accent.
I don't know why, but that's my head canon and I'm sticking with it.
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Post by Plant Feathers on May 2, 2013 16:15:52 GMT -5
I like the avacado idea. XD "Legato! I'm out of guacamole! Do something about this!" The Meryl headcanon sounds like something that would be good in a VashXMeryl fic. Maybe hanging out with Vash rekindles her interest in plants and she decides to pursue that again. I'm kind of imagining Vash teaching Meryl about plants and the two bonding over the shared interest.
Livio's been on my mind, so I'll give a couple of headcanons that I have for him. 1) The tattoo was entirely Razlo's doing, and he didn't consult Livio first. He was in control one day, and just said, "Hey, you know what would be cool!?" Livio got to find out about it when he woke up the next morning and looked in the bathroom mirror. 2) Sometimes, when Razlo's feeling ornery, he'll start annoying Livio by giving running commentary in Livio's head on whatever's happening at the moment.
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Post by Thought-Ripples on May 2, 2013 18:49:05 GMT -5
I don't have a lot of headcanons, but...
I think that Vash has traveled over the whole inhabited planet so much that he can't get lost. He has a perfect sense of direction. And he travels over the whole world in a pattern, either stopping or at least passing through every place regularly so he can see how the people are getting on, if they need anything, and if he can help promote "Love and Peace!" He remembers people and connects them.
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Post by karaii on May 2, 2013 19:00:00 GMT -5
Vash tries to visit every plant in every city he goes to, without fail. Sometimes he only has enough time to spare a glance, but other times he stays enough to converse for a little while, away from curious technicians. He tries to give them upbeat images of the humans they have kept alive in their designated cities, to give them spirit.
During their Last Runs, if he can help it, he will be close by to connect -- if only distantly -- before they die. But often times, he prefers not to be because it hurts so much.
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Post by Thought-Ripples on May 2, 2013 19:06:06 GMT -5
karaii: Ouch! That's a really good one. I find it 100% tragic and believable.
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Post by karaii on May 2, 2013 19:22:36 GMT -5
I think that Vash has traveled over the whole inhabited planet so much that he can't get lost. He has a perfect sense of direction. And he travels over the whole world in a pattern, either stopping or at least passing through every place regularly so he can see how the people are getting on, if they need anything, and if he can help promote "Love and Peace!" He remembers people and connects them. This exactly!! I like the idea that Vash cannot get lost, no matter where he's dropped or how different the land changes. He can sense his global position with every fiber of his plant-born bones. And it makes me happy in a melancholy kind of way to know that Vash has this pattern he sticks to, being a perennial visitor. Every time he reaches a village that was once there but has now been lost to the sands, he spends an evening tracing the places he knew the vendor had sold her wares here, the places where the inn keeper had said hello to him there, the spot above where the now-dead plant lies. And he cries and then he moves on, though he never forgets a face or place, ever. (I have too many depressing head canons concerning Vash ahhh)
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Post by yoshi on May 2, 2013 19:26:40 GMT -5
maybe this isn't a super interesting one, but i love the idea that plants' eyes always glow a little bit, even when they're not freaking out. usually it wouldn't be super noticeable, and most people who do notice would probably just convince themselves they're imagining it....... but if you ran into a particularly enthused vash in the dark, it'd be bright enough to startle you
i can imagine cute vash/meryl shenanigans happening with this. x3 i bet he'd try to sneak up on her one night, bein' all goofy like he is, anD THEN SHE JUST SEES THESE EYES BEHIND HER AND LIKE FREAKS OUT AND DOES A SUPLEX ON HIM and is definitely not sorry as he lies on the ground whining afterwards
i also feel like knives' eyes would glow brighter a lot more often since he's just about always on the verge of snapping and has a lot more negative emotions than vash P:
and independents from earth might have a similar but slightly different sort of thing. since they're always connected together their power's probably a lot less influenced by their emotions, so their eyes would stay at the same kind of mid-range glow except for in REALLY EXTREME SITUATIONS. like with chronica's rage when she lost domina
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Post by yoshi on May 2, 2013 19:29:33 GMT -5
also aahhhh the one about vash traveling is like ripping my heart out here
lies on the floor and wEEPS
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Post by Plant Feathers on May 2, 2013 19:34:08 GMT -5
I have the same headcanon. I like to imagine that he tells stories about specific people/friends he knows and heaps praise on them. I also like to imagine that he tells them stories for sheer entertainment purposes, since they're lives are pretty boring. An adventure like the one he had with Brilliant Dynamites Neon would be a good one to tell, and he'd get really into it and give different voices to different characters and stuff. And his sisters just adore him for it.
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Post by fantardism on May 2, 2013 19:49:13 GMT -5
Is it weird that I wish to adopt every single one of the headcanons in this thread?
No Man's Land has an area called Little China. It's where all the shoddy knock off products come from.
Vash's trademark style has influenced No Man's Land fashion in the post-manga years. His hairstyle, in particular, became something of a fad.
Knives secretly enjoys old Garfield comics.
The second wave Earth colonists brought with them, among other things, soap operas. Vash is a huge fan.
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Post by Jeredu on May 2, 2013 20:23:01 GMT -5
I headcanon that Vash's happy goofy persona is based on Knives' personality as a child, combined with Rem's forgiveness and protectiveness, since they were the only role models he had.
Over the 150 years, he's exaggerated it more and more into the comical doofus we see now!
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Post by kwolfwood on May 2, 2013 20:29:41 GMT -5
Okay I admit, I have a whole AU animeverse headcanon where Wolfwood survives, I even figured out what he's doing in the last few episodes after Paradise OTL I'm shameless. But it DOES allow my otp to get together, hehe~ I like to think he and Millie got married and went back to December to run the orphanage together <3 My shameless fangirling aside, I also like to think Legato has a hopeless crush on Knives and is always trying to get sempai to notice him. Knives is totally oblivious. I may or may not have created this image. In the manga, Legato thinks Elendira is after his dear Knives-sama's affections too and sees her as a rival suitor. Again, Knives is totally oblivious. aaaand i can't remember my other headcanons all of a sudden? weird. legato what are you doing to my brain
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Post by Thought-Ripples on May 2, 2013 20:53:18 GMT -5
kwolfwood: Ahahahaha! I think that picture of Legato would derail anyone's train of thought! I can't stop staring at it! Okay, here's a silly headcanon - Legato loves sweets, right? Well, in my head he's actually a terrible cook, so one reason he's always eating sweets and cake and ice cream and other stuff like that when he's out is because all of his recipes fail spectacularly when he tries to make them at Knives' base. And he's standing there in the kitchen, in a stained and smattered apron, a whisk dangling from one hand, with his "kill you" eyes on...
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Post by yoshi on May 2, 2013 21:04:57 GMT -5
No Man's Land has an area called Little China. It's where all the shoddy knock off products come from. Vash's trademark style has influenced No Man's Land fashion in the post-manga years. His hairstyle, in particular, became something of a fad. oh man this reminds me of a drabble i read once where vash is so popular that there are vash the stampede souvenir stands full of awful dime novels and stuff, and whenever he breaks his glasses he stops and buys new ones
so he runs around wearing his own merchandise like a big silly butt
probably one of my favorite headcanons i've seen, hehe
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