I think the difference is in the intentions. There *is* just as much emotional pain for both of them, I agree, but Vash never deliberately set out to torture his brother, just to disagree with him.
I'm very rarely villain-sympathetic. I'm anti-hero sympathetic in a huge way (hey, I started watching Trigun purely becasue of Wolfwood!), but true villains don't often grab me. Muraki is an exception in Yami, and it's not so much that I'm sympathetic, it's more that I can see where he's coming from. And while I can see where Knives is coming from re humans, the things he does to his brother go way beyond my understanding, and that's where he loses me, and any sympathy for his cause I might otherwise have had.
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Date: 2005-02-06 09:10 pm (UTC)I'm very rarely villain-sympathetic. I'm anti-hero sympathetic in a huge way (hey, I started watching Trigun purely becasue of Wolfwood!), but true villains don't often grab me. Muraki is an exception in Yami, and it's not so much that I'm sympathetic, it's more that I can see where he's coming from. And while I can see where Knives is coming from re humans, the things he does to his brother go way beyond my understanding, and that's where he loses me, and any sympathy for his cause I might otherwise have had.