[TRIGUN]: Simping gets you killed

 Finished with the second DVD of Trigun as well, was at DVD 3 when I realized that HOPPA, I need to write an entry before I binge-watch the whole thing, BECAUSE IT JUST BECAME GOOD???

In Episode 5, Hard Puncher, by Vash defeating the Nebraskas, he was able to collect the bounty after them and he gave it to Inepril city to cover all it's costs to hire engineers and repair the power plant (the same city that organized an mob to hunt Vash down for his own bounty :DDD). The duel between Vash and the Nebraskas was also the final proof for Meryl too to finaly accept the truth which was right under their nose all along: This is the guy they were looking for. 

And this is how we arrived at Episode 6, Lost July.


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My absolute favorite thing in Meryl and Vash dynamic, that Meryl is still so fucking pissed of that HE IS Vash the Stampede and so annoyed when Vash doesn't behave Vash the Stampede-y XDD Vash is terrified from this smol angy munchkin. :D I love her so much. The Insurance Agency duo is still on duty to prevent Vash from causing any financial trouble. 

Also this is the first episode that is actually progressing in the plot regarding Vash the Stampede's past and also showing more about the worldbuilding. We have cities scattered across No Man's Land, and most of them possess these powerplants (big-ass cool looking light-bulbs in the scenery), which prevents the deserification, and with it, people abandoning their homes. Inepril was on the verge of ruination, when Vash's arrival presented the opportunity to get money to fix the power plant. We don't know too much about these buildings, we don't know who built them, what exactly this technology is, but it has a collective name: Lost Technology. 


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Now the first interesting thing I noticed that Vash has some kind of connection for this Lost Technology. There was this scene, in which he spills the booze into the air, saying loud: "You are just tired."
It can be interpreted as if he talked to himself, but I think... I think he talked to the power plant itself. 
(I really really have faint memories about this show and the later episodes. So you are watching me speculating here :D)
He talked to the powerplant before Elisabeth, chief engineer approached him, and Vash went back into his whimsical self, trying to get attention and affection of a woman :D I think at this point we can assume that this is really a facade of somekind. 

But this is another instance where we learn things about Vash: 
- Age Unknown
- Origin Unknown
- Wanted for a murder of Count Revenant Vasquez (who dis???)
- He has sixty-billion double dollar bounty on his head, but we already knew this

Elisabeth hires Vash to be her bodyguard, because she expects assassins to attack her due to her being one of the few people who have knowledge of operating these power plants. Vash instantly goes along with it, no questions asks. Boy has something for dominant women who treats her like trash that's for sure, I'm sensing issues here. :DDD Anyway. It turns out this woman is someone from the past. Elisabeth is survivor from July City: A city which Vash the Stampede single handedly destroyed with a mysterious unearthly powers, and yet everyone stayed alive, and this earned him the sixty billion double dollar bounty on his head. 

Elisabeth arranged a malfunction in the powerplant to lure Vash inside and get a vengance on him for destroying July city, but with it also doomed to kill everyone else here in Inepril. For her, this was an acceptable price. One teeny-tiny problem occured: Vash doesn't remembers any of this. Vash can recall that he was in the middle of a destroyed city. And before? Just faint memories of childhood. 

Vash has amnesia? That makes sense why he is look like all the time like he has absolutely no idea what is going on. I wonder that what we see in these episodes that Vash is on the path to regain his memories? He is very much aware that he lacks something but he can't show this kind of vulnerability in such forgiving place? 


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Now back to that scene where Vash talked to the powerplant? It makes sense in the end. Because while we don't know how exactly he does it, or what he does, he prevents the building from exploding. We have no idea what is going on, but he just comes out unharmed, ever mysterious. Vash at this points really starts to give out some otherworldy vibes, someone who is maybe more than human?  

In the end this episode earned his own post, due to its richness of character lore I am very much invested in at this point. :3 I really loved the conclusion with Elisabeth too, who in the end couldn't fulfill her revenge, because she just didn't have proof that Vash was the one who did the destruction. She needed someone to blame for her parents death. She needed to hurt someone for her own survival guilt. And now she needs something else to hang on to.