Sup I wrote smut 😎
🌱 Explicit
🌱 #plantcest (#KV)
🌱 Weird plant sex (with a dash of angst and eventual happy ending)
🌱 Multichapter (shouldn't be too long though)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49666561/chapters/125357500
#amki_txt #nsfw #plantcest #kv
...Anyway, Vash and Knives separated as children. Vash goes around the world being a good samaritan (it's kinda post-apocalyptic, but waaay-post, and humanity is slowly starting to rebuild itself but most cities are empty still). While Knives stalks him the entire way, sending him money, supplies, and generally helping him in his own dubious ways.
Random thought : I think Stampede's version of the angel arm event is super interesting because it's going a completely different way than in the Manga or even 98.
In those, Knives first forces it out of him (as a very strong allegory for rape). But later, towards the end, he actually makes it appear on his own to fight Knives, reclaiming his body from Knives (again, a strong allegory for rape recovery).
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Despite the occasional complaining I've seen around, I actually really like what they did with Meryl in Stampede.
It gives her an actual backstory that leads up to her becoming who we know her as, and her taking after Roberto's cynicism is *chef's kiss* delicious tragedy to me.
She's a bystander in the whole story, and some people got annoyed by that, but I think it fits the whole reporter vibe nicely.
I think what's so great about TriStamp is that it's a specific brand of weird that you saw a lot in mid to late 90s anime and that you don't see anymore, but with their own modern spin on it.
The heavy-handed visual and situational metaphors, the strong "show don't tell" type of storytelling...it's weird in the way NGE and Lain were in their time, and it's so refreshing to see nowadays because nobody really makes those anymore.