Yeah, by this stage in the manga the anime has been left way behind. The last connection with the anime was back in TriMax 3.
Basically, Chapel, Livio and Wolfwood were all part of a group of assassins working for Knives called the Eye of Michael. The EoM have developed all kinds of freaky medical stuff (presumably with technology Knives supplied) - Wolfwood is canonically far stronger and faster than human normal, but whatever has been done to him wasn't entirely good for him, and he's aging fast. This man is not as old as he looks.... And yeah, the miracle drug is a healing thing. But like most EoM developments, it has nasty side effects, so Wolfwood wouldn't use it unless he was going to die without it.
We've only seen him use it once before - when he was badly shot up by Livio and Chapel rescuing Vash from Knives. 'Course, when he did that, he also revealed exactly whose side he was really on. Hence a very annoyed Knives, and the targeting of the orphanage. The orphanage in this canon is where Wolfwood and Livio grew up before the EoM took them away, and it's basically the only place he was ever happy and people were nice to him *sniff*
Hope that helps some! To be honest, one of the things I love about the manga is that Nightow doesn't always explain things right out - he gives you little scenes here and there in pieces and snatches of dialogue and lets you piece it all together slowly. It makes for a better read that way (for me anyway) and it leaves a lot of scope for playing around in the gaps with fic!
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Re: rookies
Date: 2005-02-03 09:38 am (UTC)Basically, Chapel, Livio and Wolfwood were all part of a group of assassins working for Knives called the Eye of Michael. The EoM have developed all kinds of freaky medical stuff (presumably with technology Knives supplied) - Wolfwood is canonically far stronger and faster than human normal, but whatever has been done to him wasn't entirely good for him, and he's aging fast. This man is not as old as he looks.... And yeah, the miracle drug is a healing thing. But like most EoM developments, it has nasty side effects, so Wolfwood wouldn't use it unless he was going to die without it.
We've only seen him use it once before - when he was badly shot up by Livio and Chapel rescuing Vash from Knives. 'Course, when he did that, he also revealed exactly whose side he was really on. Hence a very annoyed Knives, and the targeting of the orphanage. The orphanage in this canon is where Wolfwood and Livio grew up before the EoM took them away, and it's basically the only place he was ever happy and people were nice to him *sniff*
Hope that helps some! To be honest, one of the things I love about the manga is that Nightow doesn't always explain things right out - he gives you little scenes here and there in pieces and snatches of dialogue and lets you piece it all together slowly. It makes for a better read that way (for me anyway) and it leaves a lot of scope for playing around in the gaps with fic!