TriMax 8 Chapter 2

[tiggymalvern]

Chapter Two - Silent Ruin


Sumire's back with me for this one, but Nightow has made changes.

Page 41 (Sumire's p131). Knives stands on the Ark as before, remembering Vash's words, but the dialogue's been edited for the tankubon. "Knives!!! Don't repeat the same mistakes." (Then "Who alone... it isn't coming back!"? Confusion from me on that line - is he saying that one person can't fix everything?) Knives has his line about this reality being warped, then, "Now, in this moment, I'm just rescuing our imprisoned people. If that results in the death of the imperfect beings..."


Pages 42-3. "...after all, it's been said they're a limited species(?)." (Interesting that Nightow has really toned Knives down here, made him more sympathetic - Knives is actually taking the trouble to justify to himself what he's about to do. Seems like Vash can still get through a little.)
Then we're back with Sumire with Livio standing among the dead soldiers, and Wolfwood commenting that he's changed.


Chapel's dialogue on p45 (135) has been amended slightly, or Sumire translated fairly loosely, but the gist is much the same.

Page 46 (Sumire's p136). Chapel finally baits Wolfwood into attacking him, but Livio stands between them. Wolfwood appeals to Livio, but Chapel says Livio can't betray him (seems he learned his lesson after Wolfwood....).


Pages 48-9. Knives launches himself from the top of the Ark, shedding his cloak as he falls, and Vash screams out, "KNIIIIIVES!"


The rest follows Sumire's translation, as the military finally cross the bridge-less gorge to the town near Knives' now abandoned hide-out.

Page 56 (Sumire's p146). The place is full of reeking corpses. There's narration here that isn't in Sumire's version, explaining that everyone died of hunger and thirst. They'd even started eating one another (I kind of hope I'm translating that wrong, but it's Nightow, so I'm probably not!)


Page 57. The Plant Bulbs are all shattered.


Page 59. And we see all the Plant Angels flying upwards to meet the falling Knives.


Page 60. Knives and the Plants all merge.


Page 62 (Sumire's p152). That is an awful lot of Plants Knives has collected. Doesn't look like their conditions are much better than when they were in the Bulbs, really, does it?


Page 64. Elendira fends off the military's attacks on the Ark. Legato, the imprisoned Vash and the battle of wills.


Page 65. Zazie and her sandworms watch as more of the planet goes to hell. Wolfwood depressed and frustrated.


Page 67 (Sumire's p157, though the last section of narration from her p156 is now here). What little semblance of law and order the planet had collapses.


There are a couple of extra pages added with more images of death and doom-and-gloom narration just to press the point home a bit more. Empty desert and skeletons - 'The world dried up. That situation was surprisingly peaceful.' Everything returning to how it was 150 years ago when the humans first fell.

Page 72 (Sumire's p160). Seven months later, Meryl and Milly arrive at the Seeds ship and are greeted by Luida.


And the final slide of Trigun into unrelenting misery is here....

Comments

[yma2.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, talk about DARK! Is the Seven Months later AFTER Knives has done his falling thing? That's a LONG time when you think about it. I wonder what they were up to in that time? Mmm...
Thanks for this again!

[sara-tsuzuki.livejournal.com]

All is in big mess now...I think Wolfwood was angry and sad all the time, but maybe was impossible to rescue Vash. And he waits for a better moment to make a move on Vash .
*Uuups, that sounds weirdo?* >__

[ravenclaw42.livejournal.com]

I've basically spent the last few days reading every bit of your stuff since volume 5, not to mention all of your VxW fic, and... well... I love you.

*gets down on hands and knees and worships*

Hehe. ^_^. Anyway, foot-kissing aside, I am so utterly intruiged by the story! As everyone else has already said, there's more fic potential than you can shake a stick at in that telepathic stare-down. And the fact that Knives still feels the need to justify himself to Vash feeds my fic muse perfectly. Knives still cares how Vash sees him -- there's still an opening for communication there, though not by much.

*is slightly confused by the skipping timeline* So if I'm following this right, Milly and Meryl just spent seven months out there in the hell the world's reverted to, by themselves? Suddenly I'm feeling a lot more for the girls. And fic ideas are spawning. *stomps on them* Dammit, not when I need to be writing EtE.

I've rambled enough, just thought I'd jump in on a high (or I guess low, in the case of the story) note.
*anxiously waiting for more*
-Rave

[stickmarionette.livejournal.com]

...man, the sheer glorious angsty-ness of it all.

How was Vash still remotely sane after seven months of Legato poking around in his head? Or, for the matter, how did Wolfwood not go mad from his helplessness?

Their lives really, really, suck sometimes.

Thank you as always for bringing the pretty to us the manga-deprived. ^_^

*nervously pokes*

[millyfan.livejournal.com]

I added you because I want to see these scan posts appear on my FL as they are made. I'm sorry if that's wanky or anything, and if it is, I'll remove you again, and you don't ever have to add me back.

*runs away*