there's a tenderness here that doesn't flourish in the desert--truly, is repellent to the wastes. kindness is a drain on resources and has no place in a world where people are hungry and hot and trying to outwalk one slow-crawling flavor of death or another. Vash-but-not-Vash seems thoroughly distraught at the fact that no one's moving--that people think they have time to talk when the world is collapsing around them. ]
Please! He won't hesitate to hurt you, you need to--
[ there's a trope in fictional depictions of knives when they're sharp enough, that they make a sound when they cut air--and as Millions Knives lowers himself to hover at the far end of the plaza, he's certainly not just cutting air. the Plant's root system wreathes behind him, creating a slow, choking wall as the buildings around Zulius, Edward, and Nito begin to slide after the barest flicker of Knives' silverbright tendrils, stone and metal beginning to slide, to crumble, and to eventually entomb if people do not start moving (4).
Not Vash drags himself to his feet and launches himself up high, catching his twin's attention for now as Knives slams after him, wings carving out big chunks of stone and metal in their wake. ]
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there's a tenderness here that doesn't flourish in the desert--truly, is repellent to the wastes. kindness is a drain on resources and has no place in a world where people are hungry and hot and trying to outwalk one slow-crawling flavor of death or another. Vash-but-not-Vash seems thoroughly distraught at the fact that no one's moving--that people think they have time to talk when the world is collapsing around them. ]
Please! He won't hesitate to hurt you, you need to--
[ there's a trope in fictional depictions of knives when they're sharp enough, that they make a sound when they cut air--and as Millions Knives lowers himself to hover at the far end of the plaza, he's certainly not just cutting air. the Plant's root system wreathes behind him, creating a slow, choking wall as the buildings around Zulius, Edward, and Nito begin to slide after the barest flicker of Knives' silverbright tendrils, stone and metal beginning to slide, to crumble, and to eventually entomb if people do not start moving (4).
Not Vash drags himself to his feet and launches himself up high, catching his twin's attention for now as Knives slams after him, wings carving out big chunks of stone and metal in their wake. ]