dendroculi | [homophonic] catchall for vash

[ oh, he definitely starts crying. ]

[that makes two of them. she had been emotional when this first happened, and remmebering it in such vivid detail makes her emotional all over again.]

Those were the fungi, right...? And this is just...

[ ISN'T THIS JUST DEATH? ]

They were elemental life-forms... beings of pure elemental energy. Fungi was just the form they had taken to adapt when they were forced to flee their homeland.

[she looks down]

When Apep was reawakened, I was told that they would be born again now that the Heart of Oasis' powers had been restored. Just... in a different form.

[but... she's still sad she wasn't able to do more for them.]

So it's kind of a happy ending... Even though they won't be the same as before.

[ It's still death of another kind, but at least this sounds like they can live on in another way. ]

That floating person really gave you a scolding.

I suppose so. They seemed to be at peace with the decision, but I...

[...well.

she wasnt.]

...Paimon was pretty upset with me.

... Sometimes we have to let others make their choices and go out how they want to go out.

[ Vash has seen enough, so many. The people of No Man's Land will prefer to die in a blaze of glory or quietly without a sound. Despite how it hurts, he learned to accept their choice when it comes to their end.

It's rough. Nahida wanted to make that choice, too... And he doesn't chide her for it. ]

You two and the traveler must have been close friends.

...yes. They're very important to me.

[a pig appears in the distance... it paws at the ground, fixing its gaze on vash, and charges him. give me a memory.]

[ well... pigs. She may have a memory of his last battle with his brother, a fellow independent plant looking to wipe humanity from the galaxy. Yes, his hair in this memory is pure black likewise Knives' which is a stark contrast to the blond she saw in the VR simulation of the spaceship. ]

[well that was

a lot]

...you and your brother...

[ it was a lot. ]

Yeah.

[it was so much i fucked up my html]

I'm sorry... it seems like a really complicated situation. I'm sure there's a lot I don't understand about it.

... The easiest way to explain it is that my brother resents humans.

[ He thinks that's enough. ]

[she nods slowly]

You don't have to say more if it's hard to.

I wouldn't say it's hard, it's just—frustrating. Knives never listened to me.

[ Angry little brother vibes despite your older twin being a terrorist, except he's serious about it. ]

[she reaches over to put a hand on his arm.]

...I've observed a lot of people, and read a lot of stories that have siblings in them... I guess they don't always listen to each other. [...] I wish he had listened to you.

[ ... ]

Sometimes I wonder if... I had tried talking to him sooner, back when we were kids, if things could have been different.

[vash :c ]

It's natural to wonder that kind of thing, I think. But... I hope you aren't blaming yourself too much for it. You were both children.

... I'm trying not to. It's not like I would have known.

[ As Nahida said, he was a child. ]

He has taken so many lives already, and...

And...?

[ :c ]

... He's still my brother.

[ Whatever that may mean, however she may interpret it. Vash feels awful to say this, especially because Knives has reaped the soil of his world.

But Knives is his brother. ]

[she nods.]

...I can understand that. Just because someone makes certain choices... it doesn't make them any less important to you. Isn't that right?

... It doesn't.

[ ... ]

I tried to convince myself for years that I had to kill him, but I don't think I am cut out for that sort of thing in the end.

I don't think that's a bad thing.

[ Vash is quiet because he does think of it as his own weakness to not kill him off is what leads to more deaths.

So he just needs a moment. ]

Thank you.

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