Though something interesting if you look at the anime through those lenses is to see him AS a pathetic hypocrite, holding desperately to a belief simply because of his Issues
I don't see anime Vash as pathetic. Just very, very wrong. Both Vash versions have confidence issues, yes, whether he's strong enough to control himself, to beat Knives. But manga Vash grows into himself rather better, and I put a fair bit of that down to Wolfwood's influence. Because Wolfwood can accept Vash, knowing exactly what he is, and not be scared of him, and Wolfwood feeds him a good deal of common sense when Vash is being an idiot :-) Anime Vash doesn't get to spend as much time with Wolfwood, and finds it harder to take advice from people who aren't Rem, because that would be like amending the Bible.
I don't think I could buy Vash/Livio. Vash can forgive Livio, and work with him, because he knows none of it was Livio's fault, and he can trust him because Wolfwood did. But I'm not so certain he could get the images of Livio killing Wolfwood out of his head enough to love him, to have sex with him.
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I don't see anime Vash as pathetic. Just very, very wrong. Both Vash versions have confidence issues, yes, whether he's strong enough to control himself, to beat Knives. But manga Vash grows into himself rather better, and I put a fair bit of that down to Wolfwood's influence. Because Wolfwood can accept Vash, knowing exactly what he is, and not be scared of him, and Wolfwood feeds him a good deal of common sense when Vash is being an idiot :-) Anime Vash doesn't get to spend as much time with Wolfwood, and finds it harder to take advice from people who aren't Rem, because that would be like amending the Bible.
I don't think I could buy Vash/Livio. Vash can forgive Livio, and work with him, because he knows none of it was Livio's fault, and he can trust him because Wolfwood did. But I'm not so certain he could get the images of Livio killing Wolfwood out of his head enough to love him, to have sex with him.